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How do you use MOCs to organize your vault? (self.obsidianmd)

submitted 1 year ago by Chraccoon to c/obsidianmd

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Hi all,

I am curious how you use your MOCs to organize your vaults.
Nick Milo's LYT example is really nice, but seems super complex to me. I think I get why MOCs are useful, but I am also looking from inspiration elsewhere.

Do you dump all your notes in a single folder and then make MOCs to help navigate them?
Have you been using tags?
Are there any tips/best practices on maintaining MOCs?

I've been using a directory structure based on the note's subjects, but quickly bumped into a problem: some notes fit in more than one subject.
Tags have been of help, but it's getting out of hand the way I use them.
I believe using MOCs might be the answer for me, but I also fear it might be too cumbersome to maintain.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So far I only use MoC for listing what comes in through Omnivore. Omnivore is a read it later app that has amazing integration with Obsidian. You can bring over whole articles or what you highlighted in Omnivore (that’s what I do) tagged and all. I have it set up so it drops all incoming into an omnivore folder in my vault and then I have MoCs (dataview) that list the articles/highlights per topic. For example in my leather craft folder I have a MoC that lists all links to articles saved and tagged with “leathercraft”. So I don’t have to search through my omnivore folder (which is structured by date saved).

Otherwise I think I don’t have enough content for a single topic to have a MoC yet. I might eventually if the folder gets so full you have to scroll far. But I link a lot within notes so I mostly jump around like that.

[–] Chraccoon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooh that's interesting!
I like the idea of using something like omnivore to import text and have dataview sort it automatically in a MOC.
I'll definitely look into that, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No problem. Works super well for me.