thank you :) im honored for it to have been called professional hehe

for now its not relevant but as you accumulate more notes it might be worth it to have these more robusts forms of organization to manage it all

@@Tomek_MVP hey I appreciate the kind words and the fact that you found this video to be very helpful for your start in Obsidian 🥲 feel free to share with other people if you find them also getting interested into developing their second brain hehe

yay glad to hear :) what was the biggest insight?

@@Navytrix wow im honored for you to put in so much effort to learn 🥲🥲

yes very handy, hope you enjoy the premade vault?

But now you'll have a lot of notes outside folders, just being in your vault. Don't you think it looks "dirty"?

wow i'm honored 🥲 i mean i just pieced my knowledge in Obsidian with the BASB philosophy to try and bring it to life :)

thank you for sharing! did you try using the exclude/include function for smart connections? i do think having another window open is quite handy though I'm also wondering if it's possible to just open it as a subvault rather than have it completely separate, but then you would also have to organize your notes accordingly which isn't really common practice for linked note taking 😵‍💫

​@@itsjohnmavrick Yes, I use the include function, just the one Notes folder. I'd love symlinks with multiple embeddings domains. Poor plugin developers, we’re never satisfied. At the moment, I'm using Quick Plugin Switcher to allow me to turn on and off the Natural Language Syntax Highlighting and the Dynamic Highlights plugins. Dynamic Highlights is great for finding repeated words, filter and noise words, changing the colour of dialogue, and using regex to add styling to anything you can think of. It can even use named captures in a regex to apply different styling to each capture. Natural Language Syntax Highlighting colour codes verbs, adjectives, nouns, etc. I obviously don't want either of these on except during specific editing phases.

BGS on top 🫡

i didn't know of this, thank you for sharing :)

Syncthing is really great, works exceptionally to sync Obsidian vault.

thank you sebastian :) kind regards to you as well !

good point, i assumed that if you clicked on the video you would have already known or else the title wouldnt have been relevant 😅

@@itsjohnmavrick I only knew it was a note taking method, 0 clue what it actually was, clicked on the video to learn about the para method and how it can be adapted for use in obsidian

np glad you found it useful :) anything else you would like ?

My pleasure! :)

thank you :)

yes, the email course will help you do so :)

ooo, yeah i honestly just use my watch's reminders and my calendar for reminders and np :)

thank you :) hope you find the email course useful as well !

what do you mean by this?

of course, glad it helped and best of luck 🫡

glad you found it useful :)

ty 😊

i think theyre adding it to mobile soon !

ofc, enjoy building your second brain :)

thank you sait ;)

appreciate the kind words sean :)

thank you :)

ty hope the new medium of thought unlocks something :)

1. areas folder stores the areas, and areas are empty in the sense that you could probably keep the information in notes themselves (which then makes it moreso like a moc but more personal), you can see examples notes.johnmavrick.com/my-areas/my-areas/ 2. yes, but they don't have to link to an area, for example i don't have any area related to philosophy really, it's just something i learn that's fun 3. im not sure what you mean by top level and folders doing linking. summary of an article i keep in an input note (which I talk about in my CODE method email course), folders categorize based on note type, and does not do any linking. hope this helps !

level 4 would be ai, its okay if its all in root since its organized through links :)

What I do use folders to organize the notes while still having the notes be the primary way to get around. In my project folder is another folder that is titled for my project. Then I have a note in there build using the template. And I link all the needed notes to it. And the needed notes are also stored in their own subfolder inside that project folder

I am mulling this over too. My current thinking is that perhaps the deep organisation and bulk of notes should be in resources. Projects can then link to the relevant notes there (and when making a new note for a project, it would instead be made directly in the resources section and linked), and areas is for grouping and tracking current and future projects by area of life. This is a bit of a departure from PARA though. In theory it should be ok because there shouldn’t be too many projects on the go at once. I’m not sure though

i type it in manually

Area as in the area field in the project? one sec

does something like ```dataview table WITHOUT ID rows.file.frontmatter.Area as "Area", rows.file.link as "Notes" from #project AND !"Hidden" FLATTEN rows sort file.mtime desc GROUP BY file.frontmatter.Area ``` work?

@@itsjohnmavrick Still can’t get it to run. Shows error at rows.file.frontmatter.Area as “Area” (error indicator at first quote mark in front of “Area”)

Code - ```dataview Table WITHOUT ID rows.file.frontmatter.Area as “Area”, rows.file.link as “Notes” FROM #project AND !”Hidden” FLATTEN rows Sort file.mtime desc GROUP BY file.frontmatter.Area ```

Just watched your YT on linking Todoist which I’ve used for several years as a stand alone task manager. Looking forward to integrating this into Obsidian. Another great video John, many thanks.

good question! you can have a tag for notes in an inbox like #inbox, then have a note called "My Inbox" that has a dataview query to look for those notes. I personally automate this using another app called fleeting notes which i have a video on kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j6dzprmCm7DWqGw.htmlsi=NpRsSASovX1GyzL2

Thanks for the response! If you have the projects inside Obsidian what do you use Todoist for?

