#12

your summary is perfect! always make the system that works for you. I’ll have a video coming out soon where I talk even more at depth, which I hope will help you!

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#13

Looking forward to that!

#14

About PARA & PKM I really like these illustrations from Maggie Appleton:

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#15

One question, how do you combine this:

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With this:
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I am thinking about using decimal system for my “reference folder” that have my digital library in it separate from my workflow/ PARA system. The problem is that if I want to use decimal system for both then the numbers are not going to be unique

#16

No folders. MOC (map of content) hub notes for specific context.

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#17

I believe the folders in the second screenshot are all sub-folders of the folder “PKB” in the first screenshot.

In the rest of this we are just focusing on the PKB Folder.

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#18

That’s right! All subfolders.

And to clarify further, within PKB everything is 2 digits.

I’ve actually recently updated this naming in the main folder:

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And here it is mirrored in my obsidian @Archie

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#19

:grinning:

#20

If you have been paying attention to Nick Milo’s LYT Kit lately you would have noticed a major jump away from Dewey Decimal Classification. Big props to Nick to listening to the concerns raised about Dewey being a racist and sexist bigot terrible even for his time.

Even abhorrent individuals can come up with brilliant ideas, we shouldn’t just discard them. The idea/concept is separate from the individual, especially if we’re talking about something so neutral as cataloguing.

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Besides this, nice attempt at PKM organisation, but seems a bit too complex. Or maybe it’s just me. I’ll have another read, maybe I’m missing something.

I’ve found that for me the simplest INPUT → OUTPUT organization works in the top-level i.e. INPUT includes any information that I’d like stored in an organised manner; while OUTPUT is where I create new information & other things (e.g. projects, documents, etc. that I create). OUTPUT can draw from INPUT whenever and however I see fit.

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#21

Thanks for the link! very impressive :smile:

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#22

Interesting read! I shoulda been a librarian. That was my top suggested vocation based on my hs skills and interests testing.

Anyway, can you suggest good resources for controlled vocabularies?

#23

Something I don’t quite understand @brimwats, what would be the difference between for example your folder “Class & UBC” that is inside your PKB and the one that is outside your PKB?

Is the one outside for files that you can’t include in your PKB in obsidian? I’m trying to understand.

Other than that, thanks a lot for your input, great post!

#24

@brimwats I have a similar question too. It’s my understanding that your Obsidian vault is the entire of the 000 PKB folder. Does this folder contain only notes and attachments? What about linking files outsides the PKB folder/vault?

#25

@viv @oranga

I’ve more or less combined everything now that obsidian mobile exists and I use syncthing. Here’s my current layout:

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all of these folders are my obsidian vault. I’ve split out a second one for just handling the 10k notes from zotero alone because it got cluttered but I’m thinking about ways of combining them in again

Everything below the 100 level is subcategorized into 10’s and 1’s, if necessary. Each of these areas uses a slightlly different system (Cutter Classification, Johnny Decimal, etc)

For example, here is 400, using cutter classification.

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Zotero has exactly similar categorization, and that is because it makes no sense to store 5k PDFs on a mobile phone. Class&UBC on Zotero just holds PDFs that I’ve read for class.

@trubes – what sort of level of complexity are you looking for?

I might recommend

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#26

This is so fascinating! I was wondering if you use the same classification system for files on your computer that are not in Zotero or Obsidian? Like no matter where you look, a file on your computer, note in obsidian, article in zotero, etc that is on applied Sciences would always be found in a folder with the tag 60?

#27

yep! I also use it on websites, i.e. Raindrop, Readwise

#28

Thanks! I really like the idea. that way no matter where you look, you know exactly where to look since everywhere uses the same system!

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#29

Perhaps each of these folders could be a MoC instead? Then as we change, the MoC and backlinks can change too

#30

they are! they’re Folder Note MOCs and Zootelkeeper indexes, and Landing pages :slight_smile: — they also incorporate supercharged links!

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#31

I just migrated my JD layout into Todoist as well. I think it wil work pretty well. Now to figure out how I want to use the todoist plugin and folder notes to present everything.

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