IT'S ABOUT TIME - How I integrate time into my Obsidian notes - GTD

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[@ThomasLockney]

This addresses a couple of things I've been wrestling with. Will need to adapt some of these techniques and see if I can improve my current approach. Thanks as always for sharing not just the brilliant tools you have created, but your techniques and the thinking behind them. It's very inspiring and insightful!

[@42sol]

Thank you Zolt. I really like your pioneering work helping ne to navigate easier through the Obsidian djungle

[@hansimeier6587]

Wow, many information to digest. Thank you. Learning so much from you.

[@thecookiemomma]

I love this. I realized I was sort of doing much of this anyway and this cements more of what I need. Even if I don't transclude and just link, it would be better than not having the information on those days. One tiny thing that amused me: I love your Bob the Builder references. Muck is a Dump Truck. (He can be kind of dumb sometimes, too, but that's a separate issue. :D) Again, thanks for the info.

[@aeciolevy]

Thank you one more time. Super helpful video and in some sort can give us even better inspiration on how to do our PKM.

[@HiltonT69]

OOOHHHHH... That random number bit is something I will retrofit to all my templates and all my "person" and "account" notes at least. :)

[@mirelaboangiu6228]

Excellent presentation, thank you for publishing.

[@hansimeier6587]

Tension is raising! Sunday night - Zsolt's PKM time. We are all waiting, all preparing....

[@VisualPKM]

Thanks :) I was busy building ExcaliBrain all weekend... it turned out to be a bigger job than I thought. I hope to publish something on it later this week.

[@davidzaitz6628]

This is awesome. I feel like is what Roam/Logseq do natively, however. Enter it all all the Daily Notes Page - link it up. Click the link to get all your info there. Run simple queries to see tasks. I have been missing this functionality since I left Roam from Obsidian, and I do not have the skills to build what you have

[@VisualPKM]

Obsidian also has the references and backlinks that is very comparable to Roam and Logseq. Block transclusions similarly. When I was using Roam I had a set of similar scripts to tailor the experience to my workflow. I fully see your point regarding the need for technical skills. Unfortunately at this point all of these PKM platforms are quite complex and technical. If you have a similar workflow, you can start build your own workflow using the scripts I share in the video description.

[@bucketofbarnacles]

This is excellent. It’s the closest I’ve seen to getting all notes to appears in simultaneous contexts, as appropriate. It’s too bad there is no automation that will eliminate the need to manually run a script. Still, thanks for the video and posting the files! Also, such a funny and odd thing to have to include a random number in the DQ query. I wonder if there’s a more elegant solution that can be implemented officially at the Obsidian level…

[@antoniogutierrez1906]

Thank you very much for share your knowledge. I don’t quite understand the difference between tranclude the blocks through the notes and data view. Thank you

[@VisualPKM]

If you elaborate a bit more about your question regarding block transclusion and dataview perhaps I can help...

[@antoniogutierrez1906]

@@VisualPKM Thanks for your interest. My scripting skills are limited. I think the "context first" workflow suits me well, but I want to have a log in the daily note and I thought I could get it through data view, which is a more affordable method for my skills (I think so...). However, I came across your templater script for recording content between notes and found it revealing (15:12 on your video). But I was interested to know why you choose that option. Isn't it possible through the dataview plugin? Also, off topic, is there any way to modify the content of a note from the secondary embedded transclusion, like roam or logseq does? Thank you

[@VisualPKM]

@@antoniogutierrez1906 Why the block embed instead of a Data View query? In my meeting notes I often have images and multiple paragraphs of formatted text, etc. I haven't found a way to bring these over with Data View. Can you edit a block of embedded text? No, not in Obsidian. You need to CTRL+ click on it to open it in another pane, and you can do the editing there. I've found this to be a good enough process for me.

[@SensoryEcstasy]

This is exactally the type of way iv wanted to approach my note. I appologize for the noob questions, but... Is there a video that shows me how to correctly use and apply your template and CSS? Also, which video explains how you apply your topic first approach?

[@VisualPKM]

I am afraid I don't have more detailed videos on those - however if you join the Visual Thinking Discord Server (you'll find the link on the Excalidraw Obsidian splash screen) then I am happy to discuss with you - I prefer Discord because it is easier to share screenshot and code snippets there.

[@retirementking]

Mr. Viczián...first I'm a sponge with your material...#thankyoubeyondwords #keepitgoing From this video I gather you are not using an external (or supplemental CRM) as you use Obsidian now for such a tool?

[@VisualPKM]

Yes. I am using Obsidian as my CRM, my project and action tracker, my note taking app, my one stop shop

[@AmitGupta-ye6mc]

@@VisualPKM Can you please tell us more about this CRM usecase?

[@ВикторКурильчик-х2ю]

Excellent system in theory. I have a doubts. Duration one project is 1,5 year. Every working day meetings and inner work, which I note too. In this system it will be very large md file. How convenient this system is with long-term projects?

