How To Use Obsidian: The ONE THING That Took Me TOO LONG To Figure Out
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
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Unlock the true potential of your personal knowledge database with Obsidian's powerful features! Dive deep into this comprehensive tutorial that delves into creating a structured daily note routine within Obsidian.
Discover how to efficiently set up and organize your templates, use the calendar plugin for visual tracking, and employ reminders to never miss a beat. Learn how backlinks, chronological organization, and shortcuts can transform your documentation style. Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned Obsidian user, this guide reveals insights on maximizing its features, especially for those aiming to perfect their daily note strategy.
Make Obsidian your ultimate tool for a seamless and effective personal knowledge database experience!
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You’re that brave kid who was brave enough to ask the question that all the other kids wanted to ask but pretended to know the answer when actually they didn’t want to look a fool. 💪🏼
Thanks for calling me brave. 😂 I just like to ask stupid questions so we get smart answers.
Better look like a fool for 5 minutes than be a fool for the rest of your life
@@zavant The only truly stupid question is the one that remains unasked ;)
i like that it's not just a how to, but also conceptualizing the way we think about time and schedules in general 🙏
Glad that it came through in the video. I felt like too many "how to" focus on the WHAT instead of helping me understand they WHY behind it (which would help me out a lot). Thanks for letting me know that you enjoyed it. 🙏
Great simple video on Obsidian! I'd also add that Daily Notes are kind of the perfect solution for quick capture. It accommodates both fleeting thoughts, but also more sturdy notes, and all datestamped like you mentioned! I recently learned about this through the term interstitial journaling.
Good point; I use the daily note for my go-to quick grab file. I used to make a new note for everything and it just got goofy. Throwing them all into the daily note is a solid approach.
Oh my! You ready my mind! I had this exact same confusion and now everything makes sense. Thank you!!
This makes me SO HAPPY! Isn't it weird how it's so rare to hear anything about it?!
Exactly what I needed for my ADHD! :) thank you!
Ha! Happy to hear it. I appreciate you giving it a watch.
The thing about Obsidian is that people think it's too complex, when in reality it's almost *too simple.* It's just some very simple building blocks and it lets you do whatever the hell you want with them. That's what makes it the be-all end-all but also what throws people for a loop if they're used to over-restricted apps rather than the days of people physically writing stuff wherever and just making up their own systems.
Exactly! Start as stupid simple as you can, and take it from there.
Wow you are right! Your comment made me realize why it was so easy for me to set up a system in obsidian. I've been setting up systems on paper for different purposes since I was a child. I need understood people finding obsidian "for devs only" or to complicated. Now I understand that they don't have the systems building foundations I had.
THIS IS GOLD! Thanks man!
I appreciate you saying that! Thanks!
good flow and vibe. useful. thanks.
Thanks Gustavo, I appreciate it!
Hey Jonathan - This was really helpful - I've only just gotten started and didn't know where to begin. You sent me down the rabbithole and gave me a handhold that really helped me to get started. Thanks for the video - it was ultra helpful for me.
Really appreciate you saying that! If you have any questions about how it works, let me know. I'll point you to the right video about it, or it might prompt a new one.
Good job!
Thank you!
My pleasure; thanks for the comment.
Thank you for this, right now I have ignored this for the same reasons LOL Now Ill jump into it as you suggested!
It's wild right? It's in so many approaches & plug-ins but nobody talks about it. Glad this helps you figure out what in the world is going on. 🙏
Very helpful. And also cool)
Thanx!
thanks for checking it out; I appreciate it!
simple but usefull - many thanks
Happy you found it worth your time! ::high five::
Great video. I like your style and pace.
Thanks Steve; I appreciate you saying that!
I just downloaded Obsidian after seeing some people use it briefly, yours is the first video I watched on things to do with it, and I must say, an excellent first introduction, if you meant it that way or not.
Thanks =)
So happy to hear that! I try to make videos for folks who might not be coders or super familiar with computer systems. My goal is to show how much we can do without being a genius about it. 🫡
What else would you like to know about Obsidian? I'm always looking to share cool stuff I find.
Great article on Obsidian.
I'm interested in the AI aspect of Obsidian, that is being able to scan, condense, and make e an integrated sense of the information collected within Obsidean. I'm looking from the perspective that the AI is locally based on my pc. To avoid inadvertent leaking of information back through an AI cloud service.
