Category: Systems
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Mobile Quick Capture in Obsidian
Last week I wrote about Obsidian Quick Capture from a desktop perspective. Now let’s talk about mobile quick capture! If you need a refresher, Quick Capture refers to the ability to quickly add a note to your Obsidian Vault. Quick Capture is an important tool, because most of us aren’t working in Obsidian all the…
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Handling Open Loops in Obsidian
I have a problem, and you probably do to: I call it project incompletionism. A tendency to start more projects than we can finish. Seth Godin calls it The Dip. Stephen Pressfield calls it The Resistance. But it all points to one simple fact: Starting a new project is more fun than finishing one. I…
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Tracking Note Dates in Obsidian
In Obsidian, there are often many ways to accomplish a single task. No matter what you want to do, you can usually find a way to do it in Obsidian. One thing that I like to do is track dates in Obsidian. When I create a note, I like each file to automatically have a…
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Creating Obsidian Goals
Here we are again: the start of a new year! Happy 2024, everyone! It’s the season in which many people create (and cough typically fail at) new years resolutions. Personally I’ve never been a big resolution person. But I am a big fan of goals. I’ve seen far too many people fail their resolutions, and…
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Upgrading Obsidian Tables
Obsidian tables have been upgraded in a big way. Obsidian now has a built-in table editor, which allows you to create and manage tables effortlessly. If you’ve struggled with Obsidian tables before, then struggle no longer! To create a table, you can use the command palette or the right-click context menu. Then you can add,…
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Automate Your Notes with Obsidian Linter
A couple of weeks ago I talked about how to organize your properties in Obsidian using Obsidian Linter. That is one of my favorite uses for Obsidian Linter, but there is much more that this plugin can do. If you value consistency in your notes, but don’t want to have to manually keep everything consistent, then…
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Finding Old Notes in Obsidian with Dataview
The first challenge when it comes to note-taking is writing notes. Note-taking doesn’t work if all you do is collect, you also have to sit down and write. The second challenge is remembering what you write. If you write often, you’re bound to forget some of it. I know I have numerous articles (and notes)…
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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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Creating a Digital Garden in Obsidian
Today let’s talk about digital gardening in Obsidian. Have you heard the phrase “digital garden” before? The idea of digital gardening has been around since at least 1998, but it didn’t start to take off until recently. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that digital gardens used to require a certain type of expertise.…