Obsidian Organizing Principles

• Features
  • Use built-in features whenever possible.
  • Use community plugins if they don’t affect portability nor performance.
• Formatting
  • See emphasis for detailed discussion.
• Naming convention
  • Kebab Case should be used for filename and tags throughout the vault.
• Folders
  • Directories deeper than 1 are prohibited.
  • Files at depth of 0 are allowed.
• Links
• Tags
  • Use tags instead of customized metadata field.

Emphasis

• Italics for inline words/phrases.
• Highlight for whole sentence.
• Call out for maximum emphasis.
• Others based on semantic meaning.

vault/
|-- assets/
|-- books/
|-- courses/
|-- exports/
|-- templates/
|-- thoughts/
`-- writings/

Resources

• How to organize your notes in Obsidian // The LATCH method