Comment by Vegenoid
4 months ago
This is why I like Obsidian (or some other linked-documents wiki type of system), because it makes linking things easy, so you can take multiple routes to find a thing. I have a health note and a finances note. Which one does health insurance go under? I pick whichever one seems to make the most sense at the time. Then, in the future, if I'm looking for health insurance and look in the wrong place first, I can easily make a link there to the "health insurance" note/section. Now, I will find health insurance whether I look under health or finances.
The "Obsidian way" that many people recommend is notes that are as small as possible to maximize this kind of effect, but that's not how I like to do it. I prefer bigger notes with lots of headings (that can be nested up to 6 levels), and lots of links within a note and between notes to specific headings. I find this to be a nice blend of hierarchical navigation and link navigation.
Non-text files (like receipts or pictures) get linked from the relevant note or section, and many types of media can be viewed inline in the WYSIWYG editor.
How do you link non text files? Is it like a link to the file on your computer directly? And if so, do you the. Loose the ability to see those files when you are not on your computer but instead using the mobile app? Or is there a way to include those non-text files in the notes syncing apparatus?
Non-text files go into a subdirectory of the top-level "vault" directory, and are then linked like:
The whole vault is in my iCloud drive, so the files are available on my phone.