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Simple Integration Into Obsidian

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Simple Integration Into Obsidian

Why Obsidian?

Obsidian is an bare-bones markdown text editor, but with super powers. With community plugins, you can truly build a system for yourself, expanding functionality far beyond it’s initial function.

Your documents are also all locally stored on your disk. There are no dependence on a cloud proprietary software, the only dependence is you (and your computer). This is truly yours to work with. Everything is yours; just yours.

And that just felt right.

Some Assumptions

I will assume that you are familiar with the basics of Obsidian. If not, please press F1 and take a look at the manual. Also consider some Youtube videos. The official Obsidian Discord is also a good place to ask for help. Moving on!

Demo

A sparse example of LDP’s organization is already set up. You should have noticed that the following organization.

📁100 Projects > 📁Setup = 00 🧰 Setup

📁200 Disciplines > 📁200 🎀 Well-being (EXAMPLE) = 210 🎀 Well-being (EXAMPLE)

Projects and Disciplines are decoupled. Frontmatter tags will be used to link projects to disciplines.

Folder Naming

The folders on the left have a numbered prefix. This is a concept borrowed from the Dewey-Decimal System, where libraries organize their books by numbers. In our case, it organizes our folders.

Notice how Inbox comes first, not Archive when sorted alphabetically. This can also be used to sticky notes to the top of a folder, like 210 🎀 Well-being (EXAMPLE).

It also allows for quick-lookup. You always know disciplines are prefixed 200, so if you ever need to reference a discipline’s dashboard, you only need to start typing [[2 and autocomplete will help you finish the rest.

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Not all folders should follow this system. I recommend you do this for Disciplines so your most important one, your Ikigai Discipline, pushed to the top.

I do not recommend this for Projects ordering doesn’t matter.

tl;dr - Dewey-Decimal System for when grouping and ordering matters.

Dashboards

See Dashboards.

Obsidian Plugins

If there’s some extra functionality you want, it probably exists. Here are some important plugins I consider core. These plugins have been included for this demo and can be installed through the Community Plugins panel under Settings.

There are many, many other plugins that you might find useful. Do your own research.

Obsidian Tasks has been extended to support Ongoing Tasks. Tasks can be tagged as #planned to mark them as planned “today”. They can also have #ongoing to mark as “doing now”. Queries under 🏠 Main Dashboard, Planned Tasks (View), and Ongoing Tasks (View).

Alignment

Routine alignment is done through obsidian-calendar-plugin and Periodic Notes. They are placed under 500 Alignment. Check out the calendar on the right-center panel.

Personal Knowledge Base (PKM)

Obsidian is known to be a link-based note-taking platform. Most follow some form of Zettelkasten or other graph-based organization. Your Resources (PKM) should stand next to LDP, not tightly integrated.

I recommend you create a folder at the root of your vault, completely dedicated to your PKM. You can then pull these notes into a project, create further notes, and then push them back into your PKM. How you pull them is up to you. You can also push as needed.

Your PKM will maintain whatever structure it currently is.

For this demo, they are placed under 600 Resources.

Organizing Tasks

There’s a command to swap a line of text up or down. I bound it to alt+w and alt+s. Use this to quickly move a task up and down the To-do list. You can also just highlight a line and click and drag it to where you want it to go.

Friction is lowered. You can now keep your To-Do list clean.

Optionally, there’s a plugin to automatically move all completed tasks to some archived header. Even less friction!

Habits as Repeating Tasks

Habits in essence are repeating Tasks. This can easily be done with the Obsidian Tasks plugin.

Consider Tasks as Habits in Obsidian.

Last update : March 18, 2024
Created : October 17, 2023