So originally, this was a 13 part,
$97 course, that I spent hours and hours and hours making. But I've decided to release this Obsidian tutorial, for FREE on YouTube, in all of its glory. Obsidian, for me, has been a life-changing program. Because I felt I could finally capture all these random ideas from completely different fields like medicine and YouTube, And actually make sense out of all of them
and connect these ideas together. And I'm gonna teach you how to start from using Obsidian,
all the way to the advanced stuff. I've divided the whole thing into 13 chapters,
so you may wanna bookmark the video so that you can come back and do the different bits. It's amazing piece of software, so without further adieu,
let's get started. :) Okay. So let me run you through
the basics of Obsidian. Now, when you start with Obsidian, there's
going to be basically nothing in there. The way the Obsidian works is that
fundamentally it's a way to access a folder of notes, but the notes
that you actually create in Obsidian and you edit them in Obsidian. So what I mean by that is that when
you uh, install Obsidian for the first time, you'll see this new
create new vault thing, and then you can actually just create a vault. So I'm just going to call
this one Matcha Green vault. And then you can put that
anywhere that you like. So I'm just going to put it into
my desktop and then chuck it into this folder called Tea Vault here. Now with this Matcha
Green vault, what you see. If you actually go into it. So that's just much what I've created
this one and it's just a folder. It's literally just a folder. But it's empty right now because I
haven't got any notes in it or anything. When I go to Obsidian, you can see
that, you know, nothing is here. So let me run you through the
general layout of Obsidian. This is your notes spot. So when you create a new note, I'm just
gonna press command and right there. And by the way, whenever I say
command you can just replace that with control in windows. So for example, command and is
probably controlled in, in windows. So Cmd-N creates a new note, and
then you just start off with this blank note and here is the editor
you can type whatever you like it is, as you might expect for a note when you actually created these
notes, so the title is up here. So let's just say new note for this
one and you can see that that's been reflected in this left-hand section
here when you create a new folder and you folder also pop up in the
folder that you define your vault in. So let's just say, I want
to create the daily note. And it's going to be very important later. You can just click this sort of top
left bit there to create new folder now to obviously move the note, you
can just drag this note into there. And so now it's in your daily notes,
but When you go, when you go to your actual folder, you can see now that
with my Matcha Green vault it as created a new Daily Notes folder. And then when you look inside,
it's our note that we just created. You notice that it's called a.md file. so.md file stands for markdown. Mark down is a really common way
to publish content on the internet. And it's just a universally
accepted format for internet things. So for example, if I was to just type
this and then try to make it bold there's two ways you can do that. You would have to do the traditional
method of highlighting it and then pressing command B or control B. And then you'll notice
that it's a bit weird. Like it comes up with
these asterisks, right? And so the way that markdown works
is it's kind of like the second language, which is really easily. But when you type certain symbols that's
associated with certain formatting. So for example, if I was to just
type one asterisk that it would come up with italics like that funny
enough, he should stop on the line. It's actually, so I tell him
sometimes it's a bit weird. If you have a link, for example, you can
make it so that you have square bracket and then open round bracket like that. So it'd be like think here. But these this is for cup fillings. So for example, let's say that this
is a link and you want to do that. You highlight the link part
of it and you press command K. And that does the same thing you
can type in whatever you want. So that's very useful, but
it's pretty ugly, right? When I first come to Obsidian I didn't
like this, I felt that this, you know, I don't wanna look at all these
asterisks and underlines and stuff. So, what you can do is you can actually
get to the settings and the settings is by the way, this color wheel, on
the left-hand side here, where you're going to access a lot of things. When you go to settings, you
can go to the editor part. And then by default it says, use legacy
editor, and you can switch that off. And when you relaunch it it
will come up with live preview. And so that's a much nicer version. You can see that when you're
editing the actual thing. So for example, this is bold text. When you're editing the individual
sentence, it'll still look quite like that temporarily while you're editing it. But when you actually go to the next
sentence that it'll just format, like you would expect on like
Microsoft word or something like that. So, that's a lot better, but for
the purposes of this tutorial, I'm going to keep it in source mode. The reason being that it's just
going to be easier for you to sort of visualize what's actually By the
way even if you have texts like this, you can actually preview it in a
way that is much more neat and nice. And so if you just wanted to click
on these glasses icon of the way here, then you can see now that
it's the same as preview mode. I can't even edit the text
if I was to press more stuff. And so that's when you're reading
documents and stuff that you want to use that particular button. And so, yeah. Now so far, all I've talked about
is stuff and it doesn't really seem that there's much function yet. this is where we're going to add some
more interesting function and talk about what makes Obsidian so useful
as a knowledge management software. So, the first things first, I
actually want to create a daily notes. And a daily note is actually like when
you go to the left-hand side, but some different options, but a daily note
is not a thing that you can create. So, you can go to settings and
then you get a core plugins. Go to, you can search the plugin and I'm
just going to search daily, for example. And I'm going to activate this now,
by the way, this call plugins, you can access a bunch of other things. We'll talk about that as we go along. So, now that I've activated the
daily notes, you see that there's a new thing that pops up here. Exciting. And if you click on that, then
it's automatically create a note. And this is my new daily note with
a date that is the format 22/6/3. So, because this is June 3rd right now. You can change that if you want it to. So again, go to the settings go to
your daily note and then you can click on the options button there,
and then you can change the format. So for example, it looks like 20, 22 slash
June slash may the third at the moment. But if you wanted to change it to just say
June 3rd, you want to change it to that? You can do like this. So just month, month, month, day, day,
and then, year and then you can make it, so it's a nice format like that. You want the folder to be in a
separate folder because otherwise you're just gonna populate your whole
you know, brute folder with your notes, which is not what you want. So when you click here, you
know, that four that you created before called Daily Notes? Well, you can select that. And that's what I tend to do. I also tend to open the
Daily note on the start up. For me, the daily note is the start
of where I capture all my ideas. Every single note that I've ever
created started from a daily note. Or like if it's ideas that don't
really have the structure, I think the daily note is the best place
to put them because you don't even know where they're going to go yet. If you've got an idea as to where
they're going to go, then you can obviously put it in that note directly. But I tend to use the daily
notes so I have a rough scratch pad of searchable information. So now that we've, that we're
just going to move this day. They notice, but if you actually
create new ones, it'll create it into the daily notes folder. And that's really, really cool. I'm going to make this bigger
by pressing command plus let's talk a little bit about links
because we've talked about stuff that just seems pretty basic at the
moment and you need to know this, obviously, because, you know, otherwise
you won't be able to use Obsidian. But let's talk about links in particular
because links are very special. So the way that links work in Obsidian,
When you type a concept or a topic idea or something like that, then
that's what I tend to create as a link. Because every single link
that you create is new page. So let's say that here are some
notes about Obsidian, right? Just a simple sentence. And then I'm going to go
to here and highlight that. And then if you press the square
brackets, the lifts square bracket twice, it will make this single link. And what is a link? Well, it means that if you press
command and click, click, then it will come to a new page. In fact, it's just made a new page. You can see that it's invented a new page
here and created that page dynamically. So, here I can type whatever text
and you notice something interesting. You can actually reference
pages from your pages now. So let's say I wanted to reference,
let's say that's I just had a, I'm just gonna try another random note, let's
call it Tea Leaves just to keep with our concept of tea for the mo ment. So, in this new note, I can reference that
note if I wanted to, and I can be like, okay, like, I want to talk about like, you
know, I liked drinking and then brackets, and then you can start typing or you come
up with this really nice auto complete. And usually it's very, very powerful. And so now you've got to link between
tea leaves and Obsidian and you might want to link tea leaves with the, the
day of the daily notes or whatever. And you can think like that. So now you've got this
sort of roundabout link. This is a very basic example, but this is
just a way to see how pages link together. So look, you might go to do this and be
like, oh, like, I get that you can link between your stuff when I'm sitting in,
but you know, what do I create as links? Why is Obsidian so good? And I think that what I'm gonna do is
I'm actually gonna show you what it looks like in my actual notes, because
the problem with Obsidian is that you don't realize how useful it is until
you've made quite a lot of notes. And then you start to link ideas together
that perhaps couldn't be linked before. So if I show you my real Obsidian,
so I'm going to go out of this and into Dabi-sidan, is what I call it. And I'm going to search
for a particular note that's go command to open the
note and I'm going to search for this particular one, the 37%. Now the 37% rule, I've made this
particular page because this is a concept. Actually, it came from when I was
reading the book, how not to die alone. This is a book about relationships
and it had a really interesting thing. The concept in the book, which is
talking about dating and how to find good relationships is some people try
to optimize their relationships so much that they just keep looking for
partner after partner after partner. And they're always just trying to get
5% better or 10% better, and they try to think, oh, what if there's
someone out there for me, that's better than the person I'm currently with? And so the book said that is actually a
mathematical principle, which can help, which is that by 37% of your active
daily life, set the best person, the best partner that you've been in relationship
with as your benchmark, and then go for someone who's as good or better than them. And then generally speaking, that's
a mathematical optimization of like the best partner choice you
can do whilst also like when you have like imperfect data and stuff. So you may or may not
agree with that concept. It's just an interesting one, but I
decided to make it a topic cause I thought, hmm, 37% rule is actually
an interesting mathematical concept about what's called optimal stopping. And I didn't realize it, but
it actually comes from a book called algorithms to live by. So it created a separate note for
that as well, because I intend to read that book at some stage in time. But the reason for creating as a concept
is because this concept, I feel like this concept is not just something
that applies to dating, obviously. It's a mathematical concept that can be
used in a lot of other things as well. Right? So that's what I've created as a concept. And so I've tagged different
concepts in here and the top here. And for example, the actual
concept is called optimal stepping. Here again, I've tagged this
algorithms to live by here and then I've typed the book here. So I can remember if I just remember the
rule, but not the book which came from then when I search or type anything to do
with the 37% rule, then I can go back and be like, oh, like, these are the examples
of how the 37% rule actually works. But with these links like, you
can actually see every time you've mentioned the link. And so this is the idea of backlinks. If you go to this right-hand side
and you click on expand, you'll notice that you've actually got
this backlinks for the 37% rule. And I can see from that document
that I had before the book notes about How Not To Die Alone. I can see where it's mentioned
this 37% rule in the context of that particular note. I may think about optimal
stepping at some stage. And so I haven't talked much apart
from saying, this is how the 37% rule is derived, but you know, 37%,
maybe there's other percentages. So I've created this page about also
stepping, cause I thought, hmm, like the 37% rule is a nice defined rule,
but you know, there's probably going to be other examples of optimal stepping
that doesn't quite fit within that. Let me show you what it looks like
on my YouTube notes, for example, 'cause I think that that's another big
example that I spend a lot of time on. Now I'm going to talk about the
differences between different types of notes in a second, but this is
mainly to just show you back links. So this is something that I've
created, which is a huge document talking about YouTube and everything
that I learned about YouTube. I'll make another course on that, but
that's not the purpose of this course. So for example, I am going to go
to here and you can see that I've linked out these different pages. So for example, I made a note on
that YouTube algorithm, and that note is actually a compilation of many,
many notes about different things. Now I should also mention about headings
in a second too, but here you can see that if I go into the editing mode, then, you
know, when I paste images in for example, let's say I quickly copied an image like
this and then literally copy and paste by using command V, as you traditionally would, it
automatically places image into there. And so that's kind of nice. But anyway, whenever I, you know, have
like some sort of book or some sort of article, whatever that I'm reading,
usually I'll create a new note, like a full note to actually capture that. And I call it that literature note. The literature notes, I try to
broadly think about if I want some semblance of organization. For example, YouTube is my
big thing at the moment. So I will put that literature
note in the bigger concept. So in this case of the YouTube
algorithm, I've created a separate one where, you know, it's here and I can
click on that really easily and just flick back and forth between my notes. You can see how notes can really
start to be this network of just one thing connected to another. And that's essentially
what an internet is, right? The word internet being composed
of the words into and net, because you're really going from one
node to another node like that. And so that's the beauty of Obsidian
is that your mind can be completely undefined and unstructured, but
you're just sort of gradually adding information here, you know, using these
links and linking everything together. you can see if you have a particular
concept where that concept helps you. You mentioned before
in your other documents and you can look at the outgoing
links if you wanted to as well. In my particular case it's
a lot of pasted images. Eventually, what will happen? Now, this is just a fun visualization. When anything else is, if you create a
lot of these notes at a time that these are all in the notes that are created
they will link to each other and you can see the graph of field knowledge. This is just a graph that's
automatically on the left hand side, they're called open graph view. And then you can be
