Alfred Workflows With Obsidian For [[Maximum Productivity]]

[@BryanJenks]

Want to get your hands on my Obsidian templates, Custom CSS, and Mermaid Diagram code? 👉🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 00:00 Welcome! 01:16 Into 01:27 What we're talking about today 02:31 What is Alfred 04:05 Alfred app integrations 05:57 Installing new alfred workflows 06:08 My own Alfred Obsidian workflow 06:50 The New Alfred Workflow for Obsidian I Found 07:36 forum.obsidian.md/t/alfred-obsidian-utilities/8817/10 07:36 github.com/macedotavares/obsidian-utilities 07:50 The 5 Features of this Obsidian Alfred Workflow that i make use of 08:38 bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 09:11 Daily Note Content Appending 12:37 Searching through my vault 13:36 Block Reference Magic 14:49 Opening Your whole vault in VSCode 15:46 Feature i dont use from the workflow, browser page to markdown, and default search 17:19 Wrapping up 18:16 Outro

[@wave02wave]

It would be awesome if you begin to post the timestamps in the video description so you can see the different chapters on the timeline in the video

[@BryanJenks]

@@wave02wave i dont do it because i mass update video descriptions over time and it would mess with my current workflow, but I'm aware of the feature :)

[@macedotavares]

Hey! I'm macedotavares. Thank you very much for featuring my workflow and presenting it way better than I ever would. Cheers!

[@BryanJenks]

My pleasure and nice work! :D

[@martinwilson1729]

I'm new Obsidian and Alfred and greatly appreciate the effort people like yourself take in making this information generally available. Thank you.

[@BryanJenks]

Glad to help! Alfred has become incredibly useful to me on MacOS i can see a strong desire to find comparable solutions on Linux and Windows

[@martinwilson329]

@@BryanJenks Beginning to get a sense of how powerful and useful Alfred is. Will now try more with the tool.

[@BryanJenks]

@@martinwilson329 its pretty darn useful TBH

[@PaulJacobson]

Thanks for this video Bryan. I've been using Alfred for years, and use it daily at work. This is a terrific workflow to add to my setup.

[@BryanJenks]

may the productivity flow through you...

[@justinsuvoy]

Haven't been keeping up with all you have been doing, however I applaud your work ethic so "thumbs up!" Keep up the hard work my man...videos are looking good-purple glow in the background is trance inducing!😂

[@BryanJenks]

Much appreciated! Some of my streaming influence is bleeding in 🤣️

[@juliangrandvallet5359]

Hey Bryan, on minute 3:15 you mention a tiling window manager, do you recall the name of the free one? Thanks for this video

[@BryanJenks]

rectangle i think

[@antoneheyward]

I like how you're using these workflows with obsidian. I'll have to try them out for myself 😀. Thanks.

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@LinkEX]

9:48 That one's _incredibly_ useful to minimize overhead when taking simple notes while focusing on another task. I've been looking precisely for something like this. But alas, I switched to Linux, and want to stay independent from Windows and Mac software, so I'll have to find an alternative to Alfred.

[@BryanJenks]

Look into Dmenu and using that to launch a script to take input and append to a daily note like in vim wiki? Or just a terminal :)

[@unopercent6907]

Hi, I'm very glad, that you shared whis Alfred workflow! At 11:22, I wonder, how did you manage to deal with double line breaks?

[@BryanJenks]

11:35 i show how :)

[@unopercent6907]

@@BryanJenks Yeah, I've figured it out right after asking! xD Though it wasn't that obvious at a glance. You need to remove all spaces in between to get the desired result. For thouse who are interested, in my case it looks like this: - =={var:time}== {query}

[@ProductivePM]

Thanks buddy, I now have Alfred and it is a great tool to have. Wishing you all the best . . .

[@BryanJenks]

Awesome! How do you like it?

[@ProductivePM]

@@BryanJenks I think I am really going to like this, there is so much that it does. Thanks for all the tips with Obsidian, really appreciative.

[@BryanJenks]

@@ProductivePM the workflows are 🤯️🤯️🤯️

[@TzZek]

PowerToys Run or Listary for Windows users (not as extensible) but if you’re looking for something can try these out.

[@BryanJenks]

dang! could have used that hint a long time ago! 🤣️

[@trashAndNoStar]

9:40 how do you make the template for `Now`? Is there any video/link on this?

