I have now used Obsidian a bit more than one year as my main and most periods, although it has been a period of trying out different divisions, only note-taking tool. Before I was only taking notes in Google Keep and I had not long since started journaling. I had tried out countless plugins and am now in a simplification stage. My categories of content are;
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Journaling - I try to consolidate as much content categories as possible with my Journaling to lower the treshold to write in my journaling. I write pretty much already but aim to capture and digest all my major thought in the Journaling, but I am not there yet. Thus I include to-do, daily-planner, health statistics (like sleep and excercise), page links, quotes and images in this category just to get me in there, to that daily note, to minimize that treshhold to write proper journaling content.
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Resources - Here I include all that is linked from my Journaling or just saved for searchability. For example inventory of stuff with all relevant info, article snippets and banking history. All kinds of content I want to save and havve searchable, either through plain text search, SQLseal, Compilot (LLM integration) or Bases. Moving away from using SQLseal to bases, with only SQLseal for csv in the future.
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Temporary - Content that is related to a to-do, which is then generally written on that note, that I don´t mind eraeasing in the future when that to-do is executed or beyond deadline.
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To do - This is not so much a category, it is instead just a single note, that work excellently with the task-query plugin called “Task board”. This note has all to-dos that are not in any other note, created form that plugin, so i dont look at this note directly.
So in conclusion how does Obsidian help me? Journaling, saving important or temporarily important information, query that information in differnet ways and to-dos. Where Journaling helps me plan, digest my thoughts and search my thoughts.