Obsidian - Lets Learn Obsidian 2

[@Z3DT]

You might want to add in a pinned comment that you no longer need to manually add the Alternate Themes snippet. They are already automatically installed and can be enabled with the Style Settings plugin.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Fantastic point, I will update that right now. I only fond this out myself like a week ago. I've had it enabled for ages and it was breaking a few things. oops

[@quentenwalker1385]

Thanks for these beginner videos. They are very helpful.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Quenten! Hope you are doing well mate. Honestly I was struggling with what to cover in this one. Obsidian is so damn flexible, it's hard to put a finger on what's important.

[@christinelevis7896]

Thank you so much for this! Setting up a series of one-shots for my first time as DM and this is super helpful in organising my chaotic ideas.

[@DrawLots]

These tutorials are fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to create these!

[@mrabomination]

I'm very excited to dive into specific templates, I think that's the #1 thing I need to get set up properly in my own vault.

[@chr9s833]

Templates in combination with the Templater plugin and Dataview is very powerful and efficient combination. It's allowed me to filter down to using fewer folders and create a more database structure with Dataview displays in the top foldernote with lots of automation. I pretty much don't have to go folder searching anymore.

[@farzadmf]

Great second video, thank you!

[@davidrathbone5581]

I've been DMing for 7 years. I can't believe this passed me by.

[@JoshPlunkett]

It hasn't been out for that long. It's relatively new. About 3 years old I think. It's come a very long way in that time though.

[@UmamiNoodle]

I'm going through your guide now-- THANK YOU

[@JoshPlunkett]

If you need help... the community is very active in Discord. Link from community section of this. www.obsidianttrpgtutorials.com

[@VincentMaucorps]

Amazing playlist, Josh ! You might want to add in a pinned comment or in the description that "Folder Notes" by AidenLx appears to be buggy since a recent Obsidian update. "Folder Notes" by Lost Paul seems to be working well today (on my Linux OS).

[@VincentMaucorps]

I saw you addressed the issue on a later video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqS6nGiZqp51ras Great !

[@njalsen]

Thank you, was having the same issue

[@doc8125]

not using folders has some huge benefits depending on how you like to use obsidian. Most importantly, it prevents you from being too ridgid in your organisation and instead you connect things with links to mark that some notes belong together. I personally use a combination of both, I don't put everything in folders but some stuff I do (all images for example go into one big folder to keep them out of the way, my daily journal goes into one folder etc)

[@JoshPlunkett]

It's not something I would ever do. I like having packages of notes that i can move between vaults.

[@doc8125]

@@JoshPlunkett the whole philosophy of it really relies on just having one huge vault for everything, or at least not multiple for the same idea. Like I only have one giant TTRPG vault for all my systems, I don't really have a lot of vaults (basically just TTRPG and a more personal stuff vault). Though that's the great part of obsidian I guess, it's flexible enough to really acommodate any project you throw at it, with as little or as much structure and features you need/want

[@JoshPlunkett]

@doc8125 I have one vault per system. But the idea of having one vault for everything would just introduce link bloat in a ttrpg setting. There always going to be similar named things and you don't want that sending your links to the wrong notes. I think the idea of one vault with no folders primarily comes from the core note taking community. For those that note their life. Would make a lot more sense in that regards.

[@doc8125]

@@JoshPlunkett I think is depends a lot on what you use your vault(s) for, for me it's very rarely rules and mechanics (I tend to run quite rules light non crunchy systems, so remeber them all basically). My vault is more about documenting the worlds (often the same world just played in different systems, which is one reason I like to keep everything together), session notes, character notes, as well as more system agnostic stuff with random generation tables, stuff to help me create stories etc (I also don't use adventure modules, don't have anything against them but they don't really exist for the more niche systems I quite often run, or if they do there's few of them and usually not high quality). If going more detailed to reference system spesific things and the like I can definitely see the strengths of a more structured vault and having one for each system. Again, comes around to my point of obsidian being infinitely flexible and can work for a wide variety of people, including as a organisational tool TTRPGs, I don't believe in one size fits all solution

[@chr9s833]

Still like to watch the basic videos. Always interesting to see what I don't remember! Even basic stuff. I'm at the point where I'm often wondering which plugin does this!

[@JoshPlunkett]

Haha you can see me stumble in videos occasionally because i've literally forgot that something I expect to work isn't actually part of vanilla Obsidian.

[@johnhill6186]

Thanks for the content, just discovered your channel and binge watched many videos ! Can you please tell me where you explain how to achieve the "wiki" style columns ?

[@JoshPlunkett]

Here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqCzc3euotlslc0

[@husselbeh1058]

This video was great but something I am confused about is the way you are able to have the folder arrows as well as the icons? Using the ITS theme the arrows disappear for me and can only be shown on hover. Could anyone tell me how to do this please? I can't find anything across google other than how to get rid of them

[@JoshPlunkett]

Pretty sure the arrows came from an old plugin called Icons that ultimately died and is no longer used/supported. I dont have the arrows in my vault anymore.

