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@Chetachi ❤ since you're a dual fan, this might interest you as well https://forum.obsidian.md/t/data-donation-request/20864
Hello there! My name is Arthur, and I’m a PhD in Computer Science from TU Delft, in The Netherlands, working specifically with Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. I feel that something that would improve Obsidian a LOT (or any other PKM system) is a more robust “Unliked Mentions” tab. By that, I mean some type of Machine Lea...
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Are we grandfathered to the sync pricing? When we avail?
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WagtailBob 0715YYYY-005954
Is there a Dynalist Discord and if so can I get an invite?
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WagtailBob
Is there a Dynalist Discord and if so can I get an invite?
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Can you open a linked note with a shortcut?
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Instead of having to cmd+click on it.
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I think the problem here is how would the shortcut know which link to open?
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The one the cursor is on
01:25
In the same way vimwiki does it
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I find myself not wanting to leave the keyboard for navigation and think a keyboard-only shortcut that could open a link at the text cursor position is at would be really handy for this case.
01:30
another question, if there a way to change the repeat-rate for VIM mode?
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Hi everyone, I found Obsidian through Cassidoo and Bencodezen and I'm planning to use it for keeping track of my YT coding tutorials
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Hello. Where should i post a bug?
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Twinsen
Hello. Where should i post a bug?
on the forum is the best place
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joethei
on the forum is the best place
Yep. On it
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B*tcherella 0715YYYY-041919
Hello peepoHey.
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Does anybody know of a way to link and preview a note that is related to the initial note?????
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Something along the lines of having a snippet of what that other note has without me having to open up that note entirely.
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you can embed a note like that : ![[another note]] or just a part of a note : ![[another note#some chapter title]] Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for.
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B*tcherella 0715YYYY-043600
Ohhhh, Thank You!
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when do you decide between using Obsidian Sync and just any cloud storage like iCloud Drive? Am wondering if it's worth getting it. I do use Windows for work where I don't want my iCloud to sync, however, will it cause issues if I use iCloud Drive and Sync?
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I use OneDrive as a secondary back-up on desktop only, and Obsidian Sync for all sync related requirements. I think the decision point here is whether it's worth paying a little money for fewer headaches
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Anyone has success on running Oby on pure Wayland (not XWayland)? AFAIK Electron 12 have wayland support now. (edited)
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salimbo
when do you decide between using Obsidian Sync and just any cloud storage like iCloud Drive? Am wondering if it's worth getting it. I do use Windows for work where I don't want my iCloud to sync, however, will it cause issues if I use iCloud Drive and Sync?
Personally i use private GitHub to sync across my PCs
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salimbo
when do you decide between using Obsidian Sync and just any cloud storage like iCloud Drive? Am wondering if it's worth getting it. I do use Windows for work where I don't want my iCloud to sync, however, will it cause issues if I use iCloud Drive and Sync?
I use Obsidian Sync so that I can have painless sync to my Windows PC, Android phone and my Apple iPad. It just seems to work so far handling possible conflicts without issue, and has granularity e.g. sync settings but don't sync plugins. It might be possible to reproduce that with other sync services, but not as easily. For me, as @Isaac says, it's really whether paying a few $$ is worth it to you to make the whole thing easier. I backup periodically onto OneDrive, just in case... 🙂
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NICEEE! I got it! obsidian --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
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Vim mode definitely broken but... at least it runs... 🙂
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salimbo
when do you decide between using Obsidian Sync and just any cloud storage like iCloud Drive? Am wondering if it's worth getting it. I do use Windows for work where I don't want my iCloud to sync, however, will it cause issues if I use iCloud Drive and Sync?
MYSTRAVIL 0715YYYY-060627
I'm currently syncing everything between my nextcloud, android and win10 pc. I dont like having my data somewhere on the cloud
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Use syncthing
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06:09
Its open source and no cloud
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It automatically sync when you change the file
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Can you create section links? For example within a single note have links declares at the top and upon being clicked, the note will automatically scroll down to where the section is?
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Or can you only link other files
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The latter is corrct, i don't encounter section links before
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Edualc
you can embed a note like that : ![[another note]] or just a part of a note : ![[another note#some chapter title]] Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for.
MYSTRAVIL 0715YYYY-061342
Isnt this what you want?
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Can you create section links? For example within a single note have links declares at the top and upon being clicked, the note will automatically scroll down to where the section is?
[[File#Heading]] for sections in other files [[#Heading]] works for links inside the current file
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Thank you!
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Can you guys share your index, I can't figure it out on how to split different corner of my life
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This is basically all i have. 🙂 No organization at all and it gives me total freedom to structure my garbage in any way i want. 🙂
06:28
All my files uses aliases for search and linking purposes.
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I don't use file explorer at all. Collapsed 100% of time. ctrl + o is all i need to find what i am looking for. Or Oby Search, but i don't use it too much.
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If the file is too big to fit into one portrait screen, then i make new file and link it to the "parent" file. Like in this case "SSH" is the "root index" for the SSH topic. Then it contains links to other subsections.
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I tried to use embed blocks, but imo it gets messy pretty quickly.
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In the end i use git commit -m "2021-12-01" , git push to backup everything.
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I like this approach because i don't care about file names. If i am not happy of heading, i can change it any time (alongside alias) and it will be reflected across whole library because Oby uses file names for the linking and i don't change those ever.
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Prime
Personally i use private GitHub to sync across my PCs
Is that not less seamless? Don’t you have to push changes every time?
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I’m forgetful
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ni444
I use Obsidian Sync so that I can have painless sync to my Windows PC, Android phone and my Apple iPad. It just seems to work so far handling possible conflicts without issue, and has granularity e.g. sync settings but don't sync plugins. It might be possible to reproduce that with other sync services, but not as easily. For me, as @Isaac says, it's really whether paying a few $$ is worth it to you to make the whole thing easier. I backup periodically onto OneDrive, just in case... 🙂
Do you still have it save to iCloud Drive on your iPad? That would be nice as it works well with other apps.
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salimbo
Is that not less seamless? Don’t you have to push changes every time?
It's all about muscle memory. I use git heavily every day.
07:09
But i see your point
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+ i like some benefits of versioning which you don't get when just simply syncing. (edited)
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Hey everyone! Currently moving over from Roam to Obsidian. Right now struggling with what to do about folders, since there was no hierarchy in Roam. Any resource recommendations would be more than helpful!
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jgoodman
Hey everyone! Currently moving over from Roam to Obsidian. Right now struggling with what to do about folders, since there was no hierarchy in Roam. Any resource recommendations would be more than helpful!
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-073205
Do you want folders? You don't need them if you don't want them.
07:32
If you do want them, para and Johnny decimal are popular
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hi all. is there any way to search based on attributes one has in the yaml file (ie rating: 1 etc)
07:35
cant find any documentation on this
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zeltak
hi all. is there any way to search based on attributes one has in the yaml file (ie rating: 1 etc)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-073557
There might be other ways but you can definitely do it with regex
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Eleanor Konik
Do you want folders? You don't need them if you don't want them.
I also use Notion, so I'm fine with having things nested! I'm curious as to find a balance between the two, where I can find things that I'm looking for easily, but don't want to spend too much time organizing everything. Maybe using a naming system with a series of links would make more sense 🤔
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jgoodman
I also use Notion, so I'm fine with having things nested! I'm curious as to find a balance between the two, where I can find things that I'm looking for easily, but don't want to spend too much time organizing everything. Maybe using a naming system with a series of links would make more sense 🤔
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-073724
I think it's one of those things where it's heavily dependent on usecase.
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07:37
There are a lot of right ways depending on what you're doing, yanno?
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For sure. I think my main use case is for knowledge management, research, idea connecting, and creating content.
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-073858
Para would drive me nuts but I don't really do "projects" lol and JD is hard to implement in a true system of pure knowledge notes, but works really great for a "whole life" vault like I have
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Eleanor Konik
There might be other ways but you can definitely do it with regex
thx so much @Eleanor Konik ! since i have no clue RE regex (i run away fast when someone mentions it..it scares me :))..is there an example online?
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zeltak
thx so much @Eleanor Konik ! since i have no clue RE regex (i run away fast when someone mentions it..it scares me :))..is there an example online?
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-074017
Idk but @koala is pretty good at this stuff. I'm currently chained beneath a sleeping wheezy toddler and trying to spin one up for you on mobile would go badly lol
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salimbo
Do you still have it save to iCloud Drive on your iPad? That would be nice as it works well with other apps.
If you plan to use iCloud on one device simply to use other apps then I think you'll be fine. You could encounter file locking issues, but I'd think they'd be handled OK. Where you would have potential problems is, for example, if you were using both iCloud and Obsidian Sync on both an iPad and a Mac. The Obsidian Sync status is maintained by a file in the vault; if that file got synced by iCloud from one device to another you could end up with Obsidian Sync losing track on that machine and data loss/corruption.
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haha fair enough (my toddler is very close by and about to beg for food :))
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jgoodman
I also use Notion, so I'm fine with having things nested! I'm curious as to find a balance between the two, where I can find things that I'm looking for easily, but don't want to spend too much time organizing everything. Maybe using a naming system with a series of links would make more sense 🤔
For what it's worth, I've learned (the hard way) that doing too much organizing & system design up front can be counterproductive when it comes to actually getting things done. These days I tend to start things with the largest possible "buckets," and as I add notes, files and other content, a natural organizing scheme tends to emerge sooner or later.
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07:43
Of course, I'm sure others have found success with the exact opposite approach. :)
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kaelri
Of course, I'm sure others have found success with the exact opposite approach. :)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-074447
Haha yeah I start narrow and then combine when I hit edge cases that blur the line
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Eleanor Konik
Idk but @koala is pretty good at this stuff. I'm currently chained beneath a sleeping wheezy toddler and trying to spin one up for you on mobile would go badly lol
It's possible, but working with YAML for regex isn't really fun because there are so many ways to write it. If it's always implemented the same way, it's not too complicated, but if you want to have a catch-all, then it's tricky.
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kaelri
For what it's worth, I've learned (the hard way) that doing too much organizing & system design up front can be counterproductive when it comes to actually getting things done. These days I tend to start things with the largest possible "buckets," and as I add notes, files and other content, a natural organizing scheme tends to emerge sooner or later.
That makes sense, I often spend way too much time getting everything set up, instead of actually doing the work haha
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jgoodman
Hey everyone! Currently moving over from Roam to Obsidian. Right now struggling with what to do about folders, since there was no hierarchy in Roam. Any resource recommendations would be more than helpful!
I started off trying to come up with a folder structure, failed miserably, then (having played with Logseq and Roam) decided I'd do everything starting from the daily notes and linking as appropriate. So now I really only have three folders - pages, journal (daily notes) and literature (where I put extracts/highlights from Zotero and Hypothes.is - I feel they're raw material rather than "knowledge").
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I also have folders for templates (ztemplates and ztemplater) and my exported Zotero database (zzotero).
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ni444
I started off trying to come up with a folder structure, failed miserably, then (having played with Logseq and Roam) decided I'd do everything starting from the daily notes and linking as appropriate. So now I really only have three folders - pages, journal (daily notes) and literature (where I put extracts/highlights from Zotero and Hypothes.is - I feel they're raw material rather than "knowledge").
Do you create notes within "Pages" as you process the highlights from "Literature"?
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ni444
If you plan to use iCloud on one device simply to use other apps then I think you'll be fine. You could encounter file locking issues, but I'd think they'd be handled OK. Where you would have potential problems is, for example, if you were using both iCloud and Obsidian Sync on both an iPad and a Mac. The Obsidian Sync status is maintained by a file in the vault; if that file got synced by iCloud from one device to another you could end up with Obsidian Sync losing track on that machine and data loss/corruption.
🤯 sounds confusing haha
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koala
It's possible, but working with YAML for regex isn't really fun because there are so many ways to write it. If it's always implemented the same way, it's not too complicated, but if you want to have a catch-all, then it's tricky.
thx @koala ! im basicly looking for a static search each time that will just query the search for a specific rating (ie rating: 5). are there examples for this anywhere?
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or maybe i should ditch YAML alltogheter and move the ratings to tags...
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jgoodman
Do you create notes within "Pages" as you process the highlights from "Literature"?
Exactly that - effectively my book/article summary goes there. I may then further extract elements from there into individual notes if I feel it's particularly worth isolating an "atomic" idea. Section/block referencing within Obsidian means that that's not always necessary for the purposes of creating an outline.
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salimbo
🤯 sounds confusing haha
It could be! I'd be inclined to stick with just one sync, then back up periodically to another device or cloud service for peace of mind.
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zeltak
thx @koala ! im basicly looking for a static search each time that will just query the search for a specific rating (ie rating: 5). are there examples for this anywhere?
^(?<=---\n(?:^.+$\n)*)(^rating: 5$)\n(?=(?:^.+$\n)*^---$) You could use that. You could also get rid of ^ and $, that's up to you.
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That would be the result.
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Hii! sorry, can I trouble someone to send me an invite link to this server? I wanted to invite my friend but when I clicked invite it ended up sending this to them
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thx so much @koala ! really appreciated. is there a need to enable regex searches first? currently it cant seem to find anything:
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eryn
Hii! sorry, can I trouble someone to send me an invite link to this server? I wanted to invite my friend but when I clicked invite it ended up sending this to them
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/regex goes here/
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also: you were not kidding when you said it was complicated 🙂 🙂
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zeltak
also: you were not kidding when you said it was complicated 🙂 🙂
Oh no, that one was simple.
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koala
/regex goes here/
got it!
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koala
Oh no, that one was simple.
It only catches if there's exactly rating: 5 and not rating: [5] or rating: - 5 or rating: - 5 Which would all be valid YAML.
08:16
But as long as you only have it that way, it's fine.
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yeah i only have it as rating: 5
08:17
this is my yaml chuncks:
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--- tags: [ pasta, italian, feta, tomatos] priority: Done rating: 4 ---
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I hope that I didn't make a mistake, if there's anything wrong with it, then let me know.
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zeltak
--- tags: [ pasta, italian, feta, tomatos] priority: Done rating: 4 ---
If they're all like that, we could make it even simpler.
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(I mean if they're all in this order.)
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thx @koala , it seems to work but for some reason dosent find all md files with ie rating: 4 ... wonder why
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zeltak
thx @koala , it seems to work but for some reason dosent find all md files with ie rating: 4 ... wonder why
Oh, you wanted to not have the rating fixed.
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What are possible ratings?
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as you can see it find 6 or so files while i do have many more
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One sec
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koala
What are possible ratings?
hmm i use a 1-5 system
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koala
One sec
of course
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Is the rating always the last one?
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hmm yeah i can make sure of that
08:21
TBH maybe my system is stupid 😄 very open to community suggestions
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It doesn't matter, it would just simplify the regex
08:21
That's all.
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on how do people manage attributes/labels for MD files
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i currently use tags stuff but though for ratings and state (ie TODO, DONE, etc) would use YAML
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but maybe this is horribly wrong?
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very new to all this 😄 😄
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(?<=---\n(?:(?:.+)?\n)*)(rating: *[1-5].*)\n(?=(?:(?:.+)?\n)*---) (edited)
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Try this
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That will find all the ratings.
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koala
Try this
cool trying
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koala
That will find all the ratings.
ahh i see. but if i want a specific rating, or filter by rating > 3?
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You write [3-5] if you want greater than three (edited)
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koala
You write [3-5] if you want greater than three (edited)
ahh sweet
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hmm is there a limit on how many files obsidian presents
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ie i know i have ratings: 5 in some files yet this is what i get
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Try the updated version ⬆️ again, perhaps that's better.
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the exact code i used /(?<=---\n(?:(?:.+)?\n)*)(rating: [4-5].*)\n(?=(?:(?:.+)?\n)*---)/
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Yeah, I can't really tell without having the files. You'd need to show me a file where the regex didn't work.
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this file has rating: 5
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yet the search didn't seem to find it
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Can you scroll the results?
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no these seem the only results it gives
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koala
(?<=---\n(?:(?:.+)?\n)*)(rating: *[1-5].*)\n(?=(?:(?:.+)?\n)*---) (edited)
please try this again (I updated it)
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sure
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hmm to be sure im not screwing thins up when you said you updated it you mean this syntax:?
