Thanks Jonathan. The beauty of your video, compared to some others, is that you use the product and understand what it can do. And you explain it very well. I have written a few books using Scrivener and Word. And I have umpteen other programs that do this and do this. I am still testing the waters but believe Obsidian could be my new writing and discovery tool. Go to the top of the class!

Hi, can you explain the process? Like what was the day like when you did audition?

Thanks for sharing. I love obsidian but I find it enoying that files and images become duplicates on my computer. Every time a file is added to the vault it is a copy of a file. From what I understand that would mean that my stoage space will double as fast be full. For Images I use the Imgur plugin mostly. The risk is that if something happens to the website it can all be gone.

Why not insert the png into an .md file and then embed/transclude from the .md?

Feel like we share a brain sometimes. I have been doing this myself as well, and just not really realizing exactly why I was doing it, but I knew it worked. Another great video.

Thank you for sharing ideas to create knowledge gems for our future selves to discover.

Great video and subject. I have been handling attachments this way for a while and for the same reasons you mention. Primarily because I know many of my attachments will be re-used in other notes. So, I want them in a generic location rather than buried down inside of another subject or folder that may or may not be related to the current subject/note I am working on. I appreciate you bringing visibility to this, becsaue I felt like I was kind of rowing upstream or working backwards doing it this way. Thought I was missing something somewhere that would have made the system for handling attachments simpler.

Interesting and useful content, thank you. In my early Obsidian days I created a resources folded for attachments and 'dumped' stuff in there. Is there a reasonable way to now clear out the dross, i.e., unreferenced and orphaned attachments? I do like tidy! 🙄

In my case, I often have screenshots etc in the attachments folder, but for important files that live on my file system (outside the vault) I often refer to them in a note and keep them outside the vault. Drag a file into Obsidian while pressing Option (on Mac) to create a link without adding it to the attachment folder. [A file](file:///path/to/A%20file.pdf) You can even drag in multiple files at a time. You can also use angle brackets to avoid escaping spaces: [Another file](<file:///path/to/Another file.pdf>) Relative paths (e.g., ~/path/to/file) don't work (as of 2024-05-27), and you'll need to start from the root directory. That's a disadvantage because it means that external paths don't work if you sync between devices, even if you keep the same folder structure. Don't forget the `file:///` to start with. You can get the path using the terminal, or with pressing Option when right clicking the file in Finder.

I could also build a nether portal right?

I really like this little sub-niche you're carving out lately ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I've been doing this since I switched to Obsidian. I'm in the put a note in the most suitable folder then create it camp and store attachments in a subfolder of the note folder. I think a plugin I recently started using is useful to either way of doing things and adds another way of finding attachments. Paste Image Rename. It offers ways to rename a file when it is attached to a note. I have it set to handle all files, use note name, and auto add -(number) suffix. I have always renamed attachments so I didn't have thousands of "pasted imageXXXXXXX" files. I used another plugin for a while and didn't like it. For a long time I renamed while adding but that gets tricky with keeping the name consistent when there are more than a few. Then I tried attaching them all, going into source mode and renaming so I could see the links and copy/paste, type suffix. This plugin saves a lot of time and helps related things. There is a rename notice that can be disabled. I leave it enabled for those times when I have a file name I want to keep. A couple examples would be an image file that may be used in many notes, or a file that is accessed often outside Obsidian.

Some Questions/Comments - You use the attachment method, which brings the file into the vault, possibly creating a duplicate if for some reason you keep file elsewhere on your hard drive and want to keep it there. That's great if you're collecting files, say, for a project and need them all "under one roof". - Sometimes that is what I need, but sometimes I don't. For instance, I have a bunch of .PDFs that I need to organize and this looks amazing. However... - I obsessively create back-ups, and also want to keep my vault somewhat portable, which means that bloat is an issue. - All of which leads to the question: is there a way to embed files without placing them within the vault? I'm looking for answers on my own, and I understand it's not what you were tackling in your video. (Here's a discussion from 4 years(!) ago: forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-external-files/8107/8). But I wondered if you had any thoughts on this. - The bigger reason I'm taking up too much space asking about something you did not address in your video is this: if there were a way to use Obsidian in this fashion, i.e., without importing everything into your vault, what you propose could constitute a File Manager replacement. Whoa. Imagine the power!

