100 OBSIDIAN TIPS: Beginner to Advanced in 23 Minutes | Obsidian Tutorial

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Awesome, thanks for sharing!

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/jpcafe10 📅︎︎ Apr 03 2021 🗫︎ replies

Good job, learned a lot

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/cygosw 📅︎︎ Apr 03 2021 🗫︎ replies

Amazing video, thank you!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/nameofthedaemon 📅︎︎ Apr 04 2021 🗫︎ replies

Thanks. I learned a lot.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/GodFather_MK 📅︎︎ Apr 04 2021 🗫︎ replies

Good job, thank you for this!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/redlob 📅︎︎ Apr 13 2021 🗫︎ replies

Thanks!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/Spaeon 📅︎︎ Apr 30 2021 🗫︎ replies

I'd rather read this as an obsidian doc ;)

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Obsidian is a mix of Markdown editor  and knowledge base app. Basically,   you can edit and view text files in Markdown  format, and also create links between these files. The app can be downloaded directly from the  website and it's currently available for Mac,   Windows, and Linux. There's  a mobile app coming soon. Obsidian is completely free for personal use,   with additional paid options that  will be mentioned later in this video. There's a vibrant community with a forum  and a Discord server where you can get help,   ask quick questions, and get  to know other Obsidian users. Creating a new vault. After completing  the installation you can create a new   Vault which is the folder in your  computer that will store the notes. To create a new note, you can use the button  on the left or the keyboard shortcut Command N.   Give it a name, a title, and just start writing. You can use folders for organization, and  it supports emojis for naming if you like. Internal links. Create links by simply  pressing the left bracket key twice,   and a panel shows the notes  that you can create a link to. External links. To create an external link, select  any word, press Command K, and paste the link. Notes location. Right-click  a note or folder and choose   "Show in system explorer" to  see its location in your system. Word count. At the bottom of the  screen, is shown the word count   of your current note and the number of characters. Preview and edit modes. Notes can be  viewed in either edit mode or preview mode.   In edit mode, you see a  basic markdown visualization,   but certain things, like highlighting and  images will only show up in preview mode. Linked panes. Panes can be linked  together. With a note open in edit mode,   hold Command and click the preview button at the  top. Linked panes will be marked with a link icon,   and any changes you make in the editor  will show up in the preview in real-time.   Also, scrolling one will scroll the other. Keyboard shortcuts. Learn keyboard  shortcuts to be more efficient.   The ones I usually use the most are, Command  E to toggle between edit and preview mode.   Command Enter to toggle a checkbox and  Command Shift F to search in all files. You can add custom hotkeys for  the most commonly used commands.   In the hotkeys settings, click the  asterisk icon and type the new command. What I like to do is assign option arrow up   and option arrow down to  easily move lines up and down. Command Palette. The Command Palette is  a very useful way to access most of the   Obsidian features. Type Command P, then  simply type in the name of the command. Drag to rearrange panes. Panes can be rearranged   by dragging. Grab the icon in the upper left  corner to arrange them however you need. Header levels. To create a heading, add  number signs in front of a word or phrase.   The number of number signs you add should  correspond to the heading level. For example,   to create a heading level  three, add three number signs. You can add emphasis by making the text bold  or italic. To bold text, add two asterisks or   underscores before and after a word or phrase,  or use Command B. To make a word italic,   add one asterisk or underscore before and  after the word, or use the Command I shortcut. Strikethrough. Any word-wrapped with  two tildes will appear crossed out. Use two equal signs to highlight  text. The color of the highlight   will be different according  to the theme you are using. Lists can be created using dashes in front of  the item. Hit enter and a new item will be added.   Lists can also have sub items by pressing tab. A useful shortcut is Command left or  right bracket to change the indentation. Numbered list. To create a numbered  list, type 1, period, and the item.   After typing, hit enter, and the  next numbered item will be added. To-do list. To-do list can  be easily created with dash,   space, opening, and closing  brackets, and a space in the middle. Blockquotes. We also have blockquotes  which are great to highlight phrases.   