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For Beginners and Pros Alike: The Command Palette in Obsidian
Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, if you want to get the most out of Obsidian, you need to learn how to use the command palette. What is the command palette? It’s one of the most powerful tools that Obsidian has to offer. The command palette in Obsidian is essential for both beginners and…
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Using Callouts in Obsidian
If you’ve been using Obsidian for a while, you may be familiar with a feature called callouts. If you’re new to Obsidian, this is what a callout looks like in the Sandbox vault: Those orange and blue boxes are callouts! Pretty neat eh? Callouts give you a lot more flexibility when it comes to organizing…
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Quick Tip: Organizing Properties with Obsidian Linter
Obsidian Properties have now been out for a week. Have you had a chance to use them yet? (If not, see our introduction here) I love Properties, but they aren’t quite perfect. I have a few complaints. One pet peeve of mine is this: once you have more than a few notes, it’s hard to…
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Five Pro Tips for Obsidian Properties
Obsidian Properties are now released to the public! They aren’t available on mobile yet, but on desktop you can download the update and start using them today. I’ve already written an introduction to Obsidian Properties, but there are many more advanced features that I didn’t address in that article. If you’re interested in taking full…
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Clipping Articles into Obsidian
Have you ever wanted to copy a whole article into your Obsidian vault? This is referred to as “clipping”, as if you cut an article out of a newspaper and pasted it into your scrapbook. If that sounds interesting to you, then keep reading. We’ll discuss the many different ways for clipping articles into Obsidian.…
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Save Articles to Obsidian: Five Different Methods
Do you have too many tabs open? Too many interests? Me too. I used to have 100+ tabs open on both my computer and my phone. I had “Too good to close” syndrome. I would find an article and, instead of saving it to a trusted system, I would hoard it. Like a dragon on…
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An Introduction to Obsidian Properties
A recent update to Obsidian introduced a new feature: Obsidian Properties. What are Properties? In a nutshell, it’s a new tool built-in to Obsidian that makes it easier to create and maintain your metadata. To be honest, when I saw it on the Roadmap, I wasn’t very excited about it. Obsidian has always supported metadata…
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A Graph for Zettelkasten: Measuring growth in Obsidian
In the last year, I created 1,500+ notes in my Zettelkasten. That’s an average of four notes per day, every day of the year. And these aren’t small meaningless notes. Sometimes a note will contain a single link, but I also have notes that contain thousands of words. Perhaps even more surprisingly, on most days…
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Plotting Task Completions with DataviewJS and Obsidian Charts
Have you tried plotting in Obsidian? Unfortunately, it can be challenging and technical. But not today! If you want a way to track task completions over time, then look no further. This is the easiest method I’ve found for task plotting in Obsidian, and it looks like this: Creating graphs is one of my favorite…
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Embrace Serendipity: Discovering Old Notes in Obsidian
Everyone has a different strategy when it comes to organizing their notes. Some like a chaotic Zettelkasten. Others like an orderly PARA. Folders, tags, links, tables, you name it: there are numerous ways to organize your notes in Obsidian, and every method has its own strengths and weaknesses. But no matter what organizational strategy you…
Exploring knowledge management with Obsidian.
Taking notes: it’s hard to do well.
In order to take good notes, you need three things:
- A desire to learn
- A trusted source to learn from
- A trusted system to grow your knowledge
We can’t help with #1, but if you have the desire to learn, we can help with the rest.
Obsidian Rocks is devoted to learning how to learn using one of the best note taking apps of the 21st century: Obsidian.
Note taking is a powerful force multiplier. No matter what you’re doing, taking great notes will make it better.
Don’t believe me? Keep reading.
