I love that literally anything goes in, once you have a reliable, personal, filing system
Like, literally anything.
I use a modified zettelkasten that works well for me, and every single thing I want to remember is just stored in my vault and is always conveniently available.
I like throwing whatever comes to mind and seems important into the vault whenever I please, articles, videos, books, thoughts, personal essays, dreams, anything, then sorting through my inbox at the end of the day, adding tags to the ones that need them, and linking whatever I like to whatever else I want to link to. lol. It's so freeing.
I like that I can consolidate all notes related to my #ArtHistory tag all into one Base if I'm ever bored and just want to go through some stuff, and whether it was an article, a YouTube video, a tv show, a book, a TikTok or a random personal thought I had, wherever its been saved, all those notes will appear in my Base and I can browse through them. Any subject, any thought, as long as I've tagged it it's there.
I like that I can remind myself of other notes and thoughts I've had on a subject through tags and properties, and links, and I get to just throw everything I want into my vault, and when I'm seriously thinking over a particular topic, all my thoughts on it can be collected into one place and properly thought out because I linked, tagged, or added the relevant properties to it. It's freakin' amazing! There's been so much research, and random thoughts and observations I've had that I'd totally forgotten about, and get randomly reminded of whenever I use my vault. It's made doing most of my work so much less stressful as I don't have to remember where I saved things.
I love how I get to organize my life, hobbies, thoughts, schedule, finances, work, all my stuff, into my zettelkasten and it looks nice and neat, but it's also useful to me because I can focus on one area, and come back to that area while dealing with something else that's totally unrelated to it and I can combine two thoughts with a simple ![[Previous Thought]] or be specific with it ![[Previous Thought^]].
My heads a mess of various thoughts, feelings, and work projects on my best days, so it's nice to have a place I can just throw all that crap into, sort it out, and come back to it whenever I like, and it'll be immediately available to me, like instantly.
Having a vault it such a freakin' relief for an overthinker!
Shout out to Auto Note Mover! Shout out to Templates! Shout out to Daily Notes! Shout out to Notebook Navigator!
Shout out to all the developers making their plugins available to us to use on our vaults!
Shout out to all the creative people sharing their themes with us!
Shout out to the Obsidian team!
Shout out to the Obsidian Community!