[Obsidian 0003] Changing my Zettelkasten note title format

The ID in front isn't all that necessary.

Previously, I have been using the tried and true method of creating notes in the Zettelkasten format [22093011111] Note title. However, I also recently started using the projects plugin to manage my blog and I found that the ID while useful for understanding a chronology they get in the way when looking at data since using the title to sort loses value with the date prefixed in front of it..

However, I still definitely want to keep the ID because it allows me to have notes that share the same title. I don't immediately have to either come up with a new title or decide if they fit in the same note--they can co-exist until it’s maintenance time.

The solution I came up with is to move the ID in the end and as an unexpected bonus I can now add an emoji in front of the note title without making it seem like a clustermuck. Not all notes are created equal and it's important to differentiate between note types. and the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea of adding an emoji in front of the note. I originally was only using emojis for my folder names.

I've also realized that note chronology isn't as important as it seems when you have a bajillion and one notes. It's good to know when the note was created, but it's not essentially to have them ordered by creation date making the need for the date-id in front unimportant. This supports my idea of moving the id to the end of the note and allowing me to prepend emojis in front to allow me to quickly identify them. I have started using emojis for reoccurring note types such as my scaffolding note type, which I talked about in this week’s vault snapshot. This is the format for my new scaffolding notes: ⚛️ Scaffolding (22093011111).

I stumbled across the plugin Pipe Tricks. which would've enhanced the aesthetic of putting the Zettelkasten ID (ZKID) in the back of the note, but it's no longer working as of the Obsidian v1.0.3. One of the functions was it allowed you to short hand hiding the parentheses () at the back so it would be hidden during normal viewing.

I’ll update old note titles as I come across them, but I don't think it's necessary to go out of my way to rename them especially since they already have the proper metadata to allow dataview to query them. This is more for visual appeal and less for functionality.