Catalogs aren’t perfectly fluid, as they reside in a static tree structure like folders, so MOCs would still be useful for creating one-off groups of objects, or jumping-off points outside the Catalog structure. While for myself, Catalogs would take over much of the value MOCs currently have, they wouldn’t completely replace them.
In fact, I think Catalogs simply marry and extend the existing attempts for automated mapping and management (Zootelkeeper and Folder Note), raising them to the era of linking and fluidity. In both cases, a Catalog would greatly help. Therefore, while content-level (tags) and Note-level (MOC) cataloguing exists, there’s friction when either rapidly building connections between many things (manually editing many MOC’s), or recalling notes or content at a context-level (filtering through a long list of tags).
Tags: Content-level catatloging that suffers from growing pains.Zoottelkeeper: Automates MOC’s, but for one folder only.MOC’s: Catalogs in Notes, but must be manually created.In brief, existing core features and plug-ins provide Note-level cataloging capabilities, which fit the desire for Markdown-central flexibility, but have some squeeze points (or friction): I realize the ideas here aren’t new to the Obsidian Ecosystem, so let me expound on where I think this fits in and what needs it addresses: On the file-level, Catalogs are also simply automatically-updated MOCs which are registered by the plugin as Catalog Notes, which act as spaces of metacognition on the Catalog itself, and store the auto-updating block of Notes and Sub-Catalogs contained. These Catalogs act partially like folders, in that they can be navigated using their own tree-style navigation pane, however Notes and files (objects) can be located in any number of them. With this in mind, I propose a plugin that introduces Catalogs to the Obsidian ecosystem. While looking very similar to folders, these programs’ catalog systems allow for dynamic aggregation of resources across domains, and centralization of resources in multiple ways to provide different ways of viewing the same information.
#XYPLORER STUDENT WINDOWS#
To remedy this, Zotero, GMail, XYPlorer, and Windows all got something right: adopting a system that can house objects in multiple “places” at the same time. Static folders aren’t conducive to organizing content and knowledge that spans multiple topics, nor do they foster interconnectivity. While wishfully, I would have loved to make this plugin for Obsidian October, neither my programming skills or availability as a grad student are up to the task of making this happen, so I present it to the community in the hope that it inspires some productive discourse!
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