[@MrJBARRON]

Great tutorial, Josh. Speaking of the "Various Compliments" plugin, is it possible to link from one Note to a subheading in another Note?

[@JoshPlunkett]

I havn't found a way to do that with Various Compliments. You can certainly link to a sub section of a note via [[notename#headingname]]

[@Iceman_zZz]

Thank you for making these videos. They are a great resource! I have a fairly extensive Drive folder structure for organising my games. i would like to now "waste" all that work when setting up my Obsidian folder structure. Is there a good way to incorporate an excisting structure into Obsidian? I understand thet I can fairly trivially link and sync PDFs and such regardless of their file location?

[@JoshPlunkett]

You could just create a new vault over your existing folder structure. End of the day, obsidian is just a fancy ui that sits on top of folders and files.

[@Iceman_zZz]

@@JoshPlunkett I think that's what I'll do

[@corybanticfire]

If you make notes like your character 1 and character 2 example with links in the party notes, when you update to proper character names do the links automatically update as well?

[@JoshPlunkett]

Yes, assuming you have a note name "FirstName", and you link to "FristName" through your vault. If you rename "FirstName" to "SecondName"; it will pop up and ask you if you want to rename all the links too.

[@TTRPG_Quebec]

Very nice. If only I knew this existed before....

[@JoshPlunkett]

Moving tools can certainly be part of the challenge. There's an import tool these days that imports notes from other common tools. Might help.

[@TTRPG_Quebec]

@@JoshPlunkett i use word lol. So primitive. Will use this program now hahahaha

[@patrakis]

2 videos in and again, thanks for making these. I'm sure this kind of program will grab the interest of user that love to code and live to tinker with every little things in their tools. It's so not me. I hate mods in any game and will never invest the time it needs to make Obsidian a good tool for campaign management. OneNote will remain my go to tool for my needs.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Indeed it attracts the attention of those of us who love to tinker. I personally cannot stand OneNote. The floating text drives me batty 😀

[@PoorMarvoloSawyer]

When I type the 3 dashes for Notetype, it creates a Properties table, where one can input aliases, css classes, and tags. Is this the same function?

[@JoshPlunkett]

Yes that's the new form of Front Matter. It was only released a few weeks ago.

[@sizzleweet]

What video do you cover the GM screen tab?

[@JoshPlunkett]

That would be the video on Kanban. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqa9f52wrLZ2o6s

[@JR-sp3mk]

Hello, this is awesome, reall great use and I will definately use it for my playing. I am trying to lern from your videos, but can't make everything work... especialy Folder notes are not working in the way vide os showing. Do you have any tips why or how to make it work?

[@JoshPlunkett]

Which plugin are you using? I use Folder notes by Lost Paul these days. Should be a case of install > enanble and then Ctrl+Click on folders to turn into a Folder Note.

[@djuud105]

Using folder notes would be ideal for me as i've imported my OneNote notes. However, when I install any Folder Note plugin other than the Core I can't Interact with my folder in Obsidian anymore. I tried the workaround on AidenLx's Github but this didn't work, do you have any suggestions? Great video also!

[@JoshPlunkett]

Most of us have moved to folder notes by lost Paul. You don't need the core any more.

[@Albertock]

I've been following your guides but I can't find the icon packs you are using for the folders.

[@JoshPlunkett]

I use the Iconize plugin. On the plugin settings page right down the bottom you can install packs. For the most part I just use the Font-Awesome and RPG-Awesome.

[@jdchambe]

one minor issue: the way in which the ITS Theme allows for support of alternate themse is very different from how this video says it works. and that change seems so recent that ITS's own documentation on its own git-hub repo still has inconsistencies. as it give base instructions different from yours, but has some instructions that like to paths that give a 404 file-not-found error.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Yes the whole plugin changed recently. Obsidian made some updates to the Theme support and ITS has been completely re-written. It's becoming a problem in that things are constantly changing and as such the tutorials need to constantly change also. I am working to keep this site updated. Might be worth a look-in. And of course. My tutorials are always downstream from the plugins. The source of truth should always be the official plugin/theme documentation. obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials

[@valentijnbarendse9044]

I cant open the alternative themes snippet, is it removed? it says 404 page not found

[@willianbatista2052]

Click in "View raw"

[@ankitamaity8673]

I'm facing a problem with Folder Note plug in. After getting 'underlined folder' its won't open by just clicking. I have to r8 click and go to 'open folder note'. Plz help me.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Which folder note plugin are you using? Recommend you jump into the Community Discord. You will get better and faster support there as we can share images/screen. obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/Obsidian+TTRPG+Tutorials/Community+and+Support

[@chapman3713]

Had the same problem. Web search "alx-folder-note #134" and you should get a fix.

[@Over_Xelis]

I'll add here too, that changing the theme is fairly easy through the Style Settings plugin, but unfortunately it doesn't change anything other than the colors. The beautiful text fonts that you've got don't seem to change.

[@JoshPlunkett]

Do you have the font css files enabled? It's covered in the readme for the its theme.