like, look this big one. It's going to be the YouTube one. Right, 'cause that's what I spend
most of my time thinking about it. So if I zoom in, it's a YouTube literature
note and then it's got all these different concepts that are connected together. And if I want to do to
filter some of the contexts. So for example, if I wanted to
just like search for things that have case study in the name, right? I might put a path:case study. Right. And I've only got one case
study got a title there. But you know, if I want us to add a
bunch more, I can certainly do that. I didn't use this graph view
that often to be perfectly honest, it's just really pretty. So hopefully that explains
the concept of links. Before I step off the idea of what
linking does and how it's a powerful I actually want to talk about
something really important, which is what do you actually make it link? I mean, you can make an infinite
amount of concepts of link. You know, you can make something
that's like, you could be like the word though is like a link. And you can talk about the
difference of though, like, you know, talk about what YouTube is. And I think that the important
thing is that links are just there to help you organize. You don't have to define every single
concept, for example, like if I'm talking about, I dunno, social media, like I
don't have to go and define social media and then be like, oh yeah, I should
create a whole page on social media and you know, it's social plus media. So I'll create two
different pages on that. Like it's unnecessary, right? So rather than thinking about it
like that, what you want to do is I tend to use things for few things. I use it for when I'm taking
like a literature note. So in the case of like a book,
for example, I might write Peak. Peak is a book I read about
deliberate practice recently. Sometimes I might want
to reference a concept. And so a concept like the 37%
rule is a really good one. Because I know that I'm
going to reuse that concept. Occasionally I actually might
take someone's quote and use that as a link as well. So for example, sometimes I
talk about MrBeast and YouTube. So for example, for MrBeast, I would
use something like, I know that he said once that if you put in 10% more
effort for a video, then you're going to get 10x more views, rather than 10%
more views as most people might expect. So sometimes I'll actually make quotes
things, because I know that I'm going to reuse that piece of information
and then put it back into another document that I'm talking about. So, here, if you see that I'm going
to put the square brackets and I'll just search 10 X, and then it
actually comes up with the exact quote there, and I can use that too. So I use links whenever I want to reuse
a concept in some way or form and where sometimes I need a page for the concept,
even sometimes when I don't need a page for the concept, I'll still use that link
just because I can recall it so easily. You might think, ah, like if I do that
across like hundreds of notes, then surely when I'm searching for something, it's
going to be really convoluted and stuff. But actually the search function is
really good for the Obsidian autocomplete. So for example, let's say that
I wanted to type something about deliberate practice, maybe? So, I mean, I haven't written a
lot about practice, but here I can search for it pretty easily. And in fact, even, you know, just
search words that are roughly the same sentence, but not actually connected
then I can certainly do that too. so you don't have to create
a link for everything. Just create things where you want
to resurface and use a concept. If you're not sure whether you're going
to resurface a reuse a concept, go ahead. Just create the link. I mean, it's free. Note that with links, something
that's very handy is that you can actually include parts within link. So, something I didn't show you
before, cause I'm going to reveal it to you right now is if you wanted to
create headings, I just told you about basic formatting before, but you can
actually use hashtags as headings and that creates a heading like this. You can nest headings
within those headings. So for example, two hashtags will be
like, this is a smaller heading and you know, it's smaller, even smaller, right. And then stuff goes in here. Here is great. And then this is nice. So there's few really good reasons for
using headings, but these, the main three. The first one is in editing and editing. You can collapse these headings. So that's very nice. If you just want to make things
easier, the second is that with headings, you can actually reference
the headings from other documents. So let's say that I go
to my daily notes, right? Oh, sorry. This is my daily note. I'm going to put, just like
to reference as another note. Actually, what I can do is I'm going
to select everything here, right click it, extract current selection,
and then created a new document. So a new document that is used
for reference, and then you see that I've actually refactored
it into a new page by itself. So even if you're typing down the notes
and you decide, Hey, I actually went over. A separate page. You can highlight it, right. Click it, and then extract
current selection, and then I'll make a new document if you want. And then it means that if I want to
use the headings from this document... so we've gone back to our daily
notes, which is right here. And so that's where we're currently
existing and, you know, it's nice. Like you just clicked on the premium mode. It just gives a link there. But if I wanted to reference the heading,
I will write hashtag and then remember those headings that I created before
there's headings, you can actually access. So for example, I can do
a hashtag even smaller. And so that means that when I actually
click on this, it's going to go to the even smaller pot of that document. That's kind of nice, but let's
say that I'm actually collecting a whole bunch of stuff. And in fact, I want to use that,
that content inside the heading and display that into my current document. What you do is you put an exclamation
mark here at the very beginning. When you go to preview this document, what
happens is that it will actually display the contents of the heading as well. So now you've got these atomic
concepts and you can actually, you know, almost write whole books. You can write whole articles and
whole books out of the stuff that you've already written before. You may not want to do that
necessarily, but you can if you wanted to, you can
actually use this ^, this upward arrow, and you can actually link
to individual blocks as well. So for example, you might have
a paragraph of text that you want to specifically link. So you can just use a caret instead, and
then although it's a bit ugly there, but it would just reference that particular
part because as you recall, if I go here, this is the particular
bit of the reference. So if you don't reference the heading,
just reference the particular paragraph or whatever, instead, super duper,
duper powerful, you can think you can see how this would be very useful. You know, if you might have a document
about a concept, but you just want to reference one particular paragraph. Whether within medicine, whether in
consulting within science or research, you know, that's really, really good. You might have a whole bunch of notes
on a research paper and you just want to reference one part of that research paper. Well, that's how you do it and
compile it into a new note. Now you've been seeing me sort of
awkwardly flipping back and forth. And you must think you must be thinking
by now, surely there's a better way than just flipping back and forth like
this, you know, do I just open two Obsidian windows or something like that? The answer is that you can actually
make a new pane with Obsidian. So what I'm going to do is I'm
going to go to more options. I'm going to split it vertically. And then you can say that I've got
these two panes now you can tell which pane is being activated by
the little underline, obviously. And then if I create a new note here and
let's say that, you know, I'm just going to do something like research document. Then I can be like, oh, like I wanted to,
you know, grab bits and pieces from here. And, I can just copy and
paste that into there. I could reference it if I wanted
to and be like that bit in the new document was pretty cool. So new document used for reference,
and then I'll just type caret. And then be like, hmm, that bit that
was like, "here is great", is great. And so that's my new
research document there. And so you can use this left-hand
side to go through you know, whatever note you want, really. Command + O, let's say I was
talking about Paddy Galloway and writing a document research. Well, here I might be like, ah, yeah,
I'll include this bit this heading how to blow up a stagnant channel, because that
seems like a really interesting thing to keep in my particular random document. You can say that if I just type
how to blow up a slack channel, that's not going to work. Right. Because you're not using
the heading, you're actually using the note title, ideally. And so you might get Hattie Galloway,
and then you talk the caret or you type the hashtag to just have headings. And it's not going to display by
default until you use the exclamation mark like this, and then it will
display that in a box like that. So hopefully by showing you this, I've
shown you why links can be extraordinarily useful for essentially repurposing
parts of information and putting it into new information that you have. This is a very powerful way of
synthesizing new knowledge and just gathering knowledge into one place. You can also create new thoughts
and original ideas and clay them all in documents like that in a sort
of atomic really interesting way. And the next video, I want to talk
about hashtags, because hashtags something that actually lets you
search for things a lot easier. And it's not just about the headings,
but let me save that for the next video. In this video, I'm going to talk about
hashtags and how they can help you search. When you're writing things in Obsidian, you want to think like
a writer, not like an archiver. And this is actually a concept from
David Kadavy's book, the Digital Zettelkasten, which are actually,
I'll get a lot of inspiration from, for this particular course. It's a really, really good book. So you can definitely check
that out if you're interested. What a hashtag is: so let's say I'm
just going to talk about YouTube / storytelling, because that's something
I've focused a heck of a lot on, right. And, you know, I might be like, hmm,
I want to have a concept, which I can search later, but there may not be
necessarily a prompt for that concept. I might in the future think, "I want
to improve my YouTube storytelling. Let me just try to collate all
the information that I've got on YouTube storytelling in the past". And so, you know, one way you could
do that is that if you sort of know in advance, you might be like,
oh yeah, well I'll just create a YouTube storytelling niche, right. And suddenly that's a viable way to
do it and you can put stuff in there. I think a better way to do it is
actually instead of creating a separate note for it, because you can see
I've been an access to that note. It's not very beefed out despite the
fact that I've been thinking about YouTube storytelling for literally years. And the reason is because I put
everything on the hashtags that I'm going to know that I can search. So if I'm like, hmm. Like I want to, I should think about
how anime applies to storytelling. I might do that for example. Right. And so it means that if I go to the
search function of the top left here, and then I start typing to search,
I can actually search by tags. And so in this particular case, I
type the tag, you two says choice telling, and then I can see all the
times that on my different daily notes, I had thought about it. And that's why I'm using daily notes
because daily notes means, you know, you can just refresh the page and you
don't have to worry about the stuff you thought about before, because
it's actually easily searchable. So here I've obviously thought
about it like, oh yeah, I could animate the, to, you can do stuff. I can expand maps with my hands
and stuff and composite that. And then, you know, I've got
different different concepts about YouTube storytelling that I've
thought about, and I can collate it into some sort of document. So for example, I might want to be
like, hmm, I need to distill some of these because this is very interesting. And nice and academic, for sure. But having all these unrelated concepts
that are just sort of out there in the world, they're out there, my daily notes,
they're not really that functional yet. You know, there's this raw data
waiting to be mined and distilled into something that I can actually use. So, I will create like a new pane here. So, I will create like a new pane here. So there's vertically, I'm going
to shorten this and then I'm going to use this to open up my YouTube
literature note which is my, my baby note, which is my favorite
child of this entire Obsidian thing. And then I'll be like, well, let me go to
the section that talks about storytelling. It's talking about
storytelling for retention. So I might want to add some more
stuff and be like, ah, let's see. I love this idea that I can use a, you
know, something in Blender, something in 3d modeling software and then put it in. So I might reference that
particular idea and put into here. The way I would do that is I can
simply go type in the 01/05/22, because that's the document that we've got
open and then use the caret and then go to the bits, which talks about 3d
Linda, and then include that there. So that when I actually, you know,
oops, sorry, it's not expanded yet. So you can actually put the exclamation
mark and then it will be expanded as like a separate concept there, w hich is great. And so you can see how you can just go
and essentially collate different things. You can do the research on the
left-hand side, and then you can use the right-hand side to do sort of a
more formal, more structured note. So that's basically how hashtags work. And so that makes search
very, very powerful. Now... hashtags. Sometimes you might forget
which tags you've actually made. So in this particular case, Uh, there's
a plugin code tag pane and that can show you the tags and the number of occurences. So if you go to the tag pane here and
activate that, then you can see, I've talked about YouTube, quite a bunch. And then I can, you know, when I click
there, it'll automatically search for the tag in the left-hand side there. So I don't need to remember the tag. Unfortunately this can be a little bit
convoluted because the fact that you can't actually search these tags properly. The next video. You'll probably wondering, you
know, I can use tags, I can use things, but what do I do? Like, should I use tags or use links? And that's what I want to talk about
in the next video, a stick around. Okay. So onto the next video. And the question is
when should I use links? When should I use hashtags? Now, the time that you want to use links,
links are when you want concepts, pages, you know, reasonable stuff, basically. But hashtags are fundamentally
about searchability. So the aim of a hashtag is basically, you
just want something that broadly speaking, if you search for that hashtag, and, you
know, for example, you can find YouTube storytelling as the one I tend to use. So let's go to tags,
YouTube/storytelling, then you want to categorize a particular topic. But you don't necessarily know what
the structure of that topic is. I tend to use hashtags for that. And that's very, very useful for you
getting just random bits of information that may be vaguely related to a topic. Hashtags are purely a searchability thing. It means that you can put it as
the tag, as a separate thing in the search bar, and then you might,
you know, further define the tags. For example, it might be like, oh, I want
to just see the times that Paddy Galloway has talked about a YouTube storytelling
so that's when you would use a tag. Links, on the other hand, you can use a
link just to see like a link is like a separate node that you've created and you
can see what links to that node and create something that's a bit more structured. So I use hashtags as categories,
but those categories are categories that I know are meaningful to me. They're not just things like #music,
you know, because for example, that could mean anything, you know. Do I mean music composition? Do I mean a music theory? Do I mean, just music
that I like listening to? There's a lot of different
aspects in #music. So just creating a very, very broad
hashtag is not actually that useful. Rather you should think of hashtags
as having some sort of purpose. You know, I have a particular intention
