Obsidian Vault Setup

This is an Obsidian vault configured for personal knowledge management with specific settings for organized note-taking and knowledge management. The vault is organized into distinct categories for different types of notes and temporal reviews.

Note: The pkm/ directory is maintained as a separate private Git repository and is not included in this repository.

Note Categories

Calendar Notes

Temporal notes are located in the pkm/calendar/ folder and are organized in different frequencies:

• Daily Notes - Day-to-day activities, thoughts, and quick captures
• Weekly Notes - Weekly reviews and planning
• Monthly Notes - Monthly summaries and goal tracking
• Yearly Notes - Annual reviews and long-term planning

Highlight Tags

Daily notes use specific tags that are automatically collected in weekly, monthly, and yearly reviews using Dataview:

• life-hl - Personal life highlights and achievements
• work-obj - Work objectives completed
• work-hl - Notable work-related highlights and accomplishments

Knowledge Management

Knowledge notes are organized across several dedicated folders in the pkm/ directory:

• General Knowledge (pkm/knowledge/) - Topic-based notes and learnings
• People Notes (pkm/people/) - Information about contacts, meetings, and interactions
• Reviews (pkm/reviews/) - Structured reviews of books, media, or experiences

Assets

Files and attachments are stored in the pkm/files/ directory:

• Files - Images, PDFs, and other media assets

General Settings

• Properties are hidden in documents by default
• Links between notes are automatically updated
• Inline titles are shown

Enabled Plugins

Core Plugins

• File Explorer
• Global Search
• Quick Switcher
• Graph View
• Backlinks
• Canvas
• Outgoing Links
• Tag Pane
• Properties
• Page Preview
• Daily Notes
• Note Composer
• Command Palette
• Editor Status
• Bookmarks
• Outline
• Word Count
• File Recovery

Community Plugins

1. URL Into Selection - Enhanced URL handling
2. Templater - Advanced templating system
3. Tag Wrangler - Enhanced tag management
4. Settings Search - Quick settings navigation
5. Recent Files - Access recently edited files
6. Periodic Notes - Structured temporal notes
7. Obsidian Linter - Markdown formatting standardization
8. Dataview - Dynamic content queries
9. Create Note in Folder - Organized note creation
10. Calendar - Calendar visualization
11. Breadcrumbs - Enhanced navigation

Templates

• Template folder is set to templates/
• Date format: YYYY-MM-DD