I totally prefer the todoist plugin for obsidian, syncs with google calendar and full calendar in obsidian

As an educator/professor, I appreciate the video, but I have an unrelated question: What extension/add-in are you using for the side-by-side view with URLs in address bar? Or, is this a new feature update that I missed? Thx.

To be honest I am a bit confused by the tools (consensus, elicit, semantic scholar, scispace, research rabbit, connected papers, litmaps....) any "consensus" on one to pay for for the most impactful research experience (rather than the graphical representations etc)....

See also, "Elicit" which has added additional features to their search and inspection of science papers, a growing selection of too. With deeper dives also possible, summarization, etc. Pretty sure the results can be sorted by the 'highly cited' type question too.

Amazing video ❤! You mention the block id , how does that work ?

Thank you so much for this incredibly detailed and informative video! 🙌 The step-by-step guide on how to use the Obsidian app was super helpful. I especially appreciated the clear and easy-to-follow explanations and demos of all the features, core plugins, and various settings. This video is a fantastic resource for beginner users, like myself. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 God Bless!

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⁠@dannyhatchertech you are a legend… finally an honest highly intelligent KZbinr that can falsify an online so called guru Justin Sung… You just gained a subscriber and excited to see more honest content like this 🎉

Finally an honest KZbinr that called out Justin Sung two sided opinions, as not everything he says is credible and a lot of the stuff he says is very opinionated ❤

Thank you for taking the time to demonstrate all this. When I scheduled an Obsidian task it shows up on the calendar but disappears from the left task pane. So, unlike what you are showing, I cannot schedule a task for multiple instances. According to the Morgen website, they do not currently support scheduled or start dates, so perhaps you are using a beta with upcoming features or maybe I do not have my settings correctly configured. Perhaps you can elaborate on that. Thank you.

So you would go straight to word and change one by one cite if you wanna use zotero?

this is so amazing i am speechless, thank you!

Is there any way to hide / avoid weekends?

Cool. Thanks, Danny. This could be used for writing prompts or RPG gaming.

Stellar! Stunning! Stupendous! ⭐🥳

The graph view is excellent for a bottom-up approach to organization. Spam files out, tag them however you feel like, figure out what goes with what, what random connections you can make along the way, etc. Then you go through every so often to group and structure things so they're easier to navigate. If you have one tag with many connections, it becomes an index file. One of my indices is math. I have a lot of notes on that as a math major. It's good for my ADHD brain, where I can throw bullet points down in a daily note, then go back through once every week or two to pull things out of that, then organize them later if I can be bothered. The canvas is much more deliberate. It seems better for deeper, more careful research and inquiry than the very spontaneous nature of the bottom-up approach. I'll likely leverage that the next time I (have to) write an essay.

I never use the graph views as I find them of no value. I also never use dialy notes or the calendar. Some of the community plugins are quite poor I find. The most useful for me was the templater plugin which I use all the time. I gave up on the mindmap related plugins as they just didn't work well for me and instead use a simple TOC plugin. The editing toolbar plugin is also excellent and i often wonder why this wasn't a fundamental part of the core obsidian. You find toolbars in many other editors so why not in obsidian? I've never found a use for the excalibrain plugin but do use excalidraw. I tend to use the mermaid plugins for diagrams though except that it looks like it's not being supported much and the later diagram types look really bad.

... and there was light ... in my head ! Thanks

Thanks for the honesty about the negatives and the positives. I've had a love hate relationship. Taken as a simple note taking app. It works. I think people, including myself in the past, do look at all the videos about plugins and some get obsessed with the rabbit holes. You choose a plugin. Well that plugin has parameters that need to be set, Some of these parameter, if you are not into markdown and coding, are confusing for many people to deal with. The basic app is good, but like Notion, it's easy to get lost in the multiple ways of setting it up and then, are you really putting things in the app or are you working on the app? I think many would be better off going more towards a more mainstream app, that maybe doesn't have as much choice. Obsidian at this point, and for awhile, has been a buzzword app. Lots of videos of people touting it as the ultimate thing, and being made by people who get and love markdown and possible coding. Obsidian is great for the right type of person to take advantage of it's many possiblities. I'm glad it's here for that reason. It can be used in a simple fashion. I think the thing that some people don't really like to admit though, is that part of the draw of Obsidian is in fact that they like that it's free. People don't like to pay for stuff. Here's an app I can use and don't have to pay for. Sure. It can be difficult to navigate and to take advantage of but 'Hey Man' it's fricken free. I almost never here people admit that that's one of the reason's they're drawn to it. Some people are cheap. I have no problem paying for an app if it serves my purpose. Some developer works hard to develope something that works great for me, I feel they deserve to make something on it. And bless the hearts of people that make those wonderful how-to videos that help us all out. Danny being one of them. I have learned so much from all of you.