Great video. I would like to know if there is a way to do the following: put properties in the file itself that is taken to Obsidian, as it does not seem to work, for this I would have to open a note and embed the file.

It's definitely interesting. There are apps to store different kinds of attachments, for example epubs, which allow you to use tags, etc, but the freedom of free form notes ... definitely to be considered.

I'm in the "I might want to try this" phase. Thanks for showing what you were thinking in the previous video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHnEpIWulMx1e9U Thank you again!

this is awesome. I have a paragraph under the calculation where i want to insert the result of a calculation inline in the paragraph. Let's say the variable to be referenced in the paragraph is *total_amount*. how do i do that? TIA

Am new , please what is the name of the background application where you started the presentation

oh man this is a great introduction

Current version that works for people using format DD-MM-YYYY : <%moment(tp.file.title, "DD-MM-YYYY").format("YYYY-[w]W")%>

Here's the new version with screen share & examples: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3qxpoStgZl4Y80

great content. very well presented and very interesting. thank you

It's a shame that there isn't a dedicated footnotes section in the sidebar, because that would be really useful. Surprised no one has made a plug-in for that yet

ctrl + P for anyone wondering the hot key that he used

I use both. I got some good dashboard templates a while ago so it wasn't hard to get them up and running.

Thank you Jonathan! What a privilege to lean on your expertise and abilities for this!

Man, thanks for teaching me how to do footnotes!!!

Bear Notes has a great footnotes feature. I'm currently using Obsidian and I'm missing that feature, hence why I am watching this video.

How do I use footnotes? When I want to make a comment on an article section, I insert a footnote. This doesn't clutter the article with my comments. And if I want to see the comment, I can click the footnote and BAM!

Your backlight colors: Bear notes vs Obsidian

Actually was thinkging about dashboard yoo and at last a question crossed my mind: "Why do I need this if I use quick switcher anf omnisearch?" And plus I learn programming so I prefer to work with keyboard. Thx for video, really cool and usefull experience sharing!

A lot of talking. But it leaves me confused.

As a total newbie to Obsidian this was very helpful and saved me a lot of stress. Thanks for putting this together!

Thanks for the video. I work with footnotes a lot. But I feel a little uncomfortable with the many changes that Linter may make. For the main task: renumbering the footnotes, I have been using the "Tidy Footnotes" plugin for a long time. It's a one-trick-tool, it works great and has no unwanted side effects.

You guessed it. Do a full linter video :)

Thanks so much. Pete.

Cool, very handy to know and I like the straight-up delivery :)

Linter is quite cool. It tries to "correct" multiple issues automatically. And you don’t really need to use a shortcut even; just enable "Lint on file change", and it will automatically lint a file as soon as you move over to the next one.

I use the syntax ^[Footnote text.]. It's easy, and doesn't interrupt my workflow. If I have a book title coming up several times, I put [[author, booktitle, year]] in double square brackets. So, my footnote will be: ^[[[author, booktitle, year]], page number.] This way, I don't have to retype author and booktitle every time. Obsidian will propose the author if I start typing.

Everything about your videos is pretty high-quality. I hope your channel grows a lot in the future

I was using that for a while until I tried transcluding some sections of notes which had those footnotes, but they didn't carry over. Now I just do a `^[The text I want]` manually instead of putting it at the bottom. It's ugly, and you can't reuse footnotes, but they move along with you.

Lint is an old Unix utility en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_(software) and is admittedly not a good name to us for this plugin. Thank you for clue-ing me on to it nonetheless!

Great video as always, Jonathan! The Markdown syntax for footnotes is as cumbersome as tables can be. Hoping the functionality of these two plugins will eventually be brought into the core application. Then in answer to two points you raised: "lint" in programming is the highlighting of issues and fixing these -- it's named after how washing machines etc have ways of catching lint (fluff and extras from clothing). And Command button in Windows is Control Vs Mac's Option key being Alt in Windows.

You don't have to search for the hotkey conflicts, you can just click hotkey that is in red.

I had avoided the fn function because it's so clunky; this got me to rethink that attitude.