Talk about integrating and using Excalbrain to make a visual graphic sense of the information in your Obsidian database.
An eternal problem is how to integrate notes from a calander versus a loose leaf journal perspective. Is it possible to seamlessly or interchangeably flip between these two modes within Obsidean.
I have been using The Journal now for maybe a decade. And considering Obsidean given its ability to use AI and provide The Brain like visual note maps.
The Journal (RM David software) had been bullet proof in not corrupting or losing data out had an SQL lite back end. Perhaps discuss the robustness of the Obsidean database for notes pictures and diagrams.
Lastly, talk about the search result strength of Obsidean. One of the weaknesses of The Journal is that it can't learn or apply importance weighting to repeated same search.
Those are great topics; thanks for the note!
I am doing my PhD. PhD students go through several stages before graduating. The reading strategy changes with each step. Would you like to make a series that goes through these stages and recommend AI and non-AI tools to facilitate reading in each phase? I can work with you on the research, content generation, etc. I don't want credit for the work. Just want some content for PhD students to guide them.
@@dmccmmu As I don't have a PhD (snuck by with my bachelor's in fine art) I'm not sure I'd be able to speak with authority to that journey, specifically but I DO have a lot of experience with study & keeping track of massive amounts of information. Feel free to email me more thoughts at jonathan@icanreadminds.com
I'm totally new to Obsidian, so it's all a bit much to take in right now, but watching this video raised a couple of questions for me.
I noticed that when you selected the daily note from the calendar plugin, the check box was gone/replaced with square brackets. How would you check it off in that situation?
Also, the new daily note created from the template is not created in the daily notes folder, so I suppse you'd have to move it there manually. Can that behavior be changed?
Something I currently do regularly, is to share links via the share menu on my phone (Android) to myself via Telegram. I like that Telegram parses the links and displays the headline and an image to go with it. Is that something Obsidian can do?
It would also be great if it could automatically catagorise links based on the URL and perhaps even keywords, and then add them to the relevent file or folder.
Thanks.
thx for the video! I use the Full Calendar plugin as a google calendar replacement
That looks pretty cool; I'll have to check it out. One challenge of a Google calendar alternative is automated scheduling I have set up for podcasts, client calls, etc.
very nice!! thank you for that
@philippGrafendorfer I appreciate you giving it a watch!
You could also auto-link the date file in the front matter/properties and then just use the backlinks for each day as your log
Next week's video covers properties & Data view. As I understand it, though, that approach doesn't make use of the daily note plug-ins & calendar integrations & so on. But if they aren't useful to you, then it's all good right?
Very helpful. I didn't know how to use that well, PLUS, I found a little syntax thing that I wanted to try based on something you had here, so that's helpful as well. :)
Glad it helped!
Your pace and clarity is refreshing and I could see you tracing your buildout from the daily notes roots. Thanks!
Really appreciate you saying that @mintchip7178; makes it worth it!
Good one, thanks.
Thanks for giving it a watch.
Loved your intro, thanks!
Thanks for saying so; I appreciate it!
+1 hahaahahahah
Thank you for speaking clearly. I appreciate your professionalism. I'm 82 on the 17th of this month, and desperately trying to start over. The Ph.D candidates who have shared their methods with Obsidian are amazing women. They speak clearly and don't mumble. I'm a kindergartener to their explanations of how they use O. Thanks again.
That means the world to hear from you. I'm glad to know you're finding it useful & that I'm speaking so that you can follow along. 🙏
Thank you for risking your life and family to share this with us.
With this daily notes knowledge, our people have revolted and removed them imperial sc*m from our snowy lands.
worth the risk. o7
I would add that it might be a good idea to create a subheading for work, paste your tasks in there and below you could have a data view query for all tasks that are due and aren’t complete. It gives you some context for the day and makes it easier to go back and invoice your services since you can track what you did and when.
Good idea. I figured DataView, frontmatter, etc is a big enough topic on its own which is why I left it out of this video. I'm currently working on a ~30 minute video right now covering the new properties plug-in as I use it and I include stumbling through DataView & some of the frustrations I have so that people who avoid it might see that you can still make it work for you even if you hate working with code.
I also never used Daily Notes. Trying to restructure my whole Obsidian, as I have too many unorganized thoughts and notes hahaha. So this give some new insights on how to utilize the DN.