In preview mode, it looks like this. Create separation in your notes by  using dividers. Just type at least   3 dashes and a horizontal  line is added in preview mode. Sidebars can be collapsed to declutter the  screen and help to focus only on writing. Export PDFs. After writing and format a note,   it can be exported as a PDF  in the more options button. Light and dark mode. There's a light and dark mode  that can be switched from the command palette. If you are on Windows or Mac,   you can make the window translucent by enabling  this option in the settings appearance tab. Deleting files. After deleting a note, by default,   it's moved to the system trash, but  this can be changed from the settings. Open a link in a new pane. Open  several notes at the same time   by holding Command and clicking each one. Save notes. Obsidian automatically saves  your note two seconds after you stop typing,   or if you close a pane. You can also manually  save at any time by pressing Command S. Use the help vault if something is not clear.   You can search, and learn  more about Obsidian features. Structure and organization. Don't try to  structure everything if you are just starting   out. Start at your own pace. Worry about  structure later when you have more notes. Home Note. Setup up your home note with  links to notes that you often need.   I also like to add a link back to the  home note to make navigation easier. Dragging notes. You can drag a note and  pin it to the sidebar for quick access. Tags. Use tags to group multiple  notes so they are easier to find.   Clicking on any tag will activate  that search. There's a plugin that   you can enable to show a list of all tags  that are used across all of your notes. Spaces are not allowed in tags. So, if  you want to have multiple words in a tag,   you can use underscore or a dash. Tags can be nested, for example, you can  create inbox/to-read, inbox/processing,   and it shows as a tree of tags in the sidebar. Templates. Use templates to save time. When  you enable the plugin, the template button   allows you to use a note as a basis for a new  one. For example, I have a weekly review template   with the questions I answer every  week. So I create a new note,   choose this template, and simply answer  the questions following the structure. Toggle headers and lists. In the editor  settings, there's an option to fold indents,   making it easier to hide parts of the text. Backlinks pane. To keep track of  all your links, the backlink pane   shows how the current note is referenced in other  notes. There's a backlink count in the status bar. Presentations. Did you know that's is possible  to do simple presentations right inside Obsidian?   Just enable the core plugin called slides,  and use 3 dashes to separate each slide.   Then, choose "start  presentation" from the options. Random notes. What if you could push a button and  immediately be given an idea? You can enable the   plugin called Random note, and press a button  to show you a random note from your collection. Graph view. An impressive feature of Obsidian  is the Graph View that we can access through   this button on the left. It shows a graphical  representation of all the links between the   notes. You can hover each node to highlight the  connections, and drag to rearrange the graph.   I'll show you more options about  the graph view later in this video. Local graph. Use the local graph to  see the connections near the open note.   This view can be fixed to the sidebar. Search. The search is a  powerful feature in Obsidian.   In most cases just by typing what you  are looking for is enough to find it.   It supports different options like search  file names, tags, and more. It saves your   most recently used search queries, and you  can also copy the search results as a list. Starred notes. If you enable the Starred  notes plugin, you can star a search result   to keep it close at hand. You can also star any  other note and it will appear on the sidebar. Renaming notes and links. To rename a note,   change the text in the top bar. All links  are automatically updated to the new name.   A notification shows how  many links have been updated. Attachments. Images can be easily  added by dragging them to any note.   The image file will be shown in the  file explorer. This also works for PDFs. If you have lots of images and attachments,  a good idea is to create a folder and set it   as the "attachment folder", so next time a new  attachment will automatically go to that folder. Daily notes. Many people like to write daily  notes with everything relevant to that day,   and this is easy to do in Obsidian.  Just enable the daily notes plugin,   and a new button appears in the  sidebar. This button creates a   note with the current date if it doesn't  exist, or opens the note for the day. In the options of this plugin, it is  possible to choose a folder to group   all the daily notes or choose a template  to be applied when creating a new note. Use emojis if you like. I like to use emojis  because I am a visual person and I find that they   help me to have context about notes. Personally,  I also think it looks more aesthetically pleasing. Community themes. Speaking of aesthetics, a very  cool part of Obsidian is the themes created by   the community. There are a lot of cool themes  available and they completely change the look   and feel of the app. If you know CSS you can even  create your own theme and share it with others. Community plugins. Obsidian allows developers  to write third-party plugins to extend   Obsidian's functionality. They can do awesome  things like Calendar, Mind Map, Timeline,   and more. In order to use these plugins you  need to turn off safe mode because third-party   plugins can access files on your computer and  connect to the internet, so be aware of that.   