@Moonbase59, you’re quite the data person. 
@Kevzen, I had not thought of tracking everyone I meet, but I like the idea. I am thinking it might be easier to list the name along with the circumstances. If you meet John, you could make it [[Party John]] or even more descriptive such as [[John at Sally’s b-day party]]. Clunky, but could evoke memories better. Just a thought.
I don’t track everyone, but I try to keep notes on colleagues who I collaborate with. This is mainly to help me jump between projects that are relevant to them.
I use ꆜ as a prefix for those notes so that I can quickly find them in the quick switcher.
That’s a nice idea! As you say, it might look clunky, but I can imagine it could work nicely when meeting new people. I will try that out for some time and see 
I did create a link to a non-existent note for new people on projects, but so many random people show up in and on project meetings, it was tracking too many random people. (I’m in consulting.)
Now, if I think I will want to keep track of interactions with a person, I’ll make a note. Otherwise, I’ll just list the person was in a meeting and include their email address.
Later, I can search by email address if I think I’ve run into someone in the past to see where that was.
For my people notes, I name them [[Lastname, Fname]]. I haven’t had any duplicates after ~8 months, but definitely wondering how I would handle that in a useful way. Maybe their company name? Or their profession?
Eg: [[Lastname, Fname - Project Manager]] versus [[Lastname, Fname - Developer]] .
I’d want the file name to tell me more about them at a glance so I don’t have to click into the file unless I have to.
Any chance you could show how you set up your leaflet maps, and your data view birthdays, I’m trying to do the same but don’t really know what I’m doing.
I have a “People” folder in Obsidian and then 3 folders inside that called “People I Know”, “People I’ve Met”, and “People I Don’t Know Personally”. I try and create notes for all of the “People I Know” and some for the “People I Don’t Know Personally” so that I’ll be able to remember who they are more easily in the future (but that all depends on how much time I have to write a note about someone I may never see again and depends on the day).
[[@Joe Smith]]
[[~@Joe --- JS friend, pool party]]
[[!@Tiger Woods]]
Hope this is helpful or sparks an idea for you!
You could always use aliases. I have created two notes about Bobs. Bob Loblaw and Bob Seeger and given them both aliases of Bob. Then you can see in the “Bobs” note I have both of them linked already, and what it looks like when searching for them to link.
Nice share, I also use Obsidian to keep track of everyone I know, I organize them in several levels. 
This thread inspired me to write a script.
I can now export my address book (Apple Contact) to a vCard file and have the script break it up into multiple .vcf files with an associated .md which links to it. All files are named based on the contact’s name. I store all of this in a folder off the root of my vault.
Aside from being able to link via Obsidian, this gives me some new options. First, I now have a backup to my address book. Second, I can now start pruning my address book to a more reasonable size.
Also of note, some years back I started adding keywords to the records which I used for smartgroups in Contacts. Ive now switched them over to hashtags so Obsidian can use them too.
Im now starting to more seriously eye my GEDCOM data since it, for me, represents the same core problem (tracking identities, information about identities, and how the identities are associated with each other). Come to think of it, I should see what I can do about that integrating that giant collection of scanned business cards I pulled in from Evernote…
Hi @Moonbase59!
I am getting a little bit into Map View and Obsidian Leaflet and find both really fascinating to play around with. They sure are adding even another dimension to my “Obsidian universe”!
I saw your Germany map in this post of yours - and wondered how you …
Hey elchhead, fellow Berliner!
No, sorry, did not find out about this - but maybe Moonbase59 is looking into this about as often as I am … 
Wishing you happy holidays!
I also link to people but what annoys me is having to type the double brackets to have Obsidian propose existing names (notes) to me. If anyone feels the same, have you found a better way?
Ideally, I would like Obsidian/ a plugin to automatically detect names in the people folder and propose a link, but I can see how that may be a bit of overkill. So I’d be happy if typing @ plus one letter would trigger the selection dropdown.
Hm, as I think about it, maybe I should just set my Mac/Alfred to automatically replace @ plus letter with [[@ plus letter… 
But only in obsidian, of course.
That could work, but would be very inconvenient if you also link to places and other documents.
Wow! This is exactly what I have dreamed of but didn’t even dare to ask about! Thank you for making me aware of that plugin!
Hello, this topic interested me a lot, I have always had problems managing my life and contacts until I started to structure it, first I started with Google Contacts which is not bad if you have it updated, my problem was that over time I realized that only I had people with whom I had a certain daily contact, or close contact, and when a person stopped being relevant in my life or was not someone I dealt with from time to time I removed them from my phone, I have that habit, I don’t like it. have useless contacts.
When I started with the idea of the digital brain (in Spanish) or second brain, I was very clear that what I wanted was to have a database where I could dump everything I saw or knew in my life, whether it was necessary or not at the moment in which I I wrote it down because you never know when you’re going to need it, and that also applies to contacts, since I have found myself in situations of needing a phone number from someone I met 2 or 3 or 5 years ago… at one point given, or not remembering that a certain person years ago did this or that to me… even not remembering sensitive episodes of people I met years ago (such as asking how their children are doing to a person who 5 years ago lost one of them). they.
That is why I have created within my Obsidian a series of templates similar to what I could find in Google Contacts to write down all kinds of useful information that is very easy to access from my phone. My entire vault is oriented so that it can be accessed from the phone
I use the blue topaz theme in a dark version and I have templater, dataview and db folder installed. I also use list callouts but in this specific case it does not apply)
That looks great. Can you please share the template file?
ok I think everything is as it should, it took me a while because I had to translate it into English since I had it in Spanish, the tp.social note is for creating the contact, it is designed with pop-up windows and to be transferred directly to the folder where I have all the contacts, you just have to change the address
the other is a simple note for dataview that lists all notes with the type: contacts property and sorts them by name
tp.social.md (3.2 KB)
Contacts.md|attachment (6.3 KB)
I also leave you another finished template for cooking recipes:
tp.recipes.md (1.2 KB)