when I write this hashtag, and I know that that intention is the thing that
I'm going to be thinking about when I'm searching for this particular concept. For example I know that YouTube
storytelling is a really important part of being a good YouTuber. When I went to research ways that I can
improve based on the different notes that I've taken in the past, but haven't
really distilled down, I'm going to use the hashtag YouTube/storytelling to
gather my different thoughts there. And then use it in the
research like I've done before. So hashtags should be categories with
intent and then links should be topics, concepts, research, articles, et cetera. Let me show you a few of my notes just
to illustrate the concept further. And this is the unique
part of this course. So, because I feel like this just needs
a bit more explanation, a few more actual examples of people using it. So let me show you how I use it in my
actual notes, because I feel like that demonstration is going to illustrate
it a lot better than perhaps this theoretical thing, which kind of feels
a bit hard to grasp at the moment. So here's a fairly recent
note on the 27th of May. So, here, I've been thinking about a
different YouTube channel called the Darby, and that's a channel, that's a
channel that is exists to do YouTube case studies on successful YouTube videos. And I tried to document all my stuff
that with regards to YouTube into this category of Dabido's YouTube Journey. So Dabido's YouTube Journey, if I go to
that, it's empty because eventually I will come back and summarize it based on the
different times that I've mentioned it in the backlinks that I've got there before. But I've yet to do that. So let me just go back for now. And this Dabi Analysis channel. I might create a separate note for that. I've mentioned a few times and, and
see what I've written about in the past as well, but But I've created that as
a topic or as a link, because I know that I'm going to come back and try to
summarize a whole bunch of stuff that I'm going to chuck into there later. When I've documented these things,
actually when this note started off, I actually had had all of this, all
of this was written in my daily notes initially, but then I decided, hmm. Like I want to actually
put it into a proper note. So I took what was essentially
like something like this. And then I did that thing before
where you sort of highlight all of it and then you right click and then
you extract the current selection and then you put it into a different page. So all of that eventually went
into the Dabi analysis production pipeline, 'cause I want you to think
about how to optimize my processes. YouTube Storytelling is the tag I probably
use the most on my Obsidian, 'cause I think a lot about how to tell better
YouTube stories and you can see that I've just got it there just with a thought. I've created this hashtag #ToNote, which
is something that I've created recently where I might be like, hmm, like there's a
few notes that I feel like I need to make into like a proper note somehow, but I
haven't had the time or thought to do it. So I just put it into this #ToNote
hashtag and then I can say like, oh yeah, like these are the things
I thought I should really try to put this in separate note before. So you could almost use it
as like a to-do list system. Right. In fact, you can literally
use #ToDo as a hashtag. For example, I need to read this
case study and then when I'm done, I would delete the to-do bit. So it doesn't come up here again. So this is one way you could do it. You can say that that gets
very messy, very quickly. But you can use Obsidian as like a kind of
productivity system by doing that as well. Here, I've got another link for Hayao
Miyazaki because he is a person and I tend to use people as a concept
or a topic in themselves, right? Because I might collect
different things from them. So when I go to his page, this is
the only time I've mentioned him. So I haven't really, you
know, beefed it out a bit. But if I do more research on
Hayao Miyazaki then suddenly I'll chuck it into this note. and here, I've just included a quote
from him just saying, I should not handle seeing this in a way for the sake of the
audience and well found things in simply logic that guide the creation of a story. So, here, I've always included the
hashtag YouTube storytelling again, in case I want to look at it, the reason
for including it more times in a single document is because I want to see it
in the context of the document, because actually when you search up here and you
search tags or YouTube here, like it comes up sort of, expand to show more context. When you're writing hashtags, you're
thinking about yourself, searching for this potential thing in the future. It's not an archive. You don't want to just use hashtags,
Willy nilly to archive different things and be like #music, yay. Because it's doesn't
have purpose behind it. But here with this, I have purpose. These are all individual actionable
steps that I might take later or individual concepts that I might
take later and compile it into like a proper action document or something. Of course, when you expand it you
know, all of that formatting, cause it kind of looks so ugly to look at
all that formatting is gone or if you're using live preview, then all
the formatting would be going too. And of course, each of these
individual things like here, I've just included a link some different
screenshots that I link and yeah. Let me show you a few more
examples, 'cause I think that that's the thing that you're going
to get most out of this course. You can feel free to skip this video
if you feel like you've got it. But this is just moreso for illustration. Damn. Well, here's a depressing
and vulnerable note. Well, let me show you. So here I put it as a hashtag YouTube
psychology and actually this whole little mini essay is talking about how, when you
put out YouTube videos especially when you're starting off, you know, it can be
very disheartening because your videos might just get 10 views or something, even though you put in heaps and
heaps and heaps of work for it, right? But maybe one day I'll come back and
look this nose, and someone's going to ask me, hey like, let's say that, let's
say theoretically, you know, I had a million subscribers or something like
that, maybe it'll happen, I'm not sure. So at that particular time, someone
might ask me, "hey, like what were you thinking during that time when
you were like a smaller YouTuber? What were you thinking about? Like what you can tell, tell me
right now as like a small YouTuber like with, you know, 10 subs? Like how do I get over this psychological
barrier of trying to make more and more videos despite the fact that
I'm not getting any views and then I'll be like, oh, well, hold on. Let me think about it because I actually
wrote a whole note about this back in the past, and then I've got the link, Dabido's
YouTube Journey so I can summarize it into there #YouTube/Psychology
is my little hashtag there. Here, I've got some concepts that I might
want to think about again, you know, concepts like the exponential curve. And because I think that like exponential
curves will probably come up later on in life as well in a lot of different ways. And because I fundamentally believe that,
you know, you should try to do things in exponential rather than linear fashion. So I've created that as a link,
even though it's got nothing inside of it yet . I also got gradients. So one of this concepts talking about the
concept of gradients and how I think in terms of: I shouldn't really care where
I'm at at any particular stage in time. All I should really care about is how
fast I'm improving at a particular thing. And so that's why I've created
a separate note for gradients. Gradients might also tie related concepts. So for example, the concept of
gradient descent in machine learning. Going back down here you can see that,
that quote thing that I told you about before with links has coming back
into showing you how it really works, because I just decided, I remember
MrBeast said some stuff, so I quoted that into something to do with strategy. Here, I've got stuff about achievement
and goals, and I put hashtags for achievement and hashtag goals. It's not the strongest hashtag because,
you know, hashtag goals is pretty vague and I may not necessarily be
searching for goals at any stage in time. I can see if there's times that I've
talked about in the past by holding down command and clicking on that. Oh, but actually it turns out that I
have used goals in the past, and maybe I can tie some of this information
together which I forgot about. And that's also really, really nice
that Obsidian lets you do that. For example talking about
principles of habits. So I might open that as a new document
or a new pane by holding command and clicking on it and then being like,
hmm, these are some principles that I found from having a close conversation
with a friend, which is kind of cool and I completely forgot about this. So if I wanted to compile, you
know, some information about like, how do I achieve certain goals? I might be able to collect this
stuff in this different hashtag. There's a thing called tag aliases. So for example, if you wanted to have
tags as particular pages by themselves, and you just make the tag and the pages
automatically made, you can use that. But to be honest, like I tried
doing that and I didn't really feel like you need to do it that much. Because in the end, you don't
really spend that much time worrying about the difference between
hashtags and links that much. Fundamentally if you're finding
that you're referencing concept a bunch of times, you're going to
create a link for it at some stage. So, if you're like having a link
where you can have a central node of a concept and compile different
information to that, that's going to be more useful than having a tag,
which can't exist as a note, basically. All right. So this is the longest video on links
and hashtags that you will ever get. It's the most detailed explanation you
probably ever going to get, and hopefully it's one of the most useful as well. In the next video, I'm going
to talk about the Zettelkasten. And Zettelkasten, I think is the single
best method for taking notes and being able to actually make them functional. Because you've got all this raw data,
you've got all this ability to capture soldier information, but: that ability
to do that is nothing without being able to use the information that you've got. So let's get into it. Okay. So this is a note about the Zettelkasten
Zettelkasten in German and means slip box. It comes from this idea that
you have these interconnected cards of notes and that you slip
the cards into like a drawer. That was the sociologist
code, Niklas Luhmann. And he's very, very sort of famous
for using this Zettelkasten method. He lived in the 20th century and he had
made 90,000 index cards in his little cousin is equivalent of, of them sitting,
having 90,000 different text files. And he credited his Zettelkasten
for giving him the ability to write very, very prolifically. He wrote more than 70 books
and more than 400 articles. This is before like computers
became a really big thing, right? So this is like actually an
insane amount of work to output. he linked each individual note using
an index number, but you don't have to do that anymore because it's
easier just to do it like in Obsidian. The Zettelkasten is the
smartest way to take notes. And let me explain the
anatomy of the Zettelkasten. The traditional Zettelkasten
has three types of notes. It has a fleeting note. It has a literature note, and
then it has a permanent note. And the reason for these different
categories of notes is that they represent different levels
of capture and distillation the fleeting note is a very raw note. It's just the first thing
that comes to your mind. It's having like scratch pad on paper. It's just writing down the idea and using
that scratch pad to think about the idea. In the case of what we've been discussing. I use the daily note as a
fleeting note, to be honest. Then there's a literature note. A literature note is where you're
doing some more proper research. I tend to use these for things
like research or books or articles. Stuff where I would traditionally
study it and traditionally taken notes. And usually the literature
notes are pretty big. There's something that's going to
make the literature notes a lot more useful though, and it's that it should
ideally be written in your own words. This is your very
detailed thought and idea. It's stuff that you don't intend
to memorize, but you should still make it meaningful to you. The thing is that with literary notes,
the way that it's phrased should be the way that you yourself would
phrase it, because this is a note that you're going to refer back to. It doesn't make sense to just copy
and paste stuff except for the fact that it's quicker, but ideally having
some sort of way to process the note in your own words helps to make it
an actual mental model in your head. And this is the most detailed
version of the mental model. it's got the highest resolution,
and you can refer back to bits and pieces at any particular time. And finally we come to the permanent
note, the third part of the equation. The permanent note is the most
distilled part of your zettelkasten. It's summarizes a single
ideal in just a few sentences. When you're trying to think in a
really effective way, you want to have this concept of everything. This concept of, I understand
the world in a simple way first. And then, if you have those
concepts, you can obviously go deeper into any individual concept,
that's your literature note. But at the very top, you should
have just a few mental models that simplify things for you. If you're going to memorize anything
from your Zettelkasten, then it's this permanent note that's going to
be the one that you want to memorize. Each permanent note itself was the link
that could be referenced from other notes. And then you can reuse
ideas from the past. So you've got your fleeting notes, your
literature notes and your permanent notes. Now let me tell you about what I've done
differently because I actually felt like I didn't really like this terminology
that much and this is where we start to dive into what I use for my system. So, so for the fleeting notes, my
fleeting notes, I never create a separate fleeting note like this. Like I could, you know, be like, oh
yeah, thinking about birds or something. And then instead of something,
and here it starts of a fleeting note and be like, birds are cool. I dunno. I really don't see a need to create
a separate page for writing down some concepts that I think I'm just
going to chuck away anyway, right? So instead if I know that I just
need to archive the thought, I'm going to put that into my daily diet. So I didn't have fleeting notes. I just have daily notes. I know I can reference a daily note
and you pick the point in time. I didn't have any particular like
attachment to the way that my daily notes should be, because really
I can just put anything in there. It doesn't matter because the next day
I'm going to get a brand new one where I can put in more concepts and stuff. my daily notes is my fleeting note. So fleeting notes don't exist. And so that's the top of my folders. Here, I've got my literature and
topic notes, so that's probably pretty similar to the way that
traditional Zettelkasten has done. But I just want it to be a bit
more flexible with the idea of a literature note and topic note. So for example, I actually sync
Readwise with my notes, which means that whenever I highlight notes on
my Kindle, it automatically syncs to my Obsidian, which is really cool
because I can literally take paragraphs on books and then use them in my own
notes without even having to record those notes separately before I do it. I just literally need to have read
it once and then it will come up in my notes as an oldest, same thing. None of them that you can do it
for books like I've done here, for example, how not to die alone. Yeah. Is a bunch of different paragraphs
that automatically syncs. And that's something that you can
do it in another software, but it's just not as nice and super smooth. When I want to create separate
topics though, I still will do that. So remember how I said that I
created one for Hayao Miyazaki, the Studio Ghibli director. Well, that's it. Here I've created something
about exponential. I've created something
about Dabido clips channel. I might try to include
mathematical concepts. Like I was thinking about how
variance relates to uncertainty with regards to data interpretation. And so that's some concept I've got
more beefed out right here and some maths calculations that I've just
taken from the internet basically .