They really are one of those important things that hide in plain sight. You might also get something out of this other video I made about how I approach organizing stuff without having to get a college degree in some special system: czcams.com/video/IaSl21e19ck/video.html
Oh, and there's a new way to keep track of metadata for notes, and that can be a powerful way to sort through a bunch of tangled notes. It's verging on 'too close to computer programming for someone who likes to keep things simple' but it's cool enough that I think I'll make a video about it.
This is 🔥
Hi Todd, I appreciate you saying that. Glad you think so!
Greetings, i am a beginner of OB, with a few tests in OB, i think this is a perfect software to orgnize my thoughts.
It has been great. My best advice? Start simple with daily notes, and work out from there. If you have other questions, feel free to send them my way. I'd love to answer them if I can.
The cool thing about Obsidian is, you don't even necessarily need to use the Reminder plugin to set reminders for yourself. You can just put whatever you want to be reminded of next to a link to the daily note for the day you want to be reminded of that thing, and it will show up in the linked mentions the day of.
You're right; there are many ways to accomplish the same thing! That's what makes it powerful (but also frustrating because people want THE answer instead of multiple approaches).
@@zavant couldn't agree more. Obsidian vs other apps like OneNote sort of reminds me of Android phones vs iPhones. The latter is great if you don't know what you want, but the former can't be beat if you do.
THİS İS A GAME CHANGER!
It's wild, right?
I had Obsidian for some time and struggled to even use it. It was just yet another note taking app with benefit of markdown. When I learned about LogSeq, I took off like a rocket from day one and it became among the most used and useful application I've ever used. Journaling as described here is default to LogSeq and I can imagine those features like backlinks were in Obsidian already, just "hidden" to me. I now understand differences between Obsidian and LogSeq and am happy about my choice, but in many ways they're similar.
Sounds like you're well positioned to make a whole channel! I say go for it!
@@zavant 😃 I'll certainly leave that onto better qualified and set people like you!
@@oakld Only qualifications I had was a camera and a light. X^D I figured it out in public. That's the magical part of CZcams; you can have fun even if you don't know what you're talking about. Ha!
Which calendar and/or reminder plugins were you referring to in the video?
thanks for asking: "Calendar" by Liam Cain & "Reminder" by uphy. Both are available in the Community Plugins area.
Sorry if I missed it, but did you cite the calendar plugin used in your demonstration also?
Calendar by Liam Cain
LOL the intro. yeah, timestamps would make this a superpower
I'll get to chapters eventually. Learning as I go and trying to make each one a little better than the one before. Thanks for the comment. 🙏
Daily notes First!
After a year of using it. . . X^D
Good video
Thank you!
As a relative newby I love your video, both in execution and content. I know you're not the creator of these plug-ins, but for me the calendar is only working occasionally. I have created a hot key on my Mac cmd@ but I've also tested it with (@). Most of the time the calendar just doesn't create the date. If I type in a date it doesn't recognize it in the calendar or reminder. I would really like to use this actively. Any advice? Thank you!
Thanks Scott! Sounds like you'll want "Natural Dates" plugin to play nicely. And if you want the natural language date drop-in trigger to work, I'd suggest only going with the @ symbol trigger. If you want to include the modifier key (like cmd) then you might be interfering with other hotkey commands. Check your hotkeys and see if cmd@ (which is really cmd+shift+@) is taken by something.
Thank you for the very quick response. I will give that a try. If unsuccessful I will contact the developer. @@zavant
Would the reminder plugin clash with the Natural language dates plugin?
Good question. I have both & have not seen any interference. I use the (@ trigger for the reminder and the @ by itself as the natural language date plugin. They play together quite nicely.
If you never restart your PC how do you update it for security etc....?
(there's a chance you're taking that a little too literally)😂
How did you do that voice at the beginning of the video?
It's one of the stock AI voices from the program I use to cut all my videos: Descript. It completely changed my life. If you edit podcasts, audio, and/or mostly-talking videos then you might appreciate it too. Here's my link for it: www.descript.com/?lmref=50y2Ew
Thanks for this helpful video.
I was about to ask which calendar plugin you're using, but then realised other folk likely asked the same thing. I see they did. I think it would be helpful to include that info in your video description. It's the first place I looked for it.
Keep up the great work and the helpful videos.
