How to use the Obsidian Dataview plugin
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- What even IS Obsidian Dataview? Dataview has quickly become one of the most popular plugins for Obsidian, but how do you actually use it? Whether you're a non-programmer or an expert coder, here's how to use the Obsidian Dataview plugin and some common use cases for it.
Obsidian Dataview docs: blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidi...
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Dataview installation and setup
1:49 Step 1 - Annotate notes
3:29 Step 2 - Querying notes
5:07 Lists in Dataview
6:48 Tables in Dataview
12:46 Tasks in Dataview
14:14 Calendars in Dataview
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YES! Thank you for being the first person to explain dataview in a video that is not an hour long! Yet you covered all of the basic functions.
Thank you so much! :) I totally think I could talk about Dataview for an hour, but really tried to compress it. Thanks for appreciating that.
@obs81 Thanks, you're sweet! Glad I could help!
It cracks me up that the Quick Add plug-in video is an hour long
@@Justgoodvids Lol, yeah I feel like it's kind of like when people learn vim: the initial learning curve is so massive that break-even point of time saved is pretty far off.
Hey folks! The themes I used in this video is are Everforest (dark mode one) and Primary (light mode) with no custom CSS. :)
This is sharp, concise, to the point, and cuts all the redundant non-informative "info". Instead of pressing the fast-forward button to find some parts of interest (and often being disappointed that there is none), I found myself pressing pause and rewind to absorb it all. Love your style!!!!
Thank you so much! That was exactly what I was going for. Love hearing that. Thanks, Koen!
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This was fantastic. New to Obsidian and Dataview sounds amazing. Thanks for a concise, useful explanation of the main features!
Happy to hear that! Thank you, Tim!
Hello fellow PTYA'er! I have been bingeing your Obsidian videos all day. You're a great teacher. These videos are so clear and succinct. It's making my move from Roam to Obsidian painless. TY
Hi! Welcome! I'm really happy to help with your migration -- it's no joke moving notes from one app to another. LOTS of reformatting. I hope it's a while before I do it again! :D
Hi, I'm new to Obsidian and I've come across to your channel. Your videos on Obsidian are really helpful for me as a beginner. It's a step by step, crystal clear explanation on process & progress for me as a beginner. It really is useful as I find other videos kind of overwhelming for me. I'm like, doing a marathon, watching your videos, and then watching it again while toggled on the Obsidian. I'll binged watch all your videos other than Obsidian. I'm a new fan of yours. Thank you for the informative videos 😊
I was struggling with dataview yesterday and I know this video is going to help me tremendously when I watch it tonight. Thank you so much Nicole!
Oh yay!! Don't give up. Dataview can be really daunting, but once you get an example working, then it's just a matter of changing it slightly. At least, that's been my experience! :)
Your videos are my go-to for helping to understand Obsidian. Extremely helpful - nicely paced and clearly explained. Thank you!
This is the best dataview explanation for beginners that I've seen. The examples you provided are perfect, starting from very basic and then building on that. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Kris! It makes me happy to hear that. :)
there's so much on your channel to learn from. I'm new to obsidian and your channel has gotten me so excited about this whole journey.
thank you thank you
Yay! Happy to hear that, and welcome to the Obsidian community! I hope it's as useful to you as it has been to me.
Your videos make my brain swim in a good way!
I was looking at dataview yesterday for aggregating my planned encounters in D&D 5e. I think I was using it wrong, trying to aggregate content blocks of encounters (1 to many in a single file). Watching this video, it seems like dataview would work way better if I made a file per encounter. This would actually make my module vault cleaner, as I would likely put those planned encounters in an Encounters folder at the top and transclude where needed, allowing me to better structure their data.
Yeah, that sounds like a better approach! Great use for dataview. I'm glad it was in a good way that I made your brain swim... :D
I'll be replaying this video ALOT. Thank you for that quick demo!
Hi Nicole! What an excellent video - thank you! I’ve been looking vaguely at Dataview for a little while and it seemed obscure and complex, but this explainer was perfect. You cover each step clearly and concisely, in an order that makes sense, and your examples (including building queries by refining your output) are brilliant. I am just about to like and subscribe, and looking forward to working my way through your back-catalogue!
Hi Graham! Thanks for the comment! Really happy that this video helped. Dataview totally IS obscure and complex-- I thought so too when I first got into it! Welcome to the channel. :)
I've struggled to turn official documentation into usable results. I really needed this. Thank you ❤
I've been snooping on your channel and I just want to say thanks so much for your very clear videos :)
Haha! Snoop away! Happy you like the videos. :)
This is an excellent video Nicole, thanks so much for the clear and thorough (yet not overwhelming) tutorial.
