IDEAVERSE: a workspace for the brain

My initial attempts to use Obsidian proved over-complicated. Searching for a better way, I found Steph Ango’s explanation of how he uses his creation (Steph is the CEO of Obsidian). It is beautifully simple, and I have adopted the same approach.

Everything is in one vault. My own thinking (something I wrote, or that relates directly to me - my personal world) is in the root of that vault.

There are two reference folders:

References where I write about things that exist outside my personal world: people, places, events, books, and so on.
Clippings where I file other people's writing; I use the Obsidian web clipper to save web articles and pages (along with their metadata) directly into notes in that folder.

I use three admin folders so that their content can be excluded from the file navigation:

Attachments for images, audio, videos, PDFs, etc.
Daily Notes, all named YYYY-MM-DD.md. I do not write anything in daily notes, they exist solely to list all the notes I have worked on that day.
Templates that can be applied to the various types of note.

Key to the value of the ideaverse are extensive internal links, the use of properties and templates, and the integration of bases (database-like views of my notes) into templates and reference notes. These techniques create a network of ideas that can be navigated and searched easily. It is a powerful aid to thinking.

Another valuable feature is the ability to publish selected notes (such as this one) on the web with minimum effort.