My Obsidian Workflow

This page describes my Obsidian workflow.

Folder Structure

My Obsidian vault is composed of several distinct parts. To represent these parts, I've chosen to use folders. These folders are indexed so that they appear in a specific order in my local version of the vault (that's why their name start with a number).

• 00 Inbox: where my new notes are created
• 10 Wiki: my knowledge wiki
  • 11 Wiki Inbox: inbox for everything wiki-related
  • 12 Notes: what would be a PKM system without notes?
  • 13 Plantations: notes made to group several notes, check Plantation for more details
  • 14 References: the source of the knowledge in the vault and the things I want to keep track of
  • 15 Courses: courses I follow and want to keep track of
  • Status: describes the status of my notes.
• 20 Me: some elements more related to me
  • Gifts: gifts log
  • Goals: goals log
  • Ideas: my ideas (meal ideas, project ideas, etc...)
  • Projects: I keep here notes related to my projects
  • Relationships: relationships management
  • Reviews: periodic reviews
  • Travels: my travel log
  • Workflows: my workflows & processes
• 30 Public: everything related to my online vault
  • 31 Start Here: for the newcomers to this website
  • 32 Updates: I share here major update notes of my vault
• 90 Meta: everything directly related to the vault and its maintenance
  • Archives: instead of instantly delete the stuff I think is useless, it goes here in case I need it later for some reason
  • Attachments: all the files linked to notes
  • Scripts: scripts folder for vault automation
  • Templates: my templates (I'm can't make them public because of the way this website works)
  • Workbench: when I need to tinker things in Obsidian, this stuff goes here

Navigation

I like to be organized, and I think a good navigation is a way to feel organized. So I make a lot of notes useful just for navigation purposes, like Home.

Graph View

I don't use the Graph View often. I navigate through my notes mainly using folders or search.

But a thing I like with the Graph View is that it's a visual representation of how my Second Brain becomes bigger over time.

Note Status

I sometimes characterize my notes with a status. A good example is the Epistemic Status for 20240207081330 - My Zettelkasten Workflow.

I also use some basic status such as a dashboard or working-on status to quickly find some important notes.

Plugins

I try to use as few plugins as possible and to keep working with plain markdown. But there are a few plugins I can't remove, they're too important:

• Citations: to import my Zotero references here
• Dataview: so useful to query data from my vault
• Digital Garden: to make this website work
• Excalidraw: I like to make drawings instead of text sometimes to explain things
• Linter: to refactor quickly my notes
• QuickAdd: by hitting a shortcut I can instantly create a formatted note into a specific folder, isn't it powerful?
• Templater: it makes me save so much time when I use templates

I use some more plugins such as Vimrc Support but they're not so important and not for everyone.