Breaking: Obsidian Insiders Release 0.10.5 | Query Blocks & Nested Tags! 🏷️

[@BryanJenks]

Want to get your hands on my Obsidian templates, Custom CSS, and Mermaid Diagram code? 👉🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 00:00 Intro 00:31 What we're talking about today 01:09 Query Blocks 05:25 Query Blocks for task management 06:40 Nested tags are here 10:29 How Nested Tags work with search 12:25 How ive been implementing nested tags 15:09 New nested tag view in the tag pane 16:07 New searches 16:25 bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 17:11 Section Search 18:28 Line Search 18:32 Block Search 18:57 Tooltips and link dragging 20:51 Closing 21:24 github.com/sponsors/tallguyjenks 21:47 Outro

[@justinmusgrove7429]

I like how you cover the new updates to obsidian and some ideas on practical use of those new features. Keep up the good work!

[@BryanJenks]

glad you found it useful :)

[@linkingyourthinking]

Thanks for another excellent video. I’m curious to play around with nested tags. Using them for projects seems like a good use case

[@BryanJenks]

they're interesting for sure. The only minor change they've made to my system is adding tags for lit note styles and using the child level for a status indicator for lit note processing... does make a lot of new tag nodes in my vault but I'm not too irritated by that. i need to just make an updated workflow video 🙃️

[@AmirHosseinHonardust]

BTW thanks for the view! I can finally see exactly how it works and prepare my notes' metadata in advance!

[@BryanJenks]

You're welcome!

[@anydroid]

Hey Bryan. Do you have a link for the 0-99 course mentioned @ 16:48 ?

[@BryanJenks]

it's in development!

[@anydroid]

@@BryanJenks ok cool. Looking forward 👍

Neat to see how Obsidian does this. Roam has queries, but they work a bit differently - they're not written using code blocks (although we do use code blocks for css/js in Roam), but rather {{query: }}, you can do quite complex stuff like booleans etc, although I'm looking forward to it being even more powerful.

[@BryanJenks]

there are definitely several things that Roam has more firepower in, for many, the privacy and plaintext file nature of Obsidian outweighs them. The searches in obsidian have booleans, regex, special operators like "Block:" or "Content:" etc so there's some decent power there

[@enkiimuto1041]

this was a really helpful explanation, I wasn't aware of this. I was really frustrated with using " #list" and "#idea", this will clear so much space.

[@BryanJenks]

Glad it was helpful!

[@zia85]

The Query piece was SO helpful. Really game changing. Thank you.

[@BryanJenks]

you are too kind :)

[@willdans]

At around 3:30, you show code completion in the query block with {{date}} or {{title}} (for example). What did you do to enable that? I

[@BryanJenks]

template plugin though i use templater now for templates

[@hugocastellanos135]

Love the use of emojis as tags! really cool way to visually call attention to the tag panel.

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you liked it!

[@PeterJoostenOrg]

Hi Bryan, thanks for this video and your other resources! Question: in the left panel you have folder / search / star / tag. In my Obsidian (CSS theme?) I do not have the tag function. Could not find it in my settings, but I would love to have that (especially now with the nested tag function)

[@BryanJenks]

tags are something you have to activate in the settings of obsidian, Settings > core plugins > tag pane :)

[@AmirHosseinHonardust]

Oh, how much I wished I lived outside of Iran so I could buy the access to the insider releases. Ever since version 0.10.2 I've been refreshing forum page and checked on updates for at least two times per day. These features are magnificent for automating some of the processes needed to maintain a huge vault of notes. Especially it would help with a bit of automated MOC handling! My god I love how this software is developed! It's like my best dreams has been reviewed by some genius developers and implemented in the best way possible!

[@BryanJenks]

Im convinced that Licat and Silver developed mind reading software before they started development on Obsidian 🤣️

[@AmirHosseinHonardust]

@@BryanJenks Agreed! It seems more possible than that they just developed it like anyone else!

[@Flackon]

I think they would have made it open source if they could really read minds haha

[@CCV334]

Is there a way for me to show query results but in a collapsed view?

[@CCV334]

Just asked in the discord server, it's not supported yet. Answering my own question here in case someone has the same thoughts.

[@BryanJenks]

@@CCV334 i appreciate people that followup like this, especially on stackoverflow 💜️

[@TristanBailey]

I have way more tag usage than your refined way. So when I tag with dates I have found using nested works better. So I do #2021-04/22 which folds all my April tags in to one. Also helps that I can then see when I put dates in text for a reference I can search for them as 2021-04-22 as I’ve written them normally.

[@BryanJenks]

yeah nested date tags would be incredibly useful. Reminds me of Dendron's dot syntax for date notes: Journal.2021.04.25.md

[@mikedsjr]

Thanks this was helpful. How do you add tags to the top next to the folder and search?

[@BryanJenks]

If the plug-in is active it should appear there, if not you should be able to drag it there

[@_paczkow]

Great Work! I'm looking forward to your Obsidian course. What did you change to increase the number of characters in search results? I have ellipsis after a few words what is annoying to me. Is it related to CSS?

