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How many vaults do you have, and what are they for?

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[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

One huge vault! Handles all my:

  • Notes about clients for my work
  • Dungeon master plots and notes
  • Jokes
  • Articles/books I'm writing
  • Funny life stories I want to remember
  • Recipes
  • Vision boards for decorating/gardening
  • Notes about books I've read
  • Dream journal
  • Therapy Journal
  • Facts to remember: earring gauges, door codes for work, id numbers, etc

I use syncthing to keep them synced between phone and desktop. But realistically I only ever really use the phone

[–] tiberius@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Do you have issues with the same term colliding with each other like a goblin from campaign 1 being confused with a different goblin from campaign 2. Each campaign goblin is different due to different attacks and traits.

[–] tiberius@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

Seven. One is for my personal notes. The other 6 is for various TTRPG campaigns.

[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 5 points 3 days ago

One per universe. Of course I play ttrpgs.

[–] bratorange@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

One. University, organizing my life and work.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

3 at the moment.

  • Work notes
  • D&D Games
  • My hobbies and whatnot

One vault keeps my list of games to play, things to read, etc. for later. I have it set up a particular way for quick and easy entry with the Meta Bind plugin, and DataView for easy listing of everything (each piece of media to consume is a separate note with tags according to things like genre, subject matter, etc. and DataView sorts on those). This gets a whole vault to itself because of how every piece of media is a separate note: not much information in one one; when I usually have one note with a lot of stuff in it. This would absolutely clog any other vault. It also gets a whole vault to itself because I have no need for DataView or Meta Bind at the moment in my other vaults. My other vaults are plugin-free.

I also have a vault for storing notes on my personal creative projects, whether it be a long-abandoned attempt at planning a TTRPG campaign or a video game.

One for academic notes. I also have a separate math vault that did not end up getting very far, intended to help me review a bunch of math I already learned (and maybe to one day share to help teach others), maybe I'll pick it up again.

Finally, I have a sort of catch-all vault for everything else in my life I might want in Obsidian. This is my most frequently used. It's where my recipes live, where information about myself I should probably know about myself but often forget lives (like the exact day I moved into a different house), where I keep track of knitting patterns and my progress on them…

This is not how you are "supposed" to do it, I always see advice to keep everything in one vault, but this is what works for me.

Thanks for posting this question!

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

I’ve had a few. I have one to sync with my Pocket notes that I give tags. I use one for my general notes. I’ve used one as a research space for a podcast, and I plan to start one soon to do world building for my TTRPG and fiction settings

[–] wintertag@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

3 Vaults:

  • my personal vault with daily notes, book notes, recipes, notes about current special interests
  • work notes with cli commands, code snippets, project notes
  • a shared vault with my husband with notes about travel plans and shared hobbies