How These Notes are Organized : Random Geekery

tldr: Blog posts for today, cards for persistent thoughts. Store it in Obsidian, build it with Hugo and obsidian-export

Purpose

Provide a relatively simple structure to let me use folders to organize information along a couple important splits:

short-term vs long-term

I don’t need to keep all my notes forever! Make it easy to see what notes still need to be refactored into some form of long-term memory.

personal vs public

I want to share some of my notes, and maintaining separate vaults doesn’t work for me. Make sure there’s a designated spot for long-term private notes, but also put new notes in a (private) limbo where I know I need to refine and file them.

Folders

Folder	Purpose
`_templates`	skeletal structures for notes
`attachments`	images and other non-text files
`card`	Long-term public notes
`inbox`	spot to capture and process new notes
`journal`	Private records
`journal/day`	Daily journal, some of which gets refactored
`journal/jots`	Long-term but private (contacts, etc)
`post`	Long-form structured material explicitly for a public audience
`reference`	What I read, watch, etc that adds info to other notes

Files

Some folders get an _index file describing the contents of that folder.

Backlinks

Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-03-21