In general, you should be able to trust most  of the popular plugins from the community. Obsidian Publish. Obsidian is free for  personal use, but there are 2 paid add-on   services available. Obsidian Publish and  Obsidian Sync. Obsidian Publish lets you   easily publish notes. It can be useful to create a  wiki for your team or documentation for projects. Obsidian Sync. Obsidian Sync keeps the  vaults in sync on multiple devices,   including the upcoming mobile app. Quick Switcher. There's a button on  the left sidebar called Quick switcher.   It lets you jump to other notes  by just typing the file name.   If you want to create a new note, typing a unique  name will cause the Quick Switcher to create it. Page Preview. Page preview lets you preview  a page when hovering an internal link,   without needing to actually navigate to  that page. You can even scroll the preview. Zettelkasten Prefixer.   If you use Zettelkasten, there's a plugin  that adds a new button to the left sidebar,   which can be used to create a new file and prefix  it for you using the current date and time. Audio recorder. Audio recorder is a plugin  that lets you make a recording without leaving   Obsidian. It's useful for class and meeting  notes when you can't catch up for some reason,   or for recording important discussions  so you don't miss any details.   The audios are stored in the attachments folder. Open multiple files. You can edit  and view multiple files in Obsidian.   By default, when you click something,  it will open in the active pane.   But, if you hold Command and click  it opens the note in a new pane. Split vertically and horizontally. To create  other layouts, you can split the current pane   in half either horizontally or vertically. Sticky panes. If you're working on  something and want to use the other   panes as temporary reference panes you can  pin it to make sure it never gets replaced. Web clipper. Because Obsidian accepts any  Markdown file, you can download entire web pages   by clipping to Markdown files and downloading  them into your vault. "MarkDownload" browser   extension works well for this purpose. It adds a  button to download articles in markdown format,   ready to be copied to Obsidian. You can get it  for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Link to headings. You can also link to specific  headers in files. Press the left bracket twice,   when the note you want is highlighted, press  number sign, and it will show all the headings   in this note. Choose the one you want, and  a link direct to the heading is created. Indent and unindent shortcuts. Use shortcuts  to change the indentation. To move a line to   the left, hold command and press left bracket  key or right bracket to move it to the right. Default view mode. By default,  Obsidian opens notes in edit mode.   But you can change that if you want.  Open the Command Palette with Command P,   and search for "toggle default view". Now, next  time the note will open directly in preview mode. Find and replace. Use the search and  replace for editing your notes. Again,   from the Command Palette, search for search and  replace. Then, you can search the occurrences of   text you want to replace. You can replace  them one by one, or all of them at once. Code blocks. You can also add code blocks to your  notes. Just put the code inside three backticks.   You can specify the language in order  to have syntax highlight, for example,   JS for javascript or PY for python. Text inside backticks on a line  will be also formatted like code. Outline. Another useful plugin available is  Outline. After enabling it, it adds a pane   to the sidebar with all headings in the current  note, making it easier to navigate in long files. Workspaces. If you are like me and use  Obsidian for many different things,   the Workspaces plugin will very handy for you. It  lets you save and load the layout of the panes,   sidebar state, and files open. For example,  I have a workspace called Calendar that I   use to write daily notes and another  one for writing without distractions. Footnotes. Footnotes allow you to add notes  and references without cluttering the body   of the document. To create a footnote  reference, add a caret and an identifier   inside brackets. Identifiers can be numbers or  words, but they can’t contain spaces or tabs.   Add the footnote using another  caret and number inside brackets   with a colon and text. You don’t have to  put footnotes at the end of the document.   You can put them anywhere except inside other  elements like lists, blockquotes, and tables.   The rendered output looks like  this, and you jump back and forth. Multiple cursors. You can create multiple  cursors in Obsidian. Hold down Alt or   option on Mac, click. This can be useful when  modifying a lot of lines in the same way,   for example putting a dash at the beginning  of multiple lines to turn them into a list. Link with aliases. Links can be displayed with  a name other than the file name. This is useful   if the name is too long. Just add a vertical pipe  after the link with the name you want to display,   and that's what is shown in preview mode. Resize images. You can resize images using  the following syntax. Add a vertical pipe,   type the width and the height in pixels,  then the image will be displayed smaller. Link to blocks. Another cool feature is  that you can create a link to blocks,   like linking to part of another note.  