🚏 The wayfinder approach: Wayfinders are nav bars, usually at the top of notes, that allow you to move around related notes in a quick and satisfying way.
- The breakthrough:
- They were actually first utilized by us in our Obsidian Flight School offering and were so useful, it slowly became apparent that this is a fundamentally important part to navigating link-based notes—especially as you develop many notes in a related field of thought or study.
- Where it shines: Being able to navigate laterally insanely fast.
🏰 The bases approach: Bases are a type of note that turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more.
- The breakthroughs:
- Realizing there are three types of bases (standard, sidebar, in-note)
- Seeing the importance of having a standard set of properties for every note
- Understanding how both folders and properties are great filters for base views
- Unlocking the radical context-switching power of workspaces (once you have bases)
- Where it shines: Being able to access any high-context views insanely fast.
Best practices for the lessons:
- Make sure to always watch the wayfinder videos: They are the core videos. They introduce the lesson in proper context and go into many useful nuances.
- Watch the bases videos after the wayfinder videos: The bases videos are meant to complement the wayfinder videos and show other exciting approaches to knowledge management.