Tag: Obsidian

  • Omnivore – open source read later

    Omnivore – open source read later

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    There are many services and applications around to save content to read later. Academics often lean towards something like Zotero, but most people don’t need the heavy citation management that is present in an application like Zotero. For most of us an application like Omnivore is just what we need, a place to save articles…

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  • Export Note Links with Obsidian Easy Bake

    Export Note Links with Obsidian Easy Bake

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    As I’ve been moving all my book notes over to my website I’ve needed an easy way to get my transclusions from my notes into plain markdown. While Obsidian shows them, when you copy a note normally you don’t get the text at the other end of a transclusion. This is where Easy Bake has…

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  • Is Obsidian Slow on the iPad?

    Is Obsidian Slow on the iPad?

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    Recently I engaged in a short discussion with Chris Lawley on Mastodon about Obsidian feeling really slow on my iPad. In short, I’ve been using my iPad less because Obsidian has been slow. I’ve been unable to scroll on notes and typing is possible, but painful. This doesn’t feel like it should happen on an…

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  • Collecting Book Ideas in Obsidian

    Collecting Book Ideas in Obsidian

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    About once a month I’ll write a blog post and the idea will stick with me for a day or two. The most recent time this happened was with the post We Own Nothing – The Broken Promise of the Information Age, I think that idea has legs to it. I have a personal story…

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  • Handle PDFs Natively in Obsidian

    Handle PDFs Natively in Obsidian

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    While I currently don’t store PDF’s, or really anything but text files, in Obsidian I know that many other users like to have everything in Obsidian. I’m still also not entirely sold on Zotero for my storage needs after leaving DEVONthink behind so let’s look into how Obsidian handles PDF files. Native PDF Handling To…

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  • Fix Obsidian Book Search Error

    Fix Obsidian Book Search Error

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    I love the Obsidian Book Search plugin, but it has an issue…everyone using it shares the same key. That means you can exceed the API connection limit for the day based on the interactions of other users. Luckily vityav has a fix in a GitHub comment which I applied and works. Today I’ll walk you…

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  • Add Icons to Obsidian Content

    Add Icons to Obsidian Content

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    While I’m not a huge icon/emoji person, I know a number of people really love them and want to be able to use icons directly in their content easily in Obsidian. For those people we have Obsidian Icon Shortcodes, which is a plugin that lets you add icons, even custom ones easily. To get the…

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  • Research With Me – The Good Enough Job

    Research With Me – The Good Enough Job

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    Today we’re going to look at my notes from The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff. Some highlights of the topics the book addresses: During the video, I show you how I take notes. How I turn some notes into writing ideas for my members newsletter and how I clean up my vault as I…

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  • My Top Tool for Making Note Connections

    My Top Tool for Making Note Connections

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    My vault has just over 4k notes in it, and there is no way I can know what each note is. In fact, I’ve likely forgotten most of the notes in my vault, which is fine because they’re remembered in my vault for me. But this does bring up a problem, how do I go…

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  • Obsidian Graph Analysis Plugin

    Obsidian Graph Analysis Plugin

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    One of the big things you need to do with your notes is look for connections between a single note and the other notes in your vault. This is where it’s helpful to get outside tools to help you analyze your notes, and where I recommend Graph Analysis. Graph Analysis Setup To start, head to…

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