Whether you just refer to them, or you continuously edit them. Asking because it’s always fun to hear about other peoples’ use cases and experiences with Obsidian. And because I was thinking about some reference notes I made that I do not actually use for one reason or another, but it boils down to something like this: https://xkcd.com/1205/. I miscalculated how much pain or time making the reference resource would save me. That note gets 0 visits. Meanwhile, other notes I made get near-daily references, and I feel so glad that I made that note because it makes my life a little easier or better.
I have what I call an “Ivy Lee” note that opens in its own window at a particular location on my second monitor every time I open Obsidian. It contains a list of things that I “must do” that day, a second set of bullets for “stretch goals” for the day and some “no need to worry about” entries in case I get anxiety about those things. I edit it the previous evening. Part of the Ivy Lee methodology I’ve been following for quite a while now.
That was a good read, thanks for sharing! Seems pretty doable.
I have a few evergreen notes that I update as needed, but the most frequent one is simply a list of what books I have on preorder and when they’re expected to ship. I have a book buying problem.
Otherwise most of my notes don’t get referenced often because they’re stores of knowledge, not items related to active projects. I have several reference docs for fiction writing and DnD that I reference and update often because I work on those projects often, but my note on the Zanclean Flood is just obviously not going to come up almost ever. But writing is how I learn, so I wrote about it 🤷
I have a note called Random that I use to drop content that doesn’t need to be in a note, it won’t live a long lifetime, just scratch pad stuff. That one gets an entry multiple times a day.
Otherwise it’s whatever note(s) I have for a currently running project. Parts list, decision notes, tests run and their status.
Gaming notes are my most used type of notes. Missed secrets, to-do, and random thoughts.
My least used notes are retired TTRPG campaigns. I’m never going to use them but processing them into linked notes was therapeutic.
