I use only the book name in the note title. I also add a square from Unicode, which makes book titles stand out in a list. And I keep all notes that are main notes from books in a folder of their own.
ICON FOR BOOKS, MOVIES
So a book title may be:
■ The black swan
I do the same for other things, movies have star:
★ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
CHAPTERS
This way I also don’t mess up automatic backlinks if a book or a movie has a very common word or phrase as a title.
I then make notes for chapters - they have names with a description of what they are about or what the author called it. I then make a list on the original book note, with the chapters. And an alias for each chapter.
Example: In “■ The black swan”, the first chapter is called “The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic”. The note about this chapter will be called that. BUT I make an alias: “The black swan - chapter 1”.
NOTE FOR EACH AUTHOR
I make a separate note for each author. And just link back and forth to the books and the chapters. I have lots of books from same authors, so that made sense to me. I also have contact and made friends with some of the authors, so I keep them in my PEOPLE folder just like every one else I know.
LIBRARY LIST
I also have a library list, which even has a shortcut to quickly show it (I use the shortcuts plugin to do this).
I have made a heading for each letter of the alphabet (### T) and then this code (using the dataview plugin:
```dataview
LIST FROM "books"
WHERE regexmatch("^■ T", file.name)
SORT file.name ascending
```
This gives me a neat, sorted list, with over 1 200 books (I have a note for every single book I own, either digital or physical.
BOOKNOTES
In the book notes folder, I keep the notes from Kindle.