I am a newbie who started using obsidian just a couple of days ago. The video you made is really great! I have watched a lot of CZcams videos, but yours is compact and very informative. Thank you so much.
Welcome to the Obsidian community! Happy to have you here, and even happier to know that you are enjoying my videos. Thanks for the support, and if you have any specific questions, please feel free to leave a comment-- I often get ideas for future videos from comments. :)
Your breakdown of information is great and your persona and delivery is so approachable; I look here first. Thanks for sharing!
You're a fantastic teacher! You explain the important points clearly and at a pace that is very easy to follow. Thanks *very* much for all of your Obsidian tutorials!
Thank you so much, Jim! I'm gratified that you like my presentation style. Happy to be helpful!
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Great teaching. Love the color pallet . You’ve got me going with Obsidian after years of Notion. Keeping it local is huge.
Thank you. This is the most straightforward video I've seen on the dataview plugin! I actually GET IT!
Happy to hear you say that, Marci! Glad I could help you get it! I do think it's a daunting plugin to understand.
I really love your videos. They are easy to understand, very concise but contain advanced information.
Thank you, Hieu! The concise part is the most difficult part, and I don't always succeed, heh. Happy you are liking my videos though!
I've seen your videos on TTRPG management in Obsidian and other plugins and I went to look for a short basic intro to Dataview not really paying attention to who it was by and I was so relieved to see it was one of your videos when I clicked on it. Your videos are so helpful
Yay! Happy to hear that. Glad I came up on your feed again. TTRPGs are slowly taking over my Obsidian vault, honestly...
It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.
Hi Shamal, I appreciate that! I'm happy I could get you there. :)
Nicole, Excellent tutorial! Very concise and thorough!
This was such a helpful video Nicole. Thank you. I have already started using Dataview since watching this and am loving it, I mean loving it. Thank you.
Thanks, David! I'm really happy I could help you! :)
The distinction between hoarding data and learning from it (at timestamp 15:35) was just brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you, I'm glad you got some value out of that, Michael! :) Cheers for the support!
Absolute game-changer. Thank you!
TNice tutorials was so detailed! Great video for beginners. Thank you!
Thank you for making this. It was very helpful!
Yours are the best tutorials on Obsidian. Awesome Job!! Thank you …
Love the video. Like everyone's been saying, dataview looked helpful, but I couldn't wrap my head around how to get started. Great job on mahjong this so simple. I've watched once already, and I'll be gong through it again when I get home tonight 🙃
Thanks, Lynn! I felt the same way! It was Dataview this, Dataview that... but it took me a while to understand how to use it, and then longer to understand how I'd actually use it.
Best explanation by far for us totally new to the software, thanks for your ti man, really looking forward to learning how to make so
Again, Thank you - this has helped me SO much!
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Fantastic tutorial Nicole! Very clear & useful examples. Best vid on dataview I've come across. 👍
Thanks so much, Soti! I'm glad that was helpful for you. :)
Simplest video on dataview. Cleared my lot of doubts.
Thank you! And thanks for your feedback about what you'd like to see in this video as well - I made sure to add the dictionary and the Goodreads use cases here.
Thank you so much for this video. The only one I could find that was right to the point. Clear and concise. THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much! I am at the start of my PhD and I'm so excited to use dataview. I was struggling to figure out how to use it but this was super helpful!
So happy to hear that, Daniella! Good luck with your PhD!
Thank you for explaining this! It's exactly what I needed!
Happy to help, Janet! :) Glad you liked it!
Thank you!!! Ive been transitioning to Obsidian to Notion for it feels like the past 6 months, but Dataview was a bit tricky for me, but with tutorial has really helped me to become more confident in using it in my setup
Glad to hear it, Rob! I hope this finally gets you to make the switch! :)
Amazing! Thanks for the explanations, really great!!
Thank you so much! Perfect walkthrough for Dataview!
Glad you liked it, Justin! :)
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This is such a helpful introduction to Dataview for non-coders! Than k you so much. And THANK YOU also for zooming in close enough during the screen capture parts! I have given up on some Obsidian tutorials because it's assumed that I'm watching the video on a monitor, and the text is too tiny to read on a phone screen.
I'm really glad that I found your channel. Excellent explanations.
I'm glad you found my channel too! :) Happy it's been useful!
Great video and information! Thank you, Nicole!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, Alexandre :)
Oh my gosh. Finally. This is a perfect explanation of how to do this, Nicole. Thanks so much! Liked and subscribed!
Oh, I'm happy you liked it! Dataview's such a bear, huh? Welcome to the channel and thanks for the suport. :)
Thank you so much for this concise and tremendously helpful review! I've wanted to get into Dataview for the longest time, but having no background in programming or the like, I simply couldn't understand the written manual. You' made things look so easy and exciting. I cannot thank you enough! I can't wait to start using Dataview! In fact, I'm going to create my first dataview note right now.
