Vault, File, Note, Tags Structure Help - University

[Skid]

I’m new to Obsidian and have spent the day trying to organize my Vault structure in a way that is intuitive for my university classes.

Here is a rough idea of what I have envisioned:

And here is what I don’t want:

Ideally, I would like to be able to click on the MOC for any given class and from there it has a full Table of Contents for the class with links to all the material. Something like this:

The problem is, if I link everything to the MOC the graph view looks like a jumbled mess. On the other hand, I would like to be able to use the MOC to see an overview of all of the material with sections / topics nested together and ideally be able to click on each Section to view the notes easily and maybe even be able to click on the individual topics within a given section to be taken directly to that part of the note, instead of having to just click on the Parent Section from the MOC and navigate manually to what I want to see.

Is this possible and if so, how? If not, do you have any recommendations on how I should structure my vault or use a MOC? Am I misunderstanding what an MOC is supposed to be used for?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Plugins I’m using: Folder Note & Waypoint

[rigmarole]

First of all, I don’t recommend relying on the graph view to be clean and concise like this. You’ll waste a lot of time and energy trying to wrangle what is supposed to be a very dynamic view. The order and positions will constantly shift. And if you start from the prerequisite of keeping the graph clean, you’ll be less inclined to freely link and interconnect ideas.

Once your graph gets larger (in my personal opinion) the graph view will become less useful, and the local graph will be something you’ll use more just to navigate or inspect things occasionally.

Consider using Canvas instead. Or maybe there is a graph plugin that keeps things in a clean structured map. But also, you have your MOC, which is already clean and structured. Does that not suffice?

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That said, you could try something like this for your MOC:

1. Put your classes in your MOC
2. Put the sub-sections inside each class note
3. Embed the sub-sections inside the MOC as a block embed

MOC:

# MOC

[[Class A]]
[[ClassB]]
![[ClassB#^156ca8]]
[[ClassC]]
![[ClassC#^650bc9]]

Class Note:

# Class B

[[Class B Subject 1]]
[[Class B Subject 2]]
[[Class B Subject 3]] ^156ca8 <-- This is a block link

Content here...

Note that you can use custom block IDs, like ^classBSections

The block embedded links will not link directly from the MOC:

[Skid]

Huge thanks for the help. I think you are right, I probably shouldn’t worry about structuring my vault around keeping a neat graph view, but for now I’m going to try using the block links to see if I like it.