# Obsidian SOP I get a surprising amount of questions about how I have my vault set up (and especially my templates), so I've decided to share my Obsidian SOP publicly (but not all for sake of privacy!). I’ve added some additional notes as an explanation. --- ## File Hierarchy My [[Johnny Decimal]] system outgrew my Obsidian SOP, so you can find details [[File Hierarchy SOP|in this note]]. --- ## File Naming For my personal filing system, I like to have some consistency for how things are named. I do a similar thing for when I’m naming files and will gladly talk forever about [ISO 8601](https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html) when it comes to dates. ### Numbers | Example | | | | :---------------: | :----------------------------------------------------- | --- | | ***2021-06-01*** | Hyphens are used to denote dates | | | ***02.01*** | Periods are used to denote folders | | | ***00_00 Index*** | Underscore is used to denote undated categorized files | | ### 40 Atomic - Short descriptive titles, instead of the [[Zettelkasten]] approach of progressive numbers - Switch words around when appropriate for grouping and scannability. Example: - [[40 Atomic/Knowledge|Knowledge]] - [[Knowledge translation]] - [[Knowledge, explicit]] - [[Knowledge, tacit]] ### 50 References - Majority of names based on [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org) citekey, as generated by [Better Bibtex for Zotero](https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/). - For more polished entries: *citekey.md* - For raw exported annotations (i.e. 50.99): *citekey-notes.md* - This is generated through a Zotero plugin called [Mdnotes]([GitHub](https://github.com/argenos/zotero-mdnotes)) [[Mdnotes for Zotero]] and I have [[Mdnotes for Zotero|a very barebones SOP here]]. ### 62.02 Session Notes - YYYY-MM-DD_S## - S## is sequential - YYYY-MM-DD is the session date - This way, my session notes are always sequential, in case you ever go back and do a second session zero with a new player etc… --- ## Tags Section moved to [[Tags SOP]]. --- ## Customized Hotkeys | | | |:--- |:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ⌘M | File explorer: Move file to another folder | | ⌘D | Open today's daily note | | ⌘⌥↓ | Swap line down | | ⌘⌥↑ | Swap line up | | ⌃6 | [[Obsidian Community Plugins SOP#Footnote Shortcut\|Plugin: Footnote Shortcut]] | | ⌘U | [[Obsidian Community Plugins SOP#Advanced Obsidian URI\|Plugin: Advanced Obsidian URI: Copy URI for file]] | | ⌘T | [[Templater]] | | ⌘⌥← | Toggle left sidebar | | ⌘⌥→ | Toggle right sidebar | | ⌘← | Navigate back | | ⌘→ | Navigate forward | --- ## Plugins - See [[Obsidian Community Plugins SOP]] ### Templater - Important note for getting templates to work with Daily Notes: under Templater options, toggle *Trigger Templater on new file creation* to on. %% --- ## Obsidian Publisher - to do: add favicons, `32×32`, `128x128`, `152×152`, `167x167`, `180x180`, `192x192`, and `196x196`. %% %% ## Obsidian hidden folder ### For me /Users/leahferguson/Library/Mobile Documents/Obsidian/Obsidian/Digital Garden/.Obsidian ### For copy/paste /Users/YourMacProfileName/Library/Mobile Documents/Obsidian/Obsidian/YourVaultName/.Obsidian %%