Rethinking MY PKM: How I Organize Everything In Obsidian
Summary
TLDR在今天的视频中,我将分享如何在Obsidian中组织一切的旅程。这一旅程始于一年前我发布的“重新思考我的个人知识管理(PKM)”视频。如今,我准备分享我的整个系统的运作方式,包括六个原则和系统的14个组件。对于每个组件,我都会提供多个来自我的知识库的示例。此外,我还会分享一个链接,包含今天视频中使用的绘图,这样你就可以找到更多相关信息。我还将讨论如何利用Obsidian的各种功能和插件来优化信息组织,包括使用文件夹、标签、链接、模板和更多高级技术,以及如何应用这些方法来提高信息的可发现性和管理效率。
Takeaways
- 😀 作者通过Obsidian组织个人知识管理(PKM),并分享了六大原则和十四个组件。
- 📚 为每个PKM组件提供了多个实例,并通过Excalidraw绘图共享更多相关信息。
- 🔗 强调简化原则,每个组件具有单一目的,以减少混淆。
- ⚙️ 使用模板和数据视图等工具减少操作摩擦,实现部分自动化。
- 📁 接受“布朗菲尔德现实”,即PKM系统中会有来自旧系统的信息混杂。
- 🚫 避免移动文件以免破坏链接,而是保持文件在原位置。
- 🗂 应用“LATCH”原则(位置、字母、时间、类别、层级)优化信息查找。
- 🔍 坚持链接一切,以提升文件在知识库中的可发现性。
- 🏷 使用标签为页面定义类型,但每页限用一个标签以保持一致性。
- 🌐 通过命名空间和文件命名约定来组织和检索文件,如使用特定前缀或日期格式。
- 📅 使用日常笔记创建时间层级,并通过地理标签(Geo-tags)增加位置维度。
- 📈 在上下文中显示任务,使用动态列表和数据视图查询来管理待办事项。
- 🔧 通过诊断和维护页面监控孤立文件和未命名图片,保持库的整洁。
Q & A
Obsidian中的PKM系统是什么?
-PKM系统是个人知识管理系统,旨在帮助个人收集、组织和分享知识。在Obsidian中,这涉及到使用软件的功能来创建一个高度组织和互联的知识库。
视频中提到的六大原则包括哪些?
-六大原则包括保持简单、最小化摩擦、接受现实、避免移动文件、应用LATCH和始终链接。
什么是LATCH原理?
-LATCH代表位置(Location)、字母顺序(Alphabet)、时间(Time)、类别(Category)和层级(Hierarchy),这是一种组织信息的方法。
视频中提到了哪些Obsidian的核心组件?
-核心组件包括文件夹、标签、链接、模板、地理标签、日常笔记、动态列表和维护页面等。
视频中提到了哪两个主要工具用于减少操作摩擦?
-减少操作摩擦的两个主要工具是Templater和Data View。
如何在Obsidian中实现有效的文件管理,避免文件混乱?
-通过使用文件夹命名空间、遵循一致的文件命名规范、应用模板以及利用标签和链接来创建清晰的组织结构。
为什么视频中强调避免移动文件?
-因为移动文件可能会导致链接断裂,尤其在Obsidian中,虽然软件提供了一定程度的链接控制,但移动文件仍可能导致问题。
什么是‘棕地现实’?
-‘棕地现实’指的是,大多数人之前已经有旧的PKM系统和信息存储方式,因此新系统需要能够整合和接受这些旧的数据和结构。
在Obsidian中如何利用LATCH原理来增强信息的可查找性?
-通过组织信息以便基于日历(时间)、物理位置、类别等多种方式进行查找,利用Obsidian的功能如地理标签和日常笔记来实现这一点。
如何在Obsidian中处理孤立文件问题?
