OPENING THE VAULT
Creating a Table of Contents for Your Obsidian Vault
We all have personal preferences about how we organize our notes, files, and documents, and Obsidian users are no exception. In fact, Obsidian’s flexibility, with options for tags, links, folders, and even custom properties and metadata, means there are countless ways to sort, categorize, and order your notes.
Some prefer no folder structure whatsoever, relying on tags, links, and keywords to find the note they are looking for, often using the search or the built-in Quick Switcher plugin (ctrl+O or cmd+O). Others use deeply nested file folder structures to keep every note in a specific location (🙋♂️ guilty as charged).
Regardless of how you store your notes, though, having an overarching table of contents for your entire vault can often be helpful in finding an elusive note that isn’t coming up through searches or doesn’t seem to be in the folder you thought. It’s also a great way to get a quick overview of your vault contents.
In this article, I’ll walk through a simple two-step process to creating a table of contents for your vault that automatically updates and maintains itself. The only requirement is that you install the…