@@firecosmos you can use it for the actual task management since it comes out of the box fields, views, and cross-platform support. it also lets you integrate your tasks in other apps like your calendar, etc

Hi there! from what I understand, your notes only become truly archived when you (think) you no longer need them. some notes are building blocks for your knowledge and understanding, and those should be in the root folder, as the "Resources" folder only contains the larger topic notes that connect to these building blocks. Let me know if that makes sense!

You can have a query in your project (or use backlinks) to search for all related notes. For tasks you can have a header in the project template, or you can look into something like the tasks plugin or some third party app. for meetings, i have a new note type that I created on my personal vault, and i will link it to the project if necessary :)

I guess I had to watch video in total to get the full meaning

glad to hear it clicked at the end !

you can just make a normal note and link it to the resource note 👍 the normal notes will stay in the root folder or some other folder if you want

It suggests you values that are already existing in other notes with a "status" tag, so if you already had a note that had each square possible then you will be able to see it suggested!

in the root folder of your vault, they would just be linked

i have a few like the one mentioned in the video you can try out ! hope they help make the experience a bit better :)

@@Bozzigmupp yes you can, there are some times where you would want to have folders as another property to query for though

i use kanban in the paywall vault, the thing is i use other apps for task management (like my video on using todoist and obsidian) so i haven't personally felt the need to improve the starter vault - i can look into it if you would like though. right now the vault uses kanban boards - you can a kanban with the same name as the project (or more) where you can set up due dates and then you will be able to see them in our daiy and weekly notes. why do you feel the need to have it all in one place?

Thank you for your answer. Like many people in the productivity world I have used dozens of apps and systems. I have my own company, two children, work part time in another project and love to learn new things, so managing all of that is not easy and I always need context for any task to be completed and a high level view to decide what I should work on next. This is where combining your notes with your tasks seems mandatory to me. I do not like todoist, lately I have tried to use tasks plugin in obidian (but is not enough for my organization) so I am using things3 in combination with obsidian, what I do is that I copy the link to the things task to obsidian note and the obsidian note link to the tasks description in things, but this is cumbersome and not reliable. The interesting thing about the tasks plugin is that whenever I think something (either a task, block or entire note) is relevant to a project I just add a link to that project, and I still keep all my today&overdue tasks from all my projects on my daily note, the problem is that the tasks plugin is unreliable for recurring tasks and other complex uses cases.I guess the best approach would be to use todoist with the integration plugin and add queries wherever thoses tasks are relevant, but as mentioned do not like todoist at all. Sorry for the long answer. @@itsjohnmavrick

if you want to set up automatic suggestions for fields and values you can check out metadata menu plugin

@@SanaRahman-ss3uz i typed it 😅

@@itsjohnmavrickon pc out don't come up. I'll have to get piggin

you will have to use the windows / mac emoji selector shortcut

@@itsjohnmavrickthank you, i couldnt find anything about this issue in the discussion forum 👍

theres iconize plugin that lets you use icon packs

@@itsjohnmavrick These have to be .svg files. The idea came from discord. There you can just add pictures and they get converted. Pretty cool. But anyway. I think I stick with iconize.

it is based off of the existing values of the other status properties you have in the rest of your notes, so you need to have other notes where 🟥 or 🟨 or 🟩 is the status

what was your email?

Same, I signed up twice and no email yet

its not a type, i just use text for it 👍

Yes, I figured it out right after posting that comment. Thanks for replying!

by "emailed" do you mean sign up? did you get a confirmation email? after confirming your email there will be an email that gives you download access

@@itsjohnmavrick Yes. thanks for the quick response, there was just a little delay, Appreciate it

@@oudguitar i see, enjoy :)

you would have a status for completed and set the project to that you could also just move to the archives section, and exclude the archives folder to be shown in queries

I haven't used logseq so i unfortunately can't comment 😅

@@itsjohnmavrick You're not missing much. It has some nice features until you move from Logseq. It has some really annoying issues, like treating tags and pages the same and also creating a page as soon as you make a reference. So if you create a reference like [[Important Note]], it creates the page. If you delete the reference, you have a rando empty page in your graph (vault). Also means, you can't turn off tags in the graph view, because they're pages. And looking at your files it's not clear if the page is empty or not. The dev core team are just colossal jerks. They're basic attitude is "fork it" to any and all questions. It's also written in a poorly documented language that's also eccoteric. It's basically an outliner that wishes it was a PKM.

just remove the second where and it should work 👍 you don't need to include it twice

@@itsjohnmavrick Oh makes sense, Thanks! 🙌

im not sure if i received your email, can you send it again to ransomguest@gmail.com ?