Hey there, this is how I have setup Obsidian as my second brain / personal knowledge management system / task manager. Maybe it helps you getting started or inspires you for your Osidian setup. I added some sample content so it makes more sense. For more ideas, check out the obsidian forum: Latest Share & showcase topics - Obsidian Forum
Best thing you donwload this repository and open it up as vault in obsidian!
My personal knowledge management system (pkms) is inspired by Niklas Luhmanns Zettelkasten system but not as strictly followed. I try breaking stuff down and linking them together.
I save ideas and concept as #💡 [[📃bit notes]]. Yeah I´m from the IT world and since bits are the smallest information unit, I find it more fitting as the more common term atomic notes.
HowTos, Tutorials, Runbooks, Code Snippets and stuff that is not "wiki article like" as bit notes ends in my #🧰 [[📃Knowledge Base Notes]], to remember how stuff is done.
When I find an interesting piece of information it gets saved as #🌍 [[📃Source Notes]] with some initial notes and remarks. This notes are also categorized by there type / where they come from.
- #🌍/🎬 video / youtube / movie
- #🌍/💻 website / blog
- #🌍/🎧 podcast
- #🌍/📖 magazine article
- #🌍/📃 scientific papers
- #🌍/📅 events / presentations / workshops / weninars etc.
Books are basically also source notes but they have their own place as #📚 [[📃literature notes]]. Also categorized with subtags by genre. I found a neat scripts which imports your books from http://goodreads.com/ [[#^866cdf]].
New notes / ideas / thoughts are created in the inbox from where they get edited and moved.
Another part of my pkms are the [[📓Study Notes]], here I take notes of things I´m currently learing and transform them afterwards into bit and knowledge base notes.
I´m also thinking about setting up a digital garden to plant ideas, growing and harvest them to output. So far I only manage "hard facts" / knowledge but less ideas and thoughts.
Besides knowledge I handle my tasks / projects in Obsidian.
#🧑 [[📃people notes]] are a crossover between the knowledge and productivity setup. Authors, youtubers etc. landing there besides people I work with. Through the linking feature of obsidian it is easy to find source notes / books a person has created or see who was with me in meetings or works with me on projects for example.
Another big part are my [[📃daily notes]]. Here I add the tasks for that day, take [[📃Meeting Notes]] and all other notes that come up over the day. At the end of the week I summarize the most impact full topics that week in weekly notes. They go in monthly notes and they in yearly (eg [[2021]] ) ones. So I can get a quick overview what happend that week / month and easy keep track of things.
In the [[🤹Projects]] I handle the projects I´m working on. In the subfolders are the notes and other stuff regarding the project. One note is a overview note with the people involved, tasks, notes, meetings and links.
I have the QuickAdd Templater Template [[#^e972a8]] Plugin installed and configured for the Hotkey ALT+C.
From here I can very quickly add tasks that come up to the [[001 ✔️ToDo]] Overview under the inbox header. In this index I see all open tasks in the vault from different notes, notes with the tag #todo that have to be worked on and other tasks added directly. From here I can pick what I want to work on that day and add them to my [[📃daily notes]] and are getting worked on.
To capture thoughts and ideas I want to get back later I add them via QuickAdd to the [[002 💭Top of Mind]] index. Here are all the things I want to keep in mind, short term.
Websites I want to save go to the [[090 🔖Bookmarks]] and Articles / Videos I want to read/watch when I have time for it are added to the [[091 🔖Read Later]], from where they transform in [[📃Source Notes]] when read/watched.
Information / ideas / concepts are getting extracted from here and [[📃bit notes]] are written and saved. They later can inspire to create some sort of output like blog posts.
The entry point of the vault is the [[000 📇Index]], it links to all the maps, lists, journal entries and so on. In the graph view it´s the central hub of everything.
- Dracula, https://draculatheme.com/obsidian
- File Explorer
- Search
- Quick Switcher
- Graph view
- Backlinks
- Tag pane
- Page preview
- Starred
- Command palette
- Templates
- Outline
- Open in default app
- Workspaces
- File recovery
- Advanced Tables
- Calendar
- Editor Syntac Highlight
- Emoji Toolbar
- Find unlinked files and unresolved links
- Hotkeys for templates
- Kindle HIghlights
- Obsidian Git
- Ozans Image in Editor Plugin
- PDF Highlights
- Periodic Notes
- Templater
- Imports read Books from Goodreads, https://github.com/selfire1/goodsidian ^866cdf
- Quick Add Templater Templates, you want this ;) https://github.com/chhoumann/Templater_Templates ^e972a8