YAY!! I love to hear that, Alice! How did it go?
It went very well, thanks! I took notes of the code you showed in my Obsidian, tweaked a couple of things and voila! - I've got myself a table of articles I read on a particular topic (thankfully, I've been using hashtags for a long time, and it's finally paid off!) I'll still have to go over them and insert a front matter block with a summary line into them, but now that I know what is possible with dataview, my PhD project is looking mich more achievable. Thanks so much for the info, Nicole!
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This was really helpful, thank you!
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You're welcome! It's great, isn't it? Glad I could help!
Thank you for tNice tutorials, tNice tutorials was a huge help.
This was such an informative and to the point video! Thanks a lot
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The Dataview plugin is an Obsidian game changer. Thanks for the video.
It really is!! I'm kind of surprised they haven't added it in as a core feature yet!
okay, i usually don't write comments on YT , i just watch to take my hint and leave
but omg you are soooo goood i had to stop and write you smth
pls continue
Hey, thank you so much for the encouragement! :) I appreciate it.
omg you're really good at explaining this in a way that works with my brain, thank you!
Wow, thank you so much! I'm very happy I could help! :)
This is exatcly how I'm building out my note taking system! Seeing this video a few days ago would have saved me HOURS of thinking.
Great videos. Helped me to get started with this application easily!
Thanks for your high quality videos! Like your style and found some other interesting videos from you in the sidebar. Subscribed!
Thanks, Adrian! I'm glad you're liking the videos. :)
Thank you for another great video Nicole!
I see you navigating Obsidian using keyboard shortcuts - I would love to learn that as well. Could you please take that as a subject for a future video? 😊
- how to bring up the switcher, and how to create new notes and folders by simply writing the title
-how to view notes flexibly side by side
- how to get around in Obsidian using just keystrokes.
Would love such a video - thank you again! 🙌
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Thank you Nicole this is a terrific how-to video. It was incredibly useful.
So happy to hear that, Juan! :)
This video is awesome, thank you!
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Thanks, Elendu! Glad you liked it!
This video has helped me a lot...Thanks!
Really good video. Just to the point. Excellent showcase
Glad you liked it, Pablo! :)
Thanks for a good explaining! It really helps me a lot
Thanks, glad to hear it! :)
Thank you for this! The explanations were clear and the examples were very helpful! Hoping to start using dataview soon!
Yay! Happy to hear that, Evan! I'm glad it's prompted you to try Dataview. :)
This is brilliant and so inspiring. Thank you!!
Wow! Great video! inspiring and very useful! Thank you!
Thank very much for your clear explanations!
Thanks for watching! :)
Brilliant video as always!
Hey, thank you! Btw I love your CZcams username. :D
Excellent. I learned so much. Thanks.
Happy to hear that! Thanks, Martin!
Wow exactly what I was looking for, thanks !
Glad to hear it! Good luck! :)
I've seen that has actually explained it to in a concise way!
This is so great, definitely the video I needed to really understand how to use it. Thank you.
Yay! That was the goal. Thank you for the feedback!
Super job with this. Thank you.
Thank you! Glad that was helpful. :)
This helped improve my understanding of DataView, I now have several ideas to go try out.
Yay! Happy to hear that, Bruce!
@@nicolevdh I'm looking forward to CSV as a data source soon too. My D&D are the planets, stars and DSOs
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This is an awesome explanation for a very useful topic. Thanks Nicole! Keep it up please :)
Happy you thought so! Thanks, Santiago!
Muy buen video. Gracias. Me sorprendiste con el saludo final!
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I had no idea this existed. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! Glad to bring it to your attention. Dataview is so cool.
Hi NIcole, thank you for these great videos on getting started with Obsidian. After a year in Notion I am migrating to Obsidian now and your videos have been a great help. Everything is going pretty smoothly but I need to put in a lot of work to get a decent task management system going.
PS groeten uit Noord Holland :)
Hoi Mischa! Goed om te horen dat je mijn video's leuk vindt. :) Succes met het nieuwe begin met Obsidian. Groeten uit Portugal!
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Awesome video, thanks!
Really well explained. Thanks!
Happy to hear that. Thanks for watching!
Entendí Dataview!, muchas gracias 🎉
Superbly helpful! Appreciate it! :)
Wow, thank you so much! Really happy I could help. :)
I'm so happy I found this.
I'm happy you found it too! :) I hope it helps you decide either way!
Awesome, great video!
This video was helpful and very inspiring! Thank you!
Christine, thanks so much! Happy to help. :)
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