status: if it’s currently not in a state you’re cool with: it is #status/active.
otherwise, leave it be. no need to tag stuff that is closed/done. you assume most notes are completed for now!
topic: unsure what to do about this
come back to this! i’m not a huge fan of my overarching topic tags: fan, garden, media, personal, rships, webdev. but it does link notes across different folders…
hit save to autofill the created/modified date.
this is fairly straightforward. if you’re porting over a note from a different thought receptacle (e.g. notion, apple notes, listography), make sure to edit the created date to match.
decide whether or not you’re publishing the note.
though if the note is really just foure youm :), you should put it in your personal vault and not here. why would you put it here? the only notes you should keep unpublished are the backend stuff.
if publishing:
- check the box. (this is important for quartz syncer plugin)
if not publishing:
- ok, well, uncheck the box then. don’t just leave it with the line in the middle, because you’ll always be like “did i make a decision on this already?” unchecking shows you’ve looked at it already and decided.
decide whether it should link to related notes.
some notes kind of have no relevance to other ones, so not all notes need a “see also” at the bottom. but the joy of obsidian is the linkage, and most of your notes are kind of related to some others.
if yes
- check the box.
- related notes → copy paste into the bottom of the file, and edit as needed.
no
- uncheck the related notes box, for the same reason as you uncheck the publish box.
try not to have a billion related notes — i think 7 is already pushing it. filter using the “WHERE” bit of a dataview query as you see fit.
note: we use quartz syncer SPECIFICALLY for the fact that they parse dataview and turn it into markdown. we need it if we are using “see also”. we are avoiding the pain of having to use the dataview serializer plugin.