So topics and literature notes,
it can be literally anything. And these are probably my biggest notes. I don't really think too much about
what I put into a literature, because really what I want to put in there
is stuff that I myself want to reference at another point in time. The traditional note is that you're
supposed to put in your own words. And then that's the thing
that makes it useful. But who has time for that? The thing is if I took every single
concept I read and try to summarize it in my own words, then, although
that particular time, I'm certainly creating something useful for myself... but I kind of feel like there's a
lot of concepts that you just need to know that that vaguely exist. I'm happy enough with that. And then if I felt like I wanted to
calculate the details of variance, for example, then I've got everything there
that I need in order to figure out the concept when I actually need it. So that's a bit of a different way of
thinking with regards to literature notes. It's different when you're,
for example, taking notes from books and stuff like that. I feel like that is a good time where were
actually summarizing, 'cause otherwise it's like, well, you know, what's the
point of reading if I'm not making the, the knowledge that I gained useful. So that's a bit of a different situation. But in a world where, but in a world
where you're collecting information from different places and you're
like, I might use this at some point in time, but I might not. I'm a bit more loose than my
literature notes and what goes in them. They don't need to have a summary
sometimes it's ideal if they do, but they don't need to. I created an in-between category
code, practical notes, pack of notes. I've only used once because I don't,
I actually use notion for most of it. But just for example sake, if you
want to do everything that I'm seeing, you know, you might have notes on
meetings or people or projects, and then put that into Obsidian. For example, I'll put some notes
about a tax return meeting that I had. And then finally, distilled notes. Now distilled notes, the cream of the
crop when it comes to your notes, right? They are the most distilled
version of your thinking. And what I want to do is I'm
just going to show you one. I want to show you a side-by-side
comparison so I can show you why a distilled note is very useful. I've called it a distilled note, as
opposed to a permanent note, because I hate the idea that a concept is permanent,
because I feel like when you get more information, the concept is gonna change. So I renamed it to distilled note. And this is the MrBeast distilled
note that I've got here. Because I studied MrBeast
quite a lot as a YouTuber. For the sake of this I'm going to make
these bit smaller and then I'm mostly going to use the preview mode instead. So the literature note, you can see
the difference in size by looking at the bars on the right-hand side, right? The bars on the right-hand
side, there's really not a lot there for our distilled note. But it's really huge here! Because this is almost the entire
transcript of like a one and a half to two hour podcast that I did for MrBeast. What I've done here is when I've taken
notes from this particular podcast, I've tried to summarize the sentence as a link. You don't have to, that's
just what I've done. The reason being that if I make it
a link, then I can easily just copy and paste it to that particular bit. So for example, on content
strategy you know, I know that MrBeast does translation. So I'm going to put that there. I'm kind of typing the same note
twice, but this is really a much more brief summary of the idea. I went to my literature note to capture
everything that I can in case I need to look up the details about something,
but I wanted the distilled note to be the one that I read and be like, oh,
this is what I should do next, or this is the thing I should think about next. Because if you just, if you have this
giant literature note, I mean, you could go back and read the full thing,
but it's going to take you ages. Like, you know, I don't have time to
reread the entire two hour transcript of stuff with regards to MrBeast. What's the stuff that I find most useful? Or what's the concept that's
going to most change my life? And that's what goes
into the distilled note. Let me give one example, right? So this is a whole paragraph. This is MrBeast talking about
how it's better to use fewer, but much high quality videos because
that's going to be something that appeals to the algorithm better. And it's going to be something that
appeals to YouTube's exponential nature. Right. And here I've included literally
the transcription either. I had typed this down and this was
everything that he said about that particular concept, but this whole
page of stuff has been condensed into that because sometimes I just want
to read off, like, I should use fewer videos, but more high quality views. That's all I need to know. And yeah. The distilled note doesn't
have to be that short. It just has to be significantly more
actionable and a significant summary of the stuff that's actually useful to you. I think of the literature note as where
you want to understand something in depth, and when you went to grab the detail. I think that the distilled note as
the one that you use, which is like your practical toolkit, you know? These are the notes that you use to
think about the world and the only notes that you need to remember about stuff. If I just had this distilled note
that existed, I would do just as well than if I had a literature note. It's just that sometimes you might
want to remember the context of how you came to particular conclusion. That's a difference between
literature and distilled notes. Here, I didn't even use a daily note
because I knew that I was going to take notes on the entire podcast when I did it. So I just made it straight into
literature note and then eventually summarize it into the distilled notes. And then that distilled note is
now linked back to, well, the original concept of YouTube. Right. So I'm going to use your literature notes
and I can see that in the part where it talks about YouTube is and successful
YouTube is I should actually put here. So I'm just going to put
MrBeast Distilled Note. And then that note is now there
permanently my thing about YouTube. So if I want to conceptualize
YouTube, or summarise YouTube, it's right there for easy use, and I can
go back to it very, very quickly. That's how you can take this
deluge of unstructured knowledge. Of knowledge that comes from so many
different sources and actually make sense out of it in a way that you can organize
and actually take bits and pieces and put it in a way that, get this chaotic and
crazy world and actually make sense of it in a way where you don't have to have made
sense of it before you start to try to. That feels kind of poetic, right? This may not be the perfect Zettelkasten. There may be ways that you can do it
better, but this is the way that I do it. And this has served me extremely
well in terms of being able to think about knowledge and everything. If I have questions that come up about
YouTube, I'm never left thinking, oh, like I vaguely remember someone
said something once about something. I can either go back to my YouTube
document and then look at it immediately, or I can search it up really quickly. And even if it's just something
that I thought about once in my daily note, I can find it. Obsidian is obscenely powerful for that. Again, if you look at this graph,
you can see that I can access any of these nodes at any time. The thing is if you have notes like this,
then you have such a huge advantage when it comes to how you collect knowledge
and organize knowledge that, you know, people can come to you with essentially
any question, if you thought about it once in the past, then you'll be
able to answer that question for them. So the fact that you decided to
do this course is extraordinarily valuable and, and you don't have to
start with these big grand ideas. You can just start with the daily note. In fact, all you need to do really
to start using Obsidian is to just write something into your daily notes. You can just write once per
day, it can be anything, just a thought that you had or whatever. When you have something like this, you
start to think in ways that are really interesting and much deeper than what
most people would think about stuff. For example, I came across a lamp in the
move the night, and then I noticed just the lamp, the light from the lamp actually
reflected back on to the lamp itself. For me, it's such a random thing
to have seen 'cause I was literally just coming back for a run, but I
was like, huh, like, I suppose that applies for many aspects of life. You start to think of these analogies,
like, you know, for content creation, for example, when you really help
people at scale, perhaps on like proportional to the amount of scale
and helpfulness that you create, there may be a proportion of badness that
you create in the process, as well. It's the same as that particular light. So I might connect those two
concepts together in Obsidian. The way that you link ideas and think
about stuff in your own life is going to be dependent on your own context,
your own ways of processing the world. Obsidian, I think is just one
of the greatest ways to do that. So I'm really excited for you. Look, you can do the rest of the course. There's a lot more I want to talk
about that can help you optimise stuff, but really, if you just had these few
sections, then that's more than enough to get started with Obsidian and get
really, really powerful use out of it. So any video from this point, you're
starting to really become a power user. and For the videos that follow, just take
the bits and pieces that apply to your life or that you think might be useful. But none of the other videos are
necessarily compulsory now that you know how to link thoughts in
Obsidian and also do a Zettelkasten, then you've already got something
extremely powerful in your pocket. And so I'd like to
congratulate you for that. So I'll see you in the next video. David: So today we're talking
about search and search is really powerful inside Obsidian. Let me show you what you can do with it. To access search on a windows computer. It's going to be control shift F but
on a Mac, it's going to be command shift F and then it immediately
accesses the search from anywhere. Generally speaking, you can try
to type in multiple words at once. So for example, if I'm going to type in
Paddy Abdaal to combine two different things, Paddy Galloway and Ali Abdaal what
we'll try to do is we'll try to find stuff that does have both of those inside of it. And you can see that if I just
type Paddy by itself, then the search is much broader. So it's kind of like an AND operator. If you want to do Paddy or Ali Abdaal
then you can certainly do that. And write "or", and so it will try to
look for either of those two terms. Similarly, you can do a dash to
get rid of a particular term. So for example Paddy dash Abdaal
we'll make sure that Abdaal is not included in the search. If I do something like Paddy Ali
however, it might be a bit complicated because of the fact that even a word I
realized has the phrase Ali inside of it. That's a little bit confusing. So if you wanted to avoid that from
happening, if you wanted to use a whole word, for example, then you can
just put quotes around just like that. And then that way, in this particular
case, it's going to search for the word Paddy and it's only going to
exclude it has if it has the word Ali, but you know, something like
realize which has ali in it as well. It's going to be fine
because it's not the word. But if I actually tried to, you know,
give it to the quotes here, then this note does not get shown up as an example. When you have a different note, you can
actually open up a new pane with the note. So to do that, you just hold down
command or control and then click. And so if you do that, it
opens up a new pane like this. If you're doing a lot of searching
and that sort of thing, sometimes you might want to make sure that
you set the pinned one so you don't accidentally get rid of this one. So like, for example, even though
I've got this one selected, if I try to open it up, it's actually going
to use the other one to use it. If you wanted to drag links
into a particular document, you can do that as well. So for example, you know, you can sort
of see how clicks here and right here, and you can just drag whatever you like. So that if you're collecting a
whole bunch of information at once, then that could be really helpful. And of course, within that if you
remember, you can do the other stuff, like access to the different
blocks or whatever, or the headings. So you might have a hashtag... that doesn't have any headings
there, for example, that doesn't either...hold on, let me get an
actual note that has headings. So let's say that I've done like my
YouTube literature note, and then I put a heading here with a hashtag
that I can like get any heading there. So that can be very useful if
you want access to a specific part of a note as well. Let's talk more in depth
about some of the other stuff. So if you want to search for the
path of a file, you can do that. So just click on this bit that says path. There is a path each group, and that's
just going to search the file name. But you can see that's pretty
like it's pretty broad. So actually I don't really tend to use
path that much because usually you can just click on the quick switcher button. Or alternatively, you can press
command+o and that does the same thing. So even if you have words that are
like a little bit part, right, it'll still search the entire phrase there. So you don't really choose a path that
much you might want to use path if you're, for example, trying to get
rid of particular terms, like I don't want my literature note or whatever
reasons that can work in that case. path is really just the
directory which the file's in. But then the file part
is the actual file name. But you know, functionally, it doesn't
really make too much of a difference. Tag is going to be the more useful one. So tags, I use all the time. If you're searching for tags, you
might search for us, for example, YouTube slash storytelling. In fact, you can actually
nest tags in in each other. So if I go to here and I go to my tag
pane which is something that you enable in the settings, then you can see that when
I click on these different panes it'll automatically search for the tag there. Such great tags is I'm
turning 29 tomorrow. Initially I thought another year,
another step towards my eventual demise. But you know, you can just
search different tags like that. Uh, If you wanted to add tags
together, you can hold down command and then you know, try to link tags. And so sometimes. you have t hings where there's two
tags included that can be helpful. For example YouTube tweets
might be an example of trying to niche down on a certain tag. If you want to search for keywords in
the same line, you use this line tool. So let's say that I use Paddy
Galloway and storytelling. And so this is all on the same line there. And suddenly you can also
do the word section as well. And so that tries to capture it within a
particular section of text or whatever. So that's already useful. I want to show you something very,
very fancy, which is regex and regex search is extremely powerful. Let's say that you're trying to search
for a particular statistic, maybe, you know, a source that has said it. And you know that they've said
that some percentage of, for example, bananas are tasty. And you know, that they've used the
number, but you can't remember what the exact number is and you know
the source, but you've got a lot of different articles at the source. So the way that you fix this
problem is by using regex. Now, what regex does is it's kind of
like a thing that programmers can use. But you can use it too even if you're
not a programmer, let me just actually go to its website to show you a bit better. so just going on the top here you can
