Hi Paul, just discovered your channel. Some of the best I've found on Obsidian yet. Question: At 13:50 into the video you worked some magic to get a popup window. How did you get to that window? I was following right along until this window popped up. Lol. EDIT: Haha! I figured it out. Full stop is the period. Didn't know about this Windows key command. I learned something new. Thank you for the great videos!

how do u query for a gallery view? intend to showcase all my gifs or images for my design resources, similar to that of gallery view in notion

I just have a home note with a dataview query but its just for project specific tasks. If you have any kind of fzf (see omnisearch plugin) it kind of makes it redundant to use dataview as a query engine (at least for me). It is very powerful tho

I like the topics of study you got there, kind of similar to mine.. Are you a systems engineer?

Nice

Paul Greetings from Venezuela, could you tell me if you have knowledge of what is happening with the Media Extended pluggin, apparently it is giving problems for some time now, I remain attentive to any response.

Meta-Bind input field is exactly what I need for my database. Thank you!

so sir where i can store main notes or long term evergreen notes on that folder stucture is it distilled notes

I don't have folder note command options on my obsidian and yes I have installed all plugins

Thank you. This what I am looking for.

Thank you so much for sharing this! This looks really cool!

Great video, You got a new Sub! I will have to sit down to see how to use these in my case. Looking at your Snippets list, I'd b interested to see more what you are doing with those as some were very specific, i.e. the Headings snippets. Always looking to see what people are doing. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. I set the template folder location in Templater. But In Template Hotkeys, Snippet folder files are not showing (only files under templates folder). Where to specify the code Snippets to use with slash command?

I really appreciate the effort you put into creating your content and just wanted to share a suggestion, not to point out mistakes. Mind maps, as popularized by Tony Buzan, are designed to be very visual and thought-provoking by focusing on single words or very short phrases. Using longer sentences can sometimes make the map feel cluttered and take away from its core purpose. You might consider using 2-3 word phrases at most to keep the focus sharp and visually engaging. Of course, it’s just a suggestion, and I respect your creative process! In my opinion this is not a mind map but rather a congregation of information.

Thanks a lot for these explanations. They are very interesting! Best regards from Spain

hi, i'm a design student and have been mostly using notion to organise my life for the past three years, and even set a digital garden (for portfolio and public notes) on there. not the most effective but for now its still doing fine for me. i have dabbled on and off into obsidian the past couple of months but nothing too serious, but was intending to recreate my ppv)within obsidian as well, just incase i were to ever switch over further down the line. one major part of notion is of course its databases, and i have saved design resources over the years, where i would have a gallery view of gifs/images/videos etc that i have saved for easy reference. i know that dataview only is able to query markdown files, was wondering is it possible to use dataviewjs to query a gallery or even table view of file types other than markdown in a particular file? tldr: for example right now, all my gifs live in the 05 - Extras/GIF file path, while images are in 05 - Extras/JPEG. what would the code be to create a gallery/table view to easily see my design resources in one page? apologies if this is a simple question, have little coding background and have tried 'consulting' chatgpt to find a work around before asking…

I remember an e-commerce marketer who commented, 'Hope is an overrated emotion.' His point was that if you have to hope for something, you have no clue or insight into how to actually get there. Hope replaces taking action and responsibility. I liked seeing how your mind map and literature notes were put together in Obsidian. That gives me some (not hope) insight into how you make something like that a useful tool in learning.

Thanks for the deep dive on Templater! It made me realize I may need QuickAdd, thanks for showing it Personally I do it this way : I have a shortcut to add a specific template that I call Note template in every file (almost) that I create. I have filename prefix for each of my template, so whenever I want to add a new book for example, I type : "SB George Orwell - 1984". Then I insert my meta note template, which will have a bit of logic depending on the first 2 letters. in this case it will insert the book template in the file, add in the meta data the dates ect just like you have + author: [[George Orwell]] and title: 1984 and move the folder to my SB (sources/books). It's nice for mobile as well as I can do everything in 1 action. Just wanted to share it :)

I get whitespaces(to the left and right) when i add cssclasses-cards. I am using minimal theme. I have minimal theme settings plugin and style settings plugin. How should I get rid of whitespaces? Please help

For your data collecting buttons you may consider modal forms. It offers a better experience when you have to input more than a single value

4:03 I don't have icons in my right-click contextual menu, do yours come from the fact that you're using Iconize?

Thanks a lot! Now I know what to do if a problem arises.

Thank you for sharing the video! It was really helpful! I was curious about how the dropdown works. Is there another video that shows how to implement it?

This is quite impressive. I landed here because I'm getting started with Obsiadian. Both the way this book is laid out and the book itself are great. Is it possible to make such a canvas available to others? I mean to browse it for myself at Obsidian

It would be nice if this was in the Starter Vault Pro.

What do you use for the making of the diagrams? they are really nice

i just notice but how did you make the link in yaml turn into actual link when in reading mode? coz mine don't even when i type it in like you did in the video

Thanku sir, this video is really helpful!

