// the find
kepano/kepano-obsidian
My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
A personal Obsidian vault template from kepano (Steph Ango, Obsidian's CEO) showing one way to structure notes: Categories, References, Daily notes, and Templates with consistent frontmatter. It's for Obsidian users who want a concrete starting structure instead of designing a PKM system from scratch.
Uses Obsidian's newer Bases feature (.base files) to add structured, filterable views on top of plain markdown — a good reference for how to combine freeform notes with database-like queries without a plugin. The Templates directory covers ~30 note types (movies, books, people, companies, trips) with consistent frontmatter, which is more useful as a copy-paste starting point than most 'PKM method' writeups. It avoids dogma — no forced Zettelkasten numbering or PARA folders, just a flat pragmatic structure, and it's backed by an external article explaining the reasoning rather than leaving you to reverse-engineer intent from file names.
This isn't code — there's no plugin logic or automation, so there's nothing to extend or test, just folders and config you fork. It leans on Bases, a relatively new and still-evolving Obsidian feature, so the template can go stale or break as that feature changes. There's no migration guidance for anyone with an existing vault; it only works cleanly as a from-scratch start. And the category list (Board games, Products, Podcast episodes) is kepano's actual personal taxonomy, not a general-purpose schema — most adopters will spend more time deleting and renaming folders than using it as-is.