see here in this website that it's got a bunch of texts that we can search. Similarly Obsidian, you
can search texts obviously. And what you want to do is, if you wanted
a number, a certain character symbols are represented by certain things. For example, a digit is
represented by D or slash D rather. So you put a forward slash and input date. And then it actually matches all
the numbers, which here is matched the five and the zero is separately. You may want to, for example,
match two numbers in a row. In which case it would be, for example,
this would just match one number rise. If I put a seven there, it's
going to match that as well. But if I want it to match just numbers
that have two numbers in row, then I'm going to put slash D slash D and
that'll match something like this. We got two numbers in a row. And you can change those
characters to whatever you want. So for example: if you match w it's going to be a
word if you use a capital w it's going to match anything, that's
not a word, which is basically all the spaces and the percentages,
and you can also use S for spaces. So you can create some pretty
complex stuff with this. You can use D plus, and so you can
use other D plus to match one or more. You can use the question mark to
match zero or more and you can use D. you can use D star to match zero or more. So, it's a little bit complex. If you wanted to do a bigger tutorial
on it, then there's a really good one. at automate the boring stuff with Python. And they've got a really
good section on regex. Pattern matching very regular expressions. And that's a really, really good way
to start to learn how regex works. Let me just show you a bunch so that I
can maybe demonstrate the different ones. So I'm going to show you and
demonstrate to you how this works. So, now we've got some texts
on the bottom and let's say that I want to match a digit. So it's just going to be \d as we thought. What about if you want to
use the percentage symbol? Well you could just try to do percent
and you can see that it works there. And so it's still going to match
0%, but 50% is kind of the whole thing that we want to match. So we're going to put another
\d And then now we've got two numbers and a percentage sign. And that's the thing that
we're going to match. So the thing is when you do that Obsidian
you can also do that, but you have to put a slash there, which is a forward slash
to start to symbolize to Obsidian that you're going to do the regex and then you
do that d\d before that we did percentage as we did and put a slash at the end,
and you see every single time that I've mentioned a percentage, now it come up
and I can search individual keywords. So for example, I just want specifically
percentages that Paddy had mentioned. So I'm going to type in Paddy and then
you can see here is something which has got both Paddy and a percentage,
but we want to make that a bit bigger. So I'm going to put section and
then make sure that specifically Paddy Galloway is talking about it. And so here I've had custom search through
the, with just a command F to find out exactly where the percentage bit was but
t hat's just generally how you do it. So if you wanted to match a particular
word, well, if we flash a word and Obsidian is gonna match literally
every single word in Obsidian. So, you know, it's
probably a bit reckless. I can see it's gonna take forever. So I'm not going to do that, obviously. If you wanted it to match, for example,
like a phone number, for example, let's say that you had this, you know, that the
phone number format is got three numbers and row, then it's got a dash, there's got
a number four numbers, and then it's got a dash, it's got another three numbers. So you can certainly do that. Sometimes you may not necessarily want
to type d\d\d\d So the other way to do that is you can actually use a curly
bracket and then go 4 for example, and that will do the same thing. So, you know, replace these ones here and
make that a 2 and then similarly here, and then you can make that a 2 as well. Now sometimes. Oops, sorry. I mean, three. Sometimes you might want to match a
symbol by the symbol actually means something special in regex so the
way that you match a specific symbol. So for example, if I type question
mark here, even though I've got these question marks, it's not gonna match. And so you have to do, what's called
escaping for certain symbols and all you gotta do is in front of
that one, you just put a, a \ like this and then that will escape it. So that means that you can capture
that as separate expression. Sometimes you might want to have a
set of stuff that you want to do. So for example, like occasionally for
whatever reason, this particular number is sometimes has letters inside of it, right? And you want to match
both numbers and letters. Well, you could just do this
slash w and that would be okay. But really you're really like in this
particular case, you're kind of wanting to look for something that has both a match
of numbers and letters and the same thing. So what we're going to do instead
is because this is just matching words at the moment, right? Maybe you want to match the
letters that are just for example, from a to H for whatever reason. And so to do that, you create a
set by using these square brackets, and then you can do like A-H and
that'll just match stuff that is in that part of the alphabet. Similarly you might just want to
match something that's like from the numbers 0 to 4 well, you just
type zero to four and then you can match that range like that too. So regex is very, very powerful. You can see how it's going
to be useful for your notes. And it allows you to do
these really crazy things. Oh, I should mention a few other
things with search though before we go on, so, here there's a
bunch of other search parameters. So for example, you might want to match
the case, in which case I'd have to type Paddy Galloway in capitals like that. If I don't, then it will do it even
for like location, but if I do it, then you know, it's going match the cases. Of course. Sometimes you just want to explanation
and that can be very helpful. So it's human readable now. So Paddy or Galloway and
can see this to change? It changes that all of versus any of,
as an example you might want to collapse the results to make it a bit neater. You can share more context if you want to
make it not neater So if you do, this it's going to give you the whole paragraph. And when you understand that search is
like this, then you start to realize that actually creating these links in a way
that when you search for it later it's, self-contained within that paragraph,
like thinking about how you're writing is important because when you're going
back to search these things, you want to try to make sure that you don't even have
to look at the actual page to understand what that search term was, you know? For example, this itself
is a complete thought. And if I didn't want to like, you
know, save this thought to my file or anything like that, then I'm happy
just to leave it and go into the next one and search very quickly. You can change the sort order as well. Which is self-explanatory. So, and you can copy the
search results as well. So for example, if you wanted to copy
all these results, then it will tell you all the times that your thing
has been mentioned, and you can copy and paste that anywhere you want, even if you wanted to, you could
turn all of them into a link. So here now, if I copy and paste this,
then this is a whole bunch of links that I've created for this search right here. And so when you look at it, well, you
know, theoretically it should work, but actually it's not the best cause you can
see that it actually fails on truncations. So I don't do that that often, but that
is a potential thing that could work. Now, this is the last part of this. Let's say that you have a search and you
know that every single time you're going to access a particular document, you're
going to do that particular search, right? Well, what if you could actually
embed the search into the note? You can. So to do that, what you do is you type
in these three back ticks at the top left and you type in query, and then
you just type another three backticks. Then you can type in the actual
query itself so that when you preview it, then it will actually
embed the search inside the note. So if you have things that you always
commonly search up, maybe it's like a hashtag or things that are active. For example, like active projects. Maybe it's a hashtag of todos. Maybe it's a, a particular person that
you just want to keep track of them. You can use this query thing to
automatically embed the search into your document itself. So now that you've done this,
you know, everything there basically is to know about search. One other thing I quickly mention
about tags ,because that's kind of important if you put tags as YouTube,
it's going to cover everything. Right. But obviously it comes up
all the nested stuff as well. So, you know, if you're nesting
something like YouTube storytelling, you have to be pretty exact with
making sure you type it exactly. Right. There's no autocomplete function
for the tag, unfortunately, unless you like, you know, click on
the nested version, but so yeah. Don't make your tags so super duper
long because you have to type every single letter of that tag otherwise,
which is kind of a bit annoying. So, that's search done! Onto the next video! Now in this video, I'm going to
go through the different, special formatting that you can do in Obsidian. And it's a super duper cool
cause there's so much you can do actually with formatting. But you kind of have to, you
don't have to memorize it. You can go to the Obsidian
website you can go to help. Go to the how to section
and go to format your notes. And that basically talks about everything
that we're about to talk about. But what I'm going to do is I'm going
to super duper quickly show you. You can just visit the website if you
want to go really quickly, but I'm going to show you pretty quickly as well. So here if you wanted to embed an
image, you just use this exclamation mark and the square brackets. But to be honest, I just
drag files in Willy nilly. So, you know, you can
copy and paste files. And if you do that, it literally
does exactly the same thing there. You can drag in files, that's
going to do the same thing. So I don't often use that. The thing with files is though make
sure this is actually really important. So make sure in settings go to files and
links, and then you want to make sure that there is a attachment folder path
for newly created files So I usually pull my images into a thing into a
folder called meta slash attachments. And so that means that any image
that I put into Obsidian is going to get chucked into there. so that's really important. Here's something super
cool that you can do. Now, if you just want a normal link,
for example, you can totally do that. And just, you know, let's just say that
you got a link and I've created one to my notion, for example, and the way that
appears is it appears like this, right? And so if you click on it, it's
going to go to the website just as you expect for a link and you know,
here well it's as expected, but what you can do is that for some apps,
notion is the one I particularly use. If it's like an app that's on
your computer, it probably has the ability to access the app directly. And the way that you do that for
notion, for example, is that you take the same link that you would have used. So for example, the notion here I'm
going to go to going to get it open. I'm going to use copy link from
something here, for example, And then I'm going to, you know, this is what
the link looks like by itself, right? So all you gotta do is you
add notion://, to that. And so what happens is that for this third
link, if I click on that, it's going to open it locally in the notion app itself,
rather than go to the website of notion. Unfortunately, with notion if
you're trying to use this notion hybrid system notion, can't do that. So the way that you do it from notion
is to use an app called Alfred. And so basically what you do
is you copy the Obsidian URL. You just have to make it as it's
like a separate block there. And then that way, when you copy
and paste it, you can actually use Alfred to easily access it into there. And that'll take you to the Obsidian
note So that's sort of how I think the two systems together, because,
because although I love Obsidian, this course is about Obsidian. I still find notion to be better just
for certain architectures, but anyway, Here if you've got a
list, you can quote it. But the thing is, this is not a quote
to start off with fried because it starts off with if you put a dash it's
going to actually create a bullet point. So basically let's say you want
to put this into a quote box. You simply put a > symbol and then
that'll quote it, kind of like what you would expect from like a 4chan thing. But here, it's obviously created
a bullet point because I've used dash and I don't want that. I actually want the
physical dash to do that. You simply put a forward slash
in front of it, and now it's got the proper dash there and that'll
put it in the box there with it. This next bit, this is code. So the really cool thing about
Obsidian is that you can put code inside different boxes and it can
actually form it the syntax as well. So let's say for example, I have
something like I know JavaScript then you just put JS, oh, maybe HTML
because I know that a bit better. And then you have to
be like div slash div. Hello. And it'll work for JavaScript and
a bunch of other ones as well, so that's definitely very useful
and the syntax would be okay. the syntax will format properly. And so Obsidian can be very, very
useful for keeping code inside. You can integrate Jupyter
notebooks so that it somehow but I don't know how to do that. So I won't talk about it here. Oh, by the way, when you actually have
the code, it really just looks like this. And then it comes up with this
nest box that you can copy as well. So if you just copy and pasting
code, that can be very, very good. You can have this library of code
that you actually put into Obsidian. I really wish I had this before. Now here, you've got this to-do list. And so this particular symbol is a way
to do tasks because you press dash, then the left square bracket space, the
right square bracket and since space again, and that creates a check box. That's a lot of steps to
create one simple checkbox. But you know, when you click it it
does that, or, you know, tentatively, you know, go to here and then press X. And that will also complete the task. let's say you've got a list of stuff that
you've automatically created, but you didn't realize that you should've made
them tasks before you did make them tasks. So what you can do is, you can
actually select multiple lines inside Obsidian at the same time. Here, if I'm going to hold
down option and then click. Now, what I can do is if I
click those different parts, it's got all of these selected. And then when I just type the square
bracket, once it's going to put square record for all the curses space and then
the right square bracket and that way we used multiple cursors so therefore I can
therefore go to the preview mode and check all these off in a very satisfying way. Tables is next tables has an
interesting formatting in Obsidian. I don't like tables and
Obsidian, but you can use them. So you basically have to use the pipe
in between the pipe is the thing on the right-hand side of the keyboard
that's above the forward slash. It's not the letter "I", it's
actually like a longer I. Essentially. And then you put something underneath
that, which is a whole bunch of dashes. And then you, you know, you can create
the different cells or your column. So if you look at what it looks like
in preview mode, it'll look like this. If you wanted to cross out something,
then what you do is you put the ~ squiggly line At the left-hand side of it and
at the right-hand side of it as well. And that creates a crossthrough
or sorry, a strike through .