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/(?<=---\n(?:(?:.+)?\n)*)(rating: *[4-5].*)\n(?=(?:(?:.+)?\n)*---)/
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k cool. yeah i still get partial results
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Can you paste the yaml of a file which it doesn't get?
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sure
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--- tags: [ main, noodles] priority: Done rating: 5 ---
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Are you using windows?
08:32
And are these old (non-obsidian created files)
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Or from an old (I think pre 2013) mac?
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using mac os (big sur)
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on new MBP 2020
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hmm nah i exported the MD files from Devonthink which i have been using
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i can send a few md files ?
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PostTenebras 0715YYYY-083352
Please use the reply feature of Discord to keep things tidy in here. Thanks!
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Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-083354
where can I post an issue? Specifically Obsidian's default vault contain "Obsidian" doc, and Obsidian is in private beta right now. sentence is there which, I believe, is no longer true
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zeltak
i can send a few md files ?
yes, and let's go to #off-topic
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sure , you mean the #off-topic channel?
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ok moving there 😄
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Beetroot Paul
where can I post an issue? Specifically Obsidian's default vault contain "Obsidian" doc, and Obsidian is in private beta right now. sentence is there which, I believe, is no longer true
huh, says public beta for me, or do you mean for mobile, you can either open a issue in the forum or open one on the github project for it(or open a pr): https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-docs
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huh, says public beta for me, or do you mean for mobile, you can either open a issue in the forum or open one on the github project for it(or open a pr): https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-docs
Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-084645
might it be like that I installed Obsidian a looooong time ago, the uninstalled, and now I see very old intro vault? 😅 If yes – how can I reset it to the moest recent version to not loose any valuable piece of info? (edited)
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Beetroot Paul
might it be like that I installed Obsidian a looooong time ago, the uninstalled, and now I see very old intro vault? 😅 If yes – how can I reset it to the moest recent version to not loose any valuable piece of info? (edited)
Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-084734
OK, I did it in vault selection screen 🙂
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Beetroot Paul
might it be like that I installed Obsidian a looooong time ago, the uninstalled, and now I see very old intro vault? 😅 If yes – how can I reset it to the moest recent version to not loose any valuable piece of info? (edited)
the help vault should update on every obsidian version
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Beetroot Paul
OK, I did it in vault selection screen 🙂
Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-084842
and I see a lot has changes since my previous version of intro vault 😄
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-084917
there was 2 version of the help vault though, if you use obsidian for a long long time it might be that you're still on the old version that was local lol
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now it just lives in a temp folder and get updated each time you update the app
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there was 2 version of the help vault though, if you use obsidian for a long long time it might be that you're still on the old version that was local lol
Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-085033
looks like my case 🙂 I deleted that old local one and open new one with a dedicated button for it
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-085056
you should be good then lynxUP
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Is it possible to get a web based version of Obsidian? I would like to use Obsidian in the work computer too. And due to privacy reasons, I might not be able to do that
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-090135
no there's no web version of it
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Monsieur le Russe 0715YYYY-090152
#general hey hello guys , i'm french so sorry for my english , so I need help . i don't understand Obisidian . what is the fonction of link ? when put it ? What is the purpose of the linked occurrences in Obsidian?
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tnaks
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tanks
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cotemaxime
no there's no web version of it
Then, If I subscribe to obsidian sync, Would I be able to sync it across devices?
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Monsieur le Russe
#general hey hello guys , i'm french so sorry for my english , so I need help . i don't understand Obisidian . what is the fonction of link ? when put it ? What is the purpose of the linked occurrences in Obsidian?
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-090540
there's french doc iirc and also a #français channel too - but to answer your question link is really whatever you make out of it lynxShrug some people link for relation, some people link to find references, some people link idea that complete each other
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Murali
Then, If I subscribe to obsidian sync, Would I be able to sync it across devices?
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-090616
obsidian sync allows you to sync across obsidian instance across computer yes, but if you can't install obsidian it won't work
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cotemaxime
obsidian sync allows you to sync across obsidian instance across computer yes, but if you can't install obsidian it won't work
Sure. Thanks so much. 🙂
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Is there a mode/plugin on obsidian desktop app on macOS where you have something like the formatting bar that shows up when editing in the iOS app?
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-091204
markdown formatting assistant kinda do that
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Monsieur le Russe
#general hey hello guys , i'm french so sorry for my english , so I need help . i don't understand Obisidian . what is the fonction of link ? when put it ? What is the purpose of the linked occurrences in Obsidian?
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Monsieur le Russe
#general hey hello guys , i'm french so sorry for my english , so I need help . i don't understand Obisidian . what is the fonction of link ? when put it ? What is the purpose of the linked occurrences in Obsidian?
If you mean [[links like this]] then it allows you to start connecting notes and ideas together. Instead of a solitary note, you can start to build connected notes (and as @cotemaxime said, there's a ton of different reasons why folks will create links).
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Just wanted to leave a message here to thank the devs and the team. Obsidian mobile is completely changing my workflow in the best possible way (using it with sync). The app is 👌 ! Looking forward to what is coming next! (edited)
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dummifiedme
For all those who were searcing for a git syncing on ios and android for free, there is an editor Spck Editor both on IOS and Android. Its free and can push, pull, commit. I don't know if it would work for Obsidian Mobile on iOS, but on Android its fairly easy. Basically you can clone your repo anywhere on the storage (Android) and then make it a vault! But, when it comes to iOS, it will have the same problem as other apps. Cross-app sharing seems to be difficult in IOS. Still I don't know why we can't have access via Files app like other apps like Documents or XODO pdf viewer does.
anilerkan 0715YYYY-094046
That sounds great. Would it be easy for a non tech person like me to use ?
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Monsieur le Russe 0715YYYY-095354
ok tanks
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and , what say cotemaxime ?
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anilerkan
That sounds great. Would it be easy for a non tech person like me to use ?
dummifiedme 0715YYYY-095903
Yes
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beatbox32 0715YYYY-101724
Morning all! ☕ Wanted to see if anyone has a good workflow for importing meeting details from Outlook into Obsidian. I'm assuming I'll have to save the .ics file, but would love to hear the thoughts. I couldn't seem to find a community plugin that fits
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Morning all! ☕ Wanted to see if anyone has a good workflow for importing meeting details from Outlook into Obsidian. I'm assuming I'll have to save the .ics file, but would love to hear the thoughts. I couldn't seem to find a community plugin that fits
beatbox32 0715YYYY-101959
I did come across this, but looks like it's a manual install at this point: https://discordapp.com/channels/@me/863817209338789948/865250088426143754
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Just wanted to leave a message here to thank the devs and the team. Obsidian mobile is completely changing my workflow in the best possible way (using it with sync). The app is 👌 ! Looking forward to what is coming next! (edited)
Hard agree. I was waiting for the mobile app + Sync before I could fully commit. Up to now I've been using a combination of this, Dynalist (high-level planner/outliner) and Simplenote (quick/disposable notes). Now Obsidian is starting to feel like a viable combo solution, at least for me & my needs.
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justinshaffner 0715YYYY-103848
Is there any way to make embed tweets in a page, similar to the extended media plugin? Thanks in advance!
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Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-105336
Is this possible to remove or rename Obsidian Sync vault? I read in docs I can have no more than 5 of them, so I don't want to abandon current one and let it decrease my limit
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-105600
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as ex...
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Beetroot Paul
Is this possible to remove or rename Obsidian Sync vault? I read in docs I can have no more than 5 of them, so I don't want to abandon current one and let it decrease my limit
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-105634
you can delete a vault just go to the vault picker menu and click the X on the one you want to delete
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Beetroot Paul
Is this possible to remove or rename Obsidian Sync vault? I read in docs I can have no more than 5 of them, so I don't want to abandon current one and let it decrease my limit
Curio Heart 0715YYYY-105716
That count only applies to active sync vaults; removing a vault from sync keeps that vault from continuing to count against this limit. Renaming a vault will, at least for now, require that you delete and create a new sync vault, then connect it back with the desired vault. If you only have one synced vault at the time you do this, you will still have the same number of vaults available afterward.
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Eleanor Konik
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-105811
cc: @tardytimelord(they) @ontheexam you've both reached out to me about this stuff before, wanted to make sure you didn't miss it 🙂
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you can delete a vault just go to the vault picker menu and click the X on the one you want to delete
Beetroot Paul 0715YYYY-110012
I see I had to create new one first to be able to remove previous one 🙂
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dummifiedme 0715YYYY-110103
Which git service is best for personal private backup? I have been using GitHub for a while, but I think it has limits on size of the repo -something like 500mb? So I ignore the media folders (mostly images)
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I looked for a comparison. People with experience can please suggest?
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-110323
if you really want backup I would go with none of them cause git is not a backup tool lol it's way to easy to mess up and loose all the local changes and/or create issue to be reliable as a backup
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I looked for a comparison. People with experience can please suggest?
It definitely not up to date, because private is possible at GitHub
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hi guys do we have some sort of article compiling best practices for obsidian?
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hi guys do we have some sort of article compiling best practices for obsidian?
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-110756
"best practices" is pretty subjective. There are lot of right ways to use it. Do you have something particular in mind?
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hmm i guess it is subjective haha
11:08
i was more of looking to copying existing templates i guess
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-110903
the LYT kit is popular.
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you can check out the getting started resources the bot will give you if you want, tehre are links:
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Carl-bot BOT 0715YYYY-110914
Welcome to Obsidian! 👋 To get started, please first check out the help vault, which you can access by clicking on the little ❔ button at the bottom left corner in Obsidian, or simply by pressing F1. This vault contains essential information and should get you started! 🙌 You can also play around with this vault, but your changes won't be saved. One of our wonderful mods (hi Eleanor!) has collected a great list of resources to get you started: https://obsidianroundup.org/resources/. It also has a weekly newsletter you can subscribe to if you don't want to miss what's new. Lastly, if you encounter a bug or wish something existed in Obsidian, feel free to file a bug report or feature request on our forum: https://forum.obsidian.md/ The forum is also a wonderful place where people share their workflows, automation, custom styles, and deep wisdom about knowledge management 💜
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right will check this out
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thanks!
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its insane that this app is free
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@nickmilo please make a Video with @ryanjamurphy (he/him) .. after reading newsletter, I thought, he was coming/presenting in todays video..but didnt 😩
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loved the video @nickmilo
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@nickmilo please make a Video with @ryanjamurphy (he/him) .. after reading newsletter, I thought, he was coming/presenting in todays video..but didnt 😩
ryanjamurphy (he/him) 0715YYYY-112945
Hahah What did I miss? We're working on it!
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casey-chow 0715YYYY-113248
Is there a way to sync dotfiles via Obsidian sync? Kind of a killer feature for me because I want my custom vimrc to sync across devices.
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P R-C 🐙 0715YYYY-114126
What text-to-speech apps would you recommend to read content (Apple Books, Kindle books and pdf) out of iOS devices besides the native tts capabilities? Thanks for any recommendations
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Eleanor Konik
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
Christian 0715YYYY-114237
Excited to see this! Really hope I can make it🤞
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Calhistorian 0715YYYY-115833
I shared this in #knowledge-management , but thought others not interested in that channel might still want to have a convo.
So I was encouraged to share this Loom that I took for another discussion entirely, but it shows my prototyping a method for organizing a Zettelkasten in Obsidian. I have been experimenting with a variety of tools for holding my Zettelkasten to identify the constraints and affordances of the various tools. But I also have a side mission which is to demonstrate the utility of the graph view for more than just a "map" of your Vault, but a functional tool of travel and discovery. So here it is: https://twitter.com/calhistorian/status/1415396711988535296?s=20
Ok. It has been suggested that I share my experiments. I have attempted to recreate my ZK in Notion and Obsidian, and in a few others. The purpose is to truly understand how tool affordances and constraints shape a workflow. #obsidianmd #pkm https://t.co/v3Nfvb4G0O
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Communitty Plug-ins >>> Cycle Through Panes Plug-in
tks. I prefered to insert alt+1 and alt+2 in the hotkeys menu for Focus on left and right note.
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hi! can you tell me if there's an hotkey to "go back" and go front ? ![](https://i.imgur.com/YawnsER.png) I search in the hotkeys menu but can't find it
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hi! can you tell me if there's an hotkey to "go back" and go front ? ![](https://i.imgur.com/YawnsER.png) I search in the hotkeys menu but can't find it
"navigate [back|forward]" in hotkeys. i guess the default is cmd+alt+left or maybe its the one i set idk
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JJJenkins 0715YYYY-120554
Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum. I got here and briefly saw a nice resource link. I clicked on it but then lost it. I tried scrolling back to the top of this thread to find it again. Is there any easy way to get to the top of the thread? I can't figure it out! Sorry, I'm new to this whole thing.
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"navigate [back|forward]" in hotkeys. i guess the default is cmd+alt+left or maybe its the one i set idk
now you said I think it is. the problem is that's also my shortcut to switch desktop. Ill turn it off and hope it works. Tks!
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Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum. I got here and briefly saw a nice resource link. I clicked on it but then lost it. I tried scrolling back to the top of this thread to find it again. Is there any easy way to get to the top of the thread? I can't figure it out! Sorry, I'm new to this whole thing.
did you tried the search tool on right upper corner? maybe you remember some word or the name of the person that post it. Maybe it wasn't on this #general category..
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Excited to see this! Really hope I can make it🤞
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-121428
Sorry for the inflexible timing: babysitters are tricky to secure xD
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Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum. I got here and briefly saw a nice resource link. I clicked on it but then lost it. I tried scrolling back to the top of this thread to find it again. Is there any easy way to get to the top of the thread? I can't figure it out! Sorry, I'm new to this whole thing.
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-121503
Getting started guide?
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Welcome to Obsidian! 👋 To get started, please first check out the help vault, which you can access by clicking on the little ❔ button at the bottom left corner in Obsidian, or simply by pressing F1. This vault contains essential information and should get you started! 🙌 You can also play around with this vault, but your changes won't be saved. One of our wonderful mods (hi Eleanor!) has collected a great list of resources to get you started: https://obsidianroundup.org/resources/. It also has a weekly newsletter you can subscribe to if you don't want to miss what's new. Lastly, if you encounter a bug or wish something existed in Obsidian, feel free to file a bug report or feature request on our forum: https://forum.obsidian.md/ The forum is also a wonderful place where people share their workflows, automation, custom styles, and deep wisdom about knowledge management 💜
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JJJenkins 0715YYYY-121915
Thank you @Eleanor Konik ! That was it!!
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Anybody uses both Notion and Obsidian?
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Deleted User 0715YYYY-122308
Hi! Is there any way to take note in obsidian globally in macos? For example, I was browsing a webpage and want to take a note, then I would just press some shortcut and obsidian would appear to capture a note?
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Hi! Is there any way to take note in obsidian globally in macos? For example, I was browsing a webpage and want to take a note, then I would just press some shortcut and obsidian would appear to capture a note?
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-123251
I think there's a QuickAdd method for this, check out that plugin repo
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Eleanor Konik
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
Dantheman 0715YYYY-123455
Where are you sharing it?
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-123914
Oh! You mean my vault? It's on publish. I'll probably also do the actual zip file as a download for annual members of my newsletter because I need to make sure some of the actual paid work isn't Google discoverable, but the content will all be on obsidian publish
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Idk about the video, I'm not sure why the plan is re YouTube listed or unlisted with the LYT House stuff. I didn't actually ask this time xD but Nick usually puts at least an edited version of our talks on his YouTube channel
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Where are you sharing it?
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Idk about the video, I'm not sure why the plan is re YouTube listed or unlisted with the LYT House stuff. I didn't actually ask this time xD but Nick usually puts at least an edited version of our talks on his YouTube channel
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-125047
@nickmilo is the LYT House stuff going on YouTube?
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hey all I need some help, I have been using obsidian for a long time now and today there was a problem in logging in to my windows account as a result all my files got lost and now I don't know how to restore my database.
