WORKFLOW & FOLDERS

00 InBox

    - Fledgling notes
    - Fleeting thoughts 
    - First Draft notes
    - Use a template with an inbox tag or emoji

01 Templates

10 WorkBox

    - Undeveloped Notes in need of drafting and linking.
    - Notes in need to splitting and deleting.
    - Short Term Notes
    - Change tag to broader categories for atomic notes
    - Have tags for the text type, using a symbol at the start of the tag. 
    - Text lists
    - Research Lists

11 Investigate

20 Masterlist

30 Atomic Notes

    - Refined Notes
    - Irreducible thoughts
    - Separated by Jonny Decimal into broad categories
    - Linked to Masterlist?

40 Embeds

    - images, pdf...

50 Writing

For consideration

At this point I think I need a to create a post on how I use Obsidian haha

My system of writing in Obsidian is a Bottom-Up approach. I don’t worry much about “organizing”, “managing” or even “tagging”, All I have to do is capture every idea I find interesting.

Here’s how I write on obsidian, I hope this gives you an idea of how you can optimize it to your workflow.

I have a 1 page named “00 Index” that contains all most everything, It contains 1-14 Wide topics, Under each of these topics are its sub-topics and an Alphabetized Catalog.

Basically, the “00 Index” note looks like this:

Obsidian - How my Second Brain Work
Personal Project — Impossible List, Progress, Now

Life Variables:
Health — Longevity, Performance, Life Data, Diet
Capitalism — Opportunities, Biz Simplified
Social — Family, Friends, Community, Politics, Internet You
Mental — Stress Exercise, Clarity, Internal Talk, Mental Health

Notes:
Life Algorithms — Principles, Mental Model, Philosophy
Reference — Courses, Academia, Books, Learnings, Quotes
Expression — Writing, Concept Art, Music, Opinion, Ideas

Catalog (Topics Organized A-Z)
(H3) A
(H3) B
(H3) C
Etc…

A wider look at my Obsidian, it looks like this:

01 Assets (Photos and Scribbles go in this Folder) (You can add a pdf subfolder here)
02 Templates (Template Folder)
03 Journal (Daily Journal goes in this Folder)
04 Archives (Every note goes in this Folder)
00 Index

That’s it.

I mainly use “Tagging” (#) to convey the Status of the Note and the Brackets ([[]]) as “Tagging”

(Brackets having a filter system on Graph View makes it very easy to find notes. That is why I’d rather have the brackets as tags. I could 1000+ tags in the graphs view and it wouldn’t really matter and wouldn’t overwhelm me in looking for a note, because I could just filter the idea that I’m looking for)

Purpose of a note
#💭 = Thoughts (“Personal”: Ideas, Opinions, Concepts)
#📚 = Book (“Other peoples’ Structured”: Idea, Opinion, Concept)
#✏️ = Notes (For “Soft” Reference: For Proof and Skimming purposes)
#📜 = Notes (For “Hard” Reference: Intensive and Extensive purposes)
#⭐ = Guide (Templates, Formulas, Checklists, Frameworks, Procedures)
– I’d suggest you’d change the icon to what works for you

4 tags for their status in comprehension
#⬛ = Intact Note (No Intellectual processing is required)
#🟥 = Unrefined Note
#🟨 = Refined Note
#🟩 = Permanent Note

Other
#✅ = To-do
#❗ = Urgent

Every time I create a new note, it’s already templated. All I have to do is to fill up.

This is the template I use:

(This is placed on the topmost part of the page)

- Status: #
- Tags: [[Insert all related topics here]], [[Bracket Tag as many as you want]]
- Reference: (Who)
- Source: (Link)
– I’d suggest that you’d add the “supporting data/rebuttal data” section on your template page

(Start Writing here)

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If I need to look for something, I use the 00 Index/(A-Z) Catalog on what is available on that topic. or look for it in the “Graph View” and start filtering the idea I’m looking for via the “topics” it is tagged with (with this, I don’t even have to remember the exact words of the note, all I have to remember is the tags it has)

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