How do you organize academic work in Obsidian? Here's my approach after 4 years

I enjoyed reading your guide. It’s laid out well.

What are your thoughts on note titles? I have found them to be an important structural element of my vault structure.

A note writing principle I would add is ‘Conversation with yourself’. If at some future point you find that you disagree with a note, don’t make major edits to the existing note. Instead, create a new one discussing your new train of thought and add a link in your old note.

For practical implementation, ‘keywords’ wind up being important to me for searching. If I am searching for an idea, I sometimes rely on certain phrasing, keywords, or verbiage to locate them. It’s not something I stress over when writing a note, but if I have a hard time finding a note I will make strategic edits to it based on search terms I used trying to locate it.

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