A block can be a paragraph, blockquote,   or anything that has empty lines before and after.  To link to a block, first type left bracket twice,   the name of the note, then type caret and continue  typing to search for blocks to link to. Once you   hit enter, a link to that block will be generated  for you, in the following format. The number is   the block ID created for you. When we are not sure  which file the block is, another way to create   links to blocks is to type left bracket twice, 2  carets and it will search for blocks in all files. Query blocks. Now let's talk about query blocks. I  recently discovered that we can embed blocks with   search results. For example, you can group  tags within a note by doing the following:   type 3 backticks, the word query, and the  search syntax for tags is – tag, column,   and the tag itself. Close with 3 backticks, and  when previewing the note all the search results   are listed. This is great because any new notes  with that tag will automatically appear here. Templates snippets. When creating templates  you can use snippets that will be replaced by   their actual value at the time of the insertions.  Title for example is replaced by the title of the   note. This also works for date and time. These  will be replaced by the current date and time. Iframes. Obsidian supports iframes  allowing you to embed web pages into notes.   For example, you can embed YouTube videos  like so. Click share, embed, copy the iframe,   and paste it in Obsidian. Preview  the note and it will show the video. Tables. You can create tables by assembling a  list of words and dividing them with hyphens,   and then separating each column with a  vertical pipe. Tables in Markdown can   be a pain to edit when they are big,  but it works fine for simple tables. Graph View Filters. Now let's  see some graph settings.   I love the Obsidian graph view and it was  the feature that made me want to use the app.   You can use filters to hide notes from the graph.  For example, I use it to hide my daily notes. Groups allow you to choose different colors for a  set of notes. You can create your own color code,   which in addition to helping with navigation,  makes everything much more beautiful. There is also an option to show or hide orphan  notes, in other words, notes without links. You can show or hide the arrows that  represent the direction of the links. In the force options, several  adjustments can be made such as   center, repel and link force. I recommend  you play around with these options a bit   and customize your graph  the way you think is best. Markdown importer. If you use other apps,  Obsidian has a tool to help import notes   from other popular apps like Roam Research and  Bear. There are a few differences between the way   various note-taking systems work that means  moving between them can be a little complicated.   In general, if you can convert to a  markdown it will work on Obsidian.   But some things, like tags  and links, can be tricky. Diagrams and charts. Obsidian can show  diagrams and charts. It uses Mermaid,   a tool that generates diagrams and flowcharts from  the text. The syntax is easy to learn, and there's   a live editor to preview your diagrams. You can  copy-paste the code into Obsidian. Just type   3 backticks, type mermaid, and paste the code. A  beautiful chart will be displayed in preview mode. Link to notes. Notes can also be linked to  other apps. If you use another note-taking   app like Apple Notes, for example, you can  copy an Obsidian URL, and paste it there.   This link will open the note in Obsidian. Working with multiple vaults. Each collection  of notes in Obsidian is known as a Vault,   and you can have multiple vaults, which  essentially just creates a new folder   that you will put markdown files  into. Choose "Open another vault",   and create a new vault. You can open  multiple vaults at the same time. Sync and backup. Put your vault in the cloud for  backup and synchronization with other devices.   For example, I have my vault inside an iCloud  folder, so it synchronizes with my phone. facilitate filling in information such as  topic, date, and people who participated.   After the meeting, share your notes in  PDF, so everyone is on the same page. Manage tasks with tags. Tags can be useful for  managing task status and keep track of projects.   You can have tags in the kanban style as a  to-do, in_progress, and done, for example. Inspiration list. You can create a list of  inspirations with the things that you have read   or watched and want to apply in your life. I keep  a list like this and it's very useful to be able   to reflect on the things I've been consuming,  and I use them when I'm stuck for ideas. Book notes. Another suggestion is to write  book notes in Obsidian. After reading a book,   I write a short summary of what I liked about  the book and what were the things that I learned.   I also use a simple template to guide me  when it comes to writing with things like   my 3 favorite phrases, who should I recommend  the book, and what were the things I learned.
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Length: 23min 10sec (1390 seconds)
Published: Sat Apr 03 2021
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