This whole thing is unknown to you right now.
That may be scary. It took me months to reach this system as being the right one for me to organize my thoughts. This is a website, but not only, it is an obsidian vault with some parts being public.
The only way to know if something fits for you is to try it. So I did, and wrote my own notes, my own way of doing things, I’ll make it easy to follow this once it’s mature enough, or someone asks me.
Have a look around the website, https://hurleveur.github.io, you’re welcome to contact me by email to ask to use it too if you want, I’ll be happy to brief you.
Learning it
Three steps, in that order. Don’t read them all at once — the second one only makes sense once you have a pile of notes to argue about.
- Using this vault — just start writing. Drop notes wherever, nothing has to be in the right place yet. Do this for a few weeks before you read anything else.
- Where a note goes — now that you have a pile, this is how each one lands somewhere: which room takes it, and why the
categories:end up mattering more than the folder. - Chakras — the seven rooms are ordered, root to crown, and this says why. Read it when you want to know what the structure is actually claiming, or when you’d rather steal the idea than copy my folders.
Plugins
See Obsidian Plugins for what’s installed and how each is used.
If you’re starting out using obsidian here are a few Obsidian Shortcuts
Sorting
An AI agent does most of it: files raw notes into matching folders, links related ones, and logs every change (see Agent Log). Rules it follows: private.
Structure
Each project (folder) may have:
- an excalidraw file to organize everything together, if it gets big enough to warrant it
- some introduction and presentation of what’s inside it
- files, which can have private and Frontmatter
- Definitely have a look at the Vault Map
- All the stuff related to the vault itself are in the root here.
Settings
- enable viewing and syncing of non supported files
- attachments go to
Attachments/ - new notes are created in the current folder