Obsidian Vault

Obsidian Vault

Vault location

/Users/leoluyi/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/__notes-vault

PARA / Johnny-Decimal structure, organized into numbered top-level folders:

• 00-inbox, inbox — unprocessed capture
• 01-unique-notes — atomic/evergreen notes
• 02-life, 03-investment, 04-work, 05-tech — areas by domain
• 97-projects, 98-archived, 99-system — projects, archive, vault system

AI and writing notes live in 05-tech/AI/.

Naming conventions

• Title Case for conceptual notes (e.g. Writing With AI.md, Prompt Engineering)
• lowercase-hyphen also used for utility notes (e.g. ai-prompt.md)
• Domain root notes in 05-tech use a [Category] bracket style (e.g. [Python], [Docker-Podman])
• Organize by the numbered folders plus links — not deep nesting

Frontmatter

Notes carry YAML frontmatter with:

---
id: kebab-case-id
aliases:
  - Alternate Title
  - 中文別名
tags:
  - AI
urls:
  - "[source label](https://...)"   # optional
---

Linking

• Use Obsidian [[wikilinks]] syntax: [[Note Title]]
• Put related/dependency links in a ## Related section at the bottom
• Dangling links to notes that don't exist yet are fine — they mark notes worth writing

Workflows

Search for notes

V="/Users/leoluyi/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/__notes-vault"
# By filename
find "$V" -name "*.md" -not -path "*/.obsidian/*" | grep -i "keyword"
# By content
grep -rl "keyword" "$V" --include="*.md" --exclude-dir=.obsidian

Or use Grep/Glob tools directly on the vault path.

Create a new note

1. Pick the right numbered folder (AI/writing → 05-tech/AI/)
2. Use Title Case for the filename
3. Add frontmatter (id, aliases, tags)
4. Write content as a unit of learning
5. Add [[wikilinks]] to related notes in a ## Related section at the bottom

Find backlinks to a note

grep -rl "\\[\\[Note Title\\]\\]" "/Users/leoluyi/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/__notes-vault" --include="*.md"