How should we take notes with Obsidian? Here are some patterns I’ve thought of, but not sure if I should structure my notes like this.
a few big files with lots of headings
a few big files with lots of bullets, but few headings
lots of tiny files with only 1 heading, per file
every topic in its own folder
everything top level, no folders
what should I do with tags?
I’m trying to figure out the idiomatic Obsidian way to do things. I’d love to know how other people structure things.
I’m a programmer and want to keep notes on books I’m reading, side projects ideas, code snippets, todos.
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Obviously, everyone has their own opinion, but this is important: Obsidian is non-opinionated .
That means you do whatever you want. Obsidian just allows you to do it.
That said, my rule of thumb is: one note = one page or less*
*Just like the English language, there are about a million exceptions to this rule
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This is what’s been working for me thus far:
My purposes might be different than yours, but for me it’s very clear.
I do research in the humanities that requires interdisciplinary methods.
So tags are concepts or ideas that are typically referenced (implicitly or explicitly) by a wide range of scholars across varying disciplines.
Links, on the other hand, are for the argument of a particular theorist/scholar.
Notes/pages/links are typically an article, chapter, or book of a particular theorist/scholar. Or it can be an edited volume whe…
But this video is making me rethink a few things:
EDIT = (in ref to the video above) but I’ll be honest, I’m also in the humanities and in my subfield, scholars are citing others out of context. I think it’s somewhat accepted, but personally I find this unethical and just intellectual appropriation. So while I see the efficiency of atomized notes, I don’t think I can get myself to do that. So I’ll probably keep my current method.
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