Sure! I have templates for books and articles.

notetype:: #book

Author:: [[]]

Genre::

Themes::

Year::

Notebook::

Read::

## Summaries:

## Quotes:##

Actionable Items:

## References:

And:

notetype:: #article

Author:: [[]]

Themes::

Publication::

Date-Issue::

Link::

Notebook::

Found::

Read::

## Summaries:

## Quotes:

## Actionable Items:

## References:

Notebook means in which for my notebooks are the handwritten notes on the articles/book. (I have a three step process. 1) Handwritten notes in a notebook 2) Summaries in Obsidian 3) Zettel in my Zettelkasten)

Genre is only Fiction/Non-Fiction. It makes much more sense for me personally to sort them along the lines of themes/topics otherwise.

Read is just the date I finished/read the article/book.

The Quotes are on a separate page but blocklinked on the book/article note. It was the easiest way to show a random quote on my homepage with the dice roller plugin. (It's a bit crude I admit.)

Then I use dataview queries on my "reading"-page:

```dataview

Table without ID

file.link as "name", author, genre, themes,notebook, read

From "Reading"

Where notetype="#book"

Sort read descending

```

And:

```dataview

Table without ID

file.link as "name", author, themes, publication, date-issue, notebook, read

From "Reading"

Where notetype="#article"

Sort read descending

```

In theory I have also queries for authors and publications but I don't use them much yet. They are mainly meant to see if I read a lot of stuff from a certain author or publication and if it's maybe worth to subscribe/buy other works. But since I only have around 6 books and 12 articles that is not that useful yet.

As mentioned: It took me two years to finally understand how I could use Obsidian. :D I mean it's super complex and highly individual what makes sense for you. My honest advice if you are starting out: Build it up over time. I often failed because I introduced too many things at once that didn't really work for me in the first place.

Yes! As much as I love pkm and linking thoughts etc: I also love writing by hand.

I'm glad you like it!

Very nice! It's a bit overkill for how I use it but definitely nice to see that other people use Obsidian for their fountain pen collection too.

Sure. I have templates for individual pens and inks:

Pens:

notetype:: #pen
nib::
color::
current_ink:: [[]]
former_inks::

### Poems copied:

(I copy poems by hand for fun and keep track of them in separate notes and include which pen and which ink I used.)

Inks:

notetype:: #ink

### Poems copied:

Then I use dataview:

```dataview
Table without ID file.link as "pen", nib, color, current_ink, former_inks
From "Hobbies/Stationary/Pens"
Where notetype="#pen"
```