Reworking my Obsidian organization system
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A day or two ago I realized my current organization system for daily note review system—which helps me craft my week notes—is inefficient. It's set up using server-side automation that I created in a "because I can" mindset. Starting this coming Monday I'm going to re-work the system to make it work for me.
The current setup:
- Weekly: on Monday, a server-side script creates a new week note
.mdfile in my Obsidian folder- this note contains embedded file links (e.g.
![[Monday October 20 2025 Week 43]]) - there are links to "things I made this week" and "links this week" files—only created when I click/tap on the note
- this note contains embedded file links (e.g.
- Daily: a server-side script creates a new daily note file (e.g.
Monday October 20 2025 Week 43.md), and then a corresponding link in the weekly review file
My realization was the system does not require daily note files. Given that I'm using the weekly review note (remember, the daily notes are embedded), I should write my daily notes directly into that weekly review file. This is especially useful since I'm trying to write my notes in my bullet journal first anyway. Similarly I don't need separate files for things I've made or links I want to share every week. That can all go into the weekly review note.
The new setup:
- Weekly: on Monday, a server-side script creates a new week note
.mdfile in Obsidian folder - Daily: server-side script adds headings for each day
The result will be a note that looks something like this (title would be Week ## Review, dynamically generated by the server-side script):
### Things I made this week
- [a link to a blog post](https://lwgrs.cloud/a-new-blog-post/)
### Week ## links
- [a link to something I enjoyed reading](https://some-link.com)
### Monday October 20 2025
- some notes I've written manually here
### Tuesday October 21 2025
There's an added benefit to this system: I can download the Week 43 review.md file and copy/paste notes; and if ported to a different system or looked up in Notepad later, I'll see the written notes as opposed to seeing ![[daily note]].
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