-通过创建更多的链接,确保每个文件都至少链接到其他文件或被其他文件链接,使用维护页面来监控和减少孤立文件的数量。
Outlines
📚 个人知识管理系统的原则与组件
本段介绍了作者在Obsidian中如何组织个人知识管理(PKM)系统的历程,包括六大原则和14个组件。作者提到了系统的简化、最小化摩擦、接受现实、避免文件移动、应用LATCH(位置、字母、时间、类别、层次)原则以增强信息的可发现性,以及始终进行链接。此外,还提到了使用Excalidraw绘图来辅助说明,并会在视频描述中提供链接,让观众可以深入了解。
📁 文件夹结构与使用
本段深入探讨了文件夹在作者PKM系统中的作用,包括如何通过名称空间的方式组织文件夹以优化Obsidian的同步设置,以及如何利用年月日的文件命名规则来增强文件的时间序列性。作者强调了不愿意移动文件的偏好,解释了这种方法如何帮助保持链接的完整性并简化了文件管理过程。
🏷️ 标签的独特应用
作者描述了在Obsidian系统中对标签的独特应用,只给每个页面分配一个标签以确定其类型,并通过Excalidraw插件使不同类型的页面在视觉上有所区分。此外,通过使用名称空间,即使文件还未创建,也能通过链接预先定义其类型,从而增强了信息的组织性和可检索性。
🔗 链接与本体论
本段讨论了链接在作者PKM系统中的作用,特别是如何利用本体论(ontology)来定义文件之间的关系,并通过Excalidraw插件在视觉上展示这些关系。作者解释了如何使用数据视图字段来创建和管理这些链接,以及如何通过Excalidraw的设置来优化链接的管理和表示。
🔄 原子笔记与转录
作者介绍了如何通过原子笔记和转录来优化PKM系统,通过重用和转录笔记来最大化笔记的价值。例如,通过将重要的单个笔记(如日历项目或摘要部分)以一致的方式重用和链接,来提高效率和减少重复工作。此外,作者还提到了将图片和其他笔记内容分解为可重用组件的方法。
📚 文件命名与模板
讨论了文件命名约定和模板在作者PKM系统中的重要性。通过使用一致的文件命名规则和模板,作者能够更容易地管理和检索信息。例如,所有的地图内容(MOCs)都以特定方式命名,而模板则用于简化和自动化文件创建过程,包括如何通过模板创建复杂的文件结构和图形模板。
🗓️ 日常笔记与地理标签
作者展示了如何通过日常笔记和地理标签来组织信息,利用日常笔记来创建基于时间的信息层次结构,并通过地理标签将信息与特定位置关联起来。此外,还介绍了如何利用Obsidian的Map View插件来可视化地理位置标签,从而提高了信息组织的空间维度。
📝 任务管理与维护
最后一段讨论了任务管理和系统维护在PKM系统中的重要性。作者通过在相关页面上显示动态任务列表来保持任务管理的上下文相关性,并使用数据视图字段来创建这些列表。此外,作者还分享了如何通过检查孤立文件和未命名图片等来进行系统维护,从而保持PKM系统的整洁和高效。
Mindmap
Keywords
💡知识管理
💡原子笔记
💡模板
💡文件夹
💡标签
💡Link
💡LATCH
💡地理标签
💡任务
💡Maintenance
Highlights
Six principles: keep it simple, minimize friction, accept messy reality, avoid moving files, apply LATCH, always link things
14 key components for PKM system: folders, tags, links/ontology, atomic notes, file names, templates, maps of content, daily notes, geotags, tasks in context, diagnostics
Uses folders as namespaces to structure information, not just physical storage
Gives one tag per note to define its type/look in graph view
Ontology describes relationships between notes with parent/child/lateral connections
Reuses visual components as atomic nodes via transclusion to create connections
Standard sections like "summary" and "quotes" in notes enable easy embedding
Map of contents (MOCs) summarize topics with links, images, ontologies
Daily notes form time hierarchy, geotags capture location based on LATCH
Tasks queried via dataview fields on relevant note pages for context
Diagnostics check for orphaned notes, unlinked references, unnamed images
Consistent file naming conventions by type and source
Templates automate complex workflows like note/folder creation
Visual Thinking Workshop open for registration to dive deeper
Transcripts
hey everyone in today's video I'm going
to share with you how I organize
everything in obsidian this is the end
of a long journey that started almost a
year ago when I first published
rethinking my PKM one and since then
I've been releasing various videos on
the topic and now I'm ready to share how
my entire system works so in today's
video we are going to look at the six
principles of my PCM and the 14
components of my system and for each of
them each of the components I'm going to
try to give you multiple examples from
My Vault
also the drawing that I'm going to use
in today's video I'm going to include a
link in the video description to this
excalator drawing so you can open this
and you will find lots of additional
information
links to various videos that I've shared
and links to blog posts and other
materials so you can really dive into
the topic that interests you the most
just a quick reminder the visual
thinking Workshop cohort for is starting
this Saturday if you're interested to
learn more about visual thinking if you
want to learn from me about organizing
your information and obsidian this is an
awesome opportunity to meet with me and
to work together I'd love you to join
cohort for
so now let's dive in and let's start
with the six principles
so my first principle is to keep it
simple
each component each of the 14 components
has a clear purpose and a single purpose
and I try to keep these separate from
one another so I don't get confused
about it
second I'm keen on minimizing friction I
use two primary tools for this templater
and data view but of course there are
some other automations as well but
automation is an important part of my
workflow
third
I live in the Brownfield reality and I
bet most of you also this means that
I've had previous PKM systems where I
stored information I had my file system
so I've every time I upgrade my PC I
store the previous PCS content in a
folder called archive so this is archive
in an R Hive in an R Hive in an R Hive
going back to the 1990s so there's lots
of stuff
also I use multiple tools like the brain
Evernote ROM research Etc and I've
imported materials from there but this
means that overall my volt is a mess I
try to get on top of the categories or
tags or the folders but it is really
hard with this Brownfield reality and I
decided to accept reality for what it is
fourth I'm keen on avoiding moving files
around I make this point because Thiago
forte in building a second brain
proposes a workflow where you move files
into a folder for the project and when
the project completes move your files to
somewhere else
I don't like to move files around
because then links break even in
obsidian where you get some control
around it there are some issues with
moving files around so I place the file
somewhere and I stick to that location
even if it sometimes means that things
don't end up in their correct folders
