https://github.com/evanwon/evanw-obsidian-templates
Obsidian (obsidian.md) is an excellent note-taking and "second brain" application, and I use it extensively. I'm open sourcing some of my commonly-used (and non-proprietary) templates for others to consume and remix.
https://github.com/evanwon/evanw-obsidian-templates
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Obsidian (obsidian.md) is an excellent note-taking and "second brain" application, and I use it extensively. I'm open sourcing some of my commonly-used (and non-proprietary) templates for others to consume and remix.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/evanwon/evanw-obsidian-templates
- Owner: evanwon
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-01-04T00:30:48.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-24T18:10:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-31T14:59:40.615Z (over 1 year ago)
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# evanw-obsidian-templates
Obsidian ([obsidian.md](https://obsidian.md/)) is an excellent note-taking and "second brain" application, and I use it _extensively_. I'm open sourcing some of my commonly-used (and non-proprietary) templates for others to consume and remix.
## My Obsidian folder structure
You might be wondering why the Templates folder is called `70 - Templates`. This is because I use a simple numbering system to keep everything in order (rather than alphabetically).
If you want to copy my simple personal "Zettelkasten" structure:
- 10 - Intake
- 20 - Reference Notes
- 30 - Files
- 70 - Templates
- 80 - Archives
And here's a more complex taxonomy I use for work:
- **0 - Intake:** Default location for new files; as they mature they usually end up in Knowledgebase or Archives.
- **1 - Working Documents:** Similar to Intake, but it's focused around longer-form content I'm writing that I want to keep separate from other random intake items.
- **2 - Goals:** I have a doc for weekly, quarterly, and annual goals.
- **3 - Teams:** This is like a rolodex for team bios. I don't use it much but it was helpful when I was getting started.
- **4 - People:** This has two subfolders: one with 1-1 notes and the other with bios (which is basically my rolodex).
- **5 - Operational Excellence:** Documents specific to Operations / Operational Excellence.
- **6 - Projects:** Documents specific to projects, each in its own subfolder. I don't use this much because most project work goes into collaborative wikis.
- **60 - Knowledgebase:** This is synonymous "Reference Notes" in my personal system (from Zettelkasten), and contains the majority of my notes that I refer back to often.
- **70 - Templates:** Obsidian has an excellent templating system, and I have Obsidian configured to look in this folder for my templates (which I've shared in this repo). To enable templates: Settings --> Core plugins --> Templates, then Settings --> Templates --> Template folder location.
- **80 - Archives:** This is where I put things like post-processed meeting notes. By "post-processed", I mean: I create a new note for meeting notes which goes into my Intake folder. Then, ideally soon after, I briefly post-process those notes, pull out any important facts into new or existing reference notes, store those in Knowledgebase, and then I move and preserve the raw meeting notes in the Archives which are searchable.
- **90 - Non-Indexed:** I use this for interviews, files, and other things I don't want to be indexed and clog up my search. You can configure this in Settings --> Files & Links --> Excluded files.
## Further Learning
I think this is a great intro to Obsidian and Zettelkasten-style note-taking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ySG7xYgjY