Breaking: Obsidian Insiders Release 0.9.19 | YAML Metadata and Aliases!

[@BryanJenks]

Want to get your hands on my Obsidian templates, Custom CSS, and Mermaid Diagram code? 👉🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 00:00 Beginning 00:10 Intro 00:21 Today's Topic 01:43 What does YAML Look Like? How can it benefit me? 02:42 YAML front matter has to be at the absolute top of a document 02:58 Currently Available options for YAML meta-data (sans CSSCLASS) 03:10 Using the YAML Attributes 03:22 Ways to list items in YAML 04:11 Pick 1 list option and Example with Aliases 04:55 What Aliases look like in action 06:17 Special characters in Aliases or Tags 09:20 Short: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpfFn6yJlNF7jZY 09:20 Longer: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZWvf36LpLKWbMU 09:21 bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 10:04 Tag YAML Attribute 11:43 Listing Tags in YAML 13:34 YAML Aliases in the backlinks pane (COMING SOON?) 14:22 Great uses for Aliases in a variety of domains 16:58 Configuration & Customization V 18:09 Upcoming features 18:50 publish.obsidian.md/bryan-jenks/INDEX 22:50 Wrapping up 23:51 Outro

[@hopestreet3452]

My Obsidian learning journey: 😃 - when there's a new Obsidian Update. 🤔 - trying and failing to understand the Shiny New Things. 😃 - when Bryan uploads a video and explains it all perfectly.

[@BryanJenks]

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[@arbidag]

jajajajaja IDEM!

[@RussSwall]

Good stuff. Thanks, Bryan. Looking forward to seeing how these use cases play out as well seeing some more. Looks like a lot of potential and a powerful enhancement to the framework.

[@BryanJenks]

You and me both! The possibilities are endless!

[@stefanhansen5882]

Your Obsidian videos are awesome! Thanks!

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you think so!

[@Sodo4082]

@Bryan Jenks, needed some help. In the daily note plugin how do I enable the timeline view? The description tells me to enter the command: Show the Day Planner Timeline. But I don't know where to enter it... Edit: (fine anyways got it) Just wanna add that I am very excited for your 0 to 100 for obsidian and hopefully it will contain everything I need for a novice like me :)

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you fiured it out :) for anyone else wondering, you have to attach the day planner to the current note THEN view it. There are 4 day planner commands in the command palette, you attach then view timeline :) The course should be for an absolute beginner who knows nothing of markdown and has never touched obsidian, all the way to where im at now :)

[@Sodo4082]

Also the command is put by opening the command window by pressing ctrl +p and then write the command there.(this was mainly what i struggled with. Not knowing the basics.)

[@Sodo4082]

@@BryanJenks Thanks a lot and really appreciate the content being put out. Just mentioning it coz atleast for me even that one pat on the back can create wonders👍🏼. Really must be a task to reply to all the comments tho.

[@BryanJenks]

@@Sodo4082 its not overwhelming just yet 😅️one day the comments may surpass my ability to respond 🤷🏻‍♂️️

[@Sodo4082]

Somehow I hope they do👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@DavidAAcostaS]

Thank you so much for this video!! I have never heard about YAML, but now I can use it in my vault without problem. I have a question: where do I find more uses for YAML? And I'm sorry to hear there are only 2 metadata options.

[@BryanJenks]

there's 3 now with CSSCLASS being a recent addition to obsidian. YAML is just a way of structuring data so it really depends on what tool/application you're using YAML in to see what else can be done with it. i use it a lot with RMarkdown documents. and there are some videos in the pinned comment about YAML if you'd like to learn a bit more :)

[@DavidAAcostaS]

@@BryanJenks Thanks Bryan, really appreciate it

[@TomParish]

love the newsletter idea. I signed up. Very helpful video, please ... keep em' coming! I'm benefiting.

[@BryanJenks]

Awesome! Thank you! and there is more to come!

[@FlamencoDeniz]

I am torn between obsidian and notion as my tool to setup a learning hub for my SCRUM/product owner exam. I am already decent at using notion with the backlink feature but I am really tempted to try obsidian because it looks more efficient. The only thing I wonder is how much time it would require to set up obsidian. I see that you have some kind of templates for the hashtags and colouring. So how much do I need to invest up-front before using obsidian, roughly estimated?

[@BryanJenks]

initial setup in obsidian is minimal, you can follow the KISS method and don't have to make it as elaborate as i have things. Ultimately it comes down to what works for you, what actually facilitates the act of actually *DOING* work, and if that's notion then use that. if you want to and can afford to learn a little about Obsidian, i think you can tell what my recommendation might be ;) i do have my templates available if you'd like them, and if you have any questions feel free to ask publicly to help others or search for answers: github.com/BryanJenksCommunity/FAQ or chat with me and my community all together: discord.gg/MxCVshN :)

[@KhanPhelan]

Just my thoughts, i use both tools. Obsidian more as a reference and Zettelkasten approach (in my case for martial arts and my PhD thesis), and Notion as Task-Manager, Trello-Replacement, Budget Planer etc etc.