fifth I apply latch latch stands for
location alphabet time category and
hierarchy and this was coined by Richard
Warman he is the founder of TED talks
and he said that everything in the world
can be organized by these five means and
by these five means only and the way I
apply latch or the reason I apply latch
is to maximize the vase how I can find
information so I can find information
based on my calendar I can find the
information based on the physical
location if it was force some reason
memorable I can find it based on
categories and with the other methods as
well using latch and applying latch to
each pieces of information in my world
helps me maximize findability and
finally I always link now this is
something that I've not been always
deliberate on I looked at how many
orphan files I have in my Vault and I
was surprised to see that it was in the
high hundreds meaning five six hundred
orphan files and this is because often
I'm using folders in a way that they
provide a structure and often I just
simply place a document with the topic
in that file but of course that reduces
findability so recently I've decided
that I'm only going to place files in my
vol if I'm able to link it to somewhere
to My Graph so these are my principles
and then let's dive into each of the
tools I'm going to start with folders
and first of all you can see my folder
hierarchy here
it is
a relatively lean folder hierarchy so
you can see I have these are my folders
there are some folders that I would love
to get rid of but because I don't want
to move files and because of the
Brownfield reality I cannot so archive
the brain is there it has lots and lots
of files where you can see there it has
almost
4500 files and the Thousand subfolders
so that is a big mess but also Hobbies I
would love to move on their projects but
again lots of files here lots of folders
and I just decided to leave it there it
is by the way I think of folders not as
physical storage locations but as name
spaces so let me show you what I mean by
that
so when I create
a new link to a file that doesn't exist
in My Vault let's imagine I'm adding a
new book to My Vault and I want to add
the author I don't just write the name
of the author for example Dan Rome but I
create the author in the people author's
namespace which simply means that I type
in and here in search we can actually
take a look at this so I type in
a link that starts with people then
slash author and then slash I continue
with the name of the author so in this
case you can see I have a number of
ghost links so ghost link means that the
actual folder for the author has not
been created so you can see here Dan
Rome or Eliezer yutkovski you can see
here a couple of Hungarian poets as well
as some other authors
by doing this then I create the file or
when I create the link to the name of
the person I can
already give it a type I know it's an
author even without creating the file
and adding a tag author to me this is
helpful
second I like folders because they help
me manage what gets synchronized with
obsidian sync so here in obsidian sync
settings you can actually
specify exclude folders so here on my
Mac I have nothing all my videos are on
my desktop PC
there I have lots of folders that are in
the exclude because for example I
exclude all the folders with the video
files and voice files because they are
large and there's no point in
synchronizing them however I keep them
in obsidian but I can ring fence that
content and not move it around with
obsidian sync
and then
I try to name YouTube Project files and
other files as well or rather folders
with a year month date naming this is
something new that I've started so I
don't really have many examples of this
but here you will see that some of the
folders that are now created recently
followed this naming convention what
this helps me with is it gives me a
chronological order for my videos
because you can see I have whole bunch
of files here and sometimes it is a bit
of a difficult
thing to find the video however I do
remember the time when I created that
video
and then in obsidian you can set up the
attachments folder and also the new file
so here if I come to settings under
files and links there are these
additional settings that you can create
so first of all the default location for
new notes for me is the same folder as
the current file which means that if I'm
working on a topic and I just simply
write the name of a new file not using
the namespace then that file is going to
be created in the same folder if I want
to place it somewhere else then I follow
this namespace approach and I type out
the location of the file
and second I keep my attachments under
the subfolder of the topic for me
attachments and the
notes are very closely connected and
this is why for me this makes sense so
for example here if I come to input this
is where all my inputs are for example
articles and assessments and books and
conferences films if here's for example
my book notes on deep work and you can
see here that I have my attachments
folder which includes all of my
illustrations for deep work so that's
about folders now moving on to tags I
only use one tag per page there's one
exception to this which is more a
stylistic thing and I didn't even
include it here
but you will see it in the next step
when I talk about data View and how I'm
using search so
