How To Automate Your Obsidian Zettelkasten Workflow With An Elgato Stream Deck 🖥️

[@BryanJenks]

Want to get your hands on my Obsidian templates, Custom CSS, and Mermaid Diagram code? 👉🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 00:00 Welcome 00:42 Intro 00:53 What we're talking about today 04:36 Stream deck profiles 01:37 What is a stream deck? 01:48 kit.co/tallguyjenks/my-gear/elgato-stream-deck-x 02:39 How to work with a stream deck 05:18 Anki Profile example 07:00 🏻️bryanjenkstech.ck.page/d4ec0713d5 07:17 Is a stream deck necessary? 07:41 How i use the streamdeck with obsidian 07:58 Adding a block reference 09:42 Clear the workbench note 11:03 Opening the graph view 11:24 2 Keys for open smart random note 12:25 Daily note traversing 13:28 Brand new note workflow with just the stream deck 15:40 Wrapping up 16:13 Outro

[@Sailor-wu5ud]

Hi, the link for the resources seems to be dead. Can you update it please? Thanks! 🙂

[@andresmartinez8541]

Thanks for this, discovered it because of you and probably best purchase of the year

[@BryanJenks]

It's a fun little gadget :)

[@FaradayAcademy]

You are so good at making these videos. Idk how you do it. I have programmable keyboards so I'm debating if I really want/need one of these devices on top of that.

[@BryanJenks]

Oh thank you! 😅️im still not satisfied with the quality so I'm constantly trying to make them better but the praise is nice to hear ^_^ Honestly i think it's amazing for stream as i can have nested menus within menu's and with mine being 32 keys i can have a folder on my streaming profile that with a button press it opens a folder with 31 new buttons each for a common emote. it makes it easy to easily and VISUALLY have access to a plethora of commands, emotes, text commands, etc. :)

[@timbushell8640]

Excellent repurposing... ... knowing the deck 'only' as a vid editor tool. Also shout out for the reminded for Gingko, which I had viewed and passed over a few years back from the recent newsletter.

[@BryanJenks]

It’s a handy device :)

[@james-perkins]

I feel like I need to up my productivity game!

[@BryanJenks]

Its fun hacking a productivity workflow 🤣

[@ksoonsoon]

Great video. I have a streamdeck but haven’t used with obsidian yet. Those days are over now!!!

[@ksoonsoon]

Also great with AHK

[@BryanJenks]

its still so cool what you can get a stream deck to do

[@ksoonsoon]

@@BryanJenks absolutely true!!!

[@ggs4989]

Hey Bryan, It seems like the theme that gets sent through the email subscription is different than what I see in your videos. Would you mind updating it?

[@BryanJenks]

I actually did update it recently, so it should be the same

[@ggs4989]

@@BryanJenks Hmm, the one I was just sent has some funky gradient for titles, and quotes are formatted differently in a different color... among other things

[@BryanJenks]

@@ggs4989 lol yeah thats my current theme. i have gradients on the titles, i use a separate font for the titles, quote text should be the same except the extra quote symbol

[@ggs4989]

@@BryanJenks oh ok then :) I guess I was looking at one from a few weeks ago

[@BryanJenks]

@@ggs4989 yeah i keep it fairly up to date so my latest videos are showing what my theme currently is :)

[@benbenane7826]

how is your experience after a few months?

[@BryanJenks]

i rearely use the stream deck for obsidian, but it was an interesting experiment 😅️

[@pootieetang]

Do you still find yourself using this in your workflow for obsidian?

[@BryanJenks]

No, I find the keyboard faster

[@edwardlin2941]

thanks!

[@BryanJenks]

No problem!

[@muffinberg7960]

elgato is extremely expansive for what it is doing. And definitely not worth the cost for the additional hassle of manually applying stickers to any macropad. If you go the macropad option you can also get more customization options.

[@BryanJenks]

I wanted to avoid the stickers and preferred the digital icons and profiles that the stream deck offered. Im pretty happy with it but I'm glad you have a less expensive option that worked for you :)

[@muffinberg7960]

@@BryanJenks gone on a internet search rabbit hole after watching the video. Found some android apps that have this functionality, where you can turn your old tablet or phone into a functional macro pad. Does not fit my use case, since I require low level key presses for my functions. I have to stick to something like arduino mini.