[Early Video] Obsidian: The Good Parts
Added 2025-01-31 22:08:02 +0000 UTC(Follow-up explanation post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121717698 )
Like many of us, I suffer from a sickness.
I don't know what it's called, but left to my natural inclinations, I seem to spend all my time sharpening my metaphorical axes instead of using them. Not only do I end the day without cutting down any trees, but if this continues, I will have ground my axes down to nothing.
There is no one right way to build your Obsidian second brain, but there are WRONG ways, and these pitfalls are important to know about.
This video is about the good parts of Obsidian, those that if you know about, you can use to make your second brain as complex as your first.
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I FINALLY got this video to a place I'm excited to publish it! I cut enough from it to make a follow-up video in the future, but I'd be very happy to field questions in the comments about how I recommend using Obsidian.
Thanks so much for your support folks <3
Comments
first-time commenter, long-time lurker: Can someone explain the use of "up" in the links and metadata?
Deptic1
2025-02-03 22:19:50 +0000 UTCHere's the final version of the video, https://www.patreon.com/posts/obsidian-good-121295560 thanks to everyone who asked questions or suggested tweaks - I've tweaked about 50% of the slides to be clearer, ESPECIALLY around the important [named:: links] section. I hope the changes work well, I'll be publishing the public video on Monday.
No Boilerplate
2025-02-01 21:32:37 +0000 UTCLove it ! You just convinced me to refactor my vault :)
Marek Szkrobol
2025-02-01 11:07:44 +0000 UTCSo I'm an obsidian noob, I use folders because it was the most obvious thing to reach for and seems reiforced by the UI. It's nice to know there's another thing wiht links and tags, but it would be awesome to see an example of a bunch of documents in a folder and how you'd change the organization with tags/links and how you search for them.
Dan MacDonald
2025-02-01 03:32:20 +0000 UTCAnother thing bout tags that might be helpful to some : Don't tag only with keywords that are present in content and directly linked to it, but also with words that will come to mind when looking for such content. When you know yourself a little and the way you look for things, this really makes notes easier to find.
Admax
2025-02-01 00:48:25 +0000 UTCUsing obsidian for years now and TIL that named links exist. Maybe I should read the manual. đ
Nils
2025-01-31 23:22:54 +0000 UTCOh sweet! I love how enthusiastic you are for Obsidian :) It's an amazing tool!
AnDiff
2025-01-31 22:10:27 +0000 UTCERRATA - The footnotes all say [1], woops! I'll fix them for the public video!
No Boilerplate
2025-01-31 22:08:10 +0000 UTC
