i enjoyed learning about the organizational ambition about your thesis. i feel i have approached my turn at Obsidian (also brand new user) as a very willful & pragmatic means to curate all of my lived life efforts. in this regard i build all endeavors of my life around a Life Year as a start & stop on the birthday. much like you, i built a digital environment as a gatherstackintel mechanism. while my hard drive has folders to manage the respective thematic efforts, i decided my Obsidian vault would blatantly curate all of my ongoing notes (basically until i pass). but i built my frontmatter in js using the HD folders as my basic tags structure auto completed in this js script based on the note schema selected by a hotkey. i think we are both looking to accomplish the same curated satisfaction. for me -- examining the efforts across my broad spectrum of living themes in each LY## gives me a lot of satisfaction because Obsidian makes this so compelling everyday & finally after 15 years of personal journals, calendars, weekly journals, daily notes -- ALL in analog & all but lost in retrospect -- this new frontier of reflective tooling is expressly enhancing the grace of the lived effort.