Hey, I have restored my data by logging into my windows acc (finally) Do you guys have any tips as to how to sync all the files online? One drive and Dropbox are so annoying with their data limits and the constant re logins so....do you guys have any other alternatives (except obsidian sync)
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Hey, I have restored my data by logging into my windows acc (finally) Do you guys have any tips as to how to sync all the files online? One drive and Dropbox are so annoying with their data limits and the constant re logins so....do you guys have any other alternatives (except obsidian sync)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-130146
Syncthing is popular
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You can also try git
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Anybody uses both Notion and Obsidian?
Bump. I'm trying to find a use case for Notion myself. I want to learn to use it but idk what should I use it for lol so I keep procrastinating...
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is there someway to do anything like the dropdown lists from notion inside of obsidian. or like a spoiler tag? something like that
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project based learning always @mt
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Bump. I'm trying to find a use case for Notion myself. I want to learn to use it but idk what should I use it for lol so I keep procrastinating...
Notion has two major advantages: 1) It's very good for working with teams. It's web-based and has permissions, sharing, collaboration tools, etc. built in. Obsidian is magical for individual use, but I would not describe it as a great team tool in its current state. 2) It's much more mature in its use of structured data—both a better user experience for writing/managing metadata, custom fields, etc., and a lot more ways to view, sort and filter them: tables, cards, feeds, Kanban boards, etc. On the latter I think Obsidian has a lot of potential (which is something I'm starting to work on, actually!), but as it stands Notion does that stuff a lot better.
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notion is a tool
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find a problem and use your new tool to fix it
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Notion is multiplayer Obsidian right now
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with all the added lag and drawbacks to match
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vikzn_🇳🇱 0715YYYY-135031
guys how do i seperate settings with pc and ios?
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Bump. I'm trying to find a use case for Notion myself. I want to learn to use it but idk what should I use it for lol so I keep procrastinating...
Is that Ramsay? lmao
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is there someway to do anything like the dropdown lists from notion inside of obsidian. or like a spoiler tag? something like that
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-135501
Google html spoiler tag content reveal
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Google html spoiler tag content reveal
thank you!! (edited)
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thank you!! (edited)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-135558
Sure thing. I'd dig it up myself for you but, still trapped under a sick toddler. It definitely exists though!
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@Jamie Thank you! @kaelri Thanks! Working with teams is exactly why I want to be proficient with Notion. I couldn't think of anything to use notion for till now; I think I'll use it as a placeholder and for course / progress etc basically very rigid stuff (edited)
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@Salwyn13 yes sir
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@nickmilo is the LYT House stuff going on YouTube?
not sure yet, figuring it out as we go, but for our sunday session, i can at least make sure it's unlisted on youtube and shared with the community here. (or maybe will just share normally, just trying to figure out how to handle the LYT House stuff)
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andre.alonso 0715YYYY-142220
What is the latest beta version?
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guys how do i seperate settings with pc and ios?
If you're using Obsidian sync then you can turn off settings sync. If you're using something else in settings you can choose a folder other than .obsidian for the settings on one or both of the devices.
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If you're using Obsidian sync then you can turn off settings sync. If you're using something else in settings you can choose a folder other than .obsidian for the settings on one or both of the devices.
vikzn_🇳🇱 0715YYYY-144614
How do i save the setting in the folder? And make them individual (edited)
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Oh wait nvm
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I read that wrong
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Syncthing is popular
Okayy thankss
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What text-to-speech apps would you recommend to read content (Apple Books, Kindle books and pdf) out of iOS devices besides the native tts capabilities? Thanks for any recommendations
BigChungus 0715YYYY-150541
I didn't know non-native TTS apps could read content and flip pages in third party apps (edited)
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I guess they might use some accessibility permission
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MacOS siri-based TTS is my favority currently. I never found a good iOS way because of how laggy it makes things.
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I read entire apple books using it pretty often
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hey, would anyone know if there is a way to execute obsidian commands from a js script?
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Eleanor Konik
Oh! You mean my vault? It's on publish. I'll probably also do the actual zip file as a download for annual members of my newsletter because I need to make sure some of the actual paid work isn't Google discoverable, but the content will all be on obsidian publish
Danny Hatcher 0715YYYY-153343
what is the publish link? 👀
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what is the publish link? 👀
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-153454
Not live yet I'm still fighting with SSL for subdomains on digital ocean
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Anybody uses both Notion and Obsidian?
anilerkan 0715YYYY-153534
Yes Notion for task and project management. Also for capturing fleeting notes and literature notes. I transfer them to obsidian for processing. Notion backlinks suck so note relationships aren't effective.
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-153621
By Sunday for sure! Need husband's help lol. Last night he taught me how to make a subdomain from the command line in PuTTy
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anilerkan 0715YYYY-153638
Just setup syncthing for my Android and works seamlessly
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-153654
But our kid has a cold so we had to go to bed early instead of finishing
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By Sunday for sure! Need husband's help lol. Last night he taught me how to make a subdomain from the command line in PuTTy
And here I was hoping Sunday would be a live countdown on LYT to you finally sharing your vault 😂
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And here I was hoping Sunday would be a live countdown on LYT to you finally sharing your vault 😂
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-153829
It basically is haha plus the ama
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Elitekrd | www.Ringerkeys.com 0715YYYY-153849
Hey everyone. New to Obsidian. Happy to be here. Looking to learn and grow within the community and software. Hope you are all having a wonderful day.
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Welcome to Obsidian! 👋 To get started, please first check out the help vault, which you can access by clicking on the little ❔ button at the bottom left corner in Obsidian, or simply by pressing F1. This vault contains essential information and should get you started! 🙌 You can also play around with this vault, but your changes won't be saved. One of our wonderful mods (hi Eleanor!) has collected a great list of resources to get you started: https://obsidianroundup.org/resources/. It also has a weekly newsletter you can subscribe to if you don't want to miss what's new. Lastly, if you encounter a bug or wish something existed in Obsidian, feel free to file a bug report or feature request on our forum: https://forum.obsidian.md/ The forum is also a wonderful place where people share their workflows, automation, custom styles, and deep wisdom about knowledge management 💜
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Calhistorian
I shared this in #knowledge-management , but thought others not interested in that channel might still want to have a convo.
So I was encouraged to share this Loom that I took for another discussion entirely, but it shows my prototyping a method for organizing a Zettelkasten in Obsidian. I have been experimenting with a variety of tools for holding my Zettelkasten to identify the constraints and affordances of the various tools. But I also have a side mission which is to demonstrate the utility of the graph view for more than just a "map" of your Vault, but a functional tool of travel and discovery. So here it is: https://twitter.com/calhistorian/status/1415396711988535296?s=20
This is a worthwhile video to watch, highly recommend to get everyone thinking about what can be done with the graph view. Perhaps we are just scratching the surface 🤔
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This is a worthwhile video to watch, highly recommend to get everyone thinking about what can be done with the graph view. Perhaps we are just scratching the surface 🤔
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-154740
don't scratch too hard you might break the surface and fall into the 'void' then we would have to rescue you...
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Hey all I don't like Markdown tables and even with multimarkdown and the possibility of a WYSIWYG I feel like I'm always going to prefer rich text tables. Does anyone know if it's possible to embed a table from a file made in, e.g. Word or Onenote, kinda like an iframe?
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This is a worthwhile video to watch, highly recommend to get everyone thinking about what can be done with the graph view. Perhaps we are just scratching the surface 🤔
Calhistorian 0715YYYY-162300
My next goal is to present a linearity of thought through a sequences of zettels (basically a thread in a traditional zettelkasten) but represented on the graph with branches towards other ideas if divergence is needed.
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My next goal is to present a linearity of thought through a sequences of zettels (basically a thread in a traditional zettelkasten) but represented on the graph with branches towards other ideas if divergence is needed.
That's exciting. I'm assuming it'll be related to your Folgezettel work?
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Hello everyone! Just getting into Obsidian – I was curious if there's any examples of Obsidian or Obsidian Publish being used to document some software/programming language/framework
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Is there a setting or command to resize a window width automatically to fit the max width of the note (assuming you've got Readable Line Length enabled)? Ideally, to do that for ALL open notes? Or something that limits the max width of an open note?
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I don't really have a static layout I use so I'm frequently adding/moving things around and trying to resize everything to a similar width is.. an exercise if you've got > 1 column.
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Related: Can you change the width of "Readable line length"?
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Hello everyone! Just getting into Obsidian – I was curious if there's any examples of Obsidian or Obsidian Publish being used to document some software/programming language/framework
Chromatic 0715YYYY-163754
here's a non-complete list of published vaults for your perusal
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Latest update: 20210324_Leo What is this? It’s a collection of obsidian-published vaults. I am showing the link, naming the user and trying to give a short comment on what I saw in these notes. If you don’t want to be mentioned here, just tell me and I will edit it right away. The short comments are always just my opinion - if I am completel...
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dancemonkey 0715YYYY-164418
Ever have a note just disappear on you while you were editing it? In edit mode on my phone, the screen suddenly said No File Is Open, and the note was gone. Luckily it didn’t (or hadn’t yet) synced back to my laptop, I copied the text to save it just in case but in due course it synced back to the folder and all is now well. Very weird experience.
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nickmilo
That's exciting. I'm assuming it'll be related to your Folgezettel work?
Calhistorian 0715YYYY-164832
Well, I just put a little demonstration together to show how a linear exploration might occur through a note sequence. I hope it is clear though how you might then follow different branches of the note sequence by following tags and folgezettels, and related notes of course. https://www.loom.com/share/3862f71239bd40d0b243a287c38f0005 (redid video) (edited)
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Calhistorian
Well, I just put a little demonstration together to show how a linear exploration might occur through a note sequence. I hope it is clear though how you might then follow different branches of the note sequence by following tags and folgezettels, and related notes of course. https://www.loom.com/share/3862f71239bd40d0b243a287c38f0005 (redid video) (edited)
Calhistorian 0715YYYY-170205
actually the video came out pretty bad in terms of quality...will need a reup
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Eleanor Konik
Sure thing. I'd dig it up myself for you but, still trapped under a sick toddler. It definitely exists though!
youre totally good thanks for everything you do, and good get better vibes to the tot
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How do I link to another page without using the title of that page?
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spirit
How do I link to another page without using the title of that page?
[[title|the words you'd rather have]]
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Leah
[[title|the words you'd rather have]]
Is there any way for me to highlight existing text and then link it to another page easily without having to rewrite "the words I'd rather have" everytime?
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spirit
Is there any way for me to highlight existing text and then link it to another page easily without having to rewrite "the words I'd rather have" everytime?
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briennakh 0715YYYY-172427
Is there a way to keep the graph fixed rather than have it randomly rearrange itself every time I open the panel?
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spirit
Is there any way for me to highlight existing text and then link it to another page easily without having to rewrite "the words I'd rather have" everytime?
For instance, I've got an alias set up for "ADA" so that all I type on my end when I want to link my Americans with Disability Act note, is [[ADA and select from the list and get [[Americans with Disability Act|ADA]] inserted. Is this what you mean, workflow wise? (edited)
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briennakh
Is there a way to keep the graph fixed rather than have it randomly rearrange itself every time I open the panel?
Unfortunately not (yet? 🤞 ). I'm pretty sure I've seen it as a requested feature on the forum.
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josemike03 0715YYYY-172928
Is there any way to insert your own template on the day planner plugin?
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Leah
For instance, I've got an alias set up for "ADA" so that all I type on my end when I want to link my Americans with Disability Act note, is [[ADA and select from the list and get [[Americans with Disability Act|ADA]] inserted. Is this what you mean, workflow wise? (edited)
Yes, so once I add an alias front matter on any note, that alias will be available in any other note I want as well? This does help somewhat but often linking is spontaneous and sometimes I may want to link to aliases which are not obvious and unpredictable.
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spirit
Yes, so once I add an alias front matter on any note, that alias will be available in any other note I want as well? This does help somewhat but often linking is spontaneous and sometimes I may want to link to aliases which are not obvious and unpredictable.
I do a fair amount of non-alias links too. At least right now, my workflow is use [[ to trigger a link, start typing a few letters from the title, select the page I want from the dropdown, and then hit the left arrow key twice and add a custom alias (i.e. |the words I'd rather have). This may not help right this moment, but I was surprised how quickly it became muscle memory.
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Leah
I do a fair amount of non-alias links too. At least right now, my workflow is use [[ to trigger a link, start typing a few letters from the title, select the page I want from the dropdown, and then hit the left arrow key twice and add a custom alias (i.e. |the words I'd rather have). This may not help right this moment, but I was surprised how quickly it became muscle memory.
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-173643
You can also use tab instead of enter so you don't have to arrow over
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Eleanor Konik
You can also use tab instead of enter so you don't have to arrow over
Darn it, Eleanor. Like always, I have something new from you now to implement in my own workflow LOL
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(This changes EVERYTHING!) (…well not really. Just new muscle memory to pick up.)
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Leah
(This changes EVERYTHING!) (…well not really. Just new muscle memory to pick up.)
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-173931
I felt the same way when I found out lol
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Leah
I do a fair amount of non-alias links too. At least right now, my workflow is use [[ to trigger a link, start typing a few letters from the title, select the page I want from the dropdown, and then hit the left arrow key twice and add a custom alias (i.e. |the words I'd rather have). This may not help right this moment, but I was surprised how quickly it became muscle memory.
Also when I go back and want to link something previously unlinked (that is a non-alias), the quickest workflow is to select it with mouse, then cut it, insert link to page I want to link to, {tab}, and then paste..?
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Eleanor Konik
I felt the same way when I found out lol
I have this horrible (wonderful) feeling I'll re-evaluate my… everything… again after the LYT on Sunday. 😅
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Leah
I have this horrible (wonderful) feeling I'll re-evaluate my… everything… again after the LYT on Sunday. 😅
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-174200
I strive to be thought provoking!
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I've definitely streamlined some things in my vault since the last one, new plugins and whatnot
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ArrayOfSunshine 0715YYYY-174323
How do you sync the first line/header with the title of the note? I'm certain I saw someone mention it, but I can't seem to search it up
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spirit
Also when I go back and want to link something previously unlinked (that is a non-alias), the quickest workflow is to select it with mouse, then cut it, insert link to page I want to link to, {tab}, and then paste..?
Previously unlinked non-alias? If I know it's something that is a note title (eg. I've typed out Americans with Disability Act in full) you can highlight that term, and just hit [[ twice. OR you can check out the Link panel on the Americans with Disability Act page, and see all unlinked mentions across multiple pages. (I may have misunderstood your question, sorry! Does this make sense?)
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ArrayOfSunshine
How do you sync the first line/header with the title of the note? I'm certain I saw someone mention it, but I can't seem to search it up
ArrayOfSunshine 0715YYYY-174936
I found a community plug-in "Embedded Note Titles" that sort-of does what I expected, but not quite
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ArrayOfSunshine
How do you sync the first line/header with the title of the note? I'm certain I saw someone mention it, but I can't seem to search it up
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-175241
Found myself always having the first heading of a file to be the same as the filename, so I wrote a little plugin to automate keeping them in sync. Github: https://github.com/dvcrn/obsidian-filename-heading-sync Note: This plugin will overwrite your existing heading and rename your file when you change that heading, so this can be considere...
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Ok here'd a screenshot. Let's say I want to link to a note titled "Modern Capitalism" by selecting text from this sentence and linking to that note. What's the best way to do that?
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ArrayOfSunshine 0715YYYY-175328
Ah, I was stuck on "title" as a keyword. Thanks!
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ArrayOfSunshine
Ah, I was stuck on "title" as a keyword. Thanks!
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-175335
not unreasonable!
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spirit
Ok here'd a screenshot. Let's say I want to link to a note titled "Modern Capitalism" by selecting text from this sentence and linking to that note. What's the best way to do that?
idea.list 0715YYYY-180442
Select text, type [[, press left arrow key, type |, press left arrow key, start typing "Modern Capitalism" and pick it when it gets suggested
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spirit
Ok here'd a screenshot. Let's say I want to link to a note titled "Modern Capitalism" by selecting text from this sentence and linking to that note. What's the best way to do that?
