Personal FOAM Example

This repository contains an example demonstration of how I am personally using the FOAM VSCode extension for Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS). As such this will be a very opinionated and probably random/chaotic structure and MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYBODY. It is loosely based around the Zettelkasten and Digital Garden PKMSs with a couple dashes of Mental Palace concepts sprinkled here and there. Going through this process of developing examples of and researching different PKMSs

Typical Note/Research Process

1. Start a new year planner with the yearly-planner template
2. Start a new month planner with the monthly-planner template
3. Every week I create a new file to track and save my random thoughts and link collections

If I keep returning to a topic then I will create a guide for it and either link to all of the daily/weekly notes with my previous research or I will copy/paste that info into the guide.

Topics To Expand Upon

• Discuss typical process further in [[_personal-note-system]]
• note type set in the yaml with the templates is mostly used for coloring nodes in the graph (see settings.json and [[foam-note-types]])
• review foam templates in .foam/templates: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/user/features/note-templates#filepath-attribute
  • use common vscode snippets: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets#_variables
• discuss snippets added and why
• TODO Highlighting in [[todo-tree-highlighting]]
• Finish intro topics
  • Foam overview
  • Advanced Foam?
  • Overall layout

Other Foam Examples

I have created repos with example FOAM structures using various existing knowledge management systems for you to check out and possibly adopt/integrate into your own workflow:

• Personal FOAM Structure
• FOAM with P.A.R.A.
• FOAM with Zettelkasten
• FOAM with Johnny Decimal
• FOAM with Decimal-Cutter
• FOAM for Worldbuilding