I’m trying to use Obsidian regularly for personal note taking and have watched countless tutorials on setting it up. I am still struggling however on how to link notes via [[links]] while using a daily note set up (I come from a Roam background). For example: I created a page called “Research Paper 1” for a paper I’m writing. So now when something new pops up relating to [[Research Paper 1]] I make notes and type it up in my daily notes set up. But now when I look at the page [[Research Paper 1]] it’s just a bunch of random notes made on random days and there’s no real flow to it. So how should I go about making notes instead? Should I just lose the idea of attaching notes to a particular date and just go to the page and continue typing? The thing I don’t like about this idea is that it will just seem like some endlessly long note with no real coherence.
To me the daily notes are used for the headlines for that day, so it would just contain a reference (aka link) to me writing on that research paper, possibly with which area of input which triggered the writing. And then the true writing on the paper I would do in the note itself.
After all the research info belongs in the paper itself (or a directly related note) , and not in some random daily note.
My simplistic way of thinking about this is you have to decide if you want your research note to be organized by topic or chronology. If by topic then you’ll need to enter new data within that research note. If by chronology, then you can enter in the daily note and view the information using the backlinks.
A more complicated way would be to put your data in daily notes so you have that chronology in your research note via backlinks but tag each entry by topic and then using queries or dataview in your research note you can slice and dice your information to be presented anyway you wish. This is what I would do.