Things I have tried
Currently, I’m using Obsidian as a second-brain; in some cases, collecting knowledge about a topic, tracking the evolution of hobbies, tracking tasks, and capturing interesting resources for later review/sorting/incorporation, as time permits.
And while I like the organizational structure I have created, it’s rather… complex, and I worry is slowing me down. Here’s the rough structure:
🗁: ! MOC
🗎: ! Scratch pad
🗎: ! Queries
🗎: ! Master index of everything
🗁: Activities
🗁: ! Activities meta
🗁: ! Activities inbox
🗁: Hiking
🗁: ! Hiking meta
🗎: ! Hiking TOC
🗎: ! Hiking inbox
⚀: Uploaded map file
⚀: Uploaded guide
🗎: Favorite hikes
🗎: Lists of hikes
🗁: Dining
🗁: ! Dining meta
🗎: ! Dining TOC
🗎: ! Dining inbox
⚀: Uploaded menu photo
⚀: Uploaded photo to reference in another file
🗎: Favorite restaurants
🗎: Lists of restaurants
🗁: Hobbies
🗁: !: Hobbies meta
🗎: ! Hobbies TOC
🗎: ! Hobbies inbox
🗁: !: Hobby #1
… [same structure: Meta: TOC, Inbox, Files]
… [same structure: Various Obsidian files]
🗁: !: Hobby #2
… [same structure: Meta: TOC, Inbox, Files]
… [same structure: Various Obsidian files]
🗁: !: Hobby #3
… [same structure: Meta: TOC, Inbox, Files]
… [same structure: Various Obsidian files]
What I’m trying to do
While the above works, is easy to navigate via mouse/folder traversing, enables and enables me to use of “Move” function to push files to various folders for later triage, it’s… quite dense. And each nest having this repeated folder for ‘navigational type content’ (meta) and real content (everything else) seems both highly effective, and very tedious.
Are there any simplification suggestions that folks would advise?