While You’re Busy Ditching Folders, I’m Using them More
Welcome to a simple, future-proof method for organising your plain text files in apps like Obsidian
Mem is inviting us to “Say goodbye to folders,” and Napkin wants to liberate us from them. With good reason — those babies can work magic!
Even in the plain text (or Markdown) arena, apps like Workflowy and Logseq strongly imply that folders are unnecessary. Tags and links are all you need, right?
Well, they may be all you need, and if so, I’m happy for you.
As for me, I’m finding a greater measure of digital liberation by actually using folders more. The specifics of what follows relate to the way I use Obsidian, but the principles can apply to any plain text system.
How Many Folders In Your Vault? Tell Me If You Dare
You’d be thoroughly gobsmacked if I told you how many folders and files live in my Obsidian vault. That is, until I mention that I’m formatting the KJV Bible, ready for transcluding separate verses into any app with the power to embed one file within another.
So. We won’t count those.
