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How do you organize resources for a given topic? (self.obsidianmd)

submitted 1 year ago by nodimetotie to c/obsidianmd

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I am researching a few topics, like AI and work from home, and I am trying to figure out what system would be best. E.g., I may find some news articles, or journal papers, or reports, and so on, on a topic I am interested in. One option would be to create a note with the topic name, say "AI, and then just put the links into the note, maybe separating them with headers. Would it work or is there a better way? I was also thinking about a kanban board, but not sure if it is worth the trouble. Anyway, I would appreciate your tips!

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[–] jpfieber 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ideally you would create a new note with the content of the article. You should then go through and put double brackets around any important terms or concepts. Click on each of those new links so a new note is created for each term or concept. If you do this for multiple articles, each new note you create will begin to have a list of backlinks to each article that mentions that term/concept, acting like an index. You can even add your own thoughts about that term/concept on the note, expanding it's usefulness. I find this method of interlinking files to be very useful, resulting in a 'living index' of your vault.

[–] nodimetotie 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing your approach. May I ask further to understand it better? So, I am interested in a topic, say, AI. Then I find an interesting news article about this topic. So I would create a separate note (named how?) with a short summary (and maybe a URL) and reference [[AI]]. But would you organize the sources somehow? Articles, reports, news, etc? And where do you put all those separate notes? Just in the root folder or have them in the AI folder? Sorry if I might have misunderstood your system, just trying to get it better.