I’m starting from 0 with Obsidian and spent a decent amount of time last week reading interesting lines in this forum. This post really clarified many assumptions I’ve made and the approach I’d like to implement and leverage within my personal PKM.
I’m definitely leaning towards a radical flat approach based on “as atomistic notes as possible”. There is something which however is still now working in my mental model and I’m still pretty confused about… notes titles.
In principle, I’m leaning towards not giving notes titles and just navigating notes through backlinks and graphs. Reasons:
- Note titles seem an unnecessary layer and a first, altough inherently preclusive, attempt to classify a body of information/knowledge which I want to develop differently. I’d like the system to supports my thinking at higher levels of abstractions and spur unexpected connections rather than labeling and siloing things.
- Considering that I want to take super atomistic notes, in many cases, the title would just be a repetition of the note body.
The question is, would this approach be viable at all or is just supported by my current limited understanding of the topic? Would really appreciate if you can share your thinking.
To let you better understand what I’m trying to achieve, you should know that my use case revolves around:
- Consolidating professional knowledge scattered around years of folder based reading and note taking
- Develop knowledge in a variety of personal interests
Also, haven’t checked yet evergreen notes and the maps of content which seems pretty crucial concept to develop the PKM along the lines I’m foreseeing.
Finally, could you suggest some intro reading (but not too basic) about
ingormation modelling?