After reading this post on how to organize people in Obsidian, I finally started doing it myself.
Immediately I was faced with a new problem: how do I organize locations? I could think of two ways to deal with it from the top of my head:
- Each location has its own note, which is then cross-linked. So
departmentwould be linked tocompanywhich would be linked to thecitywhere it is located. - Hierarchy inside a few notes. This would look like
[[country#subregion#city#company#department]]
The second option would result in fewer scattered notes, but I’m unsure if that is actually desirable.
What system do you have?
My thought is to use separate notes for each. Then link to the parent in a dedicated field of the frontmatter (which will be nicely formatted as a link if you’re on 1.4). In each location that might have sub-locations, use a dataview query to list all of its immediate children. There might even be a way with dataviewjs to list all of the people in a given region by traversing the “tree” of successive links.