Obsidian Setup Guide

Ensure to avoid perfecting every single note as it is not humanly possible. It is better to get down content to learn later and to format it sloppily rather than to not get the content down at all, especially when it comes to Obsidian setups.
- Obsidian is meant to bring order to the chaos over time, rather than quelling the chaos at first.

Odysseas recommends to organize your folders into the following:
1. Rough Notes
  - All in progress things / variable things that are not published.
2. Source Material
  - All content that is consumed and that will need to be stored for either permanent reference or future refinement.
3. Tags
  - Places to see all of the backlinks of a “given tag”
4. Indexes
  - An organized place to see the information that comprises your tag. Also creates centers of gravity within the node chart.
5. Full Notes
  - Full refined notes that are publication ready and are original source material.
6. Templates
  - Ways to store material that is compatible in many different formats and such.
The methodology that Odysseas recommends works for most people, but due to the fact that I am using Quartz, I probably will not use the format that he suggests. I personally use Apurva’s Quartz Compatible Obsidian Storage Guide to store all of my notes rather than to use the method above.
- The main differences tend to be related to tags, indexes, and templates. I think his focus is geared more towards writing while mine is content storage.

Do not make notes that are insignificant that you will never return to.
Try to tag notes as you go rather than tagging them after things are already written.
Don’t leave notes unprocessed for too long

Linked Tags

Productivity

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