Thank you! I have been avoiding Meta-Bind Buttons because they seemed more complex than the original Button plugin. One thing I could not figure out with Meta-Bind Button was nested buttons, but I think your video may have given me the tip I needed. I have a note template that has a "New Day Log" button that create a new "Log Time" button below it, the current time on the next line, followed by a bullet point on line after. The "Log Time" button just writes out the current time followed by a new bullet when pressed. It looks like I need to create the button templates and then in my Note template use the "New Day Log" button and have it call another template to insert the "Log Time" button and the initial timestamp. The "Log Time" button would then just write out the current time and a bullet point. I *think* this would make use of the "insertIntoNote" action, which did not seem to be covered in Part 3 of the video. Thanks again for this great video!

Finally some use cases of advanced dataview solution. I usually have to edit the dataview setting for getting my note. This is really helpfull

Hello I bought LifeOs vault, should I also buy LifeOS template? to replicate your system

awesome material

I want to go from obsidian to notion :/ it’s so complicated

So i was able to follow your video and create the menu but when i try to create the page for U-Z and use OR (file.name >= "U" AND file.name <= "Z")) itll show U-Y but not things starting with Z. Is this last line supposed to differ somehow because evey variation I've tried has resulted either in error or Z still not showing. Thanks for your great tutorial that was easy to follow

Thank you for this video Paul. A question unrelated to the main topic: how do you format your tables in this beautiful way? Cheers!

This looks cool but I don't have the properties you have, how can I have those? Should I delete types.json or how can I make it generate a new one or a correct one? The properties I see are: aliases link links tags cssclasses excalidraw-autoexport excalidraw-border-color excalidraw-css excalidraw-default-mode excalidraw-embeddable-theme excalidraw-export-dark excalidraw-export-embed-scene excalidraw-export-padding excalidraw-export-pngscale excalidraw-export-transparent excalidraw-font excalidraw-font-color excalidraw-link-brackets excalidraw-link-prefix excalidraw-linkbutton-opacity excalidraw-mask excalidraw-onload-script excalidraw-open-md excalidraw-plugin excalidraw-url-prefix

Interesting 4:50 would you be so kind to develop this idea of integrating Quik Add with KZbin note taking.

Thank you!

very thorough and useful. thanks for sharing!

Hi Paul - This is the only guide on debugging Obsidian I have ever come across in all the years I have watched Obsidian KZbin videos (and I must have watched 95%+ of them ). Like all of your videos (I am currently reviewing them again) they are packed with practical help, the likes of which no other KZbin channel offers. These must take you a lot of time, in what I am guessing is a busy life, and I wanted you to know how much I appreciate them. I do hope hope the KZbin algorithm presents your videos to more and more folks searching for Obsidian, because you deserve way more views than some of your videos have received. Please do keep them coming. They really are a game changer for those of us who need support. Thanks again!

The problem of using an AI generated clone voice from text is that the result is monotonous and lacks personal touch. The content is fine.

Thanks Paul for this video. Like are your content it’s very good! Congratulations

Very interesting this information. Thanks so much for the videos about Obsidian you are sharing with us. The are very useful!! Best regards from Spain

I have spent hours over the past two weeks learning Obsidian and setting up vales files and plugins - today it all disappeared and I have no idea how to get support to recover everything. The files are local on my Mac but inaccessible no matter how many times I restart Obsidian. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?

what are those `<% await tp.system.suggester(["x","y","z"])%>` things? where can i learn more about them?

I like how you use local graph for tags. I'm inspired, ty!

Thanks for trying to address the note categorization and resurfacing (finding) collected, and filed, information (notes) later. This is a tough problem to solve. You gave a great example of where to store a note (YTV as a source and Topic area of the YTV, that is stored as topic). However, your solution of having two notes for the same YTV with different info in them is not a scalable nor a long term solution, IMHO. It can also be confusing, especially when (not if) you forget which note has the detailed information your trying to resurface (find). The real solution is to have overarching Topics areas and sources and specific areas covered in YAML Properties and specific tags. Then the problem becomes three fold: 1) how do you create a useful and rememberable folder structure; 2) what topics and other properties should one define and consistently reuse and consistently extend to cover more information areas; 3) How to structure you tags hierarchy (similar problems to 2). Note it is difficult to come up with a tag hierarchy that is orthogonal to a file structure hierarchy that is also orthogonal to properties (and value hierarchies for each property that is a list). Mine tend to overlap and be duplicative at some levels of the hierarchy. BTW, I don't think ANYONE has adequately solved this problem. The LYT guys defiantly think they have, but I've used that method extensively and abandoned it because I hate having to navigate a bunch of MOC layers to find a note. Conversely, having large number of notes in a single directory is also problematic because its sorted alphabetically by note title/name and to find a note you either have to read all the titles/names in the directory or remember exactly the first couple of letters/words in the title/name.

notion's key note yesterday was pretty good, and offline mode will be in the works, hopefully rolling out by 2025. as for now, hopefully balancing the use of notion and obsidian will be a good choice

Very helpfull! Thank you. Can you maybe also show / instruct on 'Spaces'? I am struggeling because they seems to be also properties. Any way, again thanks for this video!