#second-brain #pkm #obsidian

My Second Brain

My personal Second Brain was built on uwidev/memory-flow-interface. It's a template for a basic Obsidian working environment. Blessings to you, uwi.

The Memory Flow Interface is "...designed to be powerfully basic. The core elements allow for immense personal development and information management."

Motivation

My Second Brain helps me in 3 different ways:

Planning & Getting Things Done
Knowledge Generation
Journaling & Alignment

Second Brain Setup

Directory structure

I use a rather simple directory structure.

.  
├── 000 Inbox  
├── 100 Staging  
├── 200 Resources  
├── 300 Alignment  
├── 500 Dashboards  
├── 700 Media  
├── 800 Templates  
├── 900 Archive  
├── 999 GardenOfBits
└── README.md

Numbering

The numbering of the directories is arbitrary and does not follow any rules.

I only have 1 file in the root folder called README.md, but all other containers are folders. I use Folders as Working States for notes. This is the usual pipeline for new notes:

graph LR
    A(000 Inbox) --> B(100 Staging)
    B --> C(200 Resources)
    B --> D(900 Archive)
    C --> E(GardenOfBits)

Special directories

There are some special directories:

400 Alignment -> for keeping retrospective notes and journals in a chronological folder structure
500 Dashboards -> contains dashboard notes
700 Media -> contains all kind of media files (PDFs, PNGs, etc.)
800 Templates -> contains Obsidian note templates (used by Templates Core Plugin and Templater Community Plugin).

As uwi and so many others have correctly figured out before, using directories for organizing notes, is not a best practice. You will soon find out that a note e.g. Python certification can go both in "technologies" folder and the "career" folder too. Tags for the rescue. A note can have multiple tags, but it can only ever have 1 parent folder.

Tasks TODO

Projects TODO

Disciplines & PPV

Obsidian plugins I use

Workflow

CRE Framework - a simplified CODE Framework

Connect

Whenever collect, connect right away!

see: Linking your thinking, Rambling

Refactor

Has both order and distill in it. And ultimately should minimize this stage.

Express

Garden of Bits, Blogging, Content Creation, Alignment