Second-Brain VS obsidian-history-vault

Here are also two curated lists of digital gardens so you may check more: - Second-Brain list - Digital Gardeners list

There's more examples (of varying quality) here: https://github.com/KasperZutterman/Second-Brain

KasperZutterman's compilation

This one usually gets thrown around as a good example: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

Here if you want more: https://github.com/KasperZutterman/Second-Brain

While several of the vaults I mentioned above are available for download, here are a couple of vault templates you may download: - SlRvb's Journal Setup zip - PARA Starter Kit v2. Small starter kit for Obsidian by Cotemaxime - Obsidian starter templates. Stater templates for Obsidian. - Obsidian JG method. A starter kit that follow how joshwingreene uses Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes and software development knowledge base. - Bible study in Obsidian kit. Starter kit by Joschua designed to get you hands on with using Scripture in a connected way in your personal notes. - Obsidian weave. Obsidian vault template for software developers/managers working in the corporate world. - OSCP notes template. A template Obsidian vault for storing your OSCP revision notes. - Obsidian table top templates. Table top/world building templates for Obsidian. - Lifelong learning system template. Getting started kit for a lifelong learning system with Obsidian and Anki, - My obsidian vault template. A knowledge management template for obsidian, in which to grow your ideas. - Obsidian history vault. A starter vault for historical research with Zotero and Obsidian. - Obsidian beginner vault template. A minimal template for your first Obsidian vault aimed at setting good defaults. - Obsidian novel starter vault. A starter vault for writing novels and other long-form writing projects in Obsidian. - OB template. Obsidian reference for note templates focused on new users of the application using only core plugins. - Life disciplines projects. Life-management framework built within Obsidian. - Obsidian note templates starter pack. 15+ templates for Obsidian MD.

Cool discussion! The key is to keep research notes atomic (so you can sort them for writing) and easily searchable by source fields - author/title/date. etc. I am a historian as well. I keep all my references in Zotero. I keep my research notes in Obsidian in a separate folder, and my "analysis" notes (analog of your "concept" notes) in another dedicated folder. I export source information from Zotero along with the notes. I created a search interface for my research notes, where I can find each by author/title/tag etc. My comments on research notes are also searchable separately in this interface. Once you can quickly find your research notes, you can then link them to your concept notes and then do the linking-and-composing thing the Obsidian is famous for. Here is the explanation of the setup: https://publish.obsidian.md/history-notes/From+Zotero+Annotations+to+Obsidian+Research+Notes I created a sample vault for historians here: https://github.com/erazlogo/obsidian-history-vault