Footnotes in Obsidian are great, but a little too difficult to use. Find out how to effectively make use of footnotes in Obsidian.
# Ted Talks are dangerously eloquent
Or, as [[Hamlet]] would say, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.
A perfect example is the talk called “How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk”. [^2]
Eloquent talks trick us into thinking we learn more than we actually do.
They make us feel good without really improving us. [^1]
[^1]: [[Human Rites]] p80
[^2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o
Obsidian and GTD. At first glance, it may seem like these two systems have nothing in common. One is a tool for taking notes, the other is a system for tracking and completing tasks. Two different things, right? GTD is a controversial subject in its own right. For some GTD is too complex, for others, […]
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.
Open tasks tend to occupy our short term memory until they are done. (this is called the Zeigarnik effect)
Those of us who complete a lot of tasks need a good system for keeping track of our commitments.
Our commitment system needs to be completely trustworthy so we aren’t tempted to store tasks in our brains.
Modular CSS Layout - snippets for wide views, multi column and gallery
Overview What is this snippet all about? Modular CSS Layout (MCL) is a CSS snippets collection that are meant to provide a useful layout options as a complement to the default theme or your chosen community theme. It uses Obsidian’s default CSS classes and HTML structure to achieve the intended layout (I don’t intend to do any color-theme changes) Do log issues in MCL github repo (link below) if you encounter any compatibility issues with your theme. How to get started? Since this is actu...
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My time management setup in Obsidian consists of a way to set goals, a daily note for rapid logging the present, and a review/retrospective system to evaluate past performance. In this video, I talk about all the plugins and apps I use to get all my responsibilities done-- without me feeling like I'm overwhelmed.
// RESOURCES
More stuff you can do with the Minimal theme: https://ift.tt/qwODLom
Habit Tracker template by Saturday Gift: https://ift.tt/6CuXH1M
My Periodic Notes plugin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uxj0XgMp0k
My Reclaim video: https://youtu.be/cBVjpFDltvQ
// TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:24 Core Principles
03:08 Goal-setting and periodic notes
07:52 Rapid logging in Obsidian
11:13 Task management with Reclaim
11:56 Other tasks on Checklist plugin
13:35 Habit Tracker
15:50 Migrating notes elsewhere
16:37 Obsidian Projects
17:22 Google Calendar
17:43 Year Ahead
If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: https://ift.tt/wKogaWu
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// ABOUT ME
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Mastodon: https://ift.tt/176nw5a
My travel YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/luckydippers
k6 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test
// APPS I USE
- Obsidian: https://obsidian.md
- Readwise: https://ift.tt/ZYuR6gL
- Shortform: https://ift.tt/K8dJQjP
- Reclaim: https://ift.tt/YTivcE8
// GEAR
https://ift.tt/ftQrHmK
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In this video, I talk about five different ways to take notes on YouTube videos in Obsidian, for those (like me) who love learning things on YouTube and want a way to capture new thoughts in Obsidian. I mention a few community plugins, a browser extension, and a separate service as well as my workflow for just using vanilla Obsidian, so you can take your pick!
// TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:35 Method 1 - Embed video
02:04 Method 2 - Media Extended plugin
04:43 Method 3 - Timestamp notes plugin
07:01 Method 4 - YiNote browser extension
10:30 Method 5 - Readwise Reader
14:45 Bonus: Readwise Ghostreader
// RESOURCES MENTIONED
Readwise: https://ift.tt/SsjHBOC
Shortform: https://ift.tt/ApCJ0OV
My video on Readwise Reader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNH1JDOmGJw
If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: https://ift.tt/0NMpjSa
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// ABOUT ME
Site: https://ift.tt/KCn2k1h
Mastodon: https://ift.tt/SxH86wi
My travel YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/luckydippers
k6 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test
// APPS I USE
- Obsidian: https://obsidian.md
- Readwise: https://ift.tt/SsjHBOC
- Shortform: https://ift.tt/ApCJ0OV
- Reclaim: https://ift.tt/0hyPA5p
// GEAR
https://ift.tt/5UcaMvY
// WANT TO SUPPORT ME?
❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: https://ift.tt/lZH2pNc
☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ift.tt/GXkz0Qy
Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: https://ift.tt/caUj5Sz
Everything I wish I knew when starting to use Obsidian — Nicholas Seitz Photographer
I made plenty of mistakes when starting out with Obsidian.md, and it took me months to find high-value workflows. Hopefully, you can skip some of the pain I experienced and get off the ground even faster.
