Tag: Obsidian

  • Why I Move from Craft to Obsidian

    Why I Move from Craft to Obsidian

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    Many of you have asked about why I moved from Craft back to Obsidian, and today is the day I’ll answer that question. I Never Would Have Left Let’s get this point out of the way immediately, if the mobile app for Obsidian was going to be a “full” app I never would have left…

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  • Using Templater in Obsidian

    Using Templater in Obsidian

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    One of the things that had me struggling with Obsidian early on was it’s lack of iPad support and one of the big pain points there was the way that templates worked in Obsidian. Yes I could use TextExpander, or Alfred Snippets, on macOS to have templates but they wouldn’t transfer to iPadOS. Yes I…

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  • Obsidian iOS Quick Capture with Backtap

    Obsidian iOS Quick Capture with Backtap

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    One of the problems I’ve had with Obsidian on iOS is saving my thoughts quickly to a spot in my iCloud sync location. While this appears to be something that will work just fine in iOS 15, we’re not in that world yet. Today I’ll share my Shortcut that uses Toolbox Pro to save a…

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  • Using Obsidian Aliases

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    One of the things I missed while using Craft was aliases. Instead of having a single note that referenced a few related spellings of a word, or strongly related topics, with Craft you had to have individual notes for each spelling. Today I’ll show you how you can use aliases to stop this duplication. Aliases…

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  • Unlinked Mentions in Obsidian

    Unlinked Mentions in Obsidian

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    One of the big selling points for research tools like Obsidian and Roam Research is the idea of unlinked mentions. Today we’ll look at what unlinked mentions are, and how you could use them in Obsidian. Then I’ll talk about why I don’t care so much about them as a feature in Craft.

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  • Why I Moved from Obsidian to Craft

    Why I Moved from Obsidian to Craft

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    I know that many people started following my YouTube Channel because I was talking about Obsidian only to find that I’ve now moved to Craft. Today we’re going to talk about the main reasons why I’ve made this move because moving software tools is so expensive. In fact, it’s so expensive I’m not going to…

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  • Obsidian “to read” Dashboard

    Obsidian “to read” Dashboard

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    A recent version of [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) brought us a great new `query` parameter. Today I’ll show you how you can use it to build a dashboard to track the books that you want to read.

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  • What’s new in Obsidian January 2021

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    I did my monthly recap of the new features in Obsidian for [Keep Productive](https://youtube.com/c/keepproductive). Check out the rest of Francesco’s work if you’re into productivity.

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  • Obsidian Plugins I Use

    Obsidian Plugins I Use

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    Here are some of the plugins I use regularly with Obsidian. Advanced Tables This plugin takes Markdown tables and makes them usable again. I do find it a bit hard to use sometimes, but the results are far easier to read than a standard markdown table with little formatting. I’ll be building all Markdown tables…

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  • What’s new with Obsidian December 2020

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    Here is the latest updates to Obsidian. Thanks to Francesco at [Keep Productive](https://www.keepproductive.com) for letting me share the updates.

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