for now
the point is I
aim to give a single tag to each
document and that will give that
document a type so for example if we
open this page and I'm going to navigate
here
if I open this page you can see that
this is a map of content and you can see
I have my tag map of content here and
now if I open xcoli Brain for this page
then what you will see here is based on
the tag on the page I'm going to give
this file a different look and feel in X
call your brain so all my map of
contents are with this red color and
have this icon of a map there all my
people file so you can see couple of
people here Thiago Fort and Nick Milo
are they have this person at the
beginning all my books have this book
there then I have ex College Road
drawings have this painter's palette
there
Etc so I use the tag for the page to
also Define the look and feel of this
page in X color brain and just to show
you how I configure this in excalib
brain so here if I come to excalibrane
settings I can scroll down here here are
all the different tags listed that I'm
using in My Vault with a special purpose
and here if I choose one of the tags so
let's look at the Moc that we looked at
a second ago you can see that I have my
prefix which is this map emoji and then
I have the background color and the text
color specified and I can see that this
is how these are going to look and for
example if I look at a person then you
can see that this is how a person node
looks like in X color brain I need to
add these Stacks here and then they
appear here in the list and finally on
tags I have this article call and on the
link that I'm going to include in the
show notes that will take you to
excalator.com with this drawing there
you will find this link and you can
click on this so back in the time when I
was working in the brain I had this
whole
color scheme of how I used the different
thought types and these are actually the
equivalents of tags or the way I use
them in obsidian and I had different
color ranges so read the range were all
the media that I consumed the yellow
range was for example all the people
friends family colleagues all these
purple items were companies or legal
entities
Etc so each color had its own purpose
and then I looked at my graph then I was
able to understand it immediately or
understand it much better
so moving on talking about links so
we're going to look back to my PKM Moc
and you will see how I'm using links
here so or the ontology so the ontology
is defined here in the front by this
data view field with double columns
after it and then I have the link the
way this is going to appear on the graph
in X color brain is here if you take a
look you will see that these tags that
are here on the left hand side appear
here as related to examples
example examples Etc author you have the
different type of relationship so I use
ontology in My Vault
and I use it to describe the
relationship between this file and the
next file to me this helps to think
about why I have that link there it
what's the purpose of the link actually
coming up with the ontology is sometimes
a challenge in ex call it brain there's
a feature that I get prompted with these
ontologies so if I type triple double
colon then this list comes up and I can
just simply type and we'll get all the
different type of ontologies I have
defined and each of these has a
definition index color brain whether
they're a parent a child or a friend so
again here in ex call it brain you can
see that these are all the fields that
our parents or children and friends I
have some
excluded ontologies of HR there for some
other technical reasons and I have also
a couple of
unregistered ones that I either still
need to register to make it explicit in
X color brain or they're just there
because over time these were created
anyway so this trigger oh and let me
just show you this so you can see here
you have the ontology suggestor is
something you can turn on and then using
these features these hot combinations
the suggestor comes up so if I only want
to see friend relationships then these
are all the type of ontologies I can
apply here that will create a lateral
Link in escalate brain for me
so the lateral link just to show you
that as well they'll look like this so
everything here the central idea is the
document I have open and everything on
the left hand side are lateral links
these are parent
links and these are children nodes so
that's the logic and I use the ontology
to specify where each item gets on my
graph linking also
includes embedding items into the
excalator storyboard so again let me
just show you how this storyboard looks
like so the document we are looking at
right now so again I'm going to open
excalibrane and now in the center you
can see that this is the file we are
looking at so this is mypkm design text
links folder ontology Moc zettel custom
Etc and you can see that all of these
items that are embedded here are also
present here so for example here I have
this calendar icon that's embedded I'm
not going to navigate to this because
that will take us off on a tangent but
you can see already that this icon is
actually used in four other places so
it's used in five places so already with
this I'm making a connection to
somewhere else where I talk about time
and calendaring
Etc but so for me when I embed an object
into my X call it raw storyboard for a
