Obsidian
is a note taking application for knowledge management
Created:
Obsidian is a knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files. Think of logseq and roamresearch.
How I’m using Obsidian
- This website is orgnized using markdown
- I open up the
contentdirectory as a vault (obsidian word). - I edit them as any other markdown file
- The hotkeys and
/commands are handy in writing - I use WikiLinks (double square brackets) to link to peer pages,
these are converted to HTML links via the Python-Markdown extension.
wikilinks = WikiLinkExtension(base_url="/", end_url=".html")
Templates
Creating and using templates in Obsidian.
Use case: I write my notebooks and posts using markdown and ergo obsidian. The two types have a frontmatter that looks like this (taken from this document):
---
title: Obsidian
kind: notebook
date: 2023-04-12
tags:
- pkm
- markdown
- text-editor
---Using instructions from the templates page, i
created _obstemplates directory and added
notebook.md as a file with the following content:
---
title: {{title}}
date: {{date}}
kind: post
description: TODO
tags:
- TODO
---
To use this template, use the “ribbon” and select “Insert Template”. voila!
Plugins
I’m using these plugins
- dataview
- emoji-toolbar
- style-settings
- periodic-notes
- table-editor
Alfred Workflows
- Quick Journal Logging in Obsidian using Alfred and Shortcuts - Sridhar Katakam’s Blog; useful ref : Navigation | Obsidian Advanced URI
Obsidian published websites
Examples of interesting obsidian published websites
- MTH 225 Fall 2023 - Obsidian Publish
- Second Brain - published using Quartz
Exploration
- investigate how to use Templater and saml-dev/obsidian-custom-js: An Obsidian plugin to allow users to reuse code blocks across all devices and OSes (github.com).
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