How I use Obsidian at work
Obisidian is my favorite note-taking tool, I use it for both personal stuff and work stuff. Before Obsidian I had my work notes on one big .txt file, which worked but was messy. Now that I use Obsidian I feel organized and can actually find stuff I've documented before. Here's my method 🪨
Templates
I use templates plugin for 2 things: daily notes and ticket notes. Daily note is something I create every morning, and fill it during the day as relevant stuff comes in. Ticket note is something I create for every Jira ticket I create (unless it's really quick and easy fix), and fill it with notes relevant to the ticket.
Daily template
#daily | 📅 {{time}}
← [[]] | [[]] →
# {{date}}
## Notes
## Must do
## Nice to do
## Tickets
## Meetings
## Data dump
## TLDR
There's my template, now let's go through what each section is for
#daily- just a hashtag for coloring the Obsidian graph view📅 {{time}}- I use the time placeholder for day of the week, e.g. Tuesday← [[]] | [[]] →- Placeholders for previous and next day backlinks. Backlinks are like a shortcut to another page, one of the biggest reasons I love Obsidian (you don't have to stress about organizing files in a tree structure)# {{date}}- Title of the page, self-explanatory## Notes- Relevant miscellaneous notes about the day## Must do- First thing in the morning I write my primary goals here, usually tickets etc.## Nice to do- Second thing in the morning I write my secondary goals here. Having important and not-so-important tasks separated is really helpful. I'm most productive in the morning, so that's when I tackle the important stuff. After that I can move to this list if I still have time and energy## Tickets- Backlinks to different ticket notes I've worked during the day## Meetings- Notes about the meetings of the day, if I have some## Data dump- This is important for me. Basically it's a message for me for the next day. Relevant information, if I have to remember something or if I have to stop working when I'm in a middle of something## TLDR- TLDR on what I worked on during the day. Helps with daily's, tho I forget to fill this pretty often.
Here's an example of what my daily note might look like at the end of the day:
Ticket template
This one's much simpler. In fact it only has 2 rows:
🌍 https://jira.workdomain.com/browse/{{title}}
# {{title}}
The note I create has the same name as the Jira ticket, so the link gets generated automatically. After that I usually add brief description of the ticket in parentheses (as seen in daily note example) so it's easier to find.
Then I just write stuff related to the ticket on that note, usually separated by date (which also works as a backling to the daily note). Sometimes it's 0 rows, sometimes it's 10 rows and sometimes it's hundreds of rows. Here's an example of a finished ticket note.