topic then that already will create a
link
and on the ontology we already talked
about the ontology bit so we are going
to take this topic off as well the
ontology describes the relationship
between notes and I differentiate
between parent child and lateral
connections I implemented with data view
fields and I visualize it with
excalibraine here's a video where I talk
about this in more detail
then the next important element of my
organization system is I'm trying to
work with atomic nodes and use
transclusion so for example as just I
mentioned with the calendar item and
maybe we can
we can actually navigate to that
calendar to see where else we are using
the calendar so by reusing or maybe
here's the check mark and we're going to
navigate to this
by if I click here this will open the
check mark and here I can
come to the various documents
so for example evaluating evidence this
is actually a part of my book on a page
for the book rationality so here I'm
using exactly the same check mark and
using the same check mark I can navigate
to to the topic sometimes these links
are
irrelevant oftentimes this comes as an
interesting surprise that yeah that that
visual link that I reuse
also provides a contextual linking
so that's about Atomic notes I also use
this the construction of images there
are two videos here I'm not going to go
into this because this is a big rabbit
hole that goes down into this hole how I
deconstruct excel drawings into sub
drawings but this is a very important
part of my whole methodology of reusing
components not redrawing and using these
components to create links but also
I tried to do this by creating
consistent sections in my other notes as
well so here are two examples here's an
example of an article and you will see
that the article has a summary section
and by the way if you look at my book
notes then the book note also has a
summary section by way of having this
commonality I know that if I'm
referencing a book I can immediately
write hashtag summary and just get the
summary embedded into the location so if
I transclude this so let's say I open
today's daily node and I want to
transclude building a second brain
summary so then I would write
building a second brain like this and I
would immediately write hashtag summary
and with this I'm able to embed this
here and I would also probably add a
reference here so in this case the
reason I'm putting this here is because
this is an example so I would add my
ontology like this but by having this
consistent approach of always calling
the summary summary this just simplifies
my life because with this consistency I
can easily embed items and reference
them the same with quotes don't ask me
why I ended up with P but every quote
that I have so for example here's the
daily quote from today if I look here in
markdown then you will see that here I
have this quote from Napoleon Hill and
here I have this reference with p and
again I know that if there's a quote a
single quote in a file that is worth
referencing then it's going to have a
block reference p and that just helps me
easily find these items in My Vault this
file this example book is a good example
for Section headings
so there is a trade-off between
embedding files and in reference or or
creating larger files so if I look at
building a second brain you can see here
that I have couple of notes here and
these notes are just simply typed here
so I'm I'm not embedding anything here
in this case I made some notes about the
book some of my research as I was
reading the book and here under notes I
simply added these items and that's all
but for example if I would open another
book I'm going to open for example
emergence
so if I open emergence then here you
will see that I had a bit more content
here and in this case
I included or transcluded content here
and some of them I only translated the
summary in other cases I transcluded the
whole material but in these cases the
files actually live in their proper
location so this file lives here in its
input folder under YouTube so this is
the input YouTube folder that's where
the file is and here it's a block
reference so you can see this as a block
reference so that's the trade-off if I
have lots of files or lots of notes that
I want to include then I start to break
them out into their relevant files and I
make them embeds that have a link if I
don't have that many I typically start
by typing these topics here
and then break them out later if I feel
that that is required so moving on let's
move up to the top here
so file names I have a couple of file
name conventions which I find pretty
helpful All My Mocs start with an
underscore like you can see here so
let's just to show you some of the other
mocs if I come to call it brain and I
think with that we can also cover mlc so
here these are the various map of
contents in My Vault you can see these
right here
and you can see that each of them have
the same file name but similarly I have
naming conventions so for example
book cover
will bring up all the book covers I have
in my Vault or if I type in
logo then this will bring all the logo
images if I type icon
then it will show all the icons in My
Vault I also use this I have some
automations around it I'm going to
include that link here as well so here
if I open the image Library so it's here
I also have a local library so maybe
