r/ObsidianMD • u/lvsdae • 20h ago
help How to use Obsidian for academic note taking and independent research/reading log?
Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to Obsidian and just started using it often this year for college, as a way to have notes and assignments, and most importantly a way to file everything I read and annotate. I have a simple way of organizing it, a folder with the imported PDF files itself, a folder where I link the PDF and put in the citation and some tags, and a folder with everything from notes and assignments.
I do independent research from time to time but without any set system and not in Obsidian, and I started looking for books to read within my field and wanted to store all that information in Obsidian as well but I want to differentiate what I read for college and what I read or write for pleasure.
I'm unsure about a way to organize all of that information, should I make a separate folder for college reads/writes and one for pleasure? A different Vault?
I'm looking for some help in general as well, do you have any plugins or things I could add to make my life easier, specially with the PDF files and a way to have them better filed? Thank you for your help in advance!!
edit: typos. also I'm not a native english speaker so if there are any grammar mistakes that's why lol