The Obsidian Vault Rebuild — Geeking Out on Folder Structures and the First Plugin — Excalidraw
One of the brilliant things about Obsidian is that you can use a combination of files and folders. Folders in most applications are limiting to you. However, in Obsidian, they are simply organizers. You can search across your entire vault using attributes and tags (which we’ll talk about in future posts) and build powerful database-esque functionality right into your vault of what are simply plain text markdown files.
If you let all your files just exist as individual pages in your vault and don’t use any folders, you may find that your vault becomes very difficult to navigate through (unless you are EXPERT LEVEL at both linking and searching). Today, I’m going to share four approaches to file folders (at a very high level) and then walk through how I set up my vault using one of those four systems.
File System Method Option 1 — Organic
If you’ve never given much thought to your file system organization then you probably use an organic structure. I used an organic structure for far more years than I have used the methods I’ll talk about in the next few sections.
In an organic arrangement you might start with a folder for Work and a folder for Personal. Inside of each of those you…