let's open the local library then this
will
show me all the logos in My Vault so all
of these files will start with the word
logo so there's my you can see my Apple
logo here if I
press Ctrl o and type logo
Apple logo then you can see that indeed
that Apple logo is right there also in
my naming convention you can see that at
the end in this case and in most of the
cases my file name has three parts it
specifies the type of file so is it the
book cover a logo an illustration a
photo an icon a whatever then there's
the actual keywords that Define the file
so in this case it's Apple logo but for
example if I open my image library then
you will see that I have longer file
names in my image Library so these are
all the icons in My Vault and here you
can see that you see the
headache frustration anger are the
keywords and then the final part of the
naming convention you will see here as
well is the source of the file so in
this case it's a flat icon but if the
source is something else then it's going
to be that other source so these are the
various naming so you can see here book
cover illustration thumbnail book on the
page starts with a bob literature note
starts with Ln
Etc and the date format I use is year
year months month and day day because
that consistent naming helps me find
stuff easier
then I use templates and I have lots of
templates so here if I open my template
folder
template or templates so you can see I
have a whole bunch of templates I
actually follow again the naming
convention here as well so I have
templates that create a new line so it
just creates a single line in the
document and I have templates that
create new pages and I have some other
templates as well
for many of the things I do I use these
templates and then some of my templates
actually automate the process of
creating folders and multiple files so
if there's a more complex activity then
I use that so for example the YouTube
workflow video that I explain here will
show you a case study where I have a
template that creates files
and folders and places stuff all the
places and the excalator templates shows
you different ways how you can create
graphical templates
maybe pre-filled templates for various
tasks so templates are an important part
of my setup
they already talked about ontology and
frankly we already looked at the maps of
content as well here's another map of
content just as an example so this is my
map of content about sketchnoting again
you can see here all the different
ontologies and links you can see lots of
material here so this is my map of
content for sketchnoting and I have a
good number of map of contents to
summarize various topics that I'm
working on and some of these so for
example here this map of content also
has some visual summaries as well so for
example this is a summary about some
sketchnoting listing some sketch noters
some YouTube channels some books and
some stuff about visual vocabulary
Etc then moving on
the way I use daily notes is I use daily
notes to create the time hierarchy based
on latch so this is the time aspect and
then we're going to talk about geotags
and that's going to be the location
aspect of organizing information so if
we look at this holiday last year June
we went to Rome with my wife
what I want to show you here is here if
I click to first I need to open here the
right hand side so we have the map here
with all sorts of different locations
and here if I open this to show this on
the map then you can see that this has
actually a location here and you can
also see the other components of our
visit the tickets to Vatican City and to
the Colosseum and then just going
further on here here's earlier this year
we went to Sicily and we visited the
Valley of the temples and the Turkish
stairs as well as moved around here
we've had to Aetna as well so here's the
family on Aetna and and so this is I
think a very useful way to organize
information I'm using the map view
plugin so this is the map view plugin
right here this is the settings for that
I find this very practical you can add
Geo tags so this is here a Geo tag if I
click here then you will see that this
is a geotag based actually in this case
a lat long coordinates but this can also
be an address depending on the type of
Link we are talking about you can also
see that I'm using the check-in checkout
inline ontology here so the way this
looks in excalib brain and that's where
we come back to the Daily note linkage
so if now again I open xcoli Brain then
you will see that our vacation in Rome
is linked to these days so this is when
we were in Rome you can also see we were
in Vatican City and the colossum and you
can see some other information here as
well but the point is by adding check-in
and checkout I can know when we arrived
and when we left
and by linking all of these events to
the Daily note
through the daily note I can navigate my
history and I can look at what happened
on that day I'm not going to open the
daily note because that typically
contains some personal information as
well that I don't want to share but the
idea is these daily notes you can see
here are linked to one another with the
tomorrow link and so this creates this
chain of days and each day I'm linking
what is happening on that day maybe to
show you just one more example if we
come to this page right here then
this page is linked to today's date
