3 posts tagged with "Obsidian.md"

Obsidian makes some assumptions about the shape of your notes. One of those assumptions is that the names of your notes (i.e. the basename of the file without the .md extension) is unique across your vault, regardless of which folder it's in. In fact, many people recommend using Obsidian without folders at all. There is also a unique note core plugin that creates notes with a time stamp prefix.

I would say this is a "soft" assumption, meaning that you don't have to follow it, but Obsidian will be easier to use if you do.

This post is for software developers who don't currently think much about their notes. You may take notes, but don't think of it as a "note taking system", and have probably never heard the term "Personal Knowledge Management".

I have 3 goals with this post

1. Convince you that you should start a note taking system
2. Explain why I recommend Obsidian specifically for that purpose
3. Provide some tips to help you get started creating your system in Obsidian

I manage my notes with Obsidian and store them in git. I have some notes that I share between home and work, and others that I only access via personal devices. I used to manage these shared notes with submodules, but recently switched so sub trees. However, I ran into some issues that have me considering switching back to submodules.