[@VisualPKM]

We may have different use cases in mind. I agree with you, if you are working actively on a specific project you would need to break it into smaller pieces, like workstream, sprints, phases, etc. I control a portfolio of roughly 40-50 projects in parallel. I meet most projects once a month for a steering committee meeting. The crafted example in the video might be misleading from this perspective. Back a bit over a year ago I created a showcase graph in Roam for Agile Product Development. That usecase is closer to what you might be looking for. The same logic I implemented in Roam Agile could be replicated in Obsidian... www.zsolt.blog/2021/01/agile-product-management-in-roam-part-1.html www.zsolt.blog/2021/02/agile-product-management-in-roam-part-2.html

[@georgeboole3836]

@@VisualPKM Would you recommend such a system for mobile app development? I run a charity, were converting our web dashboard into an offline-accessible educational app, and so goals of 1.5 years+ definitely rings true for me as well. But this is what attracted me to the visual nature of Excalidraw. I had heard about it, but it was Canvas that got me to investigate further since I didn't really "get" it. I feel like I'm at that same stage with Excalibrain as well. Poco a poco... We'll get there. But either way, this is one of the greatest feats of OS I've ever seen. Quite a legacy!

[@billychen2103]

@Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management zsviczian, really love this workflow and want to try! BTW, can you share your original excalidraw file so I can digest better? :) Thanks!

[@billychen2103]

if possible, maybe you can share a sample vault so we can easily copy and tailor. 😀

[@VisualPKM]

I posted it for you here: github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/discussions/618

[@billychen2103]

@@VisualPKM thanks a lot！

[@AmitGupta-ye6mc]

Dear Zsolt, Can you please tell us which plugin you are using to show full calendar in the app?

[@VisualPKM]

github.com/davish/obsidian-full-calendar

[@AmitGupta-ye6mc]

You seem to be zooming through mouse wheel here? Could you tell us how did you enable this ?

[@VisualPKM]

ctrl + wheel

[@AmitGupta-ye6mc]

@@VisualPKM Thanks for your reply. Looks like it doesn't work the same way in MAC.

[@VisualPKM]

@@AmitGupta-ye6mc try command or option. I always get confused by the different naming and keyboard on Macs, but one of those two take the CTRL role from the PC, interestingly control on Mac maps to Alt on PC (but I might be confusing this as well). Bottom line, try these buttons together with the mouse wheel, one of them should work.

[@AmitGupta-ye6mc]

@@VisualPKM Ctrl+Cmd worked. Super thanks :) I am hooked to your videos since yesterday :) You are doing great.

[@101RealTalker]

Hello, I'm lost already, lol, just downloaded Obsidian for this project I have been working on for 2 years, using ancient .RTF files on windows only, 1400+, that have a massive amount of cross-reffences/call backs for this 10K word speech. I want to SEE the hyper-links across everything, and am curious to know the best way I can go about this, without making obvious counter-productive choices in hindisght. So far I see I can simply copy/paste and certain colors seem to rep what I have been using to remember the links, via BOLDED words it UNDERLINES and () and Italics, but what should I know to maximize what this Platform can really do? Thank for reading.

[@VisualPKM]

Sorry, I don't have experience with this. Have you looked at Obsidian's migration help help.obsidian.md/How+to/Import+data ? This is the sort of thing you should raise on Obsidian forum ( forum.obsidian.md/ ) or on the OMG Discord ( obsidian.md/community )

[@101RealTalker]

@@VisualPKM ok thank you

[@studymedicinewithphamthais7800]

Hi, I'm having a major problem with your plugin: it isn't saving fast enough and when I accidentally leave the active pane, it deletes some of the notes I took, which is the least of the problems: (I have lost 2 giant notes because of this terrible autosave function)

[@VisualPKM]

Hi I am sorry to hear that you've lost some data. Can I ask you to open a ticket on github so I can investigate what is going on in your case? I am using Excalidraw on a daily basis for some large / complex drawings, and frequently on multiple devices. I do not experience data loss at all. Thus I think that there might be something specific to your setup that is causing the problems. Let's try to find what that is. On what platform are you using Excalidraw? What other plugins have you installed? Are you using any scripts? Is there anything special (e.g. special characters, etc.) on your drawings? Do you use Obsidian sync, or some other solution like onedrive, google drive (in some cases I had cases with other users where a non-Obsidian sync solution was causing the problems)? etc. github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issues

[@studymedicinewithphamthais7800]

@@VisualPKM thank your for responding to me, I'm just using plain old PC and on windows 10, it happened with just the plugin alone, I had to modify some autosave settings like autosave after 15 seconds but it seems that if I don't do it manually , it just doesn't save

[@studymedicinewithphamthais7800]

@@VisualPKM can I send you a video of the problem itself, describing it is a bit complex

[@studymedicinewithphamthais7800]

I hope that you can see this and maybe consider my problem because having 4 hours worth of work vanish because autosave isn't catching up and and having to force update manullay is NOT FUN.

[@VisualPKM]

I really am sorry about you having to redo some of your notes. As mentioned on your other comment, I am happy to work with you to understand what is going on in your case, since for me saving works well.

[@studymedicinewithphamthais7800]

@@VisualPKM I successfully reproduced the error and sent the problem to github, I hope you can spare the freetime to take a look at this devastating error when it comes to productivity