Obsidian Vault Tour

Who doesn’t like to have a nosy around someone else’s Obsidian vault?!

Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash

Last time, I wrote about three Obsidian plugins that my PhD couldn’t do without. Today, I thought I would like to take you on a tour around my vault so you can see how it all fits together. I want to tell you about:

• The purpose of my vault
• The major structure -> folders
• The minor structure -> sub-folders and tags
• Why this structure works for me

First a caveat; this is absolutely work in progress! I don’t think anyone’s vault is ever finished, is it? Just like our brains constantly evolve so too does our external system to manage that. And for that reason, use this as ideas, as it may not work for you 😀

The Purpose That Obsidian Gives To Me

Before diving into ‘my system’ I thought it pertinent to talk about what I need it to do. Everyone has a different purpose for their personal knowledge management system and we need to bear this in mind when we are creating one for ourselves. That’s why it’s great there’s so many different options out there!

I started with Obsidian back in July 2022 when I realised that my current ‘system’ was about to explode under information overload. I kept forgetting things, didn’t know…