[@BryanJenks]

@@KhanPhelan sounds like a great mesh of both worlds :)

[@antonfruytier]

Why not try RemNote.io? It is a pretty powerful learning tool

[@BryanJenks]

@@antonfruytier not sure if you were pointing that comment at me or not, but i did try remnote a little and i like it, and like the idea, but given that i keep my academic notes in Obsidian within my zettelkasten for the purposes of linking the knowledge together and prefer anki for my SRS it's kind of not worth it for me now. plus one of the selling points of obsidian for me was the non-SaaS app plain text file storage format.. all of that said though, i wish i had remnote back in high school/early college that would have been amazing

[@pacio49]

Thanks for these videos. 🐄 Love watching your stuff, and I appreciate placing your videos in chronological order by looking at the amount of Norse-themed ink you keep getting over the years. LOL

[@BryanJenks]

LOL the passage of time marked by the ink in my skin, thats a first ive heard on youtube, NICE

[@abdulla6741]

Really nice, thank you, Bryan.

[@BryanJenks]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@douggottlieb]

Great video. Subscribed. Thanks for posting!

[@BryanJenks]

Awesome, thank you!

[@averagejon9677]

how did you create the special line with the symbol in the middle? with the "- - -"...

[@BryanJenks]

CSS in my custom theme

Your css theme does not arrive yet to my gmail. I think that is an amazing theme Bryan. Thanks for your videos, it helps me a lot.

[@BryanJenks]

you need to confirm subscription based on email that arrives in your inbox, that will take you to a download link

@@BryanJenks that's fine, the problem is solve. I want to say your line style (hr) is awesome! Thanks

[@thebibleproof]

Hello Bryan, I signed up for the newsletter, even though you go over my head a bit. Could you show why your setup is a replacement to ZK?

[@BryanJenks]

im not sure what you mean. Im not replacing anything? if ZK = zettelkasten. my system is literally just my approach in implementing a zettelkasten

[@Kaziafzal]

Bryan you rock. but dude is it so that space in tags is not working at my end in obsidian. Have they changed something YAML settings in obsidian.

[@BryanJenks]

Apparently it was a bug not a feature lol yeah they fixed that

[@Kaziafzal]

@@BryanJenks Thanks a lot for clearing the issue. It would have been a bug to die for.

[@Kaziafzal]

And I loved your idea of reference and similar links. That is very close to paper zettelkasten method.

[@hirokiaddams]

Cool video! I like that horizontal line you have... could you post the css?

[@BryanJenks]

My custom CSS is available here: bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5

[@mohammadkamelan1047]

Hey Bryan. Thanks for the Informative video. I have a question: As you already know obsidian does not have a mobile app. Do you know any workaround for taking note in android devices and sync that note with obsidian vault?

[@BryanJenks]

for sync i have my git workflow video, as for access, its been many years since ive had an adroid phone

[@lfegri]

Thanks for another very useful video! For me the 2 words tag [hello world] didn't work: I got a tag for each word (version 0.9.19). Any idea why? Already subscribed to your Newsletter! 🐄

[@BryanJenks]

You're most welcome! thank you for joining the newsletter, and to your question, it appears it must have been a bug not a feature LOL because in the video i was using 0.9.17 so the tags with spaces will now no longer work and its back to underscores 🤣️

[@LukeAvedon]

Great video. I want hierarchical tags. Then I will finally obtain true happiness.

[@BryanJenks]

i saw them implemented in NotePlan3 and i've heard they are in Bear after playing around with them i can definitely see how neat they could be. For me though with the way i "tag" things with [[tags]] and not #tags it wouldn't matter. plus with using nested tags as a form of taxonomy on the notes it is another way of replicating a hierarchical classification. that may be useful to some but overall i cant see that feature helping me much 🤷🏻‍♂️️ regardless, every feature released is fun to play with 🤣️

[@matthieucaruel3824]

Hi ! just watched the video. tags with spaces don't work for me. Is this normal ?

[@BryanJenks]

Yeah, it was a hack that was corrected shortly after the video was put up :/

[@trickstur5994]

Nice video. Something that would be helpful in the future to me, because I find it distracting, could you turn off the whitespace plugin?

[@BryanJenks]

Sure thing! it actually causes issues for me with several other things so i actually uninstalled it already. Sorry for the distraction!

[@pachot1525]

🐄. Some updates to current version features would be appreciated. Thanks Brian.

[@BryanJenks]

Oh man, this is an old video, there’s been so many updates since this one!

[@Oswee]

Adding emoji's in every writing definitely is all about productivity. :)

[@BryanJenks]

Emoji's are life 💩️

[@GssHoo]

Hi, new subscriber here. Thank you for your videos :) Questions: - I'm not a student or a scholar, how do I use aliases in my notes? -When I use YAML I get an ugly bar just under the note's title with "metadata" on it, what am I doing wrong? How do I hide it? Thank you again for your videos, the one about templates helped me a lot! I like Obsidian but their documentation is deplorable.

[@BryanJenks]

if you want to hide that meta data bar in preview mode you can do so with CSS

[@GssHoo]

@@BryanJenks k' I'll see if I can buy some. Thank you for all your help.

[@angellom1]

Excelente! saludos desde España!

[@BryanJenks]

:)

[@SamirVIE]

really cool - thanks a lot!

[@BryanJenks]

you're welcome :)

[@MartinusRex]

If you like, try to pronounce "Zettelkasten" to sound pretty german, pronounce it like it starts with a /t/, followed by a sharp /s/ (like in sign). ;)

[@BryanJenks]

its been a while since i was in Deutsch class 😅️

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