What I usually do then is I click before the word/phrase (for instance monopolistic, parasitic corporations), would type [[Mod and select "Modern Capitalism", then delete the ]]. I'd toss a | in there and re-add ]] at the end of "corporations. And I'm completely 👀 to see if @Eleanor Konik has a better suggestion now! 😄
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I want to suggest a few usability features here - taken from an old but great app called nvAlt (https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt)
A new app is coming to replace nvALT: nvUltra. Sign up here for updates here..
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I found Obsidian about a year ago when I wanted to take notes about a complex French novel for a book group. I liked Obsidian because it let me link characters to the main narrative and to each other. I let Obsidian slide after that until recently when I started to notice that it was picking up mindshare. Now I'm getting excited about it again.
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Leah
What I usually do then is I click before the word/phrase (for instance monopolistic, parasitic corporations), would type [[Mod and select "Modern Capitalism", then delete the ]]. I'd toss a | in there and re-add ]] at the end of "corporations. And I'm completely 👀 to see if @Eleanor Konik has a better suggestion now! 😄
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-182810
Sorry to disappoint, I almost literally never do that kind of thing.
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Eleanor Konik
Sorry to disappoint, I almost literally never do that kind of thing.
D'awww. 😉
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Here are the NVAlt Features I miss in Obsidian: 1. The ability to arrow-key up and down to select between the results while searching. 2. The ability to create a new note directly from the search bar when if there is no result (with the Enter key) 3. In the search bar, when there are no results you should still be able to vertically scroll through the flat list of all notes, sorted by date or alphabetically
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and here is a video of what it looks like:
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using nvAlt is a breeze!
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msollami
Here are the NVAlt Features I miss in Obsidian: 1. The ability to arrow-key up and down to select between the results while searching. 2. The ability to create a new note directly from the search bar when if there is no result (with the Enter key) 3. In the search bar, when there are no results you should still be able to vertically scroll through the flat list of all notes, sorted by date or alphabetically
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-183026
For #2 try the quick switcher I'm pretty sure it does this
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183100
yeah 1 and 2 are done with the quick switcher
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@Eleanor Konik I mean in the text search bar here:
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please respond if you agree
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183134
how would you create a note from there though
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(that's why the quick switcher exists lol to search and create note if they don't exists)
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Hey CSS magicians, here's my OCD talking again, why it has to have that little gradient ? is it a bug or a feature of the theme?
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183244
if I search for "-path:folder -file:2021-07-23 date" for example I don't see how obsidian can create a note from that lynxHmm
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Zarkov
Hey CSS magicians, here's my OCD talking again, why it has to have that little gradient ? is it a bug or a feature of the theme?
Which theme do you have applied out of curiosity?
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Leah
Which theme do you have applied out of curiosity?
Mammoth
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Because it's looking theme-based to me…
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183326
yeah it's theme based
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cotemaxime
how would you create a note from there though
quick switcher? is that some type of plugin?
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Is it possible to make it so that the preview always opens at the same cursor location that is currently being edited and vice versa?
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msollami
quick switcher? is that some type of plugin?
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183401
it's a core builtin plugin yes, press ctrl+o and pretty sure it's on by default
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cotemaxime
yeah it's theme based
Can I take this off with a snippet? 👀 (edited)
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cotemaxime
(that's why the quick switcher exists lol to search and create note if they don't exists)
I would type the name in the search field and then hit enter and what I typed would become the title of a new note
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Oh I think its a bug, look, without sliding panes
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183525
you can target it with body.plugin-sliding-panes-rotate-header .workspace > .mod-root > .workspace-leaf.mod-active > .workspace-leaf-content > .view-header
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msollami
quick switcher? is that some type of plugin?
If you're using nvalt, I'm guessing you're a Mac user? Command + O allows you to switch between files.
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msollami
I would type the name in the search field and then hit enter and what I typed would become the title of a new note
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183615
yeah but that would create a note named "-path:folder -file:2021-07-23 date" which is both illegal and pointless lol
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cotemaxime
it's a core builtin plugin yes, press ctrl+o and pretty sure it's on by default
Ah yes, wonderful so this works for #2, but if it was in the "advanced search text field on the left" then I could quickly see the notes content as I go up and down with the arrow keys
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the quick switcher doesn't show a preview of the currently selected note... (edited)
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Zarkov
Oh I think its a bug, look, without sliding panes
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-183858
you need more than 1 note for it to show even without sliding pane lol it's just a way to highlight the current note
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but in any case you can CSS it out anyway
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msollami
I want to suggest a few usability features here - taken from an old but great app called nvAlt (https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt)
idea.list 0715YYYY-183933
Forum is probably a better place for feature requests. It will get buried in the Discord, especially in #general
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cotemaxime
but in any case you can CSS it out anyway
Any idea how I do it? I know total of zero css 🥴
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-184615
yeah you can use the targeting I sent here https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/694233507500916796/865376038641336320 and then { border-right: unset } if you want it gone but it's theme based so the target might be different in yours, the best way is to use the dev console anyway for this sort of things then the element selector in the top corner and select the header
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Do you guys know how to add widget in obsidian?
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cotemaxime
yeah you can use the targeting I sent here https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/694233507500916796/865376038641336320 and then { border-right: unset } if you want it gone but it's theme based so the target might be different in yours, the best way is to use the dev console anyway for this sort of things then the element selector in the top corner and select the header
woow it wiped out the neon thing but the gradient thing still there hahaha
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Zarkov
woow it wiped out the neon thing but the gradient thing still there hahaha
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-185700
oh you wanted the gradient out? I thought you pointed to the neon line XD
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yea haha the gradient, I like the neon xD
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body.plugin-sliding-panes-rotate-header .workspace > .mod-root > .workspace-leaf.mod-active > .workspace-leaf-content > .view-header > .view-header-title-container:after { background: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, var(--background-primary-alt)); /* */ } body.plugin-sliding-panes-rotate-header .workspace > .mod-root > .workspace-leaf.mod-active > .workspace-leaf-content > .view-header > .view-header-title-container:before { background: linear-gradient(to top, transparent, var(--background-primary-alt)); maybe is some of this?
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omg, my code looks a mess pasted in here.
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the gradient I had a snippet for lol
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-190112
sigh I really need to go back and refactor all my daily note crap into zettels now
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I gave block references a try in my daily notes and I kind of hate them haha
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-190200
lol
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-190205
it's amazing how much harder it is to make mocs using them when they're still in my "fleeting notes"
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thought I could get away with it but NEWP
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-190233
yeah I don't really block ref either lol
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cotemaxime
Click to see attachment 🖼️
YESSSS someone who understand my problems with little details ❤️
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thanks a lot
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I have so many questions and ideas for themes, I don't know why I'm programming in python, hope some day I start studying css
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Eleanor Konik
sigh I really need to go back and refactor all my daily note crap into zettels now
Something I never understood about zettels, why use zettels? ( I totally don't know why, I know what this is but I don't actually see the advantage )
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Zarkov
Something I never understood about zettels, why use zettels? ( I totally don't know why, I know what this is but I don't actually see the advantage )
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-190857
so, I started out with a more wikipedia "encyclopedic" style and I found that the WALL OF TEXT was so unspecific that it was functionally useless for what I was usually checking for, and I really prefer the hand-made (NOT dataview automated) "map of content" for getting a top-level overview of the stuff about a broad topic I care about, and then really really narrow and specific claims being their own file with a descriptive filename, so I can "remember at a glance" Like, [[greek]] (longform writeup overview of greece) is a lot less useful for me than [[greek]] (bullet point entry point into my notes with logical titles like "[[greeks hated carthiginians]]" "ancient greece is part of [[classical antiquity]]" "[[the amazons by adrienne]] mayor discusses greek myths about the [[scythian]] people and reveals a lot about greek thought and politics"
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does that make sense?
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-191240
what about rome though peachySip
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cotemaxime
what about rome though peachySip
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-191322
ask me again in an hour 😛
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-191337
XD
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Eleanor Konik
does that make sense?
it does, thanks xD
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cotemaxime
what about rome though peachySip
It wasn't built in a day, but with Note Refactor, it could probably be stripped apart pretty quickly. I'll show myself out. (edited)
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-191432
LOL
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-191450
(my "maps of content" are pretty different from Nick's because I do different things than he does, but I really agree with the core idea that it should be handwritten)
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have yall seen nicks latest video
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Eleanor Konik
(my "maps of content" are pretty different from Nick's because I do different things than he does, but I really agree with the core idea that it should be handwritten)
cotemaxime 0715YYYY-191544
but but but dataview! and templater!
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Hey, does anybody know if it's possible to extend the width of the editing window? My text seems to wrap at like 80 characters? [Edit: Nevermind, it's called disabling "Readable mode"] (edited)
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"in other apps, i have cataracts and a bum knee in obsidian, I am a falcon and usain bolt, i fly around with unequaled speed"
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cotemaxime
but but but dataview! and templater!
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-191624
I tried dataview with mocs for awhile and I thought I would love it but I actually hated it, BUT it did help me evolve my new tag system I'm excited to show off on Sunday
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(I know! Eleanor using tags? madness)
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Eleanor Konik
I tried dataview with mocs for awhile and I thought I would love it but I actually hated it, BUT it did help me evolve my new tag system I'm excited to show off on Sunday
That's where I've landed too. I keep a folder of Dataview stuff for dynamic quick glances, but I'm finding it better to manually connect.
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That's where I've landed too. I keep a folder of Dataview stuff for dynamic quick glances, but I'm finding it better to manually connect.
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-191752
yeah dataview is still amazing at pulling in lists of articles for different outlets and stuff, and I love it for chapter overviews of my novels but, not for this
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Anyone have a way of working with large structured files? I'm love a way to have my csv, json, xls in obsidian
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msollami
Anyone have a way of working with large structured files? I'm love a way to have my csv, json, xls in obsidian
saltymaccas 0715YYYY-194456
there will probably be some generator online that can turn the files into markdown graphs or other things you may want
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msollami
Anyone have a way of working with large structured files? I'm love a way to have my csv, json, xls in obsidian
I'd have a look in Community plugins. I know you can export to CSV with Advanced Tables, but I believe there may be some others as well.
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So I'm in the process of packing for a move. (Always fun! lol). I just stumbled across many paper journals I used to live by day to day & thinking of skimming through them, and scanning them / transferring for use in Obsidian & shredding away. Has anyone done something similar? What was your process?
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So I'm in the process of packing for a move. (Always fun! lol). I just stumbled across many paper journals I used to live by day to day & thinking of skimming through them, and scanning them / transferring for use in Obsidian & shredding away. Has anyone done something similar? What was your process?
Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-201921
I use a marker to put a big diagonal line everything I've "processed" digitally
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and anything that has become irrelevant
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Eleanor Konik
I use a marker to put a big diagonal line everything I've "processed" digitally
I love this idea!
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Eleanor Konik 0715YYYY-201944
if every page is marked off, I throw the book away
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I'm a very analog person but I don't actually need 80 pages of todo notes and six meeting notes from 2 school years ago and three pages worth of useful content from a lecture I attended
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I just re-type the lecture and toss the notebook
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Justin K
So I'm in the process of packing for a move. (Always fun! lol). I just stumbled across many paper journals I used to live by day to day & thinking of skimming through them, and scanning them / transferring for use in Obsidian & shredding away. Has anyone done something similar? What was your process?
Put on a good movie or a good podcast, scan, PDF, and then realize I haven't looked at those PDFs in about 5 years. But the good movie or good podcast was essential.
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justinshaffner 0715YYYY-202908
Is there a way to search open pdf in obsidian?
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(I did actually go through them and pull out relevant pages and action them into Evernote at the time, though.) They have actually come in handy on occasion, but very rarely. It's nice to look through every once in a while, and I've found some old sketches for design work I did eons ago. Occasionally good to be able to show old process work etc. But it's amazing how important fleeting notes were at the time, and how little they matter later.
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Santi Younger
3D printed Obsidian Logos is an awesome idea, would love to collaborate on this @Unknown if you guys ever think of selling merch
Do you know how to put a 3D Printing file together? Going to reach out to a couple of friends who might be able to 3D print
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I've been trying to link up a lot of existing notes and using the "Unlinked Mentions" but one challenge I have is that short page names get suggested within long URLs -- is there any way to exclude suggested links within actual URLs or other regexes?
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I've been trying to link up a lot of existing notes and using the "Unlinked Mentions" but one challenge I have is that short page names get suggested within long URLs -- is there any way to exclude suggested links within actual URLs or other regexes?
I think I know what you're talking about but do you have an example?
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ATexan
I think I know what you're talking about but do you have an example?
For example in this unlinked mention (please ignore blurring)
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bdc
For example in this unlinked mention (please ignore blurring)
Interesting. That's def. beyond my personal scope. Most of my urls look like this [[Vegas News#VN-0099|VN-0099]] This way it shows up as VN-0099
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ATexan
Interesting. That's def. beyond my personal scope. Most of my urls look like this [[Vegas News#VN-0099|VN-0099]] This way it shows up as VN-0099
Same -- these are just links to Google Docs, e.g.
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bdc
Same -- these are just links to Google Docs, e.g.
Hopefully someone will see and respond
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cotemaxime
if you really want backup I would go with none of them cause git is not a backup tool lol it's way to easy to mess up and loose all the local changes and/or create issue to be reliable as a backup
dummifiedme 0715YYYY-205853
Yes, git is not a backup tool, but I find it better than any cloud backup since there is versioning. I am noob, but this is how I understood.😅
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Vinadon
It definitely not up to date, because private is possible at GitHub
dummifiedme 0715YYYY-205924
Okay. Yes, that makes sense. GitHub also just provides 500mb now.
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cotemaxime 0715YYYY-210152
most cloud service actually have versioning though? lynxHmm maybe not exactly as good for text file but yeah. The best backup are also not things like dropbox/onedrive/etc but something as simple as a zip file saved to an external drive or a NAS AND a sync service or git or whatever. What you want for important files is 3 independant copy to exists of a file: one local, one remote and one one a cloud
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most cloud service actually have versioning though? lynxHmm maybe not exactly as good for text file but yeah. The best backup are also not things like dropbox/onedrive/etc but something as simple as a zip file saved to an external drive or a NAS AND a sync service or git or whatever. What you want for important files is 3 independant copy to exists of a file: one local, one remote and one one a cloud
dummifiedme 0715YYYY-210919
I currently keep manual zips each week and a sync to git.
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Any way I can embed videos like notion? Or just a bookmarked with thumbnail would be nice 🙂
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Zarkov
Any way I can embed videos like notion? Or just a bookmarked with thumbnail would be nice 🙂
YouTube? Other?
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Any way I can embed videos like notion? Or just a bookmarked with thumbnail would be nice 🙂
If it's YouTube, you can just use the embed code generated by YouTube straight into your document. Example: https://publish.obsidian.md/leah/50+Reference/50.05+Audiovisual/50.05.02+YouTube/Peacock+Dress+2021-05+Video+Diary+(Cathy+Hay)
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If it's YouTube, you can just use the embed code generated by YouTube straight into your document. Example: https://publish.obsidian.md/leah/50+Reference/50.05+Audiovisual/50.05.02+YouTube/Peacock+Dress+2021-05+Video+Diary+(Cathy+Hay)
Leah, I love your site's first category 00 Meta!!
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Leah, I love your site's first category 00 Meta!!
To be fair, that's just because my site is bits and pieces of my system. There's (arguably) method to my madness. (Technically.) https://publish.obsidian.md/leah/00+Meta/04+SOP/Obsidian+(SOP)
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curtismchale 0715YYYY-220432
6am Pacific tomorrow I’ll be answering questions about task managers and Obsidian https://youtu.be/kdMvHN_21L0
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Hi all . How to replace only one "# " ?? Thanks. (edited)
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Just cycle through each # by clicking next. Once it highlights the # you want to change click replace. (edited)
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Tell me how it works out. 😀 (edited)
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...replace ## with # <whatever> (edited)
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Does anyone know if there is a good way to share an obsidian note with a non-obsidian user? Ideally in a way they can leave comments or edit and syncs back to my obsidian.
