How To Use Obsidian: The MOST USEFUL Feature You're Not Using Right
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Overview
01:41 Setting Up Attachments in Obsidian
04:21 Organizing Attachments Efficiently
09:29 Advanced Attachment Management Techniques
14:55 Practical Examples and Use Cases
21:18 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Mastering Attachments in Obsidian: Boost Your Personal Knowledge Database and Productivity
Join us as we dive into one of Obsidian's most essential and simple features: attachments! Learn how to incorporate PDFs, images, and more into your notes effortlessly, and discover a unique method to organize your entire computer. Whether you're a creative thinker or an organized Type A individual, this tutorial will show you how to effectively use attachments to enhance your personal knowledge database. From setting default locations for new attachments to leveraging meta data for better file management, we cover it all. Perfect for creators, entrepreneurs, and anyone keen on improving their productivity!
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In my case, I often have screenshots etc in the attachments folder, but for important files that live on my file system (outside the vault) I often refer to them in a note and keep them outside the vault.
Drag a file into Obsidian while pressing Option (on Mac) to create a link without adding it to the attachment folder. [A file](file:///path/to/A%20file.pdf) You can even drag in multiple files at a time.
You can also use angle brackets to avoid escaping spaces: [Another file]()
Relative paths (e.g., ~/path/to/file) don't work (as of 2024-05-27), and you'll need to start from the root directory. That's a disadvantage because it means that external paths don't work if you sync between devices, even if you keep the same folder structure.
Don't forget the `file:///` to start with. You can get the path using the terminal, or with pressing Option when right clicking the file in Finder.
This is fantastic!
@SocratesBastardSon you'll want to read this.
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Thanks! It's fun for me to talk about, and folks seem to enjoy it. 🙏
Thanks. This is the way I use images, but nice to see how multiple paths can be made.
Can it work similarly for PDFs, but outside the Vault?
I have been collecting (and using) academic and research papers for over 30 years and have about 20 Gb of files. I would use any file perhaps a number of times for different papers I am writing, but I don't want my Vault to end up as 20 Gb as my research filling system is well honed. Can links reach outside the Vault?
@dagwould, there's a reply in here from @user-hu9eg7ck9b and he lays out exactly what you're asking about. Good question!
Great video. I would like to know if there is a way to do the following: put properties in the file itself that is taken to Obsidian, as it does not seem to work, for this I would have to open a note and embed the file.
Obsidian is a lightweight wrapper around markdown files, essentially. It's not going to edit the attachments; only show them in the note. To change the file itself (by adding properties to it), it's now trying to be an operating system; which it isn't. Does that make sense?
Thank you for sharing ideas to create knowledge gems for our future selves to discover.
Thank YOU for watching! The present me appreciates it.
Great video and subject. I have been handling attachments this way for a while and for the same reasons you mention. Primarily because I know many of my attachments will be re-used in other notes. So, I want them in a generic location rather than buried down inside of another subject or folder that may or may not be related to the current subject/note I am working on. I appreciate you bringing visibility to this, becsaue I felt like I was kind of rowing upstream or working backwards doing it this way. Thought I was missing something somewhere that would have made the system for handling attachments simpler.
It's kind of clunky, but it works, right?
I could also build a nether portal right?
Yep. You can call it whatever you like and set it as the default location for new stuff.
Thanks for sharing. I love obsidian but I find it enoying that files and images become duplicates on my computer. Every time a file is added to the vault it is a copy of a file. From what I understand that would mean that my stoage space will double as fast be full. For Images I use the Imgur plugin mostly. The risk is that if something happens to the website it can all be gone.
You're right; when it goes into your vault it gets copied in. Then I go through my downloads folder and delete stuff I know is now living in my vault.
Interesting and useful content, thank you. In my early Obsidian days I created a resources folded for attachments and 'dumped' stuff in there. Is there a reasonable way to now clear out the dross, i.e., unreferenced and orphaned attachments? I do like tidy! 🙄
Thanks for watching! Not sure if there's a way to do that the easy way...
It's definitely interesting. There are apps to store different kinds of attachments, for example epubs, which allow you to use tags, etc, but the freedom of free form notes ... definitely to be considered.
Right? This has so much potential to it.
Why not insert the png into an .md file and then embed/transclude from the .md?
That's the fun part about Obsidian; there are multiple ways to get the job done.