LATCH method

Information may be infinite, however… the organization of information is finite as it can only be organized by LATCH: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, or Hierarchy. I've tried a thousand times to find other ways to organize, but I always end up using one of these five.
— Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety

LATCH (Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy) is a 5-faceted approach by Richard Saul Wurman to categorizing notes so they are easy to find. Here's the Obsidian features that help with each facet:

• Location
  • An example is a ride share app, they only show you options relevant to your pickup and drop-off locations, not the whole city.
  • In Obsidian: links, metadata
• Alphabet
  • What you label an object is key when thinking about alphabetical sorting. "Delicious Italian Lasagna" is hard to find in the D's.
  • In Obsidian: folders, note titles
• Time
  • Most social media organizes posts this way, newest first.
  • In Obsidian: links, metadata
• Category
  • Department stores are a good example, where items are put into categories like "Women" and "Home".
  • In Obsidian: links, metadata, tags
• Hierarchy, ranking information in order by a trait like size or popularity.
  • In Obsidian: metadata, links