MentisCell – Notes Best Practices (Hub)
Summary
Central hub for best practices in note-taking, consolidating principles, technical standards, and usage strategies in Obsidian.
This document organizes the content into thematic modules, each detailed in its own MentisCell.
Link to this note
MentisCell – Notes Best Practices
Content
This hub gathers practices developed since 1994, refined across multiple systems and currently applied to Obsidian.
The main note does not contain all details but references specific modules:
- Standards and formats
- Templates and automation
- Metadata and input quality
- Backup vs Sync
- Plugins and extensions
- Folder organization
- Attachment management
- Dates and temporal properties
- Time tracking and durations
- Linking process
- Frontmatter vs body
- Contact management
- Math and LaTeX usage
- Note length and granularity
- Multilingual notes
- Structural evolution of notes
- Relationships and cardinality
- Dashboards and control panels
- Testing and regression
Essence
- Core principles: standards, automation, clarity, traceability.
- Input quality = output quality.
- Obsidian is a repository, not a brain.
- Modular structure: each practice in its own cell.
- Continuous evolution: test, refine, adapt.
Interconnections
- Connecting information and notes — linking practices.
- Vault evolution and changes — examples of structural evolution.
- Note linking process — detailed linking workflow.
Tags
#hub #bestpractices #obsidian #mentiscraft #structure
Contributors
Created with the support of Microsoft Copilot on 2025-10-04.
Validated and edited by Jorge Godoy.