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For setup and usage, see [[Documentation]].

Welcome to Nagi's Personal Knowledge Base (NPKB). I created it for the following reasons:

• To offer someone else a ready-made vault template
• To showcase my vault with bunches of customization
• To give someone else some insights into
  • what an Obsidian vault looks like
  • how it works as a personal knowledge base
  • what the vault structure should be like

This vault has nothing to do with the following things:

• Schedule and task management
  • Managing them on your smartphone or tablet is much more handy
  • A lot of useful calendar and To-do apps available now
• Mind map and other visualization
  • The same reason as above (e.g., iPad)
  • Personally, I love using iPad when creating a mind map or visualizing any ideas or thoughts
• Quick notes creation and management
  • You can leave quick notes here on the spot if you're on the PC but if not, it's quite hard
  • Figure out another alternative way possibly with your smartphone or tablet (e.g., When you're walking outside)

The version of this vault is managed with Git, which enables you to sync and share your vault among multiple devices and machines.

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As an indicator of to what extent a note has been matured, the following emojis are used in the frontmatter of notes. This concept is the Evergreen ethos advocated by Andy Matuschak.

• ⛵: boat note Just started or floating around isolated from other notes
• 🌱: seedling Growing with a few contents and bidirectional links added but still in its infancy
• 🌿: budding Growing with more than a few bidirectional links and contents added but still developing
• 🌲: evergreen forest Well developed and full-fledged "Evergreen Notes"

By introducing these to your note-taking system, you can clearly see their maturity as a note and easily prioritize them. I determined the classification above referring to Bryan Jenks.

Since this place adheres to [[#^eb4bbe|the Evergreen ethos]] and bidirectional links, hierarchical directory structures are not so important as traversal links. So don't rack your brain too much over them. Keep them to an absolute minimum.

Here's the directory tree of this vault.

NPKB/
├── +/
├── Assets/
│   └── Images/
├── Daily Notes/
│   └── ...
├── Kindle Highlights/
│   └── ...
├── Notes/
│   ├── Concepts/
│   ├── Efforts/
│   ├── Gleanings/
│   └── MOC/
│       ├── Climbing Map
│       ├── Evergreen Garden
│       └── Kindle Library
├── Scripts/
│   └── ...
├── Templates/
│   └── ...
├── Documentation
├── Home
└── README

Daily notes contain:

• The gist of that day
• A data table to show all notes created on that day
• A free writing area
  • Whatever you want to take a note of or pops into your mind could be here

This is helpful to centralize the info or data gathered on that day, which in turn creates a strong connection between the resources and the date.

Notes are created based on templates. By answering some prompts, you can create a note from a specific template.

Notes contain the rest of all. They are supposed to be, so to speak, "Evergreen Notes" down the road, following [[#^eb4bbe|the evergreen process]] above.

You can manage bigger and more abstract things here. When you want to start with a bigger concept from the beginning, this is the one.

Your long-term goals are supposed to be here. You can see the whole progress of your projects in the [[Climbing Map]].

Everything gathered from external info sources (e.g., Social media) are placed here.

A map of content is a collection of notes that are geared towards a specific topic.

As you can see in this vault, there's no special rules about it, but one thing to be kept in mind is a "Note first, map last" slogan. That is rather a bottom-up process than that of trickle-down; it's not until you raise a decent number of notes that you start creating the map. (Existing MOCs are exceptional though)

As an inlet of new notes, you can choose an info medium to specify where you collect it from. After [[Documentation#Create a new note with prompts | a set of interactive prompts]], a new note is created based on the matched template, which facilitates the note editing process.

• 📖 Book: Paper books (Kindle excluded)
• 🧠 ChatGPT: Chats with ChatGPT
• 🎧 Music: Songs from streaming services like Spotify
• 📰 Paper: Research paper
• 📻 Radio/Podcast
• 🌐 SNS: YouTube, X, Instagram, etc
• 🕸 Website
• ❓ Others: Concepts or irregular topics