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How I Use Obsidian to Organize my Life and Writing
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Everything starts with my Daily Note. For those unaware of Obsidian, it comes straight out of the box with a Daily Note Plugin that takes as input a template, and every day it uses the template to generate the note for that day.
Here's what my template of it Looks like.
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So you can see there are some "permanent" links on it but don't worry, every day you can change the template, and it takes effect the very next day.
The way I use it though, I change the template every time I finish a project listed on the Long Term part.
And on the Thoughts section is where I write anything I might think is note-worthy during the course of a day. It's where my post ideas come from and where I write details on things that I've learned.
Here's how my daily note looks today.
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On the bottom part of the page, you can see a link just after the word "Week".
If I click on the Week link "2022-W32" here's where we go.
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Here we start to see the power of Backlinks that all these new-age Gurus are talking about.
The importance of making your notes "Linked" is precise because I can, on this page for the Week, see all the daily notes that refer to it.
That way I go by each day grabbing what I think is interesting.
I do this review every Sunday, that is where each week starts.
Then I normally get enough nice notes to compile them into posts.
Another Example of The things I Write on my Obsidian Vault
I just finished reading Anti Fragile and using The Zettelkasten Method I write zettels for each idea in the book.
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As you can see, on my Anti Fragile page, I have all the zettels that are connected to it, as also the daily notes that referred to it.
That is it, if there are any other questions leave a comment down below or reach out to me on my Twitter.
Thanks again for reading and I will see you in the next one 🤗🤘🐶.
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