Tag: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When to Use Multiple Obsidian Vaults
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I’ve been asked recently when I would recommend using multiple vaults in your Obsidian setup. The best way I can think to help you make a decision is to tell you why I use multiple vaults. My Other Vaults I have two other main vaults, and only one that I use regularly. The vault I…
Find Orphaned Notes in Obsidian with the Dangling Links Plugin
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We’ve all created notes that have no links to anything else before. Off they go into the ether rarely to be seen again. Today we’ll look at how the Dangling Links plugin can help you find those notes so you can do something with them. Setting Up Dangling Links To install the Dangling Links plugin…
4 Mistakes Beginner Note Takers Make
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Today we’re going to look at the mistakes beginner note-takers make, though they’re not limited to beginners really. As I’ve coached more people on their note process I see many people falling into these traps in their PKM system. They learn these bad habits then never recognize them and don’t make changes to their systems.…
Obsidian Student Vault
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I’ve talked to many students about how they should set up their vaults to take notes on classes and combine them with notes on textbooks and other research material. Today I’m going to show you what a number of the students I coach are using effectively today. Don’t Get Fancy One final word before we…
