Since you’re into this approach, I thought I’d share something I’m working on that you might find interesting. I’m going through Vogler’s book The Writer’s Journey which is using the Hero’s Journey for writers. My intent was just to get ideas for a marketing campaign, but all sorts of new ideas popped up. One is I now track the “Calls to Adventure” I experience. When I get invited to something, see a cool ad for doing something, or just get an idea for what you are calling a new quest, I put that down. Most of the time I Refuse the Call, but now I note why. Mainly, I’m looking for trends. For example, I consistently refuse social adventures, which means I should accept them once in a while. What I’m not trying to figure out is how to track the “Adventure” through the stages, note the mentors, allies, villains, and so on. I’m wondering if this captures my own life in short stories. Anyway, just thought it could give you new directions.
Your system is looking really good @Lucanentis
Check out this plugin as well https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1rtwcja/comment/oan9mn2/
Thank you!
This plugin looks very nice and I will look into it, but I find some problems with it after a quick glance:
- Obsidian links don’t work inside it
- It’s heavily tied to folder structures
- Those databases cannot be embedded in notes (this is a big one)
- No covenient option to create new files from the database view
- It tries to heavily overhaul native Bases functionality, which makes the system more prone to lose support in the future
It looks very nice and very promising, but Bases are straight up better for my use case.
I have to agree also, the demo vault is great but if you apply it to an existing vault it doesn’t really work as expected. Bases can achieve the same result and when the Obsidian team extend its funcitonality you’ll be ready to add new features
That’s some solid idea for managing chances and oportunites from outside and learning to say ‘no’ with taking into consideration the abundance of chances and ideas. I have a simple note named “I’d Like To Do Dump”, in which I note activities that I find interesting, but don’t serve my most prioritized goals for now.
I may rethink the approach and systemize this neatly with separation of inward and outward “adventures”. Bradley creates Projects with “someday/maybe” status, but I think I prefer them a little more separated from the main system.
Anyway, while seemingly off-topic, ideas like that tie very well to Bradley’s PPV – I think the main and most important part of his System is the “Systems Thinking Intro” ( Systems Thinking Intro: A Powerful Approach for System Design ). While building something similar to his Notion toolset is great, it’s important to reconsider all of the parts again and again through time to see what works, what doesn’t, how to simplify it or how to change it to better serve personal approaches.
Yeah, it sucks to try something for a few months just to realize it’s a dud. But, I keep trying. I really like the PPV system and it worked on my Notion system which is still set up that way. But, I only use it for work due to sharing ease. On Obsidian, I’m trying to capture something deeper than just getting work done. I started with more introspection and reflection. After a couple of years, those notes were the most interesting to reread as they point to real growth (or lack of it). With a “project” as an “adventure,” I get to have a property for “tests,” “allies,” “enemies,” and so on as per the Hero’s Journey. Sometimes the “enemies” of one adventure become “allies” on another. I’m sure my current approach is poorly executed, but having fun working it out.
It’s great to try something for a few months and notice an even better approach emerging from this trial 
I change my system in one place or another on almost monthly basis, letting it grow or skimming the fat to make it simpler and easier to manage. For example, I’ve had around a dozen pillars at the start - then I noticed that all of them can be simplified neatly to 5 I have now. For almost half a year I tweaked the naming of Goals and Quests and couldn’t really grasp the core concept of how they really differ from one another. But to get through all of this, I had to write it all down, build it, notice stuff and rebuild.
Obsidian is great for rebuilding and renaming stuff, though - thanks to links, Bases having access to the whole vault, and the ability to open all your files in VS Code and run global „search and replace” I find it very easy to try new approaches, new properties logics etc.
Just remember to do backups!
With Claude and CLI connected, I’m about to either make a breakthrough or a disaster. I love I can ask Claude to change a bunch of properties and let it go to work. Now I can change approaches without the daunting thought of changing a couple of thousand notes.
Add this to your CLAUDE.md
Automation Log (MANDATORY)
Every time you create, modify, or delete vault files, you MUST create a log entry.
Location:
Automation Log/Filename format:
YYYY-MM-DD Brief Title.md(e.g.2026-02-24 Note Timeline MOC.md)If multiple changes happen on the same day for the same task, use one entry
If separate tasks happen on the same day, create separate entries with distinct titles
Each log entry must include:
Frontmatter:
tags: ["#My/AutomationLog"]andDate-Added: "[[YYYY-MM-DD]]"What was created/changed: List each file with a brief description
Why: The reason or user request that prompted the change
Files modified: Table of file paths and actions (Created/Modified/Deleted)
This log exists so Allan can look back and understand why things were created or changed in his vault. Do NOT skip this step, even for small changes.
Track Claude changes
Also worth adding a rule, set “Automated by Claude on Date” at the bottom of each note but up to you 
have fun!
Nice tip! Thank you.
I curious to peoples thoughts on the upcoming role of AI and the rigours of systems like PARA and PPV and linking your thinking.
Like others I have tried various systems over the many years and much of the time I have felt like I am feeding the beast Vs getting anything useful from effort adding tags, properties and other structures. May be I’m lazy or not very good with auditable systems but I feel like that no matter how I tag or channel I still rely on text search to find what I want.
I believe with the advent of AI, which I use like a more intuitive search and summary and collator/curator, that the effort associated with tagging, properties… will no longer be needed?