I had a few notes that were extremely long and formatted in many pretty ways, yet I was not really able to generate new insight or organically understand two ideas in relationship to one another. I was never sure where to put a new note, and when I finally did decide to make a new note,I felt like I was doing too much busywork.I could never remember where I wrote something down, and had to navigate in and out of Obsidian folders or search to find the note I had just worked on. I was only navigating using the file-browser or search-based functions of Obsidian- if there were links in files, they served little purpose other than “I think this is how I’m supposed to use the program.”
Break tasks into discrete steps
The best advice I’ve found for how to push through this point is to understand what the steps you’re trying to accomplish are, and to separate every process into discrete steps that you can focus on doing one at a time. A “lifecycle” for a note for me currently looks like this:
As a note-taking app, Obsidian is so flexible and extensible, that you can really do anything with it. As a Product Manager, I use Obsidian everyday.
0:00 intro
0:25 outline
1:42 obsidian for understanding customers
3:02 obsidian for tracking the product
5:07 obsidian for product vision
6:18 drawbacks on of my workflow
6:57 summary
This is the only Obsidian tutorial you'll ever need, from start to finish.
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== DESCRIPTION ==
I'm dabi, a doctor and YouTuber, and I've made the single most in-depth YouTube guide to Obsidian on the internet. I've created this 13-part course that was initially $97, but now I've released it to you for free!
This is my opinionated guide to how I use Obsidian as a Second Brain and Zettelkasten.
- Make Obsidian a digital Second Brain, so that you never ever forget anything you think about
- Use Obsidian as a Zettelkasten
- Capture thoughts extremely quickly, without worrying about structure until later
- Use Obsidian's powerful search functions to find anything you've ever thought about
- Synthesise and distill important ideas as part of a Zettelkasten, so that your most important thoughts are always top of mind
- ...and more!
I spent a ridiculous amount of time on this course (a *ridiculous* amount), because originally I set out to make the most in-depth paid course.
📚 Make sure to bookmark it and share it with your friends, so you can come back to it as needed! There's no need to do it in one go, as originally it was meant to be done one lesson at a time.
🎉 THIS VIDEO IS FULLY SUBTITLED. I've tried to make the subtitles as accurate as possible, to make things easier to understand, so I recommend turning them on. :) but I do apologise if I mess up here and there.
00:00:00 - Once $97, now a YouTube video!
00:00:36 - Introduction: Pages and Links
00:23:31 - Hashtags
00:27:52 - Links vs Hashtags
00:38:47 - The Obsidian Zettelkasten
00:53:46 - Search
01:07:14 - Special Formatting
01:16:33 - Dataviews in Obsidian
01:27:45 - Version Control
01:37:03 - Templates
01:40:43 - Backing Up Obsidian Files
01:42:49 - PDFs in Obsidian
01:45:31 - Plugins in Obsidian
01:58:02 - Yay, finished!
== WHO AM I? ==
I'm Dr David Liu - a medical doctor (specialised in General Practice/Family Medicine) and YouTuber who loves anime. :) My channel is about medicine, tech, note-taking software, books, anime, and AI! I nerd out a lot about ways to do things smarter and ways to create cool stuff.
