My own Obsidian Vault

It's been roughly half a year since I started using Obsidian, it's a great tool, but I just felt like I wasn't utilizing it 100%. That's why a week ago, i decided to finally work on my own system, it was the right decision looking back.

What inspired me was a video by Karlos about Obsidian's CEO, Kepano's vault design, his vault was truly mind bending and chaotic, the idea of putting most notes at root was weird at that time, but that idea struck me. It wasn't all that weird is it, most times things just don't belong solely to one single folder, instead of debating which folder should the note be, Kepano's philosophy being fast and lazy was really refreshing.

I took it as an inspiration, a base point to design my own system. I like the idea of putting notes at root, and use categories and bases instead of tags to link stuff, but I still need some structure, my vault isn't only for journal, it also handles my uni notes, my project documentation that I use scripts to output (I just put it here for convenience sake), and etc. So I still use some folders for notes, most of them are still in roots. I also adopt linking stuff, having notes about people I know, notes about places around me or games I play, and much much more. In terms of plugins, Kepano's entire vault only use templater as of community plugins, I can do that, however certain stuff just feels nice to have, like a dedicated task panel instead of putting a file as panel, or day planner for scheduling, and also calendar and periodic notes. In the end, I have a few extra plugins, but I don't abuse them, definitely not bloating my vault with 100 not used plugins. At first, I also included Dataview due to 1 specific table I needed, the rest I use Obsidian bases, which are faster but less powerful. Luckily I was able to remove Dataview with some workaround, though not perfect, it's usable.

That's the brief story of me starting my own system, it's simple but works.

p.s. really don't understand why some spend tens of thousands of hours designing their system when they could spend all that time actually using Obsidian