If you want to use call-outs,
that's another thing as well. Call-outs are used often in program
documentation, but certainly you can use it if you just want to have a
separate block that points out something. So the syntax here is to use the
greater than symbol and then square brackets, and then the exclamation
mark, and then whichever block, this is. There's a lot of different types
of blocks and what it looks like is it kind of look like this with
colors that are automatically there with different symbols. And that's really nice. So, I'm not going to go
through that more in depth. Footnotes look like this. With footnotes, you can use a simple
footnote, which is just going to be denoted by the square bracket again. But then you can put you can put the one
there and that'll create a footnote here. You can put the square bracket there
and then to create the bottom of the footnote, you simply write the same
thing again so with the extension one but then you put a colon in front of it
and you say, this is my tiny footnote. So when you actually look at the preview
mode, it sends that all the way down to the bottom, and that is a actual
footnote, which now has a link back to the original footnote there too. So that's pretty cool. You can use a bigger footnote. That footnote, you can actually
make it multi multiline. So for example, let's
say I have some code and this is the code and we're cool. And so now when I go to the
preview mode, it will take all those lines of code and stuff and
then put it in one big note there. Really, it doesn't have to be a big note. You can put any sort
of word that you want. There. You can put anynote, bignote, whatever you
want, and then it'll work out just fine. We've got Matt here next. So with maths basically Obsidian uses
latex or MathJAX is actually the technical term for the rendering engine they use. So if you just insert like latex
code with these dollar signs in the front, then that's how you essentially
create the equations within Obsidian and those were format properly. I didn't know about for about, because
I'm not a computer scientist though, so yeah, I don't use that too often. Similarly diagrams, they use a thing
called mermaid, which I also don't use because it looks like an engineering
thing, but that exists there as well. You can do fancy stuff with that. That's the special keys and formatting. Hope that's been useful, but if you
wanted to, you could always go to the Obsidian help guide and they
will have a whole list of different things that you can do there as well. one last little cool thing, actually. You can actually embed
HTML stuff into Obsidian. So let's say for example, I wanted
to access a particular part of a YouTube video and I go to whichever
video comes up here, Marques Brownlee. Cool. And then here, I want to say like,
maybe I've gone to 51 second, mark. I want to embed this particular part. You actually click on share, and then
you can click on this start bit and then click on embed and then we'll come up with
some code here, which is an I-frame make sure to start at that particular time. And then that way you can
copy and paste this into here, embeds Copy and paste this into here. And even though this is HTML, but when you
actually open it, it will format as this and it will start in the 51 second mark so that's really, really good if
you're using like a YouTube video as a tutorial, and you wanted to link
to a specific section of the YouTube video, then that's how you do it. So the next video I'm talking
about the queryable database and the queryable database, lets
you essentially use Obsidian as a database that you can search. The way that you have to set
up the files is pretty special. Examples of what you might use this for... so for example, let's say you have a bunch
of games and they have a bunch of scores. Well, you can get that as a database
that populates with the different stuff about those different games that you've
specified in the actual game files itself. You can sort these different data views. You can search within specific folders. So you don't set your
entire Obsidian thing. And you know, you can categorize it so
you only search parts of the database. It's really quite powerful. You could even make it so that
you just search things that have to do lists basically. And you can perform calculations
based on the numbers and stuff within the databases that you've created. It might seem really, really complicated
because I've just shown you a whole bunch of stuff at once, but it's
actually like super duper easy. And so that's what I'm going to show you. Now, first of all, to think about an item
So let's say that you have games, right? So to start off with the database
view, you type in three ticks and then you type in data view and that's it. Then you've got a Dataview right. But if you look at it, you
know, there's nothing in it. In fact it would just say I failed. So what you need to do then is you create,
like you can create a list to solve it. So let's say we're going to
list all our different games. And so here you might. write something like "list from hashtag
game/moba or hashtag game/crpg", but what is this list actually getting stuff from? Well, the individual games the way
that I've created those is that if you actually go to the game files, let's say,
but on the walls you've put something in what's called YAML front matter. Or actually the actual hashtags itself is
really easy because it hashtags itself, you just put anywhere in the file and it
will search it and then put in the list. Right? So that's a bit special. But for the most part, the data that
you're going to want to query is going to be in this YAML front matter. It's spelled YAML front matter. And that's just a fancy way of saying
that you put these three dashes at the top and these three dashes at the
bottom and all this stuff is like data. The way that the data is structured
is usually got some sort of thing it's got, what's called a key
value pair, which is just like this first part is like a category. This is arbitrary. So you can write whatever you want. You know, I can make it a game of
just like, I don't know language. Right. And I'm going to call it Japanese. You can just type whatever you
want and that's totally fine. These categories totally arbitrary. When you have a list, you have to keep the
hashtag outside of this YAML frontmatter. If I type list from games/moba
like for example, let's say that this banana wars has games/moba
Apple ping-pong has game/moba the orange sunset has game/crpg right? So we should see the apple and banana
one but we shouldn't see the orange one. And you can see that when we go
here, that's exactly what happens. This is the data view that we've created. A basic list just uses this list
from blah, whatever hashtag. But lists, like, they aren't
that fun necessarily because they're not very useful, right? It's actually much more
useful to have a table. And so to set up the table,
again, you type in your data view but here we're going to write
in ALL CAPS, the word table. And then you actually define the
individual parts of the table. So let's say that I want to have a
table that has the top three columns being source ,score, and time. Well, I'm just going to do that. So to save time, I'm going
to copy and paste this here. And what you want to do is you write
down this bit, this bit, actually corresponds specifically to what
you've put in the front matter. So for example, if it's source with the
low caps there, then here, it has to be source with a lower caps there as well. Right? And so the source is going
to be IGN, for example, this particular apple ping pong game. Similarly rating. That second word, you have to put
inside these open quotes because otherwise it's not gonna work. And then you have to also
make sure to put commas in. So actually let me just do it bit by
bit because it's going to be easier. So for sauce as source, and then
maybe a school as well, sorry, I'll put rating as school, right? And then you still have to
prove from to specify where the data is actually coming from. So in this particular case, I'm
going to do for anything that has games, that's moba inside of it. And so when you look at it
here, we've got something wrong. Commas are very, very finicky. So if you ever get this error, you want
to make sure that you've got the comma in the right place, which is that the end
of this particular thing, you have to put a comma between every single you know,
line let's put reviewable as reviewable. Then it'll work properly and now
we have our lovely table here with all the different stuff. So cool. Here Even if you wanted to, you
could actually click on these individual files and then it'll
go to the individual game itself. So that's how you do a table. But what about, for example, like
I've, you know, cause I've got a lot of hashtags in different places, right? Like what, for example, if I chucked a
hashtag in my daily notes and then just put like games slash moba, for whatever
reason, because I was just being reckless. The problem is if I go back to my data
summary, if I go back here, right. And I tried to do this thing
where I do from game/moba then it's going to look for all the
times I mentioned game/moba in all of Obsidian in my entire vault, right? So now it would probably
accidentally include my daily note, which it has done there. And I don't want that. I just want it from a specific folder. So to do it from a specific folder,
all you gotta do is you've just got to type an open quote and
then type the name of the folder. So for example, "Queryable Database". And that's because I've created a folder
down here called queryable database. And so now it's only going to
include the stuff inside this folder and when I preview it... We've got another error here. And here, despite the fact
that we've written everything correctly, we've got an error. The reason being just, sometimes copying
and pasting stuff is weird with dataviews. So if you get this problem, all you do
is you just delete the entire thing and then just make sure to tie from scratch. And then it'll work properly sometimes. Sometimes it's just
like a formatting issue. But you know, if you're, it doesn't
work, sometimes you just delete everything and just try again. And that seems to fix it. It's a bit frustrating, but
you know, that's the nature of software for you, I guess. The fickle nature of software. And you can even add more specifiers. So for example, let's say that
you wanted to only grab stuff where the game category is moba. Like, you know, these games, for example,
I put moba and the front matter here for this game, this game, this was an RPG. So I don't want this one. And there, you can do that as well. And so to do that, you basically
take the same data view. You take the same thing. But you put this bit here where
category or whichever category you want, you can put it,
rating = age, you can put whatever. But here I'm gonna put
where category equals moba. Make sure to put that second
one in like open quotes. And so when it comes up here, it's
something going to get the ones that are moba games, which is excellent. Let's say that you want to get
all the tasks you want to look for any task inside any file and then
collect it all in one big database. Well you can do that. In fact, here, what you do is
you just use this task "from", and the folder that you want. And so what will happen there
is it'll collect everything. So for example, in apple ping pong,
I've got like a little checkbox there and the checkbox, again, it
looks like dash and square brackets. So you have a checkbox there. This other one doesn't have checkbox,
some other ones didn't have checkbox. I put a checkbox here in
the Fruity Spatooty game. And so here it's collected this. So use the word task from
queryable database and that's how you get that particular result. However, sometimes you might want
to just, you know, categorize your different projects. Cause not every project you have you
may necessarily want to work on, right? And so to do that, you just put the
where word here, and then you can categorize that in the actual game itself. So here for apple ping-pong I put
the status as inactive, but for Fruity Spatooty, which also has a
checkbox, I put status as active. And so when you go back to the data
summary thing you can see that up, put the west as it was active bit there. And so it's should only give me
one of those two games which does, I think it gives me the Fruity
Spatooty 'cause you know, that's, again, we want to work on that. We don't want to work on our
inactive apple ping pong game. Something to note here, which is
really important: the caps here matter. So for example, if I was to put
active with just a random C inside of it, it's not going to include it. And so that's not very good. So you're going to make sure that
you match the caps there like this, and then it work properly. These tables you can actually
use calculations on as well. So first of all, you
start off with the table. And once I started from the table
here, let me just put my basis because it would make it better. This will make it easier to understand. So when I use this, right, basically
you create your own data view, you do the same thing and you, first of all,
start with the table you know, where you want to include some bits inside. Here it corresponds with
the different numbers. And so here in apple ping
pong, I've written down that I want the cost be 4,000. so here, when I've gone back
to my database, then the number 4,000 comes up as the cost
that we've defined in our table And if you wanted to, you could
use those numbers in part of your calculations of the table. Here, I'm going to use where, where
a category where source equals IGN. You can actually go to this fiery
just type city in data view. And it'll come up as the first
one on GitHub, and then you can see the different use cases here. There's a full reference
is a full reference here at blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview
so that's actually the link that you want. I was going to show you how to
do calculations but I don't know. But however, you kind of find out by
big braining it blacksmithgu.github.io. Or you can just search up Obsidian,
data view, GitHub, and you'd probably be able to find this page. It's got a purple sort of headline
there, and that's going to be a source where you can do much
more fancy things than I've done. But this hopefully gives you an idea
as to some of the stuff you can do with data views inside Obsidian. You can see how this is useful for,
for example, you've got a bunch of clients and you create an individual
page for every client or customer, and then you can group them together
in one sort of thing, you could see what tasks I needed, all of them. And so you can see that this database
view is actually extremely useful if you're going to use Obsidian for it now. I actually prefer to use notion
for it to be perfectly honest. But you know, if you're dead set
on using one piece of software then dataviews are the way to
sort of do this stuff in Obsidian. So a few last notes when you're writing
front matter for example, you're writing this bit at the top of the document
that has the dash dash dash, you might sometimes get what's called an M dash
and that's like one really long dash. If you put on certain settings the way to
fix that is that you just typed - again. And then for some reason typing
dash four times actually creates that three dashes and it fixes it. And so, yeah, you can have
the front matter as per usual. Now the front matter has to be
at the very top of the file. So just remember that. So yeah, have that's been helpful
and I'll catch you in the next video. And this next video, I'm going to be
talking about version control with Git. This is a pretty advanced tutorial. But I'm going to try to
make it simple for you. Now, version control what it is
is basically it lets you go to any snapshot at any particular time. It's almost like you have this
continuous backup of all the changes of your Obsidian document. And so let's say like, you accidentally
deleted like a hundred files yesterday and you're like, oh man,
I wish I had that file from Monday when everything wasn't deleted. Well, you can actually do that
Obsidian, but you have to set it up. And so, and so what you're going
to use is thing called Git. Git is a really powerful
thing that program is used. But I'm gonna show you
how to do it in Obsidian. So first of all, I want you to
go to settings and I want you to community plugins and then go browse
and then type in Obsidian Git. Go and install that. And then that'd be good. It doesn't work on mobile. It only works on the computer. So you have to have a
computer obviously to do this. This is going to be on Mac. You can probably do it
similarly on windows. If you do it on windows, you have to
look up the way that you do in command line cause I actually don't know
how to do it personally in windows. But I think maybe the, the
methods will be pretty similar. So, in a Mac you go to terminal
