Obsidian §

Obsidian is an Open Source Markdown Note taking software and my primary choice for my Second Brain.

Features I Love §

• Offline & Open Format using Markdown
  • It has custom Markdown Additions, such as custom Obsidian Callouts
• Focuses on Free From Linking over Enforcing Opinionated Concepts
• Amazing writing experience with inline markdown preview
• A huge Plugin Ecosystem
• A powerfull Search system
• Displaying linked notes in a Graph View
• Supports Obsidian Diagrams with mermaid and SVGs
  • and PlantUML via a Plugin
• Use Obsidian URIs to jump to a note from you system obsidian://open?vault=notes&file=dir%2Fnote.md
  • https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2022/12/28/new-obsidian-notes-from-shortcuts/

How I use Obsidian §

• I’m using Symlinks in Obsidian to reference files from my Nextcloud
  • It’s pretty useful to link external files to a note, then it doesn’t matter where you place them in your file hierarchy
  • Be careful though about renaming the file outside of Obsidian. That will brake the link sadly.

How people use Obsidian §

• Use Obsidian for Academia
• Qualitative Data Analysis with Obsidian
• How Obsidian.md Replaced Video Games & Helped Me Publish
• Visual Personal Knowledge Management
• Getting Started with Obsidian for D&D
• Obsidian Community Talks

Getting Started §

• Obsidian Website
• Obsidian Forum
• Obsidian Roundup - Obsidian Iceberg

Youtube Channels §

• https://www.youtube.com/@nicolevdh
• https://www.youtube.com/@BryanJenks
• https://www.youtube.com/@VisualPKM/videos

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Tags #tag vs. Links [[]] §

• Tags are similar to links, but don’t create a note when clicked on.
• You can use Tags for saved searches or a type of idea, or entrypoints.
• Use links for potential but not yet created notes.
• Tags are implicitly counters and hierarchical
• Links auto-refactor when files changes
• Links and Tags autocomplete, creating your own Dictionary

Maps of Content (MOCs) §

Let MOCs be generated by adding tags or orphaned links to notes.

Obsidian Mobile toolbar §

Use slash core plugin for mobile commands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bfd_Lkr_gc

Obsidian Goalsetting §

Found this gem where he uses colored icons infront of a goal file to track their status. https://heymichellemac.com/obsidian-setup-sep-2021#02-quarters