[@BryanJenks]

i have a video on all things obsidian template coming on Monday i believe :) the text inside the `Now` template file that is getting inserted is just: =={{date}} {{time}}==

[@FaradayAcademy]

What hotkey do you use to open Alfred with? I've been using `option` and `delete`, but now I'm looking for other alternatives.

[@BryanJenks]

Im a big fan of ⌘+Space :)

[@FaradayAcademy]

@@BryanJenks I should probably move the spotlight shortcut to something else.

[@BryanJenks]

@@FaradayAcademy i changed it to option space 🤣️but never use it lol

[@MacAutomationTips]

I was hoping you’d show how to set up the workflow once it’s imported into the Alfred library. I’m not familiar with how to set up the Environment variables.

[@BryanJenks]

for alfred workflows you go to the workflow itself and in the top right of the interface you'll see a button that looks like "[x]" and there will also be documentation in there about how/what to configure.

[@Zereniti77]

Do you actually need to have Obsidian running at all when appending to the journal? I mean, the note is just a textfile, so you could append directly to it. I created a shortcut that appends text directly to a file in my Obsidian vault, without having Obsidian running at all. Very convenient if you are on iPhone for example.

[@BryanJenks]

you can just append to the file and remove the node that opens the app. it is not actually necessary

[@blitzer658]

Great video bryan. One thing I still don't understand though is the big picture of zetllekasten and second brain. It looks fun to play around with, but beyone that, if you're not a writer, why would you bother with storing your personal knowlege? I mean if you're a programmer, do you really need an entire subpage for how to write hello world in python?

[@BryanJenks]

the uses and value are subjective and your mileage may vary. as a programmer, one use case is I can see relationships between languages and concepts like how one language implements OOP or how a concept is implemented in one language to another. it makes outlining video scripts for me easier. And frankly, I like seeing how my ideas and thoughts connect to all the knowledge I've collected. Often I'll also use the notes as a way to record a piece of information in a way and with examples that I best understood for future reference after I've forgotten it and wish to recall it. this has already happened for me with some of my python notes. plus the act of note-taking and linking it together is an active practice in spaced repetition so just partaking in the act it will also help you learn the material better for students. publish.obsidian.md/bryan-jenks/The+curating+of+a+zettelkasten+slip+box+is+an+active+practice+in+knowledge+building+and+spaced+repetition

[@Ligmaments]

Hi Bryan, I noticed that you also use Anki. What do you think about RemNote as an Anki alternative?

[@BryanJenks]

if i wasnt already so invested into Anki and I'm not sure about Rem note's mobile options (haven't looked too hard) definitely would have been something i would have gone with. Rem note seems amazing for combining the notes and spaced repetition.

[@mcgreevs24]

Subscribing after this great work. Thanks for sharing!

[@BryanJenks]

glad you enjoyed it! Welcome! :D

[@fififinance7469]

Another infromative video thank you

[@BryanJenks]

My pleasure! :)

[@宋泽晖]

Hi,I come from China and I have been following you for a long time. I like to take notes at any time. I have watched some of your videos about Obsidian, but I still can't use it to create notes in Alfred. Can you help me?😭😭

[@BryanJenks]

best place to ask me questions is github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ/discussions

[@base_2582]

Oh crazy. I tried cmd + o in Mac OS and cmd + space in obsidian to get a functionality from the respective other „ecosystem“ Got confusing. F yeah; there is an app for that 😭

[@BryanJenks]

lol the CMD and Option keys still throw me. Like.. WHY. ctrl, Meta, and Alt. ಠ_ಠ

[@zweiche]

not sure if this still works ? I downloaded both workflow and obsidian and tried to change variables but I cannot make it work. can you help me pls :)

[@BryanJenks]

workflow still works, but as for help, try the github repo for assistance first and youtube comments are not the best place to ask for help. better is my FAQ repo github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ/discussions

[@zweiche]

@@BryanJenks yes I tried tbh :) I wish you made it more clear about how to install those bcs even I spent more than 2 hour I couldn't figure it out. always some error pops , and I kinda give up now :)

[@robynbieber6312]

Wow!!

[@BryanJenks]

:)

[@teeI0ck]

interesting and insightful. obrigado 🤝

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@amogh2101]

Is there a windows app for this?

[@BryanJenks]

If there is something like this (im sure there is somewhere) i dont know of one, most of my productivity hacking has been on *nix systems

[@tjex]

anyone here with opinions of alfred vs raycast?

[@BryanJenks]

never heard of the latter ._.