[@BryanJenks]

not quite sure what you mean, but in search results to show more context there's a button in the search pane to expand and show more context of the search results

[@edkako]

Am I right that tags in YAML won't autocomplete? How do you ensure in YAML that you're reproducing the right parent-child^n tag hierarchy?

[@BryanJenks]

correct, they dont auto-complete, best way i've found of not making a mistake is having few tags and using them the way i do. plus i also rely on templates a lot. you can also see if any errors pop up in the tag pane too!

[@jafally]

@@BryanJenks Could you use the # then remove them with a "seach and replace on selection" ?

[@BryanJenks]

@@jafally i mean yes you could do that, but why would you want to? that would make the tags no longer work as tags and only be plain text using # in YAML doesn't show a dropdown menu to select your tags to autocomplete and even if it did, the YAML section doent use the # unless the "#tag" is wrapped in double quotes, but even then there's still no autocomplete. 🤷🏻‍♂️️

[@jafally]

@@BryanJenks To be more explicit, while in edit mode, I would populate the tags in the Yaml front matter using the # so I could have access to auto-complete, then use a search and relace macro on the tags. I think that would save some typing especially when using tag hierarchy and prevent errors as well.

[@diegohawkins3170]

how do you tag fleeting notes in your system that you want to develop?

[@BryanJenks]

i take questions here: github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ/discussions

[@webandfree]

How did you add the Tags Tab on top left of your windows ?

[@BryanJenks]

Click and drag the tab icon

[@carlosguevara.realtor]

how do you figure out what you "need to do" I as said before have ADHD as well, and I struggle on the to-do because everything seems equally important lol

[@BryanJenks]

some of my recent ADHD videos have good explainations on this exact ting :)

[@willcan711]

Dang! How do you have relative line numbers enabled? I have wanted that from the beginning of using Obsidian.

[@BryanJenks]

new 3rd party plugin :) "Relative Line Numbers" makes using the vim mode much better. next best step would be emulation of vim easy motion but ill settle for this at least!

[@X30Marco]

@@BryanJenks Man, EasyMotion would really be handy!

[@justinmusgrove7429]

@@BryanJenks awesome!

[@sanketss84]

for query blocks is there any way to keep the search results collapsed ?

[@BryanJenks]

not that i know of. maybe there might be a hack via CSS 🤷🏻‍♂️️

[@sanketss84]

@@BryanJenks thought so , yup will check the css route. thanks for the reply.

[@PantheraTK]

So with query blocks, I can finally make a page with all results of blocks tagged with a certain #?

[@BryanJenks]

yup!

[@__archive6650]

Bryan, thank for very informative video! Curious how you integrate new Obsidian features and keep your system consistent across all notes at same time? How much time does it take? Thank once again.

[@BryanJenks]

Good question! Short answer is "I do my best, and im not always consistent" long answer is that new features are awesome but that doesnt mean i always adopt them or drastically change my system to use them. in other ways like nested tags i tend to also use command line utlities for text processing to make it easier to do bulk operators to my documents. Another approach is to just actively curate and update things as you encounter them, or if it is something very obnoxious and obviously in need of change then its just a matter of "squeaky wheel gets the grease"

[@jeacarvalho]

Great video, as aways... Does the query block works with regex?

[@BryanJenks]

yep! anything you can do with the regular search can go into it :)

[@ProductivePM]

Bryan, another great video as always. I would really like to see how you use Todoist with Obsidian. I too use Todoist and would like to see how this works. . . .

[@BryanJenks]

Great suggestion! i mainly just have the todoist plugin to put my "today's" tasks in my daily note, but i could also see specific todoist queries for projects or other filterable criteria inserted into specific notes, especially if you use PARA in in your vault

[@ProductivePM]

@@BryanJenks Perfect, I would really like to see your workflow and keep me on the waiting list for your course . . .

[@amyjuanli]

Very good content. Just a small thing - it would be more readable if you zoom in your screen. I can hardly see the command you typed inside Obsidian. 😂

[@BryanJenks]

yeah, these older videos and even still i forget to do this a lot, hopefully i've gotten better in my more recent videos! 🙏🏻️

[@MacAutomationTips]

I still would like to able to click or drag a tag to a document, instead of having to type for tags.

[@BryanJenks]

i personally prefer to avoid using the mouse whenever possible and stick to a keyboard-centric workflow, faster and more efficient that way. Especially for tiling window management, Vim, and hotkeys

[@lapassegraphique]

(French) Bonjour, ce plugin est disparu?

[@BryanJenks]

what plugin?

[@lapassegraphique]

@@BryanJenks Query Block, c'est un plugin?

[@BryanJenks]

@@lapassegraphique nope!

[@g.g.2211]

🐄

[@BryanJenks]

🐄️

[@Kiev-in-3-days]

I wish I knew you cannot search sub-tags before rewriting all my tags. This is such a bad implementation of sub-tags. :(

[@BryanJenks]

this is such an old video lol