## Highlights the only way to organize your folders in obsidian is your way ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j604hsyzj39xapf3gjdkabwy)) --- you want to folder title to be as fuzzy as the type of stuff that it holds on to ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j604kkkr7hzw3p78xjej37va)) --- if we're dealing with projects we can have a folder title called projects if we're dealing with efforts that folder title is called efforts but when we're dealing with ideas and knowledge it's so fuzzy and ambiguous it can fall under all sorts of categorizations I'm going to argue that you want a folder that is equally fuzzy ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j604nfn9de227km839r3g3w7)) --- I want to show you my personal and customized idea verse where I have I think over like 7,000 notes now but what you'll see is I flattened the structure of Atlas so I have more folders and I'm encouraging absolutely nobody to do this but I like it and I made it my own I followed the advice of this video and I worked from the bottom up over time over years and came to this formula ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605d50e1g71rvqz274gnr87)) --- what I did is I figured out that all those knowledgy bits and idea bits and thought bits I can have as part of my Atlas and they really only fall under three different categories Dots Dots is the great catch-all folder do you like Atomic notes do you like Evergreen notes all those notes go into dots I don't even have to think about what they are what they categorize under it's just dots they're just little dots in the sky that I need to connect and when I connect them I'm linking my thinking that's where the magic happens ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605dsb8mvv7rczk7tbacjph)) --- now we need a place for all those maps that map out the content we have in our systems so I have a folder on maps ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605e8qqt3m1b7xrf09j5rcg)) --- last there are works I like to think of these as Works in progress these are things I'm working towards they're not really an idea note or a knowledge note and they're not really a map they're something with an intention of sharing ing ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605egzj2g4dmtaja5111dqa)) --- sources used to be an atlas but I took it out to recognize that it is part of this incoming stuff so along with having an ad folder for all the new notes I'm creating I also want a sources folder for all the new sources that I'm capturing and adding to my note system ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605fh33wznavms2s9kc8v2m)) --- if I toggle calendar notes I'm going to be able to see all of my daily notes in Reverse chronological order so the newest are going to sort on top ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605jt0frbks53bhcth8ya11)) --- all the previous years are just tucked away in a sub folder called years ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605jx1jv27nj7vn9bxbqbmx)) --- next let's go to effort so these things that we want to do or actions we want to take projects that we have I call these efforts and there are four levels of intensity efforts that are turned on efforts that are ongoing efforts that are simmering and efforts that are sleeping ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605mxq6mpf4gzy30bs6qbf4)) --- so while efforts is only including all the efforts that I'm currently working on effort notes has all those random notes you know make sure to do this have you thought about this how it could relate to that and how that could potentially be an important part of your effort so all the related effort notes I've actually pulled out into their own folder at the base level ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605nx60hgv5vg31av03s06g)) --- my most important notes a quick link to the note that has all my maps and a quick home note for me as well ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605phkrq07g119750362261)) --- don't copy me just because I'm doing it I built from the bottom up to get to this point what you should do is start with no folders at all work from the bottom up and find your own way ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j605qgtpsjycypgft7j5n08e)) ---