A minimal, pre-configured personal knowledge management system (PKMS), built with Obsidian using the [[Zettelkasten]] philosophy.
🌟 If you jot down scattered notes, tasks, and lists that get forgotten over time, this is for you (even if you're not a developer). 🌟
❗ This README is written to be viewed in Obsidian so relative links will work
This system is meant to be a minimal implementation of [[Zettelkasten]] and [[Evergreen Notes]] principles. The README mostly follows these principles and is meant to kick-start a seamless approach to notetaking and [[personal knowledge management]].
If you’d like to do a deep dive, read [[How to Take Smart Notes]] by [[@Sönke Ahrens]].
- Obsidian
- git
- If you're not a developer, you can download a zip file on GitHub by clicking Code ⬇ Download ZIP Archive
On a desktop computer:
- Clone (or download) this repository where you want your notes to live
- Rename the folder to personalize (e.g. "<Your Name>'s Vault")
- Open Obsidian
- Open this root directory as a new vault (disable Safe Mode when prompted, required for community plugins)
- Open the [[Daily Notes Page]]
- Click the Edit/Preview toggle in the top right (or
Cmd+E) to render (edit mode is markdown format, similar to Confluence) - Click "Create Note" whenever you want to take a note. See [[Creating Notes]] and [[Syncing Vaults Across Devices]].
- Within 1-2 days, come back and review your [[Notes Inbox|notes inbox]]. See [[Reviewing Notes]].
- Over time, the structure of your notes will form naturally. Use the graph view icon to the left to see what your “second brain” looks like as your notes grow.
This template comes pre-configured, but you can reproduce the configuration with these steps:
- [[Configure obsidian settings]]
- [[Configure the minimum required plugins]]
If you'd like to contribute core functionality (or track your own base template), use the .scripts/extract_template.sh bash script to extract core components that you might have changed. Only files with a [[README]] tag will be copied over.
Note that the script disables vim bindings, which I use, but you can reenable them in Settings ▶ Editor.