The next “layer,” if you will, was to go back through and insert headings. If I never touched these notes again, I’d still be able to find what I need because they’re hashtagged well. This flags notes I made of vocabulary words or something else like that, that I highlighted because I wanted to remember to look it up later. (I made heavy use of hashtags as I was initially going through my notes because it makes it easy for me to find “groups” of notes to start building links between them.) One of the hashtags I used, in addition to more topical kinds of things, is #lookup. The only things I did with these when first importing them was to dump them all in a folder for “book notes,” make sure the titles were correct (My titles for these read like: “Kbknotes - Title of the Book Here”), and add hashtags at the end of each note.
So I start out with a single note for each book. Others I opened in Amazon’s notebook reader, and copied/pasted, one book at a time. Some of them I already had in Evernote, then Joplin, so they were just carried over as existing notes. A whole slew of old Kindle notes were exported/imported. The majority of my book notes were Kindle highlights, so I’ll just use those as my use case. And I thought it might be helpful to break down my process for other newbies who are wondering where to get started and how to go from what they currently have to something more usable. I’m still a relative newbie – I’ve only been with Obsidian for a few weeks – but I have thousands of notes and have been working my way through a lot of existing book notes.
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