Obsidian
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Obsidian is an excellent tool for capturing and organizing your notes in markdown format. Here are some tips for using Obsidian.md/
- Markdown
- Markdown table: How to Create a Great Looking Table - Markdown Land https://markdown.land/markdown-table
- How to use Markdown to Center a Text, Image, Title, or Table - Markdown Land https://markdown.land/markdown-center#markdown-center-a-table
- Useful Plugins
- Obsidian with Spaced Repetition Plugin - upskill.quest https://upskill.quest/obsidian-with-spaced-repetition-plugin 'The Spaced Repetition Plugin is a great addition for enhanced learning through flashcards and here's a quick intro!'
- Dataview
- Get list items containing a tag with Obsidian and Dataview https://www.curiouslychase.com/posts/get-list-items-containing-a-tag-with-obsidian-and-dataview/ 'How to get a list of items containing a specific tag with Obsidian and Dataview.'
- List Everything Dataview Can See on a Page
- Alex Qwxlea: has CSS code to hide Dataview in Published Notes
- 9 Obsidian plugins for your vault management | Daniel Prindii ''
- Templater
- Templater code for daily note navigation
- Obsidian: Templater Converters | ThoughtAsylum 'how I am also using Templater to convert existing content, transforming it in a variety of ways to effectively build my own text processing functionality within Obsidian.'
- Tasks
- Obsidian Tasks Custom Statuses is a nice way to mix the Tasks plugin with regular checklists
- Useful websites
- Basic Dataview Query Builder 'The Basic Dataview Query Builder will guide you through some questions and put together a dataview query based on your answers. You can use this query as-is in your vault or as a starting point to refine a more advanced query. The goal is to help you on your first dataview queries and to give you a better understanding of the syntax and needed information to build dataview queries from scratch.'
- How to speed up loading Obsidian: If your Obsidian vault is loading slowly, especially on mobile, follow the tips here. If you can copy and paste you can get this up and running. Basically it allows you to choose how quickly certain plugins load. I does take a little experimentation but I have found it to be very useful in the short time I've had it set up: Improve Obsidian Startup Time on Older Devices with the FastStart Script | by TfTHacker | Obsidian Observer | Medium 'While this hack works on all devices, the main goal is to improve startup on mobile devices, where startup speed makes the most significant difference.'
- Import notes - Obsidian Help 'Import from other apps and file formats'
- Obsidian Web Clipper — Steph Ango 'Web Clipper is a bookmarklet I made for Obsidian that saves articles and pages from the web as Markdown files in Obsidian. It is compatible with Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and mobile browsers.'
- All the Ways to Get Web Content Into #Obsidian | Lou Plummer