Your post was useful and interesting, thanks. I’m kind of hitting this pain point in my own management - I started with erazlogo’s folder structure (I wish I could send erazlogo a cake or something for the whole website on managing research) and it aided my understanding and adoption of obsidian. But then y’know some parts I didn’t need, so I trimmed down the folder structure. And while I initially had Zotero inputs only, I started adding Readwise inputs, YouTube inputs, etc.
And now I have a Research vault that looks like:
- 01_sources
**Articles
**Books
**Images
**Literature (notes import from zotero integration)
**Video
a bunch of random notes in the root folder
This is part of the folder-hoarding problem that led me to obsidian in the first place, because now I’m getting confused about what types of files go where. If there’s an html file on the web that has a journal article, does that go to Readwise or Zotero?
It matters because then the file names will be different upon import. And so now I have a bunch of files with different naming conventions; books from Kindle (via Readwise) are Sentence Case Titles but books from Zotero are lastname_title.
I just feel like having a big messy inbox and then processing individual things out to the folders above. But I like the Zotero import to a specific folder with a specific filename.
So I’m curious how are you planning to deal with filenames? Are you trying to set up a taxonomy in the folders that’s going to cover any different type of note? I caught myself setting up a “reference” folder too, and I kind of like your section 8 for keeping track of stuff like Cs, AWP, SHARP, NCTE, other orgs I follow that have conferences that I forget to keep track of.