kepano-obsidian/Readme.md

An Obsidian vault containing my vault structure, as well as my templates and settings. See also my theme Minimal.

Templates

Some of my templates depend on plugins I use:

• Dataview for many database views
• Periodic notes for my daily notes
• Leaflet for maps

The .obsidian/types.json file shows which properties are assigned to which types. Many have short names that are meant for me to remember, e.g. start instead of startdate.

Folder structure

I use very few folders. I keep the root of my vault directory for things that I have created, such as journal entries

• Attachments for images, PDFs, etc
• Clippings for articles and other pages captured with my Web Clipper
• Daily for my daily notes, all in YYYY-MM-DD.md format
• References for anything that refers to something that exists outside of my vault, e.g. books, movies, places, people, podcasts, etc.
• Templates for templates. This is actually nested under "Meta" in my personal vault, but I've moved it to the top-level for clarity. Meta also contains my personal style guide and other random things that are about the vault.

Categories and tagging

I primarily use the category property, e.g. category: [[Movies]] to organize and navigate my vault. Some rules I personally follow:

• Always pluralize categories and tags
• Use YYYY-MM-DD everywhere
• Never use folders for organization
• Single vault for everything
• Avoid non-standard Markdown

Rating system

Anything with a rating is a number that goes from 1 to 7

• 7 — Perfect, must try, life-changing, go out of your way to seek this out
• 6 — Excellent, worth repeating
• 5 — Good, don't go out of your way, but enjoyable
• 4 — Passable, works in a pinch
• 3 — Bad, don't do this if you can
• 2 — Atrocious, actively avoid, repulsive
• 1 — Evil, life-changing in a bad way

Why this scale? I like the 7 scale better than 4 or 5 stars because I need more granularity at the top, for the good experiences, and 10 is too many.