Obsidian's properties feature is a useful tool for categorizing your notes, data and all of your inputs.

There is however in my opinion, a danger of getting a properties fatigue wherein I have way too many properties and way too many precise ways of categorizing it.

• Opt for fewer properties/values but richer keys. Use default to dictionaries/multitext/list properties instead of single strings. At the end of the day, Eeerything that I create should be categorizable through one or a combination of YAML properties/keys
• Keep it simple and use a linter template default to prepend each .md file.
• "Objects" are just a mix of fancy templates and a bit of systematizing your most common inputs and outputs within your system

Item Types

• 💬 Objects are just fancy templates, but at the same time -- they're more than that. They are also a systemization of our most common inputs and outputs. Our work and thoughts.

Object-based note taking is a new approach that organizes notes using "objects." This system appeals to many because our brains often think in terms of objects or things — a book is a book, a note is a note, and a movie is a movie. That's how these applications function.
Danielpourasgharian,

Including objects that I push/create, that I reflect on, and that makes my system work: Each object has a corresponding template in the templates folder.

An object, like a link or a tag can belong in many different places -- see the Dataview query for example

Evaluation Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input





at DataviewInlineApi.eval (plugin:dataview:19027:21)

at evalInContext (plugin:dataview:19028:7)

at asyncEvalInContext (plugin:dataview:19038:32)

at DataviewJSRenderer.render (plugin:dataview:19064:19)

at DataviewJSRenderer.onload (plugin:dataview:18606:14)

at DataviewJSRenderer.load (app://obsidian.md/app.js:1:1214099)

at DataviewApi.executeJs (plugin:dataview:19607:18)

at eval (plugin:digitalgarden:10886:17)

at Generator.next (<anonymous>)

at eval (plugin:digitalgarden:90:61)

This can be made into a default linter save

Folders are for seeing what type is in the note

As a I'm currently refactoring my vault and making it into BranBrain V6, a flatter part of my obsidian setup, I've chosen to stop using folders as much as possible, get rid of the PARA-system as much as possible.

My folders are now sorted into

• Root Directory
  • Everything that is active lives here, or fleeting
• Notes: Fleeting, or whatever, random notes on types of things
• Projects: where each note/.md file is a project
  • Projects
• Files: For things that should be outputted.
• System
  • Attachments
  • Documentation
  • Templates
  • AI/LLM Prompts
  • Outputs from files