Will this only be available in the Pro/paid version?

This is freaking awesome 😍

Looks really useful - Thanks for the update :)) Would also be cool to see a button in Morgen for each day to "open (or create) daily note in Obsidian" - I guess one could create a task automatically in the daily note in Obsidian enabling this... Do you know if there are plans to use Obsidian properties in some way with the intergration?

Thank, lovely workflow

Amazing showcase Danny! 🤩

For an international audience, speaking speed is relevant and high speed is a drawback not a plus, belive me.

Regarding your point, as I understand it, about Obsidian's use, described by certain KZbinrs, being reduced to a particular set of 'Second Brain' philosophies which prescribe it. 1. Given that Obsidian's organisational affordances are precisely the opposite -- highly unprescriptive, unless you're going deep and critiquing something like the fact that forgetting (unintentionally), an essential part of human minds, isn't built into Obsidian, it makes sense that in the absence of any wholly prescriptive way of using it, 'best interpretations for use' are going to abound on the internet (and those that sound sexiest will undoubtably spread the most). This is mainly, I would think, because it takes a lot of effort to work out how it might be sculpted to suit one best (and that's presupposing one has a legitimate reason to use its generous 'number' of affordances), and so people quite like to be told how. 2. Hence, I think the problematisation of this 'mapping X to Y' is misguided, and at very least counts as stating the obvious. The latter might be because I think about this quite a lot though -- not sure here. On second thought, I think you might be misconstruing these Second Brain people. I think they'd probably agree with you in that Obsidian is just a set of affordances which happen to match a set of behaviours which allow for a certain output. So what if people put the emphasis on it being an 'App for X', rather than 'You want to do X, this App allows for it'. I would say that you do this anyway, but surely then the more important effort is to direct others towards alternative ways of using it, or, to point out what exactly it is about the application which promotes people to say, 'Hey, this is a Zettelkasten App!', and so perhaps help reveal those affordances which make it so, and then to think about what this might mean in general (e.g., why are people so interested in having a 'Second Brain', anyway? Information Overload, the desire to collect and curate over authoring in a world of endless authoring, something something...).

What does an organism enviroment relationship mean and what does it mean to become attuned to it and improve it over time?

Two years for me, but I lost a year's worth the other day. Turns out backups matter, kids... And PSA, don't trust new phone data transfers: Obsidian goes as an empty app 💀. It's my fault, so this isn't trauma dumping, I just wanted other obsidian users to not make my mistake. 😬

10:42 Danny SPITTING FACTS !!

I have been in Obsidian for almost three years. I started out trying to tweak and make it fit my needs based on the videos I had been watching (including yours 🙂). Through all of that tweaking I discovered that what I really needed was a more simplified system to support my ongoing research efforts. I have downsized from pretty complex set up with over 20 plugins to just six, and a very simple folder structure. Basically, one for resource notes , and one just called notes. Resource notes contain materials from journals and textbooks, and the notes folder contains the notes, in my own words, summarizing what I have pulled out of the resource notes (i guess these would be considered Atomic notes in Z-speak). I have been in this new structure for almost a year, and have been far happier with the set up.

Correct Obsidian is a tool that lets our philosophy of second brain implement to a certain extent. It is still not good at capturing things faster if we are outside of obsidian app and there are other problems as well. For example we can mention our notes just anywhere online with a link just like Google docs. But overall it is working for me. It has provided so much power to my philosophy of second brain. It is the most flexible (not perfect) tool I have come up to which just let me implement any kind of new ideas with the help of plugins which is not possible in other apps. Not only it made the note taking part easier but it allows us to build our own custom systems to do any kind of things.

