How to Organize Your Notes in Obsidian the LATCH Method

Summary

Wondering how to organize your notes in Obsidian? In this video, I talk about some methods in Obsidian for imposing structure and organization, the LATCH method for adding data to your data, and which methods I would use in Obsidian for each part of LATCH (Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy). This is not meant to be a definitive or prescriptive guide for how YOU should organize your notes. Instead, take this as a look into how I prefer to do it, in the hopes that you may find inspiration for how you'd like to do it as well.

// RESOURCES MENTIONED

Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety: https://amzn.to/3DG9iew
Zsolt Viczián's introduction of the LATCH method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9QOHaAqhXc

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0:00 Intro
0:30 Methods in Obsidian for organizing your notes
04:08 The LATCH system
05:03 Locations: links, metadata
07:08 Alphabet: folders
09:09 Time: links, metadata
11:19 Category: links, metadata, tags
13:14 Hierarchy: metadata, links

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Highlights

LATCH stands for five things,Location, Alphabet,Time, Categoryand Hierarchy. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gx7tvyn85z495sk3dt4j9yhg))