As I said, I only use one vault and only one main folder within this vault. It’s for for my “Permanent Notes”. But looking back I had to overcome several pitfalls. Here are my top mistakes to avoid when starting:
- Starting without templates — so that it was hard to build up a consistent note structure I needed later for effective searching.
- Using tags without rules for tagging — so that building clusters for searching was not very effective.
- No use of frontmatter — so that meta data and content of notes became inconsistent and confusing.
- No use of time stamps like “created” and “modified” within frontmatter — so that using backups and changing cloud spaces caused a loss of time information connected with my notes.
- No use of DataView plugin as a tool for gardening — so that inconsistencies in my Zettelkasten were growing and growing.
All these mistakes lead to intensive re-work of my notes later on.
See: Limit folders. How to use Zettelkasten in Obsidian - #8 by Edmund