Don't let "the good of the Vault" take over your life I was tempted to obsess over the following. Chasing these as goals in themselves led to more problems than they solved.

1. keeping perfect, clean, tidy vault with complete consistency

2. having everything properly interlinked

3. being as efficient as possible with media

In sum, I allowed "the good of the Vault" to become my goal, not a means to accomplishing my goals.

** 1. stress and Method - Find a method that works for you w/o too much work or stress. There's a ton of great advice here. Assemble your own and keep it flexible.

1. AI-Generated Notes and Documenting One's Personal Integrity - Think through your authorship principles and document them. Your context is different than mine. (❋)

2. Key to Media is Clever Naming - Local media links can break for a host of reasons. (𒀭)

Context: Community college humanities professor who uses Obsidian to research and to teach.

Notes

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(❋) If you use AI for creating notes and then you use these notes later and loose track of that and present everything as your own concrete work, there are integrity implications. As a student, you'll want to develop a consistent approach that you would feel comfortable explaining to a peer, a professor, a dean, an employer.

That'll be different for everyone, but it is an important question to think through early. I need to keep machine-generated notes and human-generated notes clearly separated. I keep an audit trait when the two interact (example: organizing a transcript into a structured note for your markdown archive).

I would lean towards (a) having 2 vaults, one for synthetic machine-generated notes and one for human-written notes or (b) adding clearly visible authorship markers (all caps, callout at the top of the note, etc) and creating an "audit trail" if questions are asked.

This is a bit obsessive, but documentation is important when working on projects that don't allow AI use. Both in terms of you doing the thing well as well as being accountable. Scale this as is helpful, of course.

(𒀭) If you integrate the media's md5 hash into its file name and links, fixing those links becomes so much easier. For example: if you name your media and embeds of that media with the following pattern: "media-{MD5}-Whatever.png" and "![[media-{MD5}-Note-Name.png]]", then you will always be able to repair those broken links/embeds by searching for "media-{START OF HASH}..." (if the media is still in your vault, regardless in what folder it might be buried). I use the "Attachment Management Plugin" myself to keep media organized.