Decided to try obsidian for at least the first semester. People say it's "better for visualizing stuff" and quite honestly I really like the canvas functionality. Will have to figure out its quirks but it seems to be relatively easy to go around.
When it comes to organization of the notes, I opted to do the following.
- Each course is a folder in the vault, since I like to interconnect each subject (easier to make links in my brain)
- Small caveat - there are some folders which aren't course-related, but rather university life related
- Each lecture has its own notes as a separate file, unless 2 or more lectures cover the same exact topic, in which case the same file will be used
Unfortunately, it would be difficult to export my Joplin notes from last year without spending a shit ton of time on it, so the opportunity to link to older notes is gone, but I would assume that I know the concepts at hand anyway. If I don't know a simple concept, about which I know I have notes in Joplin, I will rewrite the whole thing.