How to structure notes to better align with Obsidian?

[nein3m]

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.

Helpful discussions

• Tags vs page/link
• Quote Notes: How to label, an exploration - 40 notes downloadable

[nickmilo]

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

[PhDResearch]

This is what’s been working for me thus far:

Tags vs page/link

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:

Organize Your Knowledge with Zettelkasten

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.