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AlandEd
Does anyone know if there is a good way to share an obsidian note with a non-obsidian user? Ideally in a way they can leave comments or edit and syncs back to my obsidian.
I'm not sure. You could just tell them to give Obsidian a try since it's free. 😄
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I'm not sure. You could just tell them to give Obsidian a try since it's free. 😄
that's true! I want to create as low of a barrier as possible for them to read what I am sending while still having the ability to edit or leave comments and see my updates
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that's true! I want to create as low of a barrier as possible for them to read what I am sending while still having the ability to edit or leave comments and see my updates
i love that idea. Similar to microsoft word and the ability to leave comments and track changes.
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That's what I do for press releases
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Eleanor Konik
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
anti_borg 0715YYYY-231445
You have a newsletter?
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that's true! I want to create as low of a barrier as possible for them to read what I am sending while still having the ability to edit or leave comments and see my updates
Michael Baldwin 0715YYYY-232744
I would love this too and I’ve seen a number of others mention this on here as well. Any plans to develop something or any ideas how to make it work?
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anti_borg
You have a newsletter?
She does: https://eleanorkonik.com/subscribe/, as well as her Obsidian Roundup: https://obsidianroundup.org
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Leah
She does: https://eleanorkonik.com/subscribe/, as well as her Obsidian Roundup: https://obsidianroundup.org
anti_borg 0715YYYY-233224
Thank you!
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hey
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i am not able to attach PDF
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i tried [filename] (file:///path)
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I think it's ![text](file://filename.pdf)
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On Roam, I was able to enter the title of a future date (e.g. [[2021-04-21]]) and this mention would appear in the daily note for that date. Is this possible in Obsidian?
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This is too much fun.
seishonagon 0716YYYY-011512
This is neat - tried it on Obsidian Mobile (iPad) though, and keep getting : Evaluation Error: eval@[native code] @ @ generatorResume@[native code] @ Promise@[native code] __awaiter@ @ generatorResume@[native code] @ Promise@[native code] __awaiter@ @capacitor://localhost/app.js:1:750592 @capacitor://localhost/app.js:1:751014 @ generatorResume@[native code] fulfilled@ promiseReactionJob@[native code] From a quick look at it, the error seems to be linked to the .note parsing … - is there a difference in the js engine between Obsidian and Obsidian Mobile? Maybe a function that’s missing? (edited)
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On Roam, I was able to enter the title of a future date (e.g. [[2021-04-21]]) and this mention would appear in the daily note for that date. Is this possible in Obsidian?
yeah, should appear in the backlinks pane when you create that daily note
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Does anyone have ideas for an Obsidian setup that uses an e-ink screen/tablet? I want to do more mobile note-taking in Obsidian but also reduce backlit screen time.
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how do i start debugging why my shortcuts for the templater plugin aren't working anymore?
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everything worked fine for a long time but with the obsidian update (i think, at least some of my settings on osx were wiped out) it doesn't seem to work anymore (option+e)
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yeah, should appear in the backlinks pane when you create that daily note
Thanks, I should make sure I check this each day.
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Hammershaft 0716YYYY-020644
I have a couple vaults for different big concepts that I want to be isolated. Can I use them all with Obsidian Sync?
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Leah
Yes 🙂
Hammershaft 0716YYYY-021147
nvm, got it!
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Is it possible to add a URL to a word/s, but have it appear as it would in preview mode?
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blockquote for ios onedrive seems to work to preview files
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Manedblackwolf 0716YYYY-022546
what did obsidian use again for math equations?
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Manedblackwolf
what did obsidian use again for math equations?
LaTeX is implemented using MathJax
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Manedblackwolf 0716YYYY-023032
thanks
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Hammershaft 0716YYYY-030853
gotta say with the introduction of the mobile app I'm pretty grateful Obsidian exists.
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cvanhenten 0716YYYY-032624
Seems plugin filename heading sync is blocked (on obsidian mobile) due to a significant bug. What will happen to this plugin I’m using all the time ? (edited)
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Hello. I’ve found a bug that was caused by your plugin. Description Double open the same note via a link from a note which has been added in the sidebar, delete all content inside this note. Steps to reproduce Add a note to the sidebar Add a link to another note inside this note Click the link and then click to open the second tab with this n...
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mikebarkmin 0716YYYY-034747
I have update my Ulauncher plugin for obsidian. I now support direct access to your Daily Note and Quick Capturing. This is only interesting for Linux 🐧 user 🙂 https://github.com/mikebarkmin/ulauncher-obsidian . Feel free to leave me suggestions for new features or if you encounter bugs an issue 😉
An ulauncher extension for obsidian.md. Contribute to mikebarkmin/ulauncher-obsidian development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Sultanofswing
I thought I might share this here as well: https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ That tool takes PDFs, scans the text and formats the file so that it is readable in kindle readers. It is much better in my experience than just bringing the PDF into your kindle and trying to read it by zooming. In case it is of use to anyone. Tool looks old, but it works and the dev is still active
Belatedly stumbled across this. Looks good. I use Calibre for my document conversion needs e.g. PDF to .mobi or .epub to .mobi. Works pretty well.
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Seems plugin filename heading sync is blocked (on obsidian mobile) due to a significant bug. What will happen to this plugin I’m using all the time ? (edited)
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-054057
Is the bug with obsidian or the plug-in? Is the developer aware of the bug? If not, consider filling an issue on their repo
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that's true! I want to create as low of a barrier as possible for them to read what I am sending while still having the ability to edit or leave comments and see my updates
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-054202
If you Google "markdown shared comment tool" some free ones should pop up.
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Is the bug with obsidian or the plug-in? Is the developer aware of the bug? If not, consider filling an issue on their repo
cvanhenten 0716YYYY-054622
I’m not very familiar with these kind of procedure; furthemore it was somebody else who detected the bug (I suppose he filled the issue) furthermore: the plugin has been disabled on mobile; I suppose it is the developper, no? (ps: where can I learn how to contribute to this improvement process)
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I’m not very familiar with these kind of procedure; furthemore it was somebody else who detected the bug (I suppose he filled the issue) furthermore: the plugin has been disabled on mobile; I suppose it is the developper, no? (ps: where can I learn how to contribute to this improvement process)
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-054802
Mobile plugins have different requirements than desktop/laptop, not all things are possible, but I can try to check in and see what the status is. Are you asking how to learn to make plugins?
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if anyone's got a question on sync between windows and android, you can ask me 😄
Hey @josemike03 would love to know how you did it and follow your lead. I am using iphone & Mac though but I guess the tools use should be the same or do you know a guide for iphone+mac too ?
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Leah
If it's YouTube, you can just use the embed code generated by YouTube straight into your document. Example: https://publish.obsidian.md/leah/50+Reference/50.05+Audiovisual/50.05.02+YouTube/Peacock+Dress+2021-05+Video+Diary+(Cathy+Hay)
Thanks a lot!
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Another question. https://github.com/radekkozak/discordian/blob/master/media/screenshots/discordian-img-grid-zoom.gif How did he do it? I tried the YAML --- cssclass: img-grid --- But the images do not get in grid as the gif shows (edited)
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Another question. https://github.com/radekkozak/discordian/blob/master/media/screenshots/discordian-img-grid-zoom.gif How did he do it? I tried the YAML --- cssclass: img-grid --- But the images do not get in grid as the gif shows (edited)
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it doesn't magically happen after you add cssclass: img-grid, that merely adds a CSS class for this note, some theme/snippet still needs to do the heavy lifting
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the_doctor 0716YYYY-065327
Is there a way that when using "file:file_name" in the search bar, it shows the file if file_name is an alias?
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andre.alonso 0716YYYY-070207
Hi there. Public release is 0.12.10. What's the latest beta version?
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"Unable to load plugin Filename Heading Sync v1.3.0. This version has been reported to cause issues. Please check for a newer version of the plugin." How do I stop Obsidian from forcing me to disable this plugin?
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"Unable to load plugin Filename Heading Sync v1.3.0. This version has been reported to cause issues. Please check for a newer version of the plugin." How do I stop Obsidian from forcing me to disable this plugin?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-071542
It looks like the developer is working on shipping a fix for the data loss. I would try to update the plugin in a few hours -- you can check their repo for more details. I suppose if you want to risk the data loss of your files you could try to manually install the blocked version and change some of the IDs in the .json files, but I would recommend waiting for a fix if one hasn't already shipped.
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It looks like the developer is working on shipping a fix for the data loss. I would try to update the plugin in a few hours -- you can check their repo for more details. I suppose if you want to risk the data loss of your files you could try to manually install the blocked version and change some of the IDs in the .json files, but I would recommend waiting for a fix if one hasn't already shipped.
Thank you 🙏 will do
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Hi there. Public release is 0.12.10. What's the latest beta version?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-072356
Mobile shipped this week so I believe the desktop insider and desktop public are both on 12.10 while we focus on getting people ramped up with mobile; I think the mobile insider is a couple of versions ahead of the public version though. You can usually see the insider release notes on the announcement section of the forums though :)
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WagtailBob 0716YYYY-073312
Sync is set up on my iPad and iPhone. When I turned on my iPad today and sync removed many files I created yesterday on my Macbook. It assumed that Obsidian on my iPad was the latest version of files (not the case). Two questions: 1. How can I make sure the current Macbook vault is considered the latest version and not changed to reflect the mobile versions. I turned off sync on the desktop. I also turned off WiFi before starting the computer and made a copy of my vault. I assume, however, that the damage has been done and the new (incorrect version) is now on the Obsidian server ready to download whenever I turn sync back on. 2. After this is resolved are there settings to ensure either one way sync (Macbook to all mobile versions) OR a setting so that only the latest files sync each way. It seemed to assume the whole mobile vault was the latest version, even though many files sync removed were newer than the mobile vault. (Sorry for long-winded question)
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Teapotrick 0716YYYY-075549
hello. i'm coming from Zettlr, and my links are like this [[<timestamp>]], but my file names are like <timestamp> <simple name>. but the links still work, despite being incomplete. can i do that in obsidian?
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This is neat - tried it on Obsidian Mobile (iPad) though, and keep getting : Evaluation Error: eval@[native code] @ @ generatorResume@[native code] @ Promise@[native code] __awaiter@ @ generatorResume@[native code] @ Promise@[native code] __awaiter@ @capacitor://localhost/app.js:1:750592 @capacitor://localhost/app.js:1:751014 @ generatorResume@[native code] fulfilled@ promiseReactionJob@[native code] From a quick look at it, the error seems to be linked to the .note parsing … - is there a difference in the js engine between Obsidian and Obsidian Mobile? Maybe a function that’s missing? (edited)
That's above my pay grade; could be a bug with Obsidian, or the Dataview plugin, or specific to Obsidian on iOS. I have a similar template currently working on Obsidian for Android; when I get a chance I'll update this gist with that code, after confirming that it works on macOS and Android. If you still get this error then it's probably something platform-specific.
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Is there a way to modify the repeat-rate for vim mode?
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hello. i'm coming from Zettlr, and my links are like this [[<timestamp>]], but my file names are like <timestamp> <simple name>. but the links still work, despite being incomplete. can i do that in obsidian?
idea.list 0716YYYY-091143
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Hey guys. I'm trying to implement my current workflow into obsidian. I capture the title with url in the daily note than under it I write a page as a tag for highlight & literature notes. Now I can see all my literature notes in one page in reference section. The reference section has a nice feature where it shows the parent bullet. So I know from what source I wrote the note from. But in obsidian the backlink & search section doesn't show the whole note context. Which makes it hard to navigate. How do you guys capture source notes? (edited)
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This is obsidian? What there are you running?
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This is obsidian? What there are you running?
My current main app is logseq
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Hello, looking for some help
09:16
I'm looking to set up a mermaid pie chart, and used the mermaid docs example
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Nothing seems to be rendering
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Any pointers?
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Just tried another example I found in this Discord, still nothing :/
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It works in Mermaid as well, so it's something to do with Obsidian
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/how I use Obsidian
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Click to see attachment 🖼️
Oddly enough, I just typed in exactly what you had written, and it rendered fine. 🤔 Hmm…
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idea.list 0716YYYY-092129
Same, works for me in Obsidian, even in clean vault. Any errors in devtools console?
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Carl-bot BOT 0716YYYY-092130
To check for errors, first open the developer tools by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows/Linux or Cmd-Opt-I on macOS, and then go to the "Console" tab. If you want to save the error to a log file, you can right click on the error and choose "Save as...".
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Okay, it could be something to do with my plugins, etc.
09:21
let me check devtools
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also, could you post the raw markdown so I can copy/paste
09:21
maybe it has something to do with another element in the file
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Okay, it could be something to do with my plugins, etc.
That was my thought if there was a conflict.
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I am not seeing anything else here :|
09:22
Ya, just the mermaid doesn't work as well
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does the problem still happen with themse/CSS snippets disabled?
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maybe it has something to do with another element in the file
Here's my (sanitized…) daily note I wrote it in.
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also, could you post the raw markdown so I can copy/paste
idea.list 0716YYYY-092300
I only copy pasted code from mermaid js docs into mermaid code block
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(it works fine on my vault as well)
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does the problem still happen with themse/CSS snippets disabled?
I am using the default theme. Let's take a look
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09:25
I've disabled all my plugins and reloaded, no dice
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And no custom CSS snippets?
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did you restart the whole app?
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did you restart the whole app?
yes
09:25
Quit and relaunched after disabling everything
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yeah that's really weird
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I have started using the app a few days ago, so no custom CSS and only a few popular plugins like Andy Matuschak's sliding panes
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what happens if you copy and paste this exactly?
09:26
pie title Key elements in Product X "Calcium" : 42.96 "Potassium": 50.05 "Magnesium" : 10.01 "Iron" : 5
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idea.list 0716YYYY-092703
Can you try to reproduce it in a new vault (you can easily remove newly created folder afterwards)?
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I will try the new vault suggestion right now
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(my last guess is that there's some kind of invisible character or something messing it up)
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No dice
09:28
I copied/pasted :/
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Did you try the .md I sent?
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@Leah 🤯 I missed it, but that works
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09:29
Could it have something to do with whitespace around it or how the element is found?
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That's progress 🙂
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Okay no, it has something to do with characters
09:30
I copied and pasted from your file into mine
09:30
and it works as a standalone
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If it were me, I'd view your snippet and mine in something that would show characters. See if there is something funky happening with the one you wrote.
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Ok, I opened your file in VSCode
09:33
It looks like it might have something to do with tabs vs spaces
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Ok, I opened your file in VSCode
% of people who like pie?
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Actually, no
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Here are the two snippets.
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Working one above
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Broken one below
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You've got extra spaces after the numbers below.
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I may not be seeing the obvious difference, 👀 welcome
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OH
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There it is @Leah :)
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09:34
That is the answer
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Phew!!! 😄
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Trailing spaces will confuse mermaid, hopefully this helps anyone who might come to the Discord with similar issues
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You've got extra spaces after the numbers below.
idea.list 0716YYYY-093537
Oh my god, that is such an annoying issue 😐
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Gonna suggest slapping a star on it since this is the "accepted solution"
09:35
I'm sure I am not the only one who will run into a similar problem in the future
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I'm confused why copying my snippet didn't work, now
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did your editor automatically insert extra spaces?
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I'm confused why copying my snippet didn't work, now
Likely something on my end
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did your editor automatically insert extra spaces?
