Since the beginning, I have been using folders like everybody, but hoping that hyperlinks will be available also to us. As time passed, I lost my research to OneNote and Scholar’s Aid.
Obsidian suggests a new way of working which is contrasting to my habits of organizing with folders. It is very promising to use links, tags etc. yet, I’m quite timid about putting all my files into a single folder. I know how much it hurts to lose your work.
What I decided to do is to get all the external knowledge into a single folder and use the tags for corresponding disciplines. At the same time, I’ll put all my ideas into another folder and link to the knowledge base in the other folder.
I’m still not sure how much cumbersome it will be to make sure that my ideas vs. other’s ideas will not be mixed up and appropriately tagged.
This is my solution as a beginner to Obsidian. Hopefully it will work until the day I die. 