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Templater
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Setting Up Obsidian for Content Planning and Project Management
Obsidian has a large collection of community-contributed plugins to serve various user needs. For this guide, we'll install Templater and Tasks, two plugins that can be really powerful when combined to create notes and task lists.
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Publishing to my blog from Obsidian
I use the Templater plugin mostly for my newsletter and some other miscellaneous things not relevant here. I ended up making a "blog template" that I can use to quickly add the frontmatter I need!
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Help regarding workflow
Example templates
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New to obsidian
That said: - I assume you will be doing at least some highlighting / annotating of pdfs and / or websites. In that case, you might want to look into either plugins that automatically import your highlights from other tools (Zotero, Kindle or another e-ink device, Hypothes.is, Readwise, etc), or into plugins that allow for highlighting PDFs directly inside Obsidian (Obsidian Annotator). - Templater is useful for most folks that have to create many notes with repeated layout. If you have notes for each lesson, you could have a lesson note template, to create them faster and keep them consistent. - As a student, you have to keep track of your schedule when it comes to classes, exams, etc. - you could use a plugin to sync your existing Google calendar, or keep your calendar entirely in Obsidian (Full Calendar).
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Is the Templater plugin abandoned?
I spent another couple hours writing an elaborate script that creates new notes based on a set of conditions, but that also turned out to be a waste of time due to another documented bug with Templater itself.
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Calling Obsidian Command Pallete from iOS Shortcuts, terminal, or browser bookmark
“Templater” plugin
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How do I make a template that will update dynamic should I need to change it in the future?
Obsidian notes are plain text files with ".md" extension. Templates are like text/code snippets that you can paste in. Like most snippet managers, templates can insert some dynamic information like current date (or a bit more with plugins like Templater but once the data is inserted, it's just text.
- Is there a way to show the date & time of creation (and preferably the last modified date & time too) right below titles on Obsidian, like it does on OneNote?
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Am I losing my mind or does <% tp.file.cursor() %> just straight-up NOT work in Templater?
`` <%* //If File is untitled prompt the User to set a Title (Source: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater/discussions/259) let title = tp.file.title if (title.startsWith("Untitled")) { title = await tp.system.prompt("Title") ?? "Untitled"; await tp.file.rename(${title}`); }%> Tags: Links: [[
I see there's an issue on the repo about it.
obsidian-dataview
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Apache Superset
https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
Since at least 2012 I've also been using a text file format from http://todotxt.org/ and more recently I wrote a program that takes a crontab-like list to pre-generate entries on a daily, by-day-name (every Sunday for example), and I also pull in a list of holidays from gov.uk, so they are also populated.
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A structured note-taking app for personal use
> Joplin is using md to.
The way it's handled can make the difference in control.
> by separating that in their DB, it's a big NO for me since it's a closed silo.
Joplin is using a popular open database with a healthy community and good tooling. It's as open as markdown. Maybe not for you, when you lack the knowledge, but markdown is similar closed for anyone not understanding filesystems and editors.
> This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me
Good for you, but that is very low level in terms of data-handling. Dataview is really just an elaborated search, there is no good level of interaction. Datacore, the next project of the Dataview is supposed to bring this, but it's not even usable yet AFAIK. Coincidental, the Obsidian-devs are also working on that front, but nothing is finished yet.
> https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git and b) easy to fix since it's a text file. Gosh!
That's useless when the app itself is not working. And even worse if you are not realizing the errors early.
> Aha. I don't think so. Which authority says that?
My own experience. I've tested enough plugins over the years to know their dark corners.
> And even if It's like that, my markdown files would survive everything
The thing is, technically you are not even having proper markdown, but a fork with some extensions of Obsidian. So some features of your parts might break when switching away from Obsidian. And the reason for all this is also because markdown is lacking definitions for what obsidian-people are doing with it. Coincidentally, this seems also one of the reasons why Joplin is using a database.
> And gosh, this is a good thing!
Not if they all suck.
> Installing multiple task plugins shows that something is "broke" on the user side.
Sure, because the plugins are lacking features, its the users fault... Maybe some users have just very different levels of requirements from you.
> Not really. Obsidian has its shares of problems too, and most of them originate from using Markdown.
Aha. Which problems do you mean?
> Markdown is a freeform text-format, and works very well for writing text, but it really sucks for data and structured content.
Joplin is using md to. And if Joplin does a good job on "data" and "structured content" (whatever you mean by that) by separating that in their DB, it's a big NO for me since it's a closed silo.
This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me, and it never breaks anything in my simple md files.
> Most plugins and features in that area are very brittle and overspecialized, working only well enough in their specific use case.
Aha. I don't think so. Which authority says that? And even if It's like that, my markdown files would survive everything, since they are a) in git. https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git and b) easy to fix since it's a text file. Gosh!
> And gosh, Obsidian has really a huge amount of plugins for data-handling.
And gosh, this is a good thing!
> At some point, it was so bad that there were multiple competing task-plugins which broke each other just because they had different formatting for dates.
Installing multiple task plugins shows that something is "broke" on the user side. It's not the fault of Markdown or Obsidian.
Just have a look on: https://github.com/ivan-lednev/obsidian-day-planner but you dont need a fancy task plugin like this, if you know your way around https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview or https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks
Since the Ecosystem around Obsidian and pure Markdown, most of the time I stay in my browser https://github.com/deathau/markdownload and nvim https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim
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I'm completely stressed out trying to fix this so I hope one of you would be able to help me. I'm trying to create a home page of sorts so I can navigate my files without using the folders. (SEE COMMENTS)
Refer: Obsidian Search, How I Use Embedded Queries, Dataview, Excalibrain
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Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
Have you heard of Obsidian? It's a note-taking app build on locally stored markdown files with bidirectional linking and a great ecosystem of third party plugins. One of the most popular plugins is https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview which lets you treat your notes as databases and query them to form tables. The creator has been working on its successor, Datacore https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore for a while - Datacore might come close to what you're looking for, its goals include WYSIWYG views and live editing inside tables.
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How to manage tasks in game dev?
After lots of trying out, I found that the tool Obsidian has the excellent plugin Cardboard, which supports subtasks as items in a Trello style view. Not only I have all the backstory, texts, characters wiki style in one searchable, connected space, I can directly create tasks. The next step is to use the dataview plugin to manage in game data.
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looking for a specific mindmap/concept map tool that lets me do two way links or similar
dataview | dataview query builder
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Do you prioritize gaming over other forms of entertainment?
Also also not OP but if you want a somewhat automated option you can use Obsidian with two plugins: Dataview and MediaDB.
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Issue with Overview plugin
I looked into this and submitted what I believe is a fix: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/pull/1839
What are some alternatives?
obsidian-tasks - Task management for the Obsidian knowledge base. [Moved to: https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks]
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
advanced-tables-obsidian - Improved table navigation, formatting, and manipulation in Obsidian.md
vscode-tabtext - An extension to handle text files formatted with deep tabs
breadcrumbs - Add structured hierarchies to your Obsidian vault
obsidian-tasks - Task management for the Obsidian knowledge base.
obsidian-periodic-notes - Create/manage your daily, weekly, and monthly notes in Obsidian
obsidian-kanban - Create markdown-backed Kanban boards in Obsidian.
obsidian-calendar-plugin - Simple calendar widget for Obsidian.
obsidian-checklist-plugin
quickadd - QuickAdd for Obsidian
obsidian-folder-note-plugin - Plugin to add description note to a folder for Obsidian.