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I can't recommend the Zettlekasten Method enough: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
You can do it with index cards or you can use software to practice the method and grow your note collection. I now prefer Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com) after using Joplin (https://joplinapp.org), which are both FOSS.
One of the core strategies of the Zettlekasten Method is to link notes to each other. That's how knowledge grows: connections and synthesis (internalization/application of the connections)
Here's a 3-year-old video on the method that serves as a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZHuWLA09M
I can't recommend the Zettlekasten Method enough: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
You can do it with index cards or you can use software to practice the method and grow your note collection. I now prefer Zettlr (https://www.zettlr.com) after using Joplin (https://joplinapp.org), which are both FOSS.
One of the core strategies of the Zettlekasten Method is to link notes to each other. That's how knowledge grows: connections and synthesis (internalization/application of the connections)
Here's a 3-year-old video on the method that serves as a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFZHuWLA09M
Guess I'll toot my horn slightly: I made a Zettlekasten-ish tool for the CLI a few years ago and have used it for my work notes (including daily TODO), project logs, and personal diary stuff ever since. At this point I've got a hierarchy of 114 notes, with some notes linked into multiple locations in the tree. The hardest part is trying to decide if you want a new note for a topic, or if it should fit into an existing one.
Maybe somebody might find it useful:
https://github.com/floren/zk
Everything is just files in a directory, so I use Syncthing to have access to it everywhere.
It's also got a thing that lets you associate files with a given note, but the tooling around that isn't very good yet. I've been slowly working on a client for the Acme text editor, and I've also wanted to make a proper Go GUI client.
(man I need to re-do the CLI with some library that does built-in help, because some commands like `zk orphans` [which finds notes that have no parents] aren't documented anywhere)
Yes I recall seeing that last time I looked into this. It doesn’t quite get you there on the UX, but I just went back and did some digging[1]: looks like the answer is - as is often the case with Obsidian - a plugin[2].
[1] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/use-h1-or-yaml-property-title-in...
[2] https://github.com/snezhig/obsidian-front-matter-title