Best way to manage notes in folders keeping knowledge base notes and personal notes separate

I had started migrating from OneNote to Obsidian about 1.5 years back. I just finished a few days back. My folder structure looks something like this for now:

  • Attachments
  • Canvases
  • Excalidraw
  • Notes
    • Inbox
    • Knowledge Base
    • Organization [MOC, saved searches in notes, etc.]
    • People
    • Policies
    • Journal
    • Literature
    • Topic [eg. Information Technology]
    • Topic [eg. Money]
    • Topic [eg. Study]
    • Topic [eg. Work]
  • Templates
  • Test folder

My tags structure is simple: each tag is for 1 topic. eg. Information_Technology/Software/Obsidian is 1 tag although nested.

I am looking for a better method to organize my Notes folder. As you can see it currently contains separate folders for different types of notes [Inbox, organization, people, journal, literature] and folders for different topics of notes [Information Technology, Money, Study, Work, etc.].

Specifically I want to keep folders for different types of notes and use tags for different topics of notes. But I also want to differentiate between notes I have taken myself and notes I have made from someone’s else’s knowledge [eg. summary of a video or article].

I am also worried that if I dissolve the folders for topics and put all knowledge base notes into 1 folder and all personal notes into another folder and rely only on tags, I would find it difficult to find a specific note when needed, especially as my personal notes will be returned mixed with knowledge base notes when selecting a particular tag. While searching from a folder they will be mixed with regarding to all topics.

To prevent this I would have to customize every search for a topic tag by giving the path: variable which seems cumbersome.

If you have any suggestions I am open to hear them.

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I also organize my notes by type (although only a handful of the typings actually come into play). If you use dataview, one handy thing you can do is query all notes that link to the note containing the dataview table. I use that feature very extensively for project notes so that I don’t have to silo my notes to project folders.

I had a similar question before, and this is my latest solution:

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