== COURSES I MADE ==
📸 My YouTube Storytelling for the Algorithm Course ➡️ https://ift.tt/SUL5Old
🧠 'Life Hacks for Memorising Anything' course on Skillshare ➡️ https://ift.tt/kumPqYh
📝 Notion for Students/Professionals Course ➡️ https://ift.tt/yPJX952
🎞 YouTube Case Studies Course ➡️ https://ift.tt/O6h0Ter
📈 The YouTube Algorithm Explained In-Depth ➡️ https://ift.tt/fQgjHYX
== TOOLS I USE ==
🎼 Epidemic Sound (the royalty free music I use): https://ift.tt/dR7uc32
(but I composed some of my own music for this video)
✍️ Ghost, the blog platform I use:
https://ift.tt/Xy1uDLn
📸 Descript, the video editing software that lets you edit videos like a Word document:
https://ift.tt/CkJHhRg
📚 Shortform, which has fantastic actionable summaries of HEAPS of books:
https://ift.tt/eJgcoRF
== OTHER CHANNELS ==
💻 DABI'S CREATOR CASES: where I talk about helpful things specific to YouTubers about making videos that are algorithm friendly: https://ift.tt/8MR17Fi
== SOCIALS ==
💌 My newsletter about life, tech, productivity, creative pursuits, business: https://ift.tt/P2FDlNM
📸 Instagram: @drdabido
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/dabidoYT
🧠 My blog of reflections, medicine, tech tutorials: https://dabido.com.au/
Emoji Titler by @HyeonseoNam makes it easier to insert an emoji in the title using a keyboard shortcut.Callout Integrator by @Cleoche makes it easier to integrate long blocks of text into calloutsibook by @bingryan makes it easier to export mac ibook annotations/highlights to your vault.Awesome Image by @AwesomeDog automatically downloads internet images, moves them to a specified folder, and renames them in a specific way, among other things.ChatGPT MD by @bramses an integration of ChatGPT featuring customizability based on frontmatter, which can now infer title from messages, among other things.Home tab by @olrenso is a browser-like search tab for your local files.Callout Manager by @eth-p lets users easily create and customize callouts.
Git Collab by @Drosophilaa provides users who collaborate their obsidian notes through git some helpful tools and an improved ui.Advanced Merger by @antoKeinanen makes it easier to merge a folder of notes for easier export, which I bet will be awesome for people writing manuscripts.Natural Language Syntax Highlighting by @artisticat1 highlight adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs, and conjunctions in the editor, which will also likely be useful for writers. Soomda by @michaellee makes it easier to quickly hide your sidebars.Link Range by @rmellmer brings ranged wiki-link support to Obsidian.Wikipedia Search by @StrangeGirlMurph makes it easier to search for a Wikipedia article and link it.Backlinks Breadcrumbs by @loiccattani will display a breadcrumbs navigation from backlinks back to your Home/Index file.Floating Search by @Quorafind makes it so users can use search view in modal.Jelly Snippets by @rabirabirara implements text snippets so users can replace text after typing a snippet on some trigger or command.Reading View Enhancer by @Galacsh enhances the reading view by letting users use arrow keys to fold/unfold elements.Pseudocode by @Yaotian-Liu helps to render a LaTeX-style pseudocode inside a code block.Background Image by @shmolf lets users specify a remote URL as the background image, and a few settings to tweak the experience.Send Tasks to OmniFocus by @lizard-heart will extract tasks from the current note and create them in OmniFocus.OZ Calendar by @ozntel lets users view notes in Calendar using any YAML key with dateFocus Active Sentence by @artisticat1 will highlight the sentence the cursor is currently resting on.Source Code Note by @waiting0324 will help users organize source code note easily.
LLM-powered pending pluginsReminder: most plugins of this type need to make calls to the internet to function; many need to send your data to external servers to be indexed. Here's a proposal for possible consent mechanisms for plugins that do so.Obsidian AI by @otelo2 attempts to mimic the experience of the Notion AI.AI Commander by @yzh503 will generate audio transcripts, images, and text in context of PDF attachments or web search results using OpenAI and Bing API.Vault Chat by @kristenbrann utilizes OpenAI to provide you with a chat bot trained on your vault.GPT Assistant by @M7mdisk uses a GPT-3 based model on your notes to get personalized answers from your knowledge base.AI Assistant by @qgrail is also an AI Assistant plugin for Obsidian.Ring a secretary by @vrtmrz is another ChatGPT-powered digital secretary
Everything I wish I knew when starting to use Obsidian — Nicholas Seitz Photographer
I made plenty of mistakes when starting out with Obsidian.md, and it took me months to find high-value workflows. Hopefully, you can skip some of the pain I experienced and get off the ground even faster.
Write notes on one idea with propositional titles. Let structure emerge.Figure out ways to let notes “bump into” each other.Break down tasks into discrete stepsTake small bites every day.I’ll end with several “avoid this” notes which are corollary to the first five points:Do not write long notes with many ideasDo not box yourself into rigid structuresDon’t write bad linksDon’t do it all at once (you won't finish everything)Don’t imagine a day when you’ll catch up.
New in Obsidian: Obsidian Callouts (available now)
Transcript:
One thing I’ve learned from writing technical documentation in the last few years is that good writing is skimmable, at least in the digital age. So since I look at my notes in Obsidian the same way as I do a sort of personal documentation, I think that a lot of the same principles apply.
