Vault purpose
I primarily use this vault as source documents for My Public Brain. My choices about structure and tooling reflect that. However, I’m terrible about using Vault A only for public and Vault B only for private. I make a couple allowances for private notes in a mostly-public vault.
Folder layout
My vault is divided into sections, with folders defining those sections. I avoid subfolders in this vault—the deeper they go, the harder it gets to refactor. My SSG can generate useful subfolders for publishing.
Public folders
Files in the vault root are for Slash pages; they describe me and the site itself.
Daily notes go into note/. Each daily note includes tweets and toots from social media archives, my older notes experiments, and sometimes they even include journal entries
Blog posts go into post/. Posts tend to be focused on a single topic, and sometimes but not always a deep dive.
page/ is for documents about specific topics. A single page may be a deep dive with many subtopics, but just as often a placeholder with maybe a link. Topic pages are refined, expanded, and split apart according to what seems right in the moment. Sometimes two split pages get merged back into one.
Experiments with literate programming for personal configuration go in config/. Right now it’s more of an archive than anything, but folks keep visiting and I do want to revisit it eventually.
gallery/ holds non-code creations like drawings and knitted projects.
Private folders
I also have a scratch/ folder for private notes. Some of those are temporary “fleeting” notes generated by Obsidian’s Unique Note Creator plugin. Those get refactored or removed eventually. Some are documents from other sections I decided were no longer helpful to share, and a few are just persistent private notes.
clip/ is for Web pages clipped by the Obsidian Web Clipper.
Support folders
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