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I've started doing this with Obsidian, since I can template and query any type of data I want in it.

by jredwards 4y ago

beckingz 4y ago
How do you structure your data?
- gandreani 4y ago
  I would also like to know! I use Obsidian for a lot and I'm constantly amazed by what other people think up of
- n8cpdx 4y ago
  Not the person you asked, but I came to leave a similar comment. I was curious about Monica, but for a variety of reasons it didn’t click for me. I use obsidian for tracking meetings, people, and documents in a civic engagement sphere. So hundreds of entities and a few meetings a week. I have folders for interpersonal meetings (calls, coffee dates, one on ones), public/group meetings, people, and a few other things. Every individual gets a top-level entry in the people folder. Every meeting or personal meeting gets a page in folder; folders are organized by year, then month. E.g meetings\2022\november\public forum with x on November 15, 2022.md I use templates for each document type; that helps me keep things consistent so I’m tracking the same information for meetings. For meetings I run, I have special templates that help keep me organized. When I take a note about a person saying something or attending a meeting, I type [[, then I get a list of people to choose from that autocompletes. I use the alias feature on people notes to track things like job titles, name variations, and acronyms. The approach is more flexible than Monica, and it lets me grow and change the data I collect over time. The tool is a super power. Obsidian tracks all the back links so if I want to find out which meetings a colleague was in, it is very easy to do that. I used to use OneNote but Obsidian is much more scalable. I’m putting 10x as much info in it as I ever did in OneNote and I expect to put 10-100x more before I move on to something else. Bonus notes: Obsidian plugin system is great and has a pretty robust, if not super well documented API. I’m working on plugins to automatically improve records and already have plugins that have saved hours on some special-purpose tags You can embed pdf documents like images and have a preview show up as an embed. Amazing for meeting agendas. If you have standard fields for notes, you can surface those in a table using dataview. Todoist integration is pretty cool if you want to make a “Dashboard” note for project management. The iOS version keeps the synced files on the file system. That means if you refer to a PDF, you can mark it up with a dedicated app (e.g. PDF expert) in place and keep it synced in your vault. You can create links before creating a matching note. This is great for fast moving meetings, and then you just need to click into the link to create a matching document.
  - MarcelOlsz 4y ago
    I would pay good money for a proper Obsidian course. I can't manage my notes to save my life. Infinite sideways bullet point pyramids.
losteric 4y ago
If you have any tips, templates, or helpful links - I'd appreciate it (as would others no doubt). Obsidian is new to me.

I've started doing this with Obsidian, since I can template and query any type of data I want in it.

beckingz 4y ago

How do you structure your data?

gandreani 4y ago
I would also like to know! I use Obsidian for a lot and I'm constantly amazed by what other people think up of
n8cpdx 4y ago
Not the person you asked, but I came to leave a similar comment. I was curious about Monica, but for a variety of reasons it didn’t click for me. I use obsidian for tracking meetings, people, and documents in a civic engagement sphere. So hundreds of entities and a few meetings a week. I have folders for interpersonal meetings (calls, coffee dates, one on ones), public/group meetings, people, and a few other things. Every individual gets a top-level entry in the people folder. Every meeting or personal meeting gets a page in folder; folders are organized by year, then month. E.g meetings\2022\november\public forum with x on November 15, 2022.md I use templates for each document type; that helps me keep things consistent so I’m tracking the same information for meetings. For meetings I run, I have special templates that help keep me organized. When I take a note about a person saying something or attending a meeting, I type [[, then I get a list of people to choose from that autocompletes. I use the alias feature on people notes to track things like job titles, name variations, and acronyms. The approach is more flexible than Monica, and it lets me grow and change the data I collect over time. The tool is a super power. Obsidian tracks all the back links so if I want to find out which meetings a colleague was in, it is very easy to do that. I used to use OneNote but Obsidian is much more scalable. I’m putting 10x as much info in it as I ever did in OneNote and I expect to put 10-100x more before I move on to something else. Bonus notes: Obsidian plugin system is great and has a pretty robust, if not super well documented API. I’m working on plugins to automatically improve records and already have plugins that have saved hours on some special-purpose tags You can embed pdf documents like images and have a preview show up as an embed. Amazing for meeting agendas. If you have standard fields for notes, you can surface those in a table using dataview. Todoist integration is pretty cool if you want to make a “Dashboard” note for project management. The iOS version keeps the synced files on the file system. That means if you refer to a PDF, you can mark it up with a dedicated app (e.g. PDF expert) in place and keep it synced in your vault. You can create links before creating a matching note. This is great for fast moving meetings, and then you just need to click into the link to create a matching document.
- MarcelOlsz 4y ago
  I would pay good money for a proper Obsidian course. I can't manage my notes to save my life. Infinite sideways bullet point pyramids.

losteric 4y ago

If you have any tips, templates, or helpful links - I'd appreciate it (as would others no doubt). Obsidian is new to me.