warning: if youre new to this, or not, you can easily spend 5, 10, more hours tinkering with a system like this. I was proud of this setup when I first made it, but 2+ years later, while I do my parts work ~daily, I can tell you I make use of these notes and this system maybe once/month.
In 10 hours you could meet and help 20 parts, taking notes on paper, or you could meet zero parts and setup a system like this.
You and your parts are organic / analogue systems. The best digital tool for building organic relationships: calendar.
A table of parts! Each entry links to a note.
One part = One note
While Evernote and Mac notes etc. are great for saving gifs & websites, your notes can get locked in (anyone else still recovering from Evernote's "upgrade" in 2020 😩). Plain text or 'markdown' files will be around in the year 2140 (and you can still add images or other attachments if you like).
Obsidian is free, cross-platform, and awesome. In some ways we're going back in time, using plain text, and storing files directly on your device. But with plugins you can make it do anything.
Notice I put #myparts and age:: 9 at the top of the note above... This is data that Obsidian can use to organize your notes (even though the note itself is just a text file on your computer)
Make an automatically updating index
You could just stop at the first step, and find these notes later using the built in tag pane:
Built-in Tag Pane
But wouldn't a pretty list be better? 😁 To make a simple list of all notes with that tag:
```query
#myparts
Result:
Simple embedded query
- But wouldn't an 🦄 *EVEN PRETTIER*🌺 list be ***MORE** BETTER*? 🤩
- Download the Dataview plugin
- Make a note and type in
```markdown
```dataview
Table
age as "Age"
from #myparts
Sort age
Result:
Thats it!