I like obsidian mostly because it's fast for simple notes with linking functionality at its base and has canvases. Yet there are so many things that piss me off about it. 1. Allowing external plugins often seems like a massive misplay on the obsidian part. -Sooner or later you will find that one of the plugins is causing an issue, whether performance or other. -Those plugins often don't work with each other. Therefore sometimes you want to use behaviour from one but it gets completely emitted from the other plugin. Also leads to data duplication, too much complexity, and confusion in finding information. As a personal rule if sometimes takes a long to take a note or the speed of finding info about a specific note is not obvious, the problem is the organization method. -The developers most likely will skip implementing some of the features that plugins are providing. This means that the performance gap will never be improved and the features will never work natively/nicely in unison. -It makes developing new things difficult because it's easier to break things for other users and it paralyzes often the teams. 2. Obsidian framework Obsidian is an electron app and there isn't a good track record with developers (not only those) highly improving the performance. Performance is nice for simple notes but holy... canvas performance is sooo garbage. The app can be so much faster. 3. Uncompleted features and bugs. Some of the features still need that extra polish. Searching for text in canvases is still not fully supported you have to go around it and add extra notes for later reference. Tags should be like tag page plugins, yet both are not fully integrated properly together and there are a lot of cases where it is more irritating to use both. Headings and outlines could work together on canvases if someone cared about it. Canvas share feature? (those online available lack functionality). There are several bugs that I still have months after it was reported on forums but still broken;/ 4. Markdown first. I'd like to point out that markdown linking vs system linking files together in software (research-like) are related although a bit different. Formating of linking in markdown file is taken from markdown format but without markdown format, it's also possible to implement note linking. Why do I say this? It forces all files to be .md extension and you are stuck at it. When you would like to write in a different format than markdown you just can't do this easily. Let's say you don't want >>> to be markdown formatted you don't really have a choice to change that other than just switching the entire file to raw. The files don't actually need a .md extension to be still read by software. It is used for things like file association but for obsidian-like software, it serves no purpose when it is text files without custom byte format (like . PSD). Instead of this, it would be possible to have a 'formatted as' feature in the application that lets you customize it. At the same time, it would not change much for the novice user because you would be able to set the format to md by default. Notepad++ has this feature partially and other software have this feature in other ways partially also. Unfortunately, it is impossible at this point to see Markdown doing this as this would be part of the very core feature. If any software comes out with any of those features it might convince me to switch this instant. Yet it takes a lot of work to do similar software while most of the new software like this is just having a hype train about AI... The day AI will stop being a focus point is the moment I will have a good day because the new developers will focus back on making software that can beat obsidian and notion at its core.

The graph is useless for me since it doesn't create links among the files embedded in canvases, which are my main files to create indexes around topics. A big shame.

Everytime I hear "Second Brain" or "ZetteIkasten" I roll my eyes. It's like Coke making a soda with less sugar, nobody cares.

Without seeing your video yet, I want to share my experiences from my 3 years of using it. - Overall, it's just fantastic and the best program I found in a long time. I use it daily and it's so multipurpose. It's my daily journal. help for all of my projects. I have all of my book notes here, all of my personal ideas or summaries of KZbin videos. Basically every information I want to save goes into obsidian. - There are not many downsides but I think the biggest downside is the phone app. It is buggy and the functionality which makes it on the laptop a great app makes it on the phone a bit hard to use. There are complex ribbon menus, workspaces, stuff like this which I'm using on the laptop, just doesn't really work on the phone. Overall it's a real second brain😊🎉

long way to VIM or Emacs :)

your videos are gem

I'm a physics graduate, looking to apply to graduate schools soon. I'm thinking about how to make my note taking more efficient for graduate school and I'm personally convinced a hybrid of handwritten notes on a tablet (for organization purposes) and typed notes on Word is best for me. Word is great for pasting equations and figures from textbooks quickly, if you have a pdf, and you can write exposition in your own words quicker. Handwriting is good (less distracting) for solving problems and doing math derivations. And a pdf editor can compile everything into one document for reference. I might experiment with only typing though and see if it has a long term effect on my focus for solving physics problems. I've seen one Physics KZbinr suggest doing everything in Word, except lecture notes, but I'm not convinced yet it's the best approach.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion that handwriting notes isn't inherently superior to typing. I've heard about studies like this but there appears to be lots of problems with them.

Never thought we could do that kind of tricks. Wonderful

This plugin is so powerful

They must have changed the way this works. Bc I followed verbatim and keep getting an error message.

This was so helpful thank you!! I do have a question though, how can I add my own notes within the Zotero note and link it to other related notes without losing it every time I refresh it? Or is that not possible?

Would be nice if they would have the ability to add a relation with extensions. So like db1 can have a relation property db2 (1 layer deep) or db2.db3 (2 layers deep) etc. For example you could have a projects db, relating down to a task db, which has status, which has update text, or whatever schema you want. The idea is one could reach down the stack. I like the rollup thing that's now on par with Notion.

Ain't there a writing tool for annotation? I like jotting down, drawing, making connections, etc on my pdfs..

Danny, please help me! How can i use this plugin to show an icon next to the file name at the file explorer if this file is present in my main canvas(my only canvas)? I wanna see which files i have already added to my canvas. Thank you in advance

Thank you for this!! I can not get the colors to show up in Obsidian.

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I’m 1:38 in and have already gained more useful information than most 20+ minute tutorials. You, good sir, are a legend.

Nothing shows up when I search for the zotero item. Like my items don't show up. I'm so confused and frustrated. There's also no citation key in the citation key column in Zotero.