Complete newbie to Obsidian, but very familiar with markdown, programming, emacs, latex, etc. I find it interesting that Obsidian has not only one but very many mechanisms to organize information hierarchically. There are folders, links, tags, and of course the hierarchical structure in markdown itself (first, headers; then, lists). Only links and tags can both cut across the tree. The others are forced trees. I hope I got that correct.
I could use some advice about good practice.
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I am thinking about organizing tasks into large groups (
work,home, maybe 2-3 more) using folders. Stuff for myworkdoesn’t cross much with stuff for myhome, so folders seem like a good choice. In each of these folders, I then have many markdown files, one for each task. In order to make the graph happily display where these are, I stick[[work]]in all files in thework/folder. -
Now I want to classify my tasks by urgency or priority (say,
high,medium,low,queued). I am thinking of using tags for this function, likeurgency/low. Although logically I would like to constrain this to my four choices +none, I will have sufficiently few priorities that any misspelling that doesn’t fit will stick out like a sore thumb and can thus be quickly fixed by hand.
My goal is simple. sometimes, I want to see all my tasks at home; sometimes I want to see all my urgent tasks; sometimes, I want to see a 2x3 matrix.
Am I going about this the correct way? Are tags the right way to indicate urgency or are links preferred? Is there a plugin or view that I should learn about that helps with “views”? The graph view is nice, but seems to function best with links rather than tags. Or should I link to a (potentially non-existent) [[urgency/low]]?
Advice appreciated.