A purple rock holding down a map

Maps of Content, or MOCs in Obsidian lingo are just notes that built around a collection of links to other notes with some sort of commonality. You can make them manually be just creating links by hand when you want to add a note to a collection. You can also create them automatically using a few plugins.

Folder Based

If you keep your notes in folders, you can use two plugins, Folder Note and Waypoint to create a MOC of all the notes in that folder and its subfolders.

  1. Just download and turn on both plugins
  2. Create a note within the folder with the exact name of the folder
  3. Add the following text to the that note %%Waypoint%%
  4. For any subfolders, add a note within the subfolder with the same name as the subfolder.
  5. Add the following text to that note %%Landmark%%

This will create real markdown links to the notes in the main and subfolders. Unlike MOCs generated with DataView, You can print and copy the text from Waypoint notes into other applications.

Because folders are binary, a file is either in a folder or it is not. If you want to add a note to a Waypoint based MOC, nothing is stopping you from manually creating the note. You can even combine a Waypoint note with the second type of note, the DataView MOC.

Tag Based

If you note organizational structure is tag based, you can create MOCs based on a simple DataView query. First, install and enable Dataview. It doesn’t matter where in your vault that you place Dataview based MOCs. I have a folder call zz-Meta where all mine live. Use the following query to create a MOC based on a tag:


LIST

FROM #tag_name

SORT file.ctime DESC

Of course, nothing prevents you from manually adding notes to this MOC either.

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