Probably this
09:36
Or some variation thereof
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that's a weird behavior
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I'm surprised the trailing spaces broke it
09:37
But I guess that's a bug (or intended behaviour) in mermaid, rather than an Obsidian issue
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idea.list
Oh my god, that is such an annoying issue 😐
It was. Thank you everyone for helping me troubleshoot and fix it :)
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A follow-up question: can I enable showing whitespace within code blocks to never have to deal with this again 🙃
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Sync is set up on my iPad and iPhone. When I turned on my iPad today and sync removed many files I created yesterday on my Macbook. It assumed that Obsidian on my iPad was the latest version of files (not the case). Two questions: 1. How can I make sure the current Macbook vault is considered the latest version and not changed to reflect the mobile versions. I turned off sync on the desktop. I also turned off WiFi before starting the computer and made a copy of my vault. I assume, however, that the damage has been done and the new (incorrect version) is now on the Obsidian server ready to download whenever I turn sync back on. 2. After this is resolved are there settings to ensure either one way sync (Macbook to all mobile versions) OR a setting so that only the latest files sync each way. It seemed to assume the whole mobile vault was the latest version, even though many files sync removed were newer than the mobile vault. (Sorry for long-winded question)
cotemaxime 0716YYYY-093915
1. you can't for now there's no such things as "this one over the other" normally it takes the more recent files but sometimes on mobile weird stuff happens. Delete files are still on the server though and you can restore them from the deleted files menu (and the file recovery plugin too iirc) you can also see which devices deleted files and which files in the log to help. 2. could be a nice idea for now there's nothing but feel free to do a FR on the forum
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A follow-up question: can I enable showing whitespace within code blocks to never have to deal with this again 🙃
cotemaxime 0716YYYY-093943
I think there's a plugin that show whitespace
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Ah ok
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I was thinking it would be a default setting
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That is usually the case in most editors, I am surprised that isn't the case here
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Open to disagreement but I figured that should come out-of-box
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Obsidian is more concerned with getting core functionality right, and even certain features that are "core" are just called "plugins"
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call it a feature or a plugin, in either case, the functionality is there, just needs to be enabled/turned on
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Gotcha
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Another interesting quirk: values equal to 0 are illustrated but not labelled ("done") in mermaid
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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1. you can't for now there's no such things as "this one over the other" normally it takes the more recent files but sometimes on mobile weird stuff happens. Delete files are still on the server though and you can restore them from the deleted files menu (and the file recovery plugin too iirc) you can also see which devices deleted files and which files in the log to help. 2. could be a nice idea for now there's nothing but feel free to do a FR on the forum
WagtailBob 0716YYYY-094518
Thanks. It changed removed 75-100 files so I think that trying to restore everything with links may be really clunky. Maybe I’ll just try and create an empty vault, sync that. Then replace it with a copy of the old vault and sync that and then turn off sync. Seems like being able to choose the sync directionality would be helpful
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Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-100329
Cc: @AnthonyBaker I'm on mobile but this is what you asked me about on Twitter.
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Looks like a bug:
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Beetroot Paul 0716YYYY-102538
I see some emoji reactions are bound to automations. So far I am aware of 🔖 one to save something for myself for the future. But I also read above about “slapping a star”. And I see 🐛 quite often too. Do we have a single place where those reaction automations are described? I would look for it in #welcome because it’s the intro channel and it’s not spammed with messages. (edited)
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-103022
bookmark is for bookmarking, star is to send something to the starboard ( #starboard ) that's it really the rest are thing from carl that are either to help moderate/read or relic from the past lol
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bookmark is for bookmarking, star is to send something to the starboard ( #starboard ) that's it really the rest are thing from carl that are either to help moderate/read or relic from the past lol
Beetroot Paul 0716YYYY-103133
And what does @Carl do? Can we use it with some commands? Is there anything about Carl I should be aware of? 🙂
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Beetroot Paul
And what does @Carl do? Can we use it with some commands? Is there anything about Carl I should be aware of? 🙂
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-103216
Check out #bots-land-mute-me
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-103225
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Eleanor Konik
Cc: @AnthonyBaker I'm on mobile but this is what you asked me about on Twitter.
AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-103857
Perfecto, thanks! Did you post this on Twitter? You should — and with the #obsidianmd hashtag. Am sure there's folks there that are circling Obsidian usage who might be interested.
10:39
@Eleanor Konik Also, I'm secretly interested if we see a spike in your newsletter subscriptions with the release of Obsidian Mobile and all from this week.
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AnthonyBaker
Perfecto, thanks! Did you post this on Twitter? You should — and with the #obsidianmd hashtag. Am sure there's folks there that are circling Obsidian usage who might be interested.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-104027
I haven't yet. Just sat down at my desk. My kid got sick and my husband is currently in crunch at work so I've been kind of scrambling 😅 gonna do it now
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Eleanor Konik
Check out #bots-land-mute-me
Beetroot Paul 0716YYYY-104103
I visited that channel but found no guide how to use that bot. I saw some commands of other people and some of them worked and some not. So my previous question applies here too: wouldn’t it be better to have info about emoji reactions automations and about how to start usage of carl written down somewhere, perhaps in #welcome ? Not it is a little bit intimidating, I am getting a feeling of a place where everyone knows how to do things but me 😅
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AnthonyBaker
@Eleanor Konik Also, I'm secretly interested if we see a spike in your newsletter subscriptions with the release of Obsidian Mobile and all from this week.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-104105
I haven't seen a spike yet, just steady growth. 🙂
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Beetroot Paul
I visited that channel but found no guide how to use that bot. I saw some commands of other people and some of them worked and some not. So my previous question applies here too: wouldn’t it be better to have info about emoji reactions automations and about how to start usage of carl written down somewhere, perhaps in #welcome ? Not it is a little bit intimidating, I am getting a feeling of a place where everyone knows how to do things but me 😅
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-104238
the documentation for carl is VERY lengthy (https://docs.carl.gg/), and probably not suitable for a quick message, but I can see about asking the developers to add a note to welcome that this server uses carlbot and the bookmark bot with a link to the documentation for them.
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Eleanor Konik
the documentation for carl is VERY lengthy (https://docs.carl.gg/), and probably not suitable for a quick message, but I can see about asking the developers to add a note to welcome that this server uses carlbot and the bookmark bot with a link to the documentation for them.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-104317
cc: @Silver
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Eleanor Konik
I haven't seen a spike yet, just steady growth. 🙂
AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-105853
Slow and steady wins the race.
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Beetroot Paul
I visited that channel but found no guide how to use that bot. I saw some commands of other people and some of them worked and some not. So my previous question applies here too: wouldn’t it be better to have info about emoji reactions automations and about how to start usage of carl written down somewhere, perhaps in #welcome ? Not it is a little bit intimidating, I am getting a feeling of a place where everyone knows how to do things but me 😅
we don't expect non-moderators to "use" Carl, if that makes sense
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-105928
I LOVE CARL.
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if you say some things, you might trigger auto responses
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but you don't need to operate it
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-110003
Actually, I need to create something similar in my company’s Slack account. Would likely REALLY help folks looking for answers, directly referencing docs, etc. Very, very handy.
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just pinned the reaction role post, hope that's helpful
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-110027
@Silver Aren’t you supposed to be camping?
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AnthonyBaker
Actually, I need to create something similar in my company’s Slack account. Would likely REALLY help folks looking for answers, directly referencing docs, etc. Very, very handy.
that's a great idea!
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AnthonyBaker
@Silver Aren’t you supposed to be camping?
camping is done haha, only for 2 nights, now back at work 🖥
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Silver
camping is done haha, only for 2 nights, now back at work 🖥
AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-110242
Hope you guys had a great time. You deserved it. You know, we could have some kind of annual Obsidian event — maybe even call it the Obsidian Roundup — and it’s a conference/meetup, but in the wild. Everyone brings their own tents, etc. (edited)
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Related, there’s a great event series called the Do Lectures in Wales that’s been happening for some time. It’s like a more intimate, more rustic, TED conference. Happens on a farm in a hen house. https://thedolectures.com
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AnthonyBaker
Perfecto, thanks! Did you post this on Twitter? You should — and with the #obsidianmd hashtag. Am sure there's folks there that are circling Obsidian usage who might be interested.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-111354
I tweeted it https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1416063066098348038. Feel free to retweet 😛 you have more followers than I do anyway haha (edited)
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pholbrook 0716YYYY-112605
If you sign up for Obsidian Sync, does anyone know what URL/port it uses. (Wondering if work internet filtering will prevent it from working.)
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justinshaffner 0716YYYY-114422
Is it possible to create a link that will - open a workspace? - open another vault? Thanks in advance!
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If you sign up for Obsidian Sync, does anyone know what URL/port it uses. (Wondering if work internet filtering will prevent it from working.)
I'd be willing to bet that it's just HTTPS but I'll be curious to find out from you if it works!
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justinshaffner
Is it possible to create a link that will - open a workspace? - open another vault? Thanks in advance!
I think a plug-in could do this? I'm not totally sure, I haven't looked at the plugin API deeply yet, it seems to be reasonably easy to use based on how many plugins there seem to be and they appear to be capable of changing pretty much any functionality in the entire app anywhere, although most of course don't reach out of their comfort zone that far (edited)
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Sabrina the Teenage Lich 0716YYYY-115151
can you create variables in obsidian.md?
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Is it possible to create a link that will - open a workspace? - open another vault? Thanks in advance!
yes, https://help.obsidian.md/Advanced+topics/Using+obsidian+URI; there are multiple plugins that go beyond that
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question of my own: does anyone know of a theme or plug-in that makes the backlinks section less obtrusive? I want it open at all times, but I would really prefer if it was inline like how it is in Roam or Athens. I want backlinks to feel like just part of the document. I might just use a plugin or external thing that automatically adds them to the documents themselves.
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justinshaffner
Is it possible to create a link that will - open a workspace? - open another vault? Thanks in advance!
You can link files or notes from other vaults, by copying that note url. Idk about workspace.
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Sabrina the Teenage Lich
can you create variables in obsidian.md?
there are some pretty cool plugins that do things along those lines but you'll have to be more specific in order for me to recommend any particular approach! what do you want the variables to be used for?
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lauren
there are some pretty cool plugins that do things along those lines but you'll have to be more specific in order for me to recommend any particular approach! what do you want the variables to be used for?
Sabrina the Teenage Lich 0716YYYY-115346
i'd like to show/hide hyperlinks based off variable values
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sort of akin to Twine
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You can link files or notes from other vaults, by copying that note url. Idk about workspace.
How it would be in another vault
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lauren
question of my own: does anyone know of a theme or plug-in that makes the backlinks section less obtrusive? I want it open at all times, but I would really prefer if it was inline like how it is in Roam or Athens. I want backlinks to feel like just part of the document. I might just use a plugin or external thing that automatically adds them to the documents themselves.
you can toggle that with the three dots in the panes top; what does not persist through restarths though, but there is a plugin that does that(not in community plugins, also don't have the url handy)
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Sabrina the Teenage Lich
i'd like to show/hide hyperlinks based off variable values
I'm afraid my imagination isn't quite powerful enough to visualize what you mean so far - can you give more example detail?
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Sabrina the Teenage Lich 0716YYYY-115635
You find yourself at a locked door. If Key=1 [Open it with a key](Link1) If Key=0 [You do not have the key to open this door](Link2)
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something like that
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you can toggle that with the three dots in the panes top; what does not persist through restarths though, but there is a plugin that does that(not in community plugins, also don't have the url handy)
I've messed with those settings and what I really want is for the backlinks to either be or appear to be inline in the page. I'm likely to spend most of my time using obsidian on my phone, that's not necessarily ideal but it's what I predict I will end up doing. so I would prefer something that gets the backlinks to be inside the main document. My intended usage pattern is for no document to be longer than about five lines, with almost all structure as links. so I'm hoping there is a CSS theme that can make the backlinks section less obtrusive. I've also had issues keeping it open and in sync with the main pane
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Would be cool if obsidian shipped in .apk, not just in google play store
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Sabrina the Teenage Lich
You find yourself at a locked door. If Key=1 [Open it with a key](Link1) If Key=0 [You do not have the key to open this door](Link2)
ahhh. I unfortunately don't know off the top of my head how you'd do that, but I might try putting the variables in something like state.md, and then querying them with one of the querying plugins. That's assuming that you want this interactive experience to occur while using the obsidian app itself, if instead you are intending to publish this then the set of available approaches becomes much wider and I might consider ways to make this an MDX react app (though I admit that is partly because I'm experienced with such things) (edited)
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If you'd like to talk about how to actually make this a react application built in MDX that sounds like something I'd be interested in discussing though I don't have time to properly get into it right now. relevant tools would be the obsidian mdx plugin and next.js
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you can toggle that with the three dots in the panes top; what does not persist through restarths though, but there is a plugin that does that(not in community plugins, also don't have the url handy)
oh man, I just realized you have the tag dev for hire. can I dm you about pricing for building open source obsidian plugins? (I am aware serious dev costs serious money) (edited)
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lauren
oh man, I just realized you have the tag dev for hire. can I dm you about pricing for building open source obsidian plugins? (I am aware serious dev costs serious money) (edited)
technically yes, but I have my plates full atm; you might want to check the pins in #plugin-dev
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sgtm 👍
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in theory I do have the skill to develop plugins myself but the more I can outsource, the more I can get to the stuff I actually want to be prototyping :D
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-121842
rather than try to shove all of this information into this week's roundup (which is already 1200 words and I haven't even started looking at plugins or the starboard), I created a meta post for everything I've collated about trying to sync between devices now that mobile dropped. The idea is that I can just share this link with everyone when someone has a question, so if you know of any guides or common problems/solutions that aren't included here, let me know. https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-post-syncing-between-devices/20983
The official documentation for Obisidian Mobile is a great place to start. If you have ideas to improve the Obsidian documentation, pull requests are welcome. You can contribute to the process of documenting Obsidian on GitHub. First things first: Obsidian Sync vs. Third Party Sync. The advantages of Obsidian Sync is that it’s officially suppor...
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beatbox32 0716YYYY-122447
As I'm inputting notes into my vault, I couldn't help but smile at this quote from Don Norman in The Design of Everyday Things: "The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them."
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joethei
you can toggle that with the three dots in the panes top; what does not persist through restarths though, but there is a plugin that does that(not in community plugins, also don't have the url handy)
I would love to know abt this plugin!
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When I open up directories in the left pane file browser, I end up after a while with lots and lots of open hierarchies. Is there a way to collapse all folders with a command? Have not found one so far.
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When I open up directories in the left pane file browser, I end up after a while with lots and lots of open hierarchies. Is there a way to collapse all folders with a command? Have not found one so far.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-124523
there's a plugin it's called something like "expand all folders" or "collapse all folders"
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(it does both tho)
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Oh OK, trying to avoid using outside plugins but it's good to know -- something like this could/should be built-in.
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-124729
you're welcome to file a feature request on the forum for it to be moved into core 🙂
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OK will do.
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Yay! Obsidian released on iOS! Congrats!)
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I so happy xd
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Eleanor Konik
I tweeted it https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik/status/1416063066098348038. Feel free to retweet 😛 you have more followers than I do anyway haha (edited)
AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-132138
Okay @obsdmd fans — this event is for you! Watch @EleanorKonik work his wizardry and perform PKM card tricks. And methinks they’ll take callers! Worth your valuable Saturday morning! #obsidianmd #pkm #roamansinobsidian https://t.co/ejfNF69qVK
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-132221
ahahaha I saw that and died laughing
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-132232
Deleting and reposting
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-132235
:snicker:
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-132239
Cripes
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Okay @obsdmd fans — this event is for you! watch @EleanorKonik work her wizardry and perform PKM card tricks with @NickMilo. And methinks they’ll take live callers! Worth your valuable Saturday morning! #obsidianmd #pkm #roamansinobsidian https://t.co/ejfNF69qVK
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I am not normally for a Twitter EDIT button, but it’s times like these that makes me want one. 😁
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Also kicking around the #roamansinobsidian hashtag to see if I get flaming poop bags on my doorstep. 😁
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Isn't the LYT on Sunday…?
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-133928
AH CRIPES
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Leah
Isn't the LYT on Sunday…?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-133941
🤣 dat delete+redraft tho
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Third time's the charm!!!! 😄
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-133950
MUTHEROFGOD
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13:40
We've all been there.
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134009
I’m going to play stupid on that one.
13:40
I’M A HUMAN NOT A CALENDAR INVITE DAMMIT
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-134047
for what it's worth I forgot to add the zoom link to the original post that made it to the starboard and had to go back to edit
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134055
AHAHAHAHA
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We’re all going to have to get better at this.
