PKM Vaults

Evolution

My Obsidian vault has become somewhat messy, and needs some remodeling. It has now grown to about 8,000 notes and 1,000 folders, and deserves significant refactoring.

Since my vault has evolved significantly since I established it with my first LYT Workshop in early 2023, I need to review each of the major ACE folders to determine what improvements I can make.

Each of these spaces have become too complex and don't adequately reflect the content of my linked note system or current workflow practices.

Improvements

As I have learned more about PKM, my system has grown and adapted incrementally over time. In fact, it has gone through major transformations during multiple LYT Workshops (11–13) and the WOW Workshop.

Of course, any PKM system always changes as knowledge, ideas, and efforts evolve. However, now it's time to step back, reassess, and make appropriate adjustments. So this is a roadmap for my current vault remodel effort to make it better.

Folders

First, I’m reviewing and adjusting my folder structure which had reverted back to bad old habits, and I’m trying to address that too. I must focus on maps and views rather than folders, but first I must tweak my ACE folder organization.

Notes

For a while, I have been thinking about what knowledge and ideas are represented in the notes and maps of my Obsidian vault. Many note variations has proliferated and resulted in much redundancy and overlap; maps, outlines, local graphs, and refactoring can consolidate and resolve these discrepancies for more atomic notes.

I have doing a deep dive on my note types to understand them as objects with properties and relations. I guess that’s natural for an architect and developer. The more I investigated, it became obvious that significant redesign was necessary.

Templates

As I explored the metadata associated with my notes, it was a mess and that definitely needed cleaning up. So I decided to review my templates, which had multiplied with various learning experiments, and found that’s where I must focus first.

Maps

While researching my notes and discovering so many redundancies from excessive gardening, I realized that my maps had been neglected and I’m now refocusing on my maps as the foundation of my system.

Digital Garden

I'm also exploring my folder organization within my WarrenWeb Notes vault. I needed to determine whether, what, and how I want to show folders on the web with Obsidian Publish. This seems like a good place to start.

This experiment in my digital garden on rethinking my folders will also help validate whether this can be used in my private Ideaverse vault as well.

WarrenWeb

I have recently created a new WarrenWeb website and blog on the Ghost publishing platform as well as a digital garden on Obsidian Publish.

Also, I needed to focus on what and how I share what I'm thinking and linking on these public websites and associated distribution channels like newsletters and social media.

Workflows

I have been experiencing some workflow challenges related to process, practices, and flow, especially with my new digital garden vault and Ghost website.

A lot of the issues really became more visible as I had worked on my overall PKM pipeline with idea emergence across ARC ideation workflow when I incorporated my public digital garden vault and Ghost website.

This has forced me to examine the overall workflow and practices for emerging thoughts, ideas, and experiences as notes and maps in my private Ideaverse.