I’ve setup my Mac file system using Tiago Forte’s PARA system, so my main folders are Projects, Areas, Resources and Archive, and within these are subfolders relating to individual projects, areas etc.
Because of this, sometimes I want a vault to contain folders that live in different locations on my hard drive (i.e. that aren’t all grouped under one main folder). Also, sometimes I don’t want to see all subfolders that exist within a main folder (i.e. I want to see two out of three of my projects in Obsidian).
Proposed solution
Devonthink and Ulysses allow me to index / reference external folders from across my hard drive. I think it would be great if the Obsidian vault could also contain a selection of certain folders too.
Current workaround (optional)
My current workaround is to open an Obsidian vault for each project separately, but that means I can’t have e.g. Project material and Resources material in the same vault (since these materials live in different locations on my hard drive).
Good question @bobkitz! Also a helpful link @apjk, thanks. Here’s the answer:
Not being a crack with MacOS, I know there is a difference between Finder aliases and real symbolic links. With Obsidian (and probably for other compatible purposes too), one should use real symlinks, made in a terminal using
ln -s TARGET LINK_NAME
Unsure if that limitation still exists, but @Licat warned us against crossing filesystem boundaries using symlinks, since the internal file routines in Obsidian might not be able to handle such.