My Obsidian Setup

I tend to do most of my writing within daily notes and weekly notes with relevant tags and entities mentioned.

Outline note taking

This is a pretty good guide to the benefits of using an outliner for note taking. I find that it puts a lightweight framework in place when making notes and allows for thinking to take place in terms of reordering the points and also going deeper down a thought process.

Community Plugins

Plugin	Description
Outliner	I’ve used since first getting started with Roam and find that it’s helpful when using writing for thinking.
Periodic Notes	Gives more control over where periodic notes are stored and the date format for those notes. Mine are set to be in Periodic Notes/Daily/$year/$monthnumber - $monthname/ folder.
Templater	Home to my standard weekly and daily templates that are automatically triggered when I create a new note for either.
Calendar	Provides a calendar view that is handy in one of the sidebars. Provides a good way of navigating to daily notes.
Readwise	Syncs my Readwise highlights to the vault.
Github	Backs up my notes each day to a Github repo.
Self-hosted Sync	A free alternative to Obsidian Sync which provides a self hosted setup that has E2EE. It’s a bit more fiddly than the paid for version, but once set up is just as good.