This is both a table of contents for this Quartz site, and an explainer of my vault set-up, as it also defines folders you can’t see.
Version 2.0
- 00 Space - Houses self-referencing notes I need for my Obsidian workflow, or about Obsidian itself.
- Archive - If I want to retire a set of notes (e.g. Project has ended) but want to keep any links, it gets moved here.
- Attachments - Default folder to catch attachments like pasted images. Some “attachments” might go into 30 Knowledge if the media is useful on its own, as is the case with PDFs and infographics.
- Obsidian Meta - Contains three types of notes: explainers for visitors (like this note!), plugin documentation and logs for me, and notes specific to tweaking my Obsidian workflow.
- Templates - Default folder that the vault and any plugin will look at for templates. This also makes it easy to keep templates immune to plugins like Linter.
- Widgets, Scripts - Contains reusable blocks of code like Buttons, or Javascript files which you cannot see but can be handled by Templater.
Recommended place to start
There’s currently really nothing else in Space at the moment, but in the future my write-ups on Obsidian and my vault structure will go here.
- 10 Inbox - Default folder for new notes that I don’t want to process right away. This is experimental and may or may not be a permanent feature.
- Currently contains Brain Dumps, Drafts, and Snippets.
Recommended place to start
None. Inbox will likely remain private.
- 20 Binder - Formerly Notebook. This is the closest to a journal the vault will have, but with more of a focus on information I’ll want to reference or find quickly. With the exception of Collections, this binder will remain private.
- Currently contains Collections, Dashboards, Docs, People and Recipes.
Recommended place to start
- 30 Knowledge - The closest thing I have to a zettelkasten or digital garden.
- Content Maps - Notes of personal interest to me which attempt to group together other notes, such as by author (e.g. Mary Oliver) or by topic (e.g. PKM). This is in the process of being re-worked to disambiguate between Content Maps (has context, like PKM) and indices (no context, only links, like Mary Oliver).
- Guides - Knowledge notes oriented towards instructions and practical steps, for use while doing work e.g. how-to guides, glossaries and cheat sheets.
- Ideas - Notes which are more for the learny, thinky half of my brain, and not necessarily to guide my work.
- Media - Media attachments like research papers (PDFs) and infographics (JPG/PNG) that are knowledge items on their own. Disambiguate from Attachments folder which exist to be put into notes.
- Poems - Not my poems.
Recommended place to start
- 40 Writing - Catch-all folder for writing that doesn’t have its own project.
Recommended place to start
None at the moment. I do plan to keep my newsletter archive here, but have not yet discovered how to have Quartz process HTML files.
- 40.1 Makoltaverse - Project folder of my fictional universe WIP.
Recommended place to start
None at the moment. I plan to selectively publish things from here to share some of what I’m working on without giving away IP and ideas.
- 50 Grimoire - Houses notes specific to occultism, although there can and will be cross-linking to notes in Knowledge, as God intended.
- Indexes - Unlike the rest of the vault, the Grimoire benefits from some kind of structure and looking up notes by their area/discipline first. See: astrology or tarot.
- Journal - Notes which are personal to me, such as my own timings, placements and patterns. This folder shall remain fully private.
- Lexicon - One of very few corners of the vault that has a third level of folders. Under here you will find data-only notes sorted by discipline. In many cases they also have a sort order and links to the Next/Previous note in order. See: 1 (Numerology).
- Spells - The closest equivalent to Knowledge/Guides, but for witchcraft.
Recommended place to start