quickadd VS obsidian-git

I've heard you can use QuickAdd to streamline creating notes in specific places, but haven't tried it myself.

I haven't tried Siri + Obsidian myself but I think the approach is to use Advanced URI plugin. See this discussion https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-advanced-uri/issues/60 and https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/issues/256

I use QuickAdd religiously for capturing quick notes during my workday for later follow-up without interrupting my flow. This works brilliantly when the Obsidian app is open and focused, but sometimes I'm on a different virtual desktop and I need to navigate back to it. The next level for minimal interruption would be to configure a system-wide hotkey that works even if I'm not focused on the Obsidian app. It would bring up a simple text input (whether that's Obsidian-based or not), I jot down the note, and the input would auto-close on submit just like QuickAdd.

Reference: quickadd issue

The only thing that occurs to me would be Obsidian with the Dataview and Templater (or maybe QuickAdd) plugins. You can embed the YouTube video directly like so. It's not exactly your ideal UI, but if you happen to be a web developer you could probably bend it to your will.

I’m not 100% if this will do what you want but I’ve seen a combination of both templater and this quick add https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd to add prompts to create sections in the notes. I haven’t done it myself but I have found the idea is pretty cool and can be practical

Other than that, the QuickAdd and Templater plugins allows you to add and format new md notes. There are a lot of QuickAdd recipes available to draw inspiration from.

Another option could be to use the QuickAdd community plugin as it lets you set up a command to create a note with a pre-determined file name format. You could make a command to create a note with the File Name Format {{DATE}} to automatically name the note the current date with the format YYYY-MM-DD. I also just tried this myself and the template worked as expected.

The plugin I used in the video: Plugin to choose the color and the icons for the callouts: https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-admonition - Plugin to create notes from a selected text: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd - Plugin to add a command in the left ribbon: https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-commander - Plugin for templates: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater - Plugin to manage fields on notes: https://github.com/mdelobelle/metadatamenu - Plugin to display filtered tables of your notes: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview

I sync Obsidian notes with Git on my Android phone and I don't see any problem. You can do it the tedious way using Termux[1] or easy way through obsidian-git[2].

[1]: https://github.com/termux/termux-app

[2]: https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git

There are many ways to sync Obsidian for free. The official site lists several at https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+acr..., or try https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git - and there are more.

In practice I write in Obsidian, the best thing since slice bread for me. And it was obsidian-git, running every 10 minutes or so, who was keeping my GitHub vanity metrics very green.

The Obsidian team uses the "remote vault" feature[1] to collaborate on making Obsidian. Since Obsidian runs on local files you could use any shared file storage like Dropbox. If you want more granular version history, you can use Git, there's a nice plugin for it[2].

[1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults

[2]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git

I've been using the main Obsidian git extension, https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git. Took some work to set it up ergnonomically but it works great now. I enabled auto-commit and push on save, and auto-pull when you start the editor. No merge conflicts yet between two machines.

Should note I use Obsidian for a journal, so it's pretty much append-only.

I use Obsidian to create notes as Markdown files on my computer and use the Obsidian Git plugin to version control the changes via Git. The Obsidian vault in which I store my notes is stored in a folder synced using iCloud Drive.