Tidy my Obsidian notes Vault!
I’m logged into my PC for the first time in a couple of weeks and I’m looking at my Obsidian Vault in it’s full glory and holy moly I need to give it some attention… my “Inbox” folder is full of stuff to sort out.
I know I have said this before.
And I never did it. And things just get worse.
I did at least over Christmas sort out the Books section of my notes. I found a plugin to sync my Goodreads reviews in, so that is mostly streamlined now and just need a little bit of manual tidy up. I try to do that after a post my blog book reviews to my Goodreads profile. We go Blog > copy & paste with minor edits to Goodreads > sync in Obsidian > also copy & paste to LibraryThing where I keep our personal library (another project I was going to share but never got around to!). It might seem like overkill to have all this in 4 places, but they have slightly different purposes and its good to have backups!
I also have a lovely little “dashboard” now for Reading in my vault where (using the Dataview plugin) I can pull in everything I’ve read this year, it shows the book covers too. Really satisfying!
It’s everything else that is a mess.
Digital piles of notes to sort, a lots of them idea for blog things that ended up as a draft in WordPress, and the notes just left behind. But equally lots of ideas for little projects I never started – one of which was defining my Big Questions within my Vault to help me make easier connections.
I just don’t have the “thinking” time I did before I started this new job in October. All my brain power gets used up with work at the moment, and the last thing I want to do after work is sit at the computer again.
I do heavily use a separate Obsidian for work, it’s a bloody godsend there and that Vault is well taken care of! One of the things I have hanging around is a draft for a blog post about what I’m doing with that.
I still use my personal Obsidian for my daily notes though, I open it every day on my phone to jot what’s going on, and to fill in my cycle tracker, and that is also where I save links to blog posts and articles I’ve enjoyed. Problem is I’m just opening my daily note and ignoring everything else.