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Eleanor Konik
Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that I'm going to be sharing my vault on Sunday at 10:00 AM PT (UTC-7). It's somewhat sanitized for public consumption, y'all don't need pictures of my kid's social security card, but a couple of people expressed interest and I finally bit the bullet and bought publish in honor of me moving my personal newsletter over to ghost instead of burying past issues in mailerlite PDFs (hopefully 😅 still have some server kinks to work out). The idea is to make some of my research easier to reference and share with fans of my writing and develop a more regular short-form analysis blogging schedule since there's been some interest in that, and I know people have been asking for more examples of mature vaults that aren't notes about notetaking. Hopefully mine fits the bill and it's useful 🙂 Anywho, I'm almost definitely talking about QuickAdd, how I've started to use tags (gasp!), and my janky inbox system. There's also going to be a 30-min ask-me-anything segment, so folks will have an opportunity to poke around and ask me questions on Zoom while I'm screensharing. @nickmilo is being kind enough to host me as first guest for the new LYT House feature, which I'm super grateful for because I mostly find Zoom and YouTube terrifying. ZOOM LINK: https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lyt-house (edited)
briennakh 0716YYYY-134137
Overview Zoom has a variety of options for creating closed captioning in your meetings and webinars which provides subtitles of the spoken in-meeting communications. This may be used for participan...
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134146
Yes!
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briennakh
I'd love to join! Could the host enable auto-transcription? https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-captioning-and-live-transcription
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-134211
I'll make a note to mention it to @nickmilo if he doesn't see this 🙂
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134228
I need this talk to become text so I can pull it into my vault.
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-134246
(I am terrible at zoom since I haven't had to learn it for work or anything)
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134303
FWIW, I also heard Otter.ai apparently has some integration with Zoom videos for automated speech-to-text to support creating transcripts/captions.
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134314
Likely still needs massaging from humans and is not realtime
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Likely still needs massaging from humans and is not realtime
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-134347
otter.ai is actually surprisingly good I use it for dictating long thoughts into my vault.
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Eleanor Konik
(I am terrible at zoom since I haven't had to learn it for work or anything)
Lucky. I just hosted an artist talk on Tuesday, and the guy said the same thing before the event. "I never have to do Zoom meetings." …I was jealous.
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briennakh 0716YYYY-134412
Yeah otter.ai is the auto-transcription option - it's not too bad actually! Ideally I use human captioners but that's not always feasible
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-134517
incidentally this is going to be my longest roundup ever and that's with splitting all of that sync stuff out into its own meta post (edited)
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AnthonyBaker 0716YYYY-134529
Yeah, our company is adopting Otter.ai for a load of use cases. I don’;t personally use it all the time, but am a fan.
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“A double-barreled issue of Obsidian Roundup!”
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“Prints to 130 pages!”
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briennakh
I'd love to join! Could the host enable auto-transcription? https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/207279736-Closed-captioning-and-live-transcription
I didn't realize this was possible. Is it any good?
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I didn't realize this was possible. Is it any good?
briennakh 0716YYYY-135633
They're actually pretty good, with the occasional interesting error 🙂 Zoom is working on allowing participants to have the option to enable it by themselves, but currently we still need to ask the host to do it. Once enabled the captions are there as an option for participants to turn on if they'd like to see them
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briennakh
They're actually pretty good, with the occasional interesting error 🙂 Zoom is working on allowing participants to have the option to enable it by themselves, but currently we still need to ask the host to do it. Once enabled the captions are there as an option for participants to turn on if they'd like to see them
I'll try to turn it on then, thanks for the suggestion 🙂
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Here are the details for Sunday's live session with @Eleanor Konik open to all: https://twitter.com/NickMilo/status/1416109679625740288?s=20 (edited)
👋Hi You're invited to the upcoming LYT House sessions...🗼 LYT House sessions are live conversations with fascinating people who inspire others with the quality of their thinking. We will explore how they think, what they do, and how they do it! Quick 🧵with details 👇
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Sams_Here 0716YYYY-142241
Is there a way to have existing hashtags alphabetized in the #hashtag pop-up window when editing a note?
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Hey everyone! Been using the mobile beta for iPhone and iPad for the past few months. Now that it’s out, I’ve decided to start a new series about my setup for Club MacStories members. Lots more to come in the next few weeks, including advanced shortcuts and details on my custom plugins. Enjoy. ☺ https://twitter.com/viticci/status/1416118877512257538?s=12
I’ve started a new series about @obsdmd in this week’s issue of @ClubMacStories Weekly. In this first installment: - Local storage, iCloud Drive, and Sync - Core plugins - My workspaces setup - Basic settings Lots more to come in future issues: https://t.co/wtvN9kC8WF
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viticci
Hey everyone! Been using the mobile beta for iPhone and iPad for the past few months. Now that it’s out, I’ve decided to start a new series about my setup for Club MacStories members. Lots more to come in the next few weeks, including advanced shortcuts and details on my custom plugins. Enjoy. ☺ https://twitter.com/viticci/status/1416118877512257538?s=12
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-143932
good timing, I was just about to finalize the roundup
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I have update my Ulauncher plugin for obsidian. I now support direct access to your Daily Note and Quick Capturing. This is only interesting for Linux 🐧 user 🙂 https://github.com/mikebarkmin/ulauncher-obsidian . Feel free to leave me suggestions for new features or if you encounter bugs an issue 😉
Hey! I'm seeing a bug with opening any kind of Obsidian file from the launcher, is discord a good place to go into that or should i file an issue?
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Hey @josemike03 would love to know how you did it and follow your lead. I am using iphone & Mac though but I guess the tools use should be the same or do you know a guide for iphone+mac too ?
josemike03 0716YYYY-145557
Hello! sorry for not answering earlier, I just connected since I woke up
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Of course I can guide you, though I don't use either mac or iphone
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justinshaffner 0716YYYY-145847
Is it possible to have "namespaces" show up in the backlinks? What I mean by "namespaces" here follows the file naming convention of Dendron: "finances", "finances.personal", "finances.business1", etc. I am asking if it would be possible for the later to show up as "backlinks" to its "parent". It would also be cool to have them show up in the graph as linked. Thanks in advance!
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hey is anyone else seeing an issue with the daily notes core plugin, where variables like {{date}} in the daily notes template are not being substituted in when creating a new daily note?
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hey is anyone else seeing an issue with the daily notes core plugin, where variables like {{date}} in the daily notes template are not being substituted in when creating a new daily note?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-151213
try the second syntax it gives in the settings thing, the one that's like {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
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there's a quirk with core DNP not interacting with core Templates
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Eleanor Konik
try the second syntax it gives in the settings thing, the one that's like {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
okay i'll try that.. i just also found that when i use the "Daily notes: Open today's daily note" command, the problem shows up, but when I go to today's note via the Calendar plugin, variable substitution works fine! 🤯
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okay i'll try that.. i just also found that when i use the "Daily notes: Open today's daily note" command, the problem shows up, but when I go to today's note via the Calendar plugin, variable substitution works fine! 🤯
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-151403
yeah, it's because calendar is a seperate plugin that handles templates differently. but if you're on mobile and want to use the sharing to DNP features on android you'll want the template to work with core daily note
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Eleanor Konik
try the second syntax it gives in the settings thing, the one that's like {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
thanks for that workaround, the syntax you provided works
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-151425
np. I had the same problem earlier in the week is how I knew about it 😄
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oh interesting, i didn't realize that they use different code to fill in the templates
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hm. i'm also using {{yesterday}} and {{tomorrow}}, but perhaps that was only supported by the calendar plugin 🤔
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As my favorite plugin (Filename header sync) got disabled, i got curious about a possibility: Is it possible to make the note name support special characters? This would remove the need for the plugin. I understand that special chars are not supported because it's also the filename, but maybe there's a workaround? (edited)
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-152333
no you can't since note name are file name and filesystem don't support random set of characters only a few for various reason
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Yea, I understand. My idea was a plugin that generated a valid filename even if the note name had special characters.
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I.e. a plugin that removes the need for identical note name and note filename (although they should be as similar as possible).
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Yea, I understand. My idea was a plugin that generated a valid filename even if the note name had special characters.
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-152630
please feel free to write it up as a plugin idea on the forum !
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Eleanor Konik
please feel free to write it up as a plugin idea on the forum !
I'll do that!
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David Blue 0716YYYY-153953
folks, I am not being huffy or confrontational but it's gonna sound like it... I've been around Obsidian for the course and played with it a bit, but having really gone into Drafts pretty hardcore this year, I was hit by this meat of MacStories brief description of Obsidian:
At its core, Obsidian is a Markdown text editor. Just point the app to a folder on your iPhone or iPad and you're ready to get started. The app is based on web technologies, which means it is highly customizable. Obsidian supports a theming system, with a wide variety of themes provided by the app's vibrant community of users and plugins to extend the app's functionality. The app's primary views are its editor and preview mode, which can be split into multiple panes both vertically and horizontally. Obsidian also supports saved workspaces that allow users to open a predefined group of notes easily, commands for quickly opening documents and accessing the app's features, along with extensive, customizable keyboard shortcut support. Of course, notes can be linked internally, allowing for the creation of a wiki-like web of documents.
Aside from "web technologies," this is a description of Drafts basically word-for-word. I promise I'm not here to ask to be convinced or whatever - I use everything lol - but I do have a new question that I actually haven't seen answered elsewhere... What sort of feature vacuum prompted the creation of Obsidian? Or just... General motivation?
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David Blue
folks, I am not being huffy or confrontational but it's gonna sound like it... I've been around Obsidian for the course and played with it a bit, but having really gone into Drafts pretty hardcore this year, I was hit by this meat of MacStories brief description of Obsidian:
At its core, Obsidian is a Markdown text editor. Just point the app to a folder on your iPhone or iPad and you're ready to get started. The app is based on web technologies, which means it is highly customizable. Obsidian supports a theming system, with a wide variety of themes provided by the app's vibrant community of users and plugins to extend the app's functionality. The app's primary views are its editor and preview mode, which can be split into multiple panes both vertically and horizontally. Obsidian also supports saved workspaces that allow users to open a predefined group of notes easily, commands for quickly opening documents and accessing the app's features, along with extensive, customizable keyboard shortcut support. Of course, notes can be linked internally, allowing for the creation of a wiki-like web of documents.
Aside from "web technologies," this is a description of Drafts basically word-for-word. I promise I'm not here to ask to be convinced or whatever - I use everything lol - but I do have a new question that I actually haven't seen answered elsewhere... What sort of feature vacuum prompted the creation of Obsidian? Or just... General motivation?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-154103
I don't think the obsidian developers are mac users, so I imagine part of it is that Drafts is an apple-ecosystem app?
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I don't know enough about Drafts to speak to anything else, as I am also not a mac user.
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I'm both a Drafts user and an Obsidian user, and I find them to be very different workflows.
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David Blue 0716YYYY-154249
I'm not a mac user either so I definitely see that, yes. but surely... collaborating with/consulting agiletortoise before making a feature-identical equivalent just for platform reasons?
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I'm both a Drafts user and an Obsidian user, and I find them to be very different workflows.
David Blue 0716YYYY-154347
ah I see. that's insightful, thank you. my "pushback" would be... there are so many different ways to configure Drafts that I don't even know of one defining workflow but...
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frankly, I was interested in obsidian in the beginning because it was not fundamentally just a jumble of modules like Drafts felt, back then.
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ah I see. that's insightful, thank you. my "pushback" would be... there are so many different ways to configure Drafts that I don't even know of one defining workflow but...
Perhaps I don't use Drafts like others do, and I've only ever used Drafts on iOS… but I honestly would never have even considered the two to be similar functionality. Perhaps I'm missing something.
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Perhaps I don't use Drafts like others do, and I've only ever used Drafts on iOS… but I honestly would never have even considered the two to be similar functionality. Perhaps I'm missing something.
David Blue 0716YYYY-154538
well, notably, at least since I've started using it again, every one of the features mentioned in that pullquote has been added.
15:46
idk I don't want to waste y'all's time and I really appreciate your thoughts... I should probably do more digging before I say anything more.
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David Blue
folks, I am not being huffy or confrontational but it's gonna sound like it... I've been around Obsidian for the course and played with it a bit, but having really gone into Drafts pretty hardcore this year, I was hit by this meat of MacStories brief description of Obsidian:
At its core, Obsidian is a Markdown text editor. Just point the app to a folder on your iPhone or iPad and you're ready to get started. The app is based on web technologies, which means it is highly customizable. Obsidian supports a theming system, with a wide variety of themes provided by the app's vibrant community of users and plugins to extend the app's functionality. The app's primary views are its editor and preview mode, which can be split into multiple panes both vertically and horizontally. Obsidian also supports saved workspaces that allow users to open a predefined group of notes easily, commands for quickly opening documents and accessing the app's features, along with extensive, customizable keyboard shortcut support. Of course, notes can be linked internally, allowing for the creation of a wiki-like web of documents.
Aside from "web technologies," this is a description of Drafts basically word-for-word. I promise I'm not here to ask to be convinced or whatever - I use everything lol - but I do have a new question that I actually haven't seen answered elsewhere... What sort of feature vacuum prompted the creation of Obsidian? Or just... General motivation?
David Blue 0716YYYY-154708
wait!!! one more thing! @viticci are you still active in here? I know you're busy, but...
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-154716
based on my experiences with Scrivener for Windows, the idea of porting a mac app to windows to deliberately try to mimic it is HARDER (and often leads to a horrible experience for windows users) than starting from scratch and building what you want with your own community and own culture and own preferences 😅
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Eleanor Konik
based on my experiences with Scrivener for Windows, the idea of porting a mac app to windows to deliberately try to mimic it is HARDER (and often leads to a horrible experience for windows users) than starting from scratch and building what you want with your own community and own culture and own preferences 😅
David Blue 0716YYYY-154908
omg yeah I had no idea until a very patient Shiny Frog dev walked me through it lol (they make Bear.) idk... Drafts is a very strange piece of software made by one guy. Obsidian has turned out very different than I personally expected.
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David Blue
folks, I am not being huffy or confrontational but it's gonna sound like it... I've been around Obsidian for the course and played with it a bit, but having really gone into Drafts pretty hardcore this year, I was hit by this meat of MacStories brief description of Obsidian:
At its core, Obsidian is a Markdown text editor. Just point the app to a folder on your iPhone or iPad and you're ready to get started. The app is based on web technologies, which means it is highly customizable. Obsidian supports a theming system, with a wide variety of themes provided by the app's vibrant community of users and plugins to extend the app's functionality. The app's primary views are its editor and preview mode, which can be split into multiple panes both vertically and horizontally. Obsidian also supports saved workspaces that allow users to open a predefined group of notes easily, commands for quickly opening documents and accessing the app's features, along with extensive, customizable keyboard shortcut support. Of course, notes can be linked internally, allowing for the creation of a wiki-like web of documents.
Aside from "web technologies," this is a description of Drafts basically word-for-word. I promise I'm not here to ask to be convinced or whatever - I use everything lol - but I do have a new question that I actually haven't seen answered elsewhere... What sort of feature vacuum prompted the creation of Obsidian? Or just... General motivation?
ryanjamurphy (he/him) 0716YYYY-154935
Drafts added Backlinks ~six months after Obsidian and Roam became a thing… developers try to skate in the direction of the users
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I'm not a mac user either so I definitely see that, yes. but surely... collaborating with/consulting agiletortoise before making a feature-identical equivalent just for platform reasons?
Drafts and obsidian don’t overlap much
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Drafts added Backlinks ~six months after Obsidian and Roam became a thing… developers try to skate in the direction of the users
David Blue 0716YYYY-155117
i don't wanna get into a conversation of whodunit first lol. but that didn't occur to me so thank you.
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Drafts and obsidian don’t overlap much
David Blue 0716YYYY-155427
alright... if you say so .. I haven't had time to truly explore obsidian again yet so I'm gonna shut up until then. I just wanted to point out that specific description cuz... well, it sure seems like they overlap for what Federico's using it for, anyway.
