My complete Obsidian workflow template for life management

[mathisgauthey]

Introduction

As I promised to quite a few people on different places, I’m releasing a full blown guide of my Obsidian workflow. It has many cool features that I’ve seen people struggling with online :

1. Tasks and project management with journaling, workout logging and media tracking. Using daily and periodic notes.
2. Read-it-later with automated conversion to markdown and import inside your vault. Meaning all your past knowledge is inside Obsidian, available with a simple search alongside your notes.
3. Fast and simple one click upload obsidian publish alternative.

But there’s plenty more. It took me some time here and there during the past year to come up with this setup. And don’t worry, it is easy to use despite its awfully long name. But I’ll describe it with as much depth as I can for people who wants to fine tune it.

Obviously, it is merely just a starting point, with Obsidian you can (and you always should) do something that works well for you. And that means creating your own setup. But that doesn’t forbid you from using this one as a starting-point.

Links :

• My Complete Obsidian Workflow to Manage My Life
• Why Using Obsidian for Life Management
• Obsidian Publish Alternative, How to One-click Upload Your Notes on Your Own Website
• A template vault available on Github to try it for yourself

Core Features

• 🎨 Beautiful design using AnuPpuccin: Personal theme for Obsidian.
• 🗃️ P.A.R.A[^1] folder organisation based on file actionability.
• ✅ GTD[^2] task management on par with a full Todoist setup, but with a simple and natural way of writing tasks alongside notes. You also get to keep your project tasks, notes and files archives when you finish a project, allowing you to access these informations in the future.
• 📅 Daily notes for task management, periodic notes for projects management (week, month, quarter and year).
• 📓 Journal section for each daily and periodic notes to write about anything that happened during a certain period of time.
• 💪 Simple workout log for storing your workout sessions but with an infinite possible personalized exercise library.
• 🎮 Media backlog Kanban board for tracking books, shows, movies or video games backlog, consuming media at the right pace, and archiving what you do. All without proprietary online services that hold you data.
• 🔗 Read-it-later / bookmark manager with automated markdown conversion for offline storage inside your vault using Omnivore app. That means easy search for knowledge inside your vault across sources and personal notes.
• 📝 Zettelkasten note-taking on a flat structure inside 3-Resources folder.
  1. 📎 Import sources automatically using obsidian-omnivore plugin for an automatic markdown conversion of a webpage or document online or manually from a file or using markdownload.
  2. Highlight and take reference notes using Omnivore app or directly inside your vault using a simple markdown file.
  3. Write literature notes to summarise the source informations.
  4. Write permanent notes from key concepts directly inside literature notes using wiki-links.
• 🌐 One click upload of file and attachments to a Hugo website hosted on Github Pages thanks to obsidian-github-publisher plugin.

[mathisgauthey]

@Lisandra-dev I was just thinking, maybe you could steal my regex, or my whole settings, to make a standard Hugo importer just like the one you created for mkdocs ? ✌️ I don't know if you'd like a FR for that.

[Mara-Li]

I don't understand what do you mean :<

[mathisgauthey]

I meant using my config file to create a preset in your plugin for Hugo website uploads :

[Mara-Li]

Oh yeah, you can use the export button and make a PR on the repo: https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher/plugin-presets

[mathisgauthey]

Alright, I'll do it next time I get on my laptop!

[mathisgauthey]

Introduction

Hi everyone.

In 2023, I shared my obsidian-workflow-template on Github.

The "documentation" was some mere blog posts on my website :

• My Complete Obsidian Workflow to Manage My Life
• Obsidian Publish Alternative, How to One-Click Upload Your Notes on Your Own Website
• Why Using Obsidian for Life Management

What's New

I just wanted to let you know that I just released an updated version of the workflow based on my experience in the past few months.

It has now it's own documentation.

You can see most of the changes in details in the release page. I did not get everything in the text as there was a lot of small plugin config tweaks, but any major part should be here.

Features

If you want to try it, here's the core features :

• 🎨 Beautiful design using AnuPpuccin: Personal theme for Obsidian.
• 🗃️ P.A.R.A[^1] folder organisation based on file actionability.
• ✅ GTD[^2] task management on par with a full Todoist setup, but with a simple and natural way of writing tasks alongside notes. You also get to keep your project tasks, notes and files archives when you finish a project, allowing you to access these informations in the future.
• 📅 Daily notes for task management, periodic notes for projects management (week, month, quarter and year).
• 📓 Journal section for each daily and periodic notes to write about anything that happened during a certain period of time.
• 🎮 Media backlog Kanban board for tracking books, shows, movies or video games backlog, consuming media at the right pace, and archiving what you do. All without proprietary online services that hold you data.
• 🔗 Read-it-later / bookmark manager with automated markdown conversion for offline storage inside your vault using Omnivore app. That means easy search for knowledge inside your vault across sources and personal notes.
• 📝 Zettelkasten note-taking on a flat structure inside 3-Resources folder.
  1. 📎 Import sources automatically using obsidian-omnivore plugin for an automatic markdown conversion of a webpage or document online or manually from a file or using markdownload.
  2. Highlight and take reference notes using Omnivore app or directly inside your vault using a simple markdown file.
  3. Write literature notes to summarise the source informations.
  4. Write permanent notes from key concepts directly inside literature notes using wiki-links.
• 🌐 One click upload of file and attachments to a Hugo website hosted on Github Pages thanks to obsidian-github-publisher plugin.