and then what you want to do is you want to access your folder. So for example let's say that I'm
going to take my matcha green vault. And then you drag that
folder here after typing CD. So CD is hit. Let me make this bigger CD is for
change directory, and then you go and access that particular vault. This is in the program called terminal. So that's just in your application. So, and then what you want to do is if
you've never done it before you want to type, git init, git init, and that'll
create the start of your version control. So the way that version control
works is that when you're creating versions, it's, what's called a commit. And so to commit, what you do is,
you could go into here and you could type get commit and that would
tell you a whole bunch of stuff. And I think that that's
a little bit complicated. What I'm actually going to do is I'm going
to actually install, Github Desktop, which is a program that can download for free. And then I'm going to access
the Matcha Green Vault. So here I click on repository. Here, if you click on file and then
add local repository, then you can choose that Matcha Green Vault. And so I've gone to the Matcha
Green Vault here and choose that and open that and then add repository. There, you can click on the Matcha Green
Vault on the left hand side, and you can see it's got all of these like files
that you have not committed to start off with because really a commit is just
seeing the changes between the files. So here, I'm going to put this as
initial commit because you have to put a summary there and will add
all these automatically for me. And so I've to commit committed to master. And now although everything's disappeared,
it looks like I've deleted a whole bunch of stuff, but actually the
history is I've done my initial commit. And so it means that now I've
got this version of the file that I can go back to at any time. But let me just do a few more to, to
create a few versions and then I can show you how this thing actually works. With the commit bit. What I tend to do personally is
in the Obsidian Git settings. ..So if you go to community plugins
and the settings, and then you go to options, then you can actually
set a vault backup interval. I set mine for five minutes, because
that means that every five minutes it's going to save a new version of the Vault. It doesn't really add that much space
to your hydro or anything like that. Like, it's not like you're creating,
like there's a hundred gigabyte backups at every single time because
the actual version control is just tracking the changes of the files. So here I put that as five minutes. I don't use pull interval. The sync method has merged
and I keep everything else basically as this default there, I keep everything as its default there. And everything else is basically
the same there that I keep. So that means that you might've seen
this like a little thing pop up on my top right-hand side and says committed
to files or committed five files. And when it commits, then that means
it's saved a new version of the files. So you can manually choose to save
versions of the files as well. I mean, every time that you, you
know, working, I'm sitting, it's still creating new files and saving them
pretty much automatically anyway, but let's say that you wanted to save that
particular thing to the version control. Well, all you gotta do is let's say I've
created a new file here, and I wanna save this to the control and be likehahahaha
whatever, then you access your command pallet by pressing command P . You
should actually type in, get commit. I didn't do that. That was just the automatic one. But if you do that with good commit
it'll do exactly the same thing. And if the changes to
commit then will commit it. So what does committing mean? Here's the Vault backup that was actually
conveniently, automatically done just then because of that crazy timing. And so now you can see that you've
got this new version here and it's got the changes that have been tracked. Maybe I can add like, I dunno,
"scrupulous file", danger! Right. And let's commit that one by
using command P committal changes. So, you know, when you've got to
set up, it's going to automatically do it for you, but you can
manually commit it if you want to. And so now you've got this new version
of the file and you can see that the scrupulous file has been added here. The workspace has been changed
slightly, but it's mainly that the scrupulous file has been added. And so you might be like, ah, crud,
like, take me back to the start. Take me back to the good old times
when I started seeing completely fresh and only had my first version. You can definitely do this, but
keep in mind that this bit can be irreversible, technically speaking. Let's say I want to come
back to my initial commit. I want to go back to the
time when I was pretty fresh. I didn't have any scrupulous
files inside my Obsidian. I'm going to right click on this
and I'm going to click copy SHA. And then I want to go into
my terminal from before and sorry, let me just clear this. It's still within the Vault
remembered to, to go into the vault, if you haven't done that there. So, here, we're going to drag the
folder CD, drag the folder in, go into the vault, and then now
we're here inside the vault, right? And then you can type "git reset
--hard", then you copy and paste that SHA number directly into there. And so what this will do is it'll actually
take it all the way back to the start. So if I press enter now, then you can see,
it says the head is that initial comment. And if I go back to here, it's almost
like the versions have completely changed. Right? It's gone. In fact, if I go back to
Obsidian, that's scrupulous file that I created is also gone. So we've created a new,
fresh version of Obsidian. Obviously you don't have to
go back to the very start. Sometimes you might just want to go
back like a few days or something. And so you can do that if
you want to, you've got the whole thing in GitHub Desktop. SourceTree is another alternative
program, but I just use GitHub desktop. Cause it's kind of easy. And for up to 100GB, if you felt like
it, you could actually publish your Obsidian notes to a GitHub account,
which means that you can have like an online backup of the same thing. So, but it's only got a hundred
gigabytes worth of data. So keep in mind that, but let's
say that I decided, yeah, I want to publish this to a website. It's all backed up online. Not using Dropbox, not using
iCloud, not using any specific service except for GitHub. The way that you do that is you go back
to GitHub desktop, and then you simply click on publish repository to GitHub. And then you're going to have to log in. If you don't have account, you
have to make an accountant stuff. But here I'm going to make sure to
keep this code private, publish it. Oops, sorry. I'm publishing something
else, Matcha Green tea Vault. And so what that means is now
it's uploaded to the internet. And so if I wanted to ever download my
entire Obsidian folder, then I can go to github.com and then log into my account. And then I'll go to my repositories and then you can see I've got Matcha Green
Tea Vault there which is a private thing. And if I wanted to download
this entire file for whatever reason, I could certainly do
that by clicking, download zip. I could open it with GitHub
desktop as well as another option. And then we'll open it in the
program that I had before. But yeah, that's a way to safely
backup your files without necessarily having to pay for any cloud
services or anything like that. But again, keep in mind, this is only
a hundred gigabytes of stuff that you can put in here which can fill
up pretty quickly if you're putting a lot of images and that sort of thing. So you just have to be mindful of that. There is a way there is a way to,
for example not upload like big files, like images and stuff by
using what's called Git Ignore. But that's a bit outside of the
scope of this particular tutorial. And you can see it's an automatic backup
here just within that five minutes. Right. But it's just committed. It, it hasn't really
pushed it to the internet. There is theoretically a way
to push directly from Obsidian by, you know, just typing push. But I don't know how to do it. So I guess I would just go to GitHub
Desktop occasionally, and then click on the push origin button. And that will do the same thing as backing
up to the, to the new folder and stuff. But yeah, if you understood this
tutorial and you didn't know Git before, like this is really kind of powerful. So I don't know if anyone else
is ever going to cover it, but I hope that's helpful. Git is very useful for learning if
you're doing programming and stuff. And if you're not doing programming
well, it's useful just for the specific purpose of version control. So I'll see in the next video. Now let's talk about templates. Templates are these files that you can
use to automatically put a bunch of stuff in and then when you're creating
new files, like new notes, for example, you can have all this stuff populated
in the new note, without having to just re copy and paste it from another
note again and again and again. So here, what do you want to do is
you want to go to your settings. You want to go to core plugins
and you go to templates. So then you click on the templates bit. And then you put your. Sort of, I mean, what is set up? Well, first of all, you actually should
go to the templates options there, and you want to specify a folder of templates. Right? And so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to create a folder called templates right here like this,
and then go to that bit once more. And then here, I'm going to click on
this templates folder that I've created. So, you can see that you can automatically
generate a formatted date and time. I'm in Australia. So I'm going to actually
change the formatting to this. But I'll still keep the
time there as usual. And when I create an individual template,
so let's say that I'm creating a template with some front matter, you
can use that for things like, the bit in the data views part of this course. You can use that for adding
some properties to your notes that you can search up later. So for example, here, I might
be like, source of the note. I'm going to be putting the time
created here and I'm going to put these two brackets like this, oh, sorry. Date created. And then I'm going to push
tagged concepts here like this. It can be as lightweight as you want. I'm going to create this
so this is a fleeting note. Even though I technically use something
else, but that's just an example. Right. And so this thing here, make sure
to rename it as like fleeting note template, for example. And so when you've got this note, you
want to drag it into the templates file. So you can use it now as a template. let's just say, I was thinking about I
know the meaning of life and I wanted to create a fleeting note on that. Here, what I can do is I can go
to the command pallet by pressing command P or control P and then
I will simply write a template. And then, because this is my only template
it's going to insert that one immediately. And yeah, it was super, duper quick. And so, yeah, I've got a new
fleeting note that, that quick You may not want to
have it as frontmatter. You may want to actually have it visible. And so here, instead of just three
dashes, you can just put forward dashes and that'll do it like this, for example, sometimes it's a bit weird with the
spaces, so you just have to play around with it until you get it right. And sometimes I want to put
tagged concepts in here. So for example, I'm might be
like, I'm going to think about spirituality or something. So that way I can have this
easily searchable, if I wanted to. The source can be wherever you want. Google, anything. This date that we created is automatically
populated from what we did before. And that's fantastic. But you know, obviously you
might have other types of notes. So for example, let's say
that say that you want to... Make a copy there and create a
literature note template, right? Well, you can certainly do that as well. And then you just go change
the type to literature. And so now, if you were to go
back to your daily notes and we've got everything deleted I'm just
going to type command P and then template and then insert template. And then you can insert whichever
template that you want there, literature note template in this particular case. Sometimes typing command P is
kind of like a bit annoying. I like Notion's idea of just having a
slash and then being able to access stuff. Well it turns out that you
totally can, because there's a thing called slash command. So if you make sure to enable that
in community plugins, it means that instead of typing command P now you
can just type / and then template, and then it will go to insert template. And then you can still do
selection as per usual. So that's templates, a nutshell,
super duper quick, super easy, and super duper good. I'll catch you in the next video. okay. So this is just going to be a
very quick video about backing up your files with Obsidian. There's a separate video talking about
how you can use get full version control. So that's one method where you can
actually use GitHub to backup your files and that's completely free. But you can only have up to a
hundred gigabytes with that. You can do that on your computer, but
you can't do that on your mobile phone. So if you have an iPhone, then
the way that you do it is you use iCloud sync and then iCloud is
probably the best way to do it. There is actually Obsidian Sync as
well, but there's one problem with Obsidian and which is that it doesn't
necessarily have that much space if, especially if you're including movies
and images and that sort of thing. The actual amount of space
is only 10 gigabytes for the files, which is not much at all. In fact, even if you use GitHub,
like with the other method, that's still a hundred gigabytes. So I tend to use iCloud drive and the
other benefit for using iCloud drive for iPhones is that you can actually
use Obsidian on mobile as well. And so you can type stuff in Obsidian
and your iOS device, and then it will be reflected in the computer and stuff. If you're on an Android, the other
options are listed on the Obsidian website because I don't have an Android. Sorry. So if you're hoping to sync using like
Android or whatever, then the easiest way they say it's use Obsidian Sync. But you can actually use
any app that syncs a folder. So for example, drop sync or folder
sync and you have to make sure that the app that you're using
actually can sync on a folder. Because with Obsidian, you're often
updating multiple files at once, which makes it a bit different
from other types of software. And yeah, that's basically
how you back up Obsidian, The last thing I should mention is
that you can back up by literally copy and pasting the folder of notes
into different, hard drives and stuff. So that's another option
you can use as well. If you have a Mac, you might be able
to use a program like Hazel to be able to back things up periodically
to like a local folder or to like a hard drive or something. But my personal method, the one
that I use is I use iCloud drive and the Git version control. Although I should probably publish
it to a GitHub website as well, just to be extra safe, I guess. So that's how you back up your Obsidian. Okay. So let's talk about PDFs and Obsidian. Now, the PDFs inner city, and
there's sort of two main methods. You could do it. If you want to go with the basic
method the way that you do it is you just literally drag a
PDF file into your document. And then it comes up like
this that's super easy. So here is PDF physically drag it into the
file, and then you can access that PDF. Yippee! But you know, you probably want to
do a bit more than that, and you're probably wondering why I made a
video on it, if that was that easy. Because there's actually
more that you can do. So, first of all, if you want to
reference a specific page, you just type hashtag and then page equals whatever. Page = 3, for example. When you go to here or
automatically visit on page three. Let me show you the most powerful
thing that you can do with it. So let me just open that up again. You can see up here, I've got this
thing, which looks a bit suspicious. So if you actually go to settings and
then you go to community plugins, and then you go to Annotator, that's a very
useful plugin for working with PDF files. You just download that from community
plugins and look at you know, community plugins type in annotator
and then it will come up and you can download that and install that. So the way that annotator works is
that...if you have like a URL or something, you write this in front matter. So it's got the three dashes there
and three dashes there, then you write annotation-target, and then
you copy and paste a URL there. And so what happens is that when you
actually go to go to the more options bit, you've got a new thing that comes
up, you've got this new annotate button. So you click on that. It'll actually bring up your PDF