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ryanjamurphy (he/him) 0716YYYY-155555
I disagree on all kinds of counts, but especially on the fundamentals: Drafts uses a proprietary data structure, it isn’t API-first, it isn’t multi-platform, and it isn’t supposed to store text long-term
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I would have loved to see Drafts adopt some of Obsidian’s principles ages ago, but that isn’t what Greg wants for Drafts
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Drafts supports scripting and whanot, isn’t really a markdown editor, it is a snippet editor as the base for executing code on it
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Sams_Here 0716YYYY-155812
When the mods are done defending Obsidian, in the Obsidian server ...bump #2 (4:16, and now 4:58) @Licat or @Silver: simple question... no answer yet. Thanks. https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/694233507500916796/865674825413296148 (edited)
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Yeah, there are a ton of tools in this space and the differences between them can be really subtle & hard to squeeze into the elevator pitch. That feature set also overlaps a lot with Bear or Notability or Notion or Simplenote or even (gulp) Evernote. I rarely have any good sense of how one of these apps behaves before I try it.
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Is there a way to have existing hashtags alphabetized in the #hashtag pop-up window when editing a note?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-155922
I haven't been ignoring you. I don't know the answer. Sorry!
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Will Obsidian ever go open source?
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Blund
Will Obsidian ever go open source?
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Blund
Will Obsidian ever go open source?
Cannot imagine that…
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bosie
Cannot imagine that…
Very unfortunate 😦
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David Blue
wait!!! one more thing! @viticci are you still active in here? I know you're busy, but...
Haha, always! Very busy writing but I always lurk and discover things here ☺
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Yeah, there are a ton of tools in this space and the differences between them can be really subtle & hard to squeeze into the elevator pitch. That feature set also overlaps a lot with Bear or Notability or Notion or Simplenote or even (gulp) Evernote. I rarely have any good sense of how one of these apps behaves before I try it.
ryanjamurphy (he/him) 0716YYYY-160019
see also notational velocity, probably about 20 years ago
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Thanks! Forgot about that thread
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Eleanor Konik
I haven't been ignoring you. I don't know the answer. Sorry!
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160025
But, but... but you have an answer for everyone!
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But, but... but you have an answer for everyone!
ryanjamurphy (he/him) 0716YYYY-160040
hahah I don't think there's a way, no
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When the mods are done defending Obsidian, in the Obsidian server ...bump #2 (4:16, and now 4:58) @Licat or @Silver: simple question... no answer yet. Thanks. https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/694233507500916796/865674825413296148 (edited)
No, not that I know of at least
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ryanjamurphy (he/him)
hahah I don't think there's a way, no
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160244
Maybe not an answer, but an aknowledgement is key.
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Licat
No, not that I know of at least
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160312
Thank you. I will post a feature request in the forum.
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-160332
Unfortunately, if I responded to every post I saw and didn't know the answer to, it would get very spammy, very fast.
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Eleanor Konik
Unfortunately, if I responded to every post I saw and didn't know the answer to, it would get very spammy, very fast.
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160432
I would take a "not sure" over 🦗
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Thank you. I will post a feature request in the forum.
the hashtags are sorted by match quality right now
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won't alphabetical be confusing?
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Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160522
You were not the only mod answering questions during this time frame. I bumped it 2x's and still nothing.
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You were not the only mod answering questions during this time frame. I bumped it 2x's and still nothing.
BigChungus 0716YYYY-160729
children learn at a certain age that mommy heard them the 1st time, and the silence was the answer
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I think sorting alphabetically isn't possible atm
16:07
There might be a plugin for it though
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won't alphabetical be confusing?
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160750
Are users aware that this is how it's being sorted - by match quality? I was not making that connection. Maybe I'm programmed to see lists as alphabetical until guided otherwise.
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-160834
alphabetical lists are rare in 2021, everythings smart now
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more like everything spies on you in order to be smart 😆
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-160904
enable your tracking cookies
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BigChungus
children learn at a certain age that mommy heard them the 1st time, and the silence was the answer
Sams_Here 0716YYYY-160906
@Licat and @Silver unacceptable and not the first time.
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dude. :-/
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I mean to be fair I don't think the discord is technically even for questions
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Sams_Here 0716YYYY-161001
I'm out.
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at least not according to the moderators (while i think it would be easier just to have a support channel here tho)
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Sams_Here
@Licat and @Silver unacceptable and not the first time.
We don't owe you an answer or an explanation. Please don't ping us like that again. Ok maybe that was a little too strong, apologies! (edited)
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Sams_Here 0716YYYY-161113
I don't owe you any more support. Fair enough.
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Sams_Here
I'm out.
BigChungus 0716YYYY-161121
have a good nap
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We are happy to help when possible, but we are not your personal tech support.
16:12
This server is welcoming and many people tries to help, but if nobody is answering, there must be a good reason
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-161212
what if someone pays you $10,000 on catalyst
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16:13
jk my paypal is open tho any time of night, just put the question in the payment memo field
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Normally if you aren't getting an answer, it's not only because people don't know, but they also probably because most aren't running into your issue
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Yeah
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usually people are glad to help if they can
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Sams_Here
@Licat and @Silver unacceptable and not the first time.
I replied to the wrong post earlier, but if you have issues with member behavior, DM a mod is the best way
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let's all have some patience and peace for a Friday night shall we ❤️
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You know what, just for that, I'm gonna go bump up my Catalyst license to the next tier!
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What are the benefits of having a Catalyst license?
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What are the benefits of having a Catalyst license?
early access to desktop/mobile versions
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-162103
love in your heart
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and a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart
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BigChungus
love in your heart
the real correct answer 😆
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early access to desktop/mobile versions
Nice! Fair enough 😄
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Hi everyone, I'm new here. Thanks for devs and users for making such a cool app and healthy community!
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16:27
I have a question about something on desktop app that i don't see mentioned on the forum, is this an ok place to mention it? just looking for a quick response
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-162752
ya generally this is where that goes
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ok thanks. im using non-wikilink mode. with absolute paths
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(for compatability with other apps)
16:30
when i make a note and use double brackets, everything looks good, as expected
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and when i move the note to a folder, the link updates as expected
16:31
but, the title ALSO updates
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repeat the process (after the move). and this time the title is back to the original
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is that the expected behavior? i dont want the path reflected in the name
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-163400
looks like a bug to me make a post on the bug forum if you like
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oh i hope it is! its been driving me kinda crazy. i keep switching the settings back and forth
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No that's definitely a bug
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yeah that title should always be short
16:35
although I'm curious why you're using absolute rather than relative for compatibility @james.d
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other apps don't know where vault root is, right?
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well. good question. since ive tried all the combinations multiple times, with varying results... maybe i settled on this one because it was not reproducing the bug. its hard to say. im rather new to markdown and only using obsidian for a couple weeks
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oh i hope it is! its been driving me kinda crazy. i keep switching the settings back and forth
yup just confirmed, a patch will be out in the next insider
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just confirming now that both absolute and relative seem to have the same bug for me. sometimes i think the settings mentioned here dont stick, but i hesitate to say that because that is much more likely due to crazy user
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yup, the bug is related to link updating in any markdown links
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just that shortest unique links don't have the path in them so it doesn't trigger the bug
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other apps don't know where vault root is, right?
i feel like i ruled this out already, but having trouble reproducing the reason. relative paths seem to work fine in devonthink AND devonthink to go (mobile). getting them to play nice is my main goal.
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i feel like i ruled this out already, but having trouble reproducing the reason. relative paths seem to work fine in devonthink AND devonthink to go (mobile). getting them to play nice is my main goal.
I would recommend relative links if possible
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more portable imo
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doesn't matter if you change vault root too
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interesting. thanks for the tip. i had it in my mind that they were more fragile for some reason
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Question:
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Is it currently possible to achieve an animation seeing how my graph view evolves over time?
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This would be both cool and informative
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not over time but in some order
16:52
open graph - command palette - start timelapse
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Oshino
Is it currently possible to achieve an animation seeing how my graph view evolves over time?
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Silver
more portable imo
i rediscovered the problem i was having with relative links. not reliably updating.
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yknow it might just be a problem im having with either type of link
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open graph - command palette - start timelapse
Thanks for replying. Since Obsidian works with markdown files, there is no time information stored along with my notes(without specific plugins), right? I see it.
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its a ~20 sec video. just shows how both relative and absolute can cause missing images in devonthink. the markdown links in obsidian dont update when the note containing them moves
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[vid shows how one image is missing, then note moves, then other image is missing]
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Jiaming 家鸣 0716YYYY-171133
Is there a way to write a embed code block in the list I try this but the list in preview is not foldable - Item 1 '''python print(hi) ''' - Item 2 (I don't know how to escape backtick in Discord so I use single quote for demonstration purpose) (edited)
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Another is like this but it mess up the edit mode a little bit
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But the preview mode looks better
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Thanks for replying. Since Obsidian works with markdown files, there is no time information stored along with my notes(without specific plugins), right? I see it.
there's file creation time, although it might not be the most accurate (e.g. if you copy files over)
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Jiaming 家鸣
Is there a way to write a embed code block in the list I try this but the list in preview is not foldable - Item 1 '''python print(hi) ''' - Item 2 (I don't know how to escape backtick in Discord so I use single quote for demonstration purpose) (edited)
idea.list 0716YYYY-172533
In this case your code block is a continuation of list item "Item 1..."
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Jiaming 家鸣
Click to see attachment 🖼️
idea.list 0716YYYY-172551
Alternatively you can write it like this:
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Jiaming 家鸣
Is there a way to write a embed code block in the list I try this but the list in preview is not foldable - Item 1 '''python print(hi) ''' - Item 2 (I don't know how to escape backtick in Discord so I use single quote for demonstration purpose) (edited)
cotemaxime 0716YYYY-172623
this work, but it's kind of fragile and sometimes the parser doesn't like it it really depends
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idea.list 0716YYYY-172641
Not perfect, but code block remains code block in edit mode
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Jiaming 家鸣 0716YYYY-173209
Thanks everyone!
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Alternatively you can write it like this:
Wafthrudnir 0716YYYY-174954
Mind to share which font did you use here?
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Is there any way to move the text to the left most side?
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Is there any way to move the text to the left most side?
idea.list 0716YYYY-175653
Yes, disable 'Readable line length' in the Editor settings
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Yes, disable 'Readable line length' in the Editor settings
Thanks!
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Mind to share which font did you use here?
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Wafthrudnir 0716YYYY-175932
Thanks! 😊
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Anybody know if there's a way to customize the sort order of folders? Beyond heuristics (like alphabetical, creation date, etc). I was thinking of just naming them 00_Name, 01_Name, etc
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-182015
that's how you can do it
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Anybody know if there's a way to customize the sort order of folders? Beyond heuristics (like alphabetical, creation date, etc). I was thinking of just naming them 00_Name, 01_Name, etc
This is called Johny Decimal System
18:20
A system to organise projects.
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Ah, gotcha
18:20
It'll have to do!
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Speaking about it, how can I have the folder icon in my obsidian if my theme doesn't have it? CSS magicians 👉 👈 help this fellow here
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One last question, is there a hotkey for swapping between Edit mode and Preview?
18:24
OMG, the command palletee
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One last question, is there a hotkey for swapping between Edit mode and Preview?
Go to your hotkeys
18:24
and create one
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18:24
I think the name is "toggle edit/preview mode"
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Awesome!
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mine is Alt+E
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Dang every day I learn new ways in which this tool is great (edited)
18:25
Bravo devs
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kazoo
Dang every day I learn new ways in which this tool is great (edited)
My thoughts exactly, looks like that the more you know the more it makes sense to use.
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Speaking about it, how can I have the folder icon in my obsidian if my theme doesn't have it? CSS magicians 👉 👈 help this fellow here
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this 1
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You are tha woman! thanks a lot, looks so good
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You are tha woman! thanks a lot, looks so good
Chetachi ❤ 0716YYYY-192109
No problemo! 😉
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Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-192540
😭 it's incredible how much time I just wasted to figure out that "or" is case sensitive in Obsidian Boolean searches.
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BigChungus 0716YYYY-193516
booleans must be screamed in capital (edited)
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Eleanor Konik
😭 it's incredible how much time I just wasted to figure out that "or" is case sensitive in Obsidian Boolean searches.
Tell me more about it. I think I'm not aware of
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Tell me more about it. I think I'm not aware of
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-194351
This works: ( "city" OR "cities" OR "urban" ) -path:80 -path:70 -path:12 But if you search: "city" or "cities" it will return files with the word or in them.
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oh got it.
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Does anybody knows why I cannot manage to make the core template plugin to work?
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Does anybody knows why I cannot manage to make the core template plugin to work?
Eleanor Konik 0716YYYY-194604
it fires on file creation not when you enter it I think. I don't know if that helps at all.
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I just made it with the template hotkey, but nope, not working
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-200924
did you set the format in the settings?
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nope, I let it as it was
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Edited it now, but still nothing
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-202226
hmm I'm not sure, I just tried again and it's working for me
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I guess you could just use the full version to test, make it {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} instead of {{date}}
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I guess you could just use the full version to test, make it {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} instead of {{date}}
Didn't work as well, thats weird. I'm sure I'm making something wrong
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-203038
how do you trigger the template insertion? from the icon or something else?
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Wait, I was using templater
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not template
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🤡 sorry
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-203247
ah well that would do it lol
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David Blue
folks, I am not being huffy or confrontational but it's gonna sound like it... I've been around Obsidian for the course and played with it a bit, but having really gone into Drafts pretty hardcore this year, I was hit by this meat of MacStories brief description of Obsidian:
At its core, Obsidian is a Markdown text editor. Just point the app to a folder on your iPhone or iPad and you're ready to get started. The app is based on web technologies, which means it is highly customizable. Obsidian supports a theming system, with a wide variety of themes provided by the app's vibrant community of users and plugins to extend the app's functionality. The app's primary views are its editor and preview mode, which can be split into multiple panes both vertically and horizontally. Obsidian also supports saved workspaces that allow users to open a predefined group of notes easily, commands for quickly opening documents and accessing the app's features, along with extensive, customizable keyboard shortcut support. Of course, notes can be linked internally, allowing for the creation of a wiki-like web of documents.
Aside from "web technologies," this is a description of Drafts basically word-for-word. I promise I'm not here to ask to be convinced or whatever - I use everything lol - but I do have a new question that I actually haven't seen answered elsewhere... What sort of feature vacuum prompted the creation of Obsidian? Or just... General motivation?
David Blue 0716YYYY-203645
uh I just wanna say after finally spending some one-on-one time with the iOS app… holy hell… very, very impressive and ambitious. I would also like to sincerely thank the team for universalizing keyboard shortcuts customization on iPhone as well as iPad. (this is such a crusade of mine that I literally have a little trophy to give you in the coming weeks.)
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cotemaxime
1. you can't for now there's no such things as "this one over the other" normally it takes the more recent files but sometimes on mobile weird stuff happens. Delete files are still on the server though and you can restore them from the deleted files menu (and the file recovery plugin too iirc) you can also see which devices deleted files and which files in the log to help. 2. could be a nice idea for now there's nothing but feel free to do a FR on the forum
WagtailBob 0716YYYY-211540
Thanks for the answer. Weird stuff definitely happened this morning - massive delete of 70+ newer files. The iPad had been on airplane mode. Maybe when I put it back on wifi the server saw the older files as newer.
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Hi, all . I'm confused why this thread spending very high memory ?
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-222254
are you using the better word count plugin? it has a problem currently with high cpu and memory usage (licat found a fix but the author need to correct thing)
22:23
the other thing that sometimes use ram is the graph but that depends on your files/graph
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cotemaxime
are you using the better word count plugin? it has a problem currently with high cpu and memory usage (licat found a fix but the author need to correct thing)
wow. 3 days ago ,I used "Better word count plugin".
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-222356
yeah it's very new since it broke like that lol
22:24
in my case I disabled the feature that collect stats and deleted the vault stats file in the root and it fixed the issue
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I closed "better plugin", "Vault sats" , “Graph view" , and some. but still (edited)
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I don't know how to find which plugins cause high memory (edited)
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cotemaxime 0716YYYY-223934
yeah it's always hard to tell the best is probably disable all of them then re-enable one at a time though 200mb is not too bad (depending on your vault and stuff)
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I closed all plugins , even core plugins, but still....😆 (edited)
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