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

Thank you for sharing your experience! May I ask a bit further? So how do individual sources (say, a news article) are represented in the vault? As individual notes? Do you organize those materials on the topic somehow? E.g, news, reports, etc?

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

Yes sure! For your first question, it depends on the source, for example a book or a paper usually is a note because i like to resume or quote interestings idea or discoverings from them. Blog posts and news rarely are notes but usually they're put at the bottom of a note or link with title or one-two line description.

Books, video essays and so on are located inside a directory of resources. I usually add these resource notes as additional sources at the bottom of the topic notes, and/or quote what I find interesting fron the source.

Every note in my vault is tagged, this helps to find "hidden" connections between notes. As said before, not using systems like atomic/evergreen notes with strong atomization of content, full text search is essential for retrieving in my system. I use different vaults only if I need a strong separation between content, for example I have one for study/work, one for more intimate and general purpose stuff and one for preparing DnD campains.

[–] nodimetotie 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much for a detailed reply. This helps a lot. Tagging is another thing I’m trying to figure out.