Today I wanna talk about an early access feature that the Obsidian team rolled out two weeks ago, and it’s called Callouts.
abstract, summary, tldr
note
Types of Callouts
info, todo
tip, hint, important
success, check, done
questions, help, faq
warning, caution, attention
fail, failure, missing
danger, error
bug
quote, cite
> [!info] Your title
> The contents of your note here
Obsidian Hotkeys: Favorites and best practices - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum
There are so many wonderful hotkeys. The crazy thing about hotkeys, is that each hotkey can open up a whole new world of workflow possibilities… That said, this is how my personal setup has emerged. Every choice is deliberate to match my personal needs. Hotkeys are a personal thing, but hopefully there are a few moves here you dig. Enjoy! Essentials Some basics Make new note — Cmd-n Create note in new pane — Cmd-shift-n Open the link you’re hovering over in a new pane (while in edit mode) — C...
Keep exploring at https://ift.tt/Fw0HMEX. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. How do you go about making notes actually useful? Using notes well entails taking good notes in the first place, processing them, and then creating something new out of them. In this video, I talk about the plugins that I use in every stage of the process, and some guidelines for how I actually make a note on something I've learned into content that I (and others) can make use of.
This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Thanks, Brilliant! :)
// RESOURCES
Give Brilliant a free try: https://ift.tt/Fw0HMEX
How to create things with your notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zrs_vVRwD4
How real people process notes: https://youtu.be/6Bbj7xYj3Bc
// TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:42 Step 1 - Reading and highlighting notes
04:08 Step 2 - Processing notes
04:47 Paraphrasing and abstracting
08:00 Creating and updating notes
11:20 Linking notes and establishing hierarchy
14:44 Making something from notes
If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: https://ift.tt/Bs8PxYF
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// ABOUT ME
Site: https://ift.tt/hHCq02V
Mastodon: https://ift.tt/HFTx4Wr
My travel YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/luckydippers
k6 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test
// APPS I USE
- Obsidian: https://obsidian.md
- Readwise: https://ift.tt/7RflmEU
- Shortform: https://ift.tt/LMGCkSr
- Reclaim: https://ift.tt/qBmWNxK
// GEAR
https://ift.tt/4DtgapG
// WANT TO SUPPORT ME?
❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: https://ift.tt/bDcdR3G
☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ift.tt/eFnVvz5
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In 2022 I searched high and low for a software that I could use to generate my own "wiki". I later found out that most call this a "second brain" or "personal knowledge management system". Fortunately, I came across Obsidian and fell in love.
As I tinker around with Obsidian, I realise that it's powerful and flexible enough to be my task management system.
In this video, I will demonstrate how I use Obsidian to manage my daily tasks and how my Daily Notes document looks like.
Chapters:
0:00 introduction
1:50 Project Notes
2:35 How I structure my Daily Notes
8:20 Summary
Obsidian Plug-ins used:
- Template
- Calendar
- Tasks
- Daily Notes
Connect with me:
Website: https://ift.tt/Du6FMck
Substack: https://ift.tt/TQldKHw
Mastodon: @liztai@hachyderm.io
Glasp is a social web highlighter that people can highlight and organize quotes and thoughts from the web, and access other like-minded people’s learning.
Glasp is a social web highlighter that people can highlight and organize quotes and thoughts from the web, and access other like-minded people’s learning.
Stop Procrastinating With Note-Taking Apps Like Obsidian Roam Logseq
In this video, I talk about why personal knowledge management is, for many people, a sophisticated form of procrastination. I also share 5 actionable principles for escaping the traps set by it, so you can do work that matters.
0:00 Intro
0:52 Why PKM is Sophisticated Procrastination
5:39 PKM is NOT Work
8:55 The Optimization-Procrastination Trap
11:29 The "Perfect Tool" Trap
12:45 5 Actionable Principles for Beating Procrastination
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@uwwgo @andy_matuschak I use Workflowy for everything. And I mean it. Projects tasks writing logs wishlists shopping summaries checklists cheat sheets...
@uwwgo @andy_matuschak I use Workflowy for everything. And I mean it.
Projects, tasks, writing, logs, wishlists, shopping, summaries, checklists, cheat sheets,...
