Category: PKM

  • Obsidian SNW plugin

    Obsidian SNW plugin

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    The point to building a personal note system is to be able to find related thoughts in your vault. That can be hard at times as you have to be intentional about opening the backlinks panel or looking at the Graph Analysis panel. This is where the Strange New Worlds (SNW) plugin for Obsidian can…

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  • Obsidian Symbols Prettifier

    Obsidian Symbols Prettifier

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    Today we’re going to take a look at the Obsidian Symbols Prettifier plugin. It does one simple thing, turns symbols like -> into pretty symbols that look like this →. If you use Canvases lots and want pretty symbols inside those, this plugin isn’t going to work for you as it doesn’t work with Canvas…

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  • Obsidian WordPress Plugin Updates

    Obsidian WordPress Plugin Updates

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    I looked at this plugin just a few weeks ago and I had two bigger issues with it. First, your passwords were not encrypted in your Obsidian vault. Yes, WordPress has it on its roadmap to allow password scoping so that we could assign an application password to only do some things on a site,…

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  • Goodbye DEVONthink

    Goodbye DEVONthink

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    Now that I have a Fedora Linux laptop to do my work on I’m realizing that I have some vendor lock-in I need to deal with in my note-taking system. Specifically, I’ve used DEVONthink as my storage for research materials and “other people’s thoughts” for a long time. DEVONthink is not available on Linux though…

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  • Publish from Obsidian to WordPress

    Publish from Obsidian to WordPress

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    Back in early 2022 I covered an Obsidian plugin that let you publish to WordPress and at the time I wasn’t all that impressed. It felt hard to use, didn’t remember your password, and really didn’t save any time. Since then I had it on my list to write a better plugin that took advantage…

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  • Obsidian Novel Word Count

    Obsidian Novel Word Count

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    Depending on how you have your projects organized, you may want the word count of a folder. This is where Novel Word Count for Obsidian can help you. Novel Word Count does one thing, count the words of the items in the folders in your Obsidian vault. By default it will only show you the…

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  • Easy iFrames in Obsidian

    Easy iFrames in Obsidian

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    I recently started gaming again and built a second Obsidian vault to keep track of the resources I want for various games. At this point it’s mostly a repository for Hollow Knight. This means I have lots of videos to embed and my previous method with a Templater file to start from was slower than…

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  • One Simple Trick to Make Connections with Your Notes

    One Simple Trick to Make Connections with Your Notes

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    I’ve helped a number of people with their note system, and almost every one of them has had the same problem. This single problem can be fixed with one trick, not an easy trick, but it’s the single biggest thing standing between you and producing something from your notes. Make Time to Work Your Notes…

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  • The Obsidian Plugins I Actually Use

    The Obsidian Plugins I Actually Use

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    I’ve shown off a lot of Obsidian plugins here, and a bunch of them haven’t made it into my regular rotation despite my initial excitement about them. Today we’re going to look at those plugins that I do use regularly because they fit my workflow. Book Search Each book I read generates at least two…

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  • How I Use Obsidian to track Programming

    How I Use Obsidian to track Programming

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    If you’re a web developer and want some insight into how you could use Obsidian to track what you work on, today is for you. I’m going to give you a tour of how I use Obsidian to track GitHub issues and document our site setup. As this is a working Obsidian vault, I’m not…

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