file, but now the PDF file you can actually highlight, and the
highlights will be saved into your Obsidian notes as mark down. In other words, as plain text,
which you can search and everything. Let's say that I wanted to
highlight this bit, right? I can simply go there, drag
there and highlight it. I can annotate it. But I'm just going to highlight today. So that'll save that as a note. And then here I'm going to highlight
this bit as well, just an example. And then I can annotate that to be
like a two-stage approach you used. And then if I post it only me,
then it's got my own note there. And what that means is that when I can
actually open it as an MD file, you notice that there's some new, like bits
of cryptic looking texts, there's a huge amount of weird cryptic looking texts. Right? And so when I actually go down to here,
what that looks like is like this. And so these are the, how these
highlights have now come up from the PDF file that I just used so that
a plugin is called annotator and that lets you do things for PDFs. So pretty useful. This is a quick video, so there's not
much more to talk about, but I hope that's at least a little bit useful for you. Okay. So in this video, I'm going to be talking
about plugins and I'm just going to go through a whirlwind tour of what each
individual plugin does so that you don't have to look it up every single time. So first of all, let's
go to the settings here. I'm going to the core plugins, the ones
that I've got set up File Explorer. Self-explanatory. Search. Self-explanatory. Quick switcher is very useful that
lets you open up files quickly. So for example, if I press Command+O, then
I can simply go to whichever file I want. Just by typing it in
and then pressing Enter. Graph view is something
that's a bit fancy. I don't use it that much. Some people really love it, but
that shows you all your notes and how they connect to each other. And you know, basically you
just use it to impress people. I mean, you can technically
search in files and stuff. And so for example, I wanted to
search just my YouTube things and see how they connect together. You know, you could do that,
but I don't know, I don't use it for much more than being fancy. Backlinks you is pretty much like a must. That just shows you the
links from other files. So for example if I was to look
at the files here and then look at backlinks, well, this particular date
hasn't been mentioned before, right? Obviously, cause I don't
mention this date often. But if I wanted to go to, for example,
my YouTube literature note and see all the backlinks from there, you can see
that every single time I've mentioned the YouTube literature note in a
link it'll come up on that bit there. And similarly you can see
outgoing links and see where this particular thing links to. So that's very cool. Tag pane is very useful. That's what this thing is here. And so, you can see that
once you use hashtags. So let's say that I use
hashtag videography, right? If I sort this properly, you'll
be able to find it in here. And then when you click on the
tag, then you can just click on it, literally to search it very quickly. So that's what tag pane is. You can actually use nested tags as well. Cause you might be like videography
slash drama or whatever, and it'll come up kind of like this. So for example, this YouTube
storytelling one is just like YouTube, such storytelling. And that's when I use very, very commonly. Daily notes. Daily notes is one of my
favorite plugins for Obsidian. I always enable daily notes and I always
make sure to create it in a daily notes location because that's a note that,
you know, resets every single day. So super duper useful and very
useful, not just for keeping a diary, but it's basically a place that
you can quick capture notes very easily which is what I always do. Note composer is kind of interesting
merge, split and refactoring it. So what that means is that
basically let's say that I've got a whole note here, right? And I just wanted to take this part,
this paragraph, and I wanted to keep it in a separate note by itself. Right. So I can actually highlight this, right
click it, and then I can go to extract current selection...and then I can be
like imitate then innovate strategy or something to create a new note. And now it's created it as a link. And if I go to that link by
pressing command enter, I mean, sorry, command and click. Then let's create a new page
without me having to copy and paste it and just make a new note. it just saves a bit of. Slash commands. I love slash commands as well. Cause slash commands allows you to
basically use the command pallet, which he normally asks us by command P. For example, I went to
the start a template. Command+P then template
would be the way to do that. But I can just type session
set and slash template. And that's really, really good. So I love using that. Starred prefers to this bit up here. Occasionally you might want
to have like a star note where it's like a favorite thing. And so if you start
then it'll come up here. I don't use it that much,
but there's an option. There's a random note plugin. I don't use that. Some people like the idea of being
able to resurface a random note, but you know, I'm not that kind of guy. There's an outline plugin. So for example, let's say that you have
a plugin with like a lot of sections. Let me go to how and what to dial in. So let me go to this section, right? And then here on this top right bit Tend
to it'll give you like an overview of all the different headings and stuff. So for example, if you're big file, then
it's kind of like a table of contents. Of course you can actually use table
contents as everything as well. So table of contents is also a
plugin that you can enable, although it's actually a community plugin. So you actually have to browse
and install a table of contents. And I do because the table
of contents is quite good. Basically it means at the top of
the document, if you type you know, slash table with the command, then
you can insert a table of contents. And then when you go to preview
mode, it looks like that instead. So you can use outliner or
use table of contents, but I tend to like table of contents Slides is pretty interesting. You can actually present from
markdown as like a presentation. I don't use it that much, but
it's certainly a nice idea. And yeah, those are the
main ones that I set up. Obsidian has the ability to publish notes
to a website file Obsidian published. So you might consider that, although
it's a paid subscription, of course, and they just have their own backup
service, which is Obsidian sync. Although he only get 10 gigabytes
of file memory with that. So I don't use that. I use my other methods as
covered in another video. Now community plugins,
this is moreso a biggum. Let me just run through the
ones that I actually use because there's actually quite a lot. Annotator is about PDF files. There another video that I've got covered
called mastering PDFs in Obsidian. So if you want to learn how to do
that then this is the plugin for it. But go to that particular video. So here, I've got auto link title. This is a good plugin that when
you copy and paste something from the internet, so let's say I'm
going to cut and paste this here. What will happen is that it'll
automatically fetch the title for you, so you don't have to
type the title in manually. So that's nice. Calendar is very useful. So if you have daily notes
you can actually use your calendar function for that. You can click in between
different notes on your calendar. So you can see you know,
what's happening at each stage. it's got like a vague description
of how long a note is with the different dots that you've got there. So that's kind of cool dynamic table contents. I've talked about that. Data view. I've got another video that I'm
going to make about data views. So watch that video. That's a very, very powerful
tool for being able to query your Obsidian as a database. But it's got to be too much in depth here. So watch that one. Citations is something that you can use. If you have like a, a Zotero
library that you set up with highlights of different journal
articles, pools and stuff like that. So that's kind of cool. I didn't actually do heaps of academic
research necessarily that uses that library, but that's an option. Kanban is a plugin. That's actually pretty good. And so it's basically a markdown
based Kanban board in Obsidian. But I'm not going to talk about it
cause I actually don't use it too much. I tend to use notion for
Kanbans to be perfectly honest. Local images. This is a really important plugin. Basically it saves the files. Like if you have like an image file
download, it saves it to Obsidian itself, so that, you know, if you
move that file for whatever reason, it doesn't break because of the fact that
it's got a local version in Obsidian. So I always install that. Mac iOS, keyboard navigation
near probably pretty good. One media extended. I have this just because I like embed
a little YouTube videos, for example. So that's useful and I sometimes
embed MP4 files into Obsidian. So that's actually really useful too. Obsidian Git I'm covering in
a video about version control. So that's extremely useful. But I want to talk about that here. Of sitting to do now this
does collect to stuff. But I haven't really used it because I
just don't use two dues and Obsidian. I think that notion is a little bit
or other dedicated to do apps are a lot better to be perfectly honest. Obsidian2Anki, extremely good. That lets you use the software
which is called Anki to be able to memorize stuff in flashcards. So I've actually made a
separate tutorial about that. You can check that out. Outline I've talked about before. Pace, your own pace,
your own intersection. I have no idea what that
does, but I've got it anyway. Readwise, I'm going to talk
about this separately because this is a very important thing. Smart typography. I really like mainly for one reason,
which is that if you have dashes and Obsidian by default, they come
up with separate dashes like this. But I liked the idea of being able
to type em dashes and that's cool. The plugin is called again, the
plugin is called smart typography. I basically don't use anything else here. So yeah, that's a expression of all
the plugins that I have in one video. That's a very rapid tour. There's a lot that you can use
and certainly, there's so much extensibility with Obsidian that you
can go crazy with it if you want to do. But you know, if you had
all those plugins, I'm sure there's like more than enough. That's been more than enough for me. I haven't really felt the need
to have even more than that. Hope this has been useful and
I'll see you in the next video. Okay. So in this video, I'm going to
show you how you can grab different sources from different places in
the internet and integrate them automatically within Obsidian. And this is a really, really useful
video because it's so cool where you can actually do all the Obsidian. So, first of all, I tend to use
Kindle to read my books these days. And the reason for doing that is
because my keynotes syncope of Readwise, in fact I'm going to be talking
about Readwise this entire video. It's a paid it is a paid software. The pricing is $7 99 for the month,
but I find it super duper useful. And I'm going to try to explain why. So with Readwise, basically when you
take highlights from your Kindle, it saves it automatically to Readwise,
but then it can save it directly from your Kindle to Obsidian. And when it does that, it
actually comes up here for both articles, books, and tweets. And so for articles, for example,
actually for books, for example here, what it'll do is it'll create this file. I didn't create this file
at all, like Obsidian and Readwise just created it itself. It has metadata there which automatically
puts in there and then it'll actually put on the highlights for you. Every single bit of text you put in
your Kindle will actually highlight automatically and then be sent to your
city and file for quoting and stuff later. So that's super duper epic. You know, I've got whole books basically
in here and I use that all the time. If you wanted to use articles? The way I do it is I tend
to use, Instapaper linked to Readwise, linked to Obsidian. of course you can just copy and
paste the entire article, or you can figure out how to manually do it. But because I had Readwise
anyway, for other things, I tend to use Readwise for that. So, here, what I mean by that is like,
let's say that I'm taking a thing on Neural Radiance Fields fields. And I've got this re this
Instapaper extension, and then I save it to Instapaper so that
when I go to instapaper.com then it'll come up as an article here. And then I can click on that. And then if I actually highlight something
here it'll automatically save to my Readwise and that Readwise will then
automatically chuck it into Obsidian. So for example cover stuff on like
DALL-E, talking about some of the stuff in Ukraine are put into here, and that
can be very, very useful for when you're reading internet articles, instead
of just, you know, wasting way the notes and never having them anywhere. You've now got your own collection of
notes from stuff that you've taken that you can use to process later, if you want. I also use Readwise for collecting tweets. So for tweets, for example, here:
this is my friend Chris Gilette up, and he's made a video talking about
whether MrBeast's Willy Wonka video was successful because of Johnny
Depp's trial, also coming up in search. And so if I wanted to save this Fred, then
I can go share, send via direct message. And I sent it directly to Readwise
with a T and then it'll then save it into my notes here. And so you can see that I've
got heaps and heaps of notes. I do tend to save a lot of SPY x
FAMILY stuff, as you can probably see from the different things here. But like, let's say this one, for
example from Thomas Frank, and here, it's got the entire thread that he's
put onto this particular tweet thread. And that saves the tweet automatically. So Readwise incredible tool for
collecting both stuff from articles, from books, Kindle and from tweets. And I use that all the time. You might be thinking, Hey, I don't
really want to pay for Readwise. I kind of, I still want
to do the same thing. Is there, what I can do for free? With articles you know, there's
a Chrome extension that you can use for markdown and then you can
convert the article to mark down. But I haven't really used it that much. So this, I mean, I suppose you could do
that and then download the mark down here. This one is just called mark download. So that's one option if you're just
doing it for articles and that will, you know, save to your Obsidian okay. But you have to copy and paste it. It's a bit of a hassle. Can you do it for kindle highlights. Apparently there's a plugin which is
called Kindle highlights by Haiti Osman. I haven't used it before. But that might be a way
to do it automatically, and finally for tweets, I dunno. I really genuinely don't know
whether you can do it or not. So you might have to look that one up. Yeah. Readwise fantastic tool. Oh, you can also specify the
folder that you want Readwise articles to be saved in as well. In my particular case, I put it
in the literature and topic notes. Cause well, it literally is literature. And that's it. Keep in mind that it's not a
functional note yet necessarily. It's just like collecting raw information. Some people may actually consider this
to be a fleeting note potentially. But I dunno, I don't mind the difference. I'm kind of flexible with it a little bit. So yeah, Readwise, very good
software, highly recommended. I see the next video okay. So we finished the Obsidian as a Second Brain Course. So I'm so glad that you were
here to do this with me. This is a really, really powerful
software, as you can definitely see by the, I don't know, 20 or
whatever videos that I've been on it. And so I really hope this
course has been useful. I think that it's legitimately like
being able to take notes in this way is like, actually life-changing,
because basically like if you have any single thought that thought is
never necessarily wasted ever again. And then you can actually use
obscene to think as well, rather than just to remember stuff and by being able to collect and use
knowledge in beautiful ways, then you can create wonderful things. And I really hope that you
found this course useful. If you've managed to complete the entire
thing, like send me an email or something, or just send me any or regardless,
and let me know how you found it. But yeah, thanks for
sticking around with me. It's been fun and I'm still gonna keep
on recording stuff to my YouTube channel. So you can feel free to watch that if
you want to contact me, you can also contact me on Twitter at DabidoYT or you can contact me by
email at david@dabido.com.au. It's been a pleasure. I'm a bit tired now. I'm going to go do a workout
and I'll catch you around. So you take care. I hope it's been useful and see you later.
