Building my Obsidian writing setup from scratch

How I write template downloads: dannyhatcher.c...

[@J00ntte]

Once again, thank you for creating this content; it has made me grow in many ways as I have started using Obsidian again in a meaningful way that brings me value for what I do. It's rare to find content that resonates on such a personal level + challenges me to think more deeply about how I work, AND STILL allows me to keep up with the video. Your hard work and dedication to sharing your knowledge and way of work are greatly appreciated.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Thank you !

[@imgeffrey]

Thanks Danny! I really liked the walkthrough. You've inspired me to do my own little walkthrough, as well.

[@mattbrown8139]

I love the idea of Obsidian. I was just wondering, and I'm still watching the video so maybe you talk about it, but why would this be preferable to something like Scrivener? Obviously this is free so I'm sure that's a big part, but anything else? It seems so complicated. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this! I'm sure I'm going to watch it 10 times, haha.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

It is complex as you want to make it. My main reasons: Everything in one place. Multi tab/pane view Backlinks between files (project/source)

[@TSKTECHIN]

@Danny, finally this 2hrs confirmed my suspension that KISS is mush much better all the Classed / WorkSpace / Templater, is not essential.. may be for use case but not for everyday. btw in you past video "the Metadata Menu" is used a lot, any particular reason, why you stopped using it, regularly?? rgds Srikanth Kamath

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Mainly because Morgen is where I do my planning of projects now so I don't need MDM anywhere near as much.

[@peterwassmuth4014]

Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴ It really looks like an awesome tutorial! But unfortunately my eyes only handle dark mode.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

No worries. 😁

[@nathanielfarrugia]

45:01 what I hate about podcast/video links is that generally you stop the section when you are about to write your point so the link would take you to just after the section of interest unless you 'rewind' to before the section of interest. Do you have a solution to this pain?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

I copy timestamp before I write from KZbin. Podcasts I use a timestamp instead of a link.

[@namvo5442]

1:36:31, how can you make this dataview work ? i try to do the same but it doesnt show anything

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Not sure what you mean. The tasks plugin documentation should help you out.

[@nathanielfarrugia]

28:07 i do have an unrelated q..I am using Morgen as per your kind suggestion. For some odd reason ALT+C doe not bring up morgen sidebar...it does nothing at all. I tried searching online but I found no help. Have you any clue?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

In the settings, you might need to enable the global command.

[@DannyHatcherTech]

There is a Morgen discord which is where you can ask all the questions 😁

[@EhabSamir-o2h]

1:59:27 👍

[@nathanielfarrugia]

*puts both hands up* hello

[@Alex29196]

How do you setup your Holland orange color?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

My orange colour is a CSS snippet 😁

[@nathanielfarrugia]

1:24:37 ok...why isnt there a way that you could (for example) highlight the point and ALT+drag from source to project and it would insta create a backlink to source but also to exact location within the source file. If this doesn't exist I really hope it will get made. Or am I missing something?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

There might be a community plugin that does it but I am not aware of one.