right there and this is when I'm working
on it you can also see that this is
linked to a couple of days ago as well
and I also worked on this so I know on
what which days I worked on this
specific material so that actually
covers daily notes as my time hierarchy
and geotags now I like to see tasks in
the context where I need to talk about
them in my normal work I have many
projects happening in my organization
and I deal with lots of people so in
each situation I want to be reminded of
the actions that we discussed with that
person or with that vendor or with that
project at the last time we met
and I talk about this and how I do this
in it's about time so you can look at
this video
but I want to show you how this looks in
my demo of all so this is going to be an
example just to show you very quickly
how this works so for example this is my
note about Bob the Builder and the video
I'm referencing goes into more details
about this and walks you through how
this works
but you can see here that when I am on
the page for Bob the Builder I'm
immediately cognizant that there is a
topic where I'm waiting for Bob actually
it is related to project K and this
right here is a data view query it's an
extremely simple data view query I
explain everything about it in the video
the point I want to show you here is I'm
placing this information
on the page of the person and whenever
I'm meeting with someone or talking
about the project or whatever other
topic I always open the page for that
person or project or topic and most of
my templates or pretty much all of my
templates include the task section
therefore I always get the context
relevant tasks in the context when I
need it at the time that I needed so for
example you can see here there's an
action for Bob on a meeting to discuss
something with Mock and if I look at
Mock's page of course I'm going to see
all of these actions that are now for
mock the dump truck and you will see
that there's an action from the page
about the Builder and then there's
another action that was somehow
discussed on rolly or vid Rowley the
steamroller and then something from
Project B
one quick side note that this is the
other way I'm using tags and I only use
it in this specific instance so I have
three tags I have the they think four
discus with and promised too so these
are three tags I use frankly
I don't really search on them I could
actually categorize the data view query
here based on promise to discuss with
waiting for and I had a period of time
when I did that I recognized that it
didn't really matter that much right now
this is more for just stylistic reasons
for me it is important to know that I
noted something down because I need to
talk about that with the person or that
person has promised me something and I
need to wait for that and follow it up
or maybe I promise something to that
person and I need to be cognizant of
that when we meet so I can either share
the results with the person or be
proactive in apologizing that I haven't
yet done it but the point is that I want
to be reminded so in this case I'm also
using tags but here I'm not using it to
define the type of the page but I'm
using it just as a stylistic component
to remind me of the type of action that
I'm talking about
this is also then covering the dynamic
list so tasks are in the context then
where I need them and I use data view
fields and then I'm using various
Dynamic lists I'm using not only data
view but I also have embedded obsidian
queries as well and finally I have this
Diagnostics and maintenance page and
here I'm looking at stuff like orphan
notes which right now are the absolute
orphans are files that are just there no
one is pointing at them and it is not
pointing to anyone so they are
completely alone in the dark so I have
109 at the moment of these and then for
example I have this list of pasted
images so I like to name the images
either illustration or photo or whatever
wherever they came from so sometimes I
come here and clean up some of the
pasted images that I didn't name so I
have the properly named images
so that summarizes how I organize
information in obsidian it may be a lot
but to me this structure helps put
everything in place the key component
here is latch making sure that I have
multiple ways to find information either
by location or alphabet time category or
hierarchy and then you could see the
different tools and components that I'm
using to achieve this
so that's all I wanted to share with you
again just a quick reminder if you want
to learn more if you're interested in
exploring visual thinking and exploring
the use of obsidian with me sign up to
cohort for you still have a couple of
days to do that I'm going to close
registrations in a few days so if you're
interested to check out this page and
again this whole mind map or visual
summary that's here
I'll include in the show notes you'll
have a link and you can open this on
xcollegra.com and from there you can
either copy this into your own obsidian
or you can follow these links so all
around the page you will see these
YouTube links that take you to various
videos that are relevant in the subject
as well here you see this link to the
article so that's all I wanted to share
with you today thank you for watching
until the end and I hope to see you next
time
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