Jonathan (yes, another one)
Great name, and thanks for the description update suggestion. Will do!
Made the change. Thanks again!
There are lots of calendar plugins - which one are you using?
Hi Jonathan (great name by the way), I'm using "Calendar" by Liam Cain.
@@zavant Cheers mate. Yes the name is a classic 👍
Thank you, it also took me 6 months to know this lol.
Isn't it crazy?! That's why I had to make this video.
Here you go! "it fools the algorithm to show more people"
thanks for the help testing the algorithm!
What's lacking in creating daily notes is that there is no timestamps for the changes. Anyways, great video. Thanks!
That's a much bigger topic that involves a lot of other pieces than I wanted to cover in this video. That being said, there are multiple ways to approach that function if you wanted to add it. You could use a text expander to add the date, you could use the natural date language plugin so you could type something like @time and it would then plop in the right time, you could use templater to add the time you open the file, etc etc. Those are just the ones off the top of my head; I'm sure there are others.
So it's a reminder/ note taking app?
It can be a lot of things. It's commonly called a "personal knowledge management system." You can keep notes, track projects, make libraries, create databases of information, and link it all together. I like to recommend that people start simple and then build out what you need. If you're a student you can keep class notes. If you like to cook you can build a recipe library. Etc etc.
the (@) doesnt trigger calender event for me, can you help
It's "Natural Language Dates" plug-in with the trigger set to "@"
I'm working on building and using an AI Agent to automatically locate and enter content into the vault. Microsoft AutoGen Studio.
OH that's cool. Are you documenting it with a video series or anything?
@@zavant yes, eventually. it will take some time to get it going.
@9:52 I feel so seen
🙏
oh wow, I had no idea that Obsidian could send me reminders. I have to think about that
It's pretty gnarly; I use it for everything I need to remember.
Heads-up @Jonathan Pritchard - not all of the people arriving at this video know what Obsidian is. CZcams populates our feeds with stuff realted to what we've been search/viewing.
If you want to retain more subs, try this method:
A short teaser intro that fits everyone. (that last word is important)
A quick break (you can thanks sponsors, beg for followers etc)
Then the meat of yoiur topic.
If your teaser was done properly, then you can dive right in with meaningful ldiscourse and educate your viewers as needed.
Note: Lots of folks start the meaty section with a problem this video solves
Then sign off with your cool ending etc.
I appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback & advice. 🙏
Who narraited the intro on this?
Thanks for the question. I use a program called "Descript" to edit all my videos. They have a selection of AI voices. You write the script, pick the voice, and it creates the audio track for it. Lots of fun. Check it out here>> www.descript.com/?lmref=50y2Ew
@@zavant Did they just steal people voices or are they licensed? The voice is from 'Honest Trailers' on youtube.
@@ostrava_ thanks for the question, and the concern. The company is doing things the right way; the voices are all fully licensed and above-board. As I understand it, Honest Trailers is using the Descript voice rather than Descript using the Honest Trailers voice. 🙏
You never restart your computer? I'm pretty sure that's harmful to the hardware.
That sounds like a problem for hardware to figure out! Ha!
@@zavant
Sir, it's a you problem, because your electronics won't last as long. Why would you do this?
You get lost in the detail before you explain your overview and goals. Flip it around. Explain your goals and present a mud map first. The details (command control D etc , what ever) then make a lot more sense.
Otherwise it's like your examing a brick and its detail before you explain its the building your really interested in.
Thanks for the comment!
The reminder plug in does not work on windows. After inputting (@ and click on the date, the date does not register. Does anybody else has this problem ?
Wish I had an answer for you. Hopefully someone will see it & have the cure.
Damn...you didnt know about Daily Notes?!
I knew about daily notes; lots of people talk about it. But nobody explained that it's a core approach to many of the plug-ins & concepts behind how they approach building out an entire vault. That's the tiny detail that makes a huge difference.
Hmmmm, no no and no. Too much work, too many menus and too many clicks. In this aspect, quite honestly, I don't think Obsidian is the right tool. Logseq does a much more fluid job, just write the paragraph and that's it, it will appear in the link note, in a dedicated section, end of story.
That's what I love about being alive now; we can usually find the tool that fits us just right. Glad you found that with Logseq.
Why? Why are you watching this video?
Logseq is garbage lmao. Wtf are you talking about?
@@perfectdarkmode 🎯