Productivity Power Hour (#5): Obsidian Q&A with a Review of My Book Processing Workflow

[@mageprometheus]

Another great hour. I think it's a habit to Google for quick stuff rather than using your own notes. Having trust in notes is so important and for me, it means adding an example usage to a coding note, or even better, showing the Text Snippet plugin shortcode to insert the example(s). This way you learn the shortcode for future use.

[@BenCodeZen]

Glad you found it helpful! It's definitely took some effort to change it, but switching the shortcut made a lot easier for sure.

[@IgorTerroso]

One interesting addon to the note refactor process is to add block references to the extracted note and then you can extract only the block without the backmatter and your base note looks cleaner in terms of text.

[@BenCodeZen]

Excellent point! I'll have to look into whether Note Refactor can do that automatically since that requires additional config at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@IgorTerroso]

@@BenCodeZen I have actually done that:-) I use the date timestamp as my block identifier and put it in the title using the #^{{date}} syntax and in the refactored note template I add the " ^{{date}}" (beware of the space which is needed) and it automatically creates the block reference to the note content only and explodes it in the original note without the extra tags only showing note content. If you need more info please tell me and I am happy to share. Note Link Template: {{new_note_link}} ![[{{new_note_title}}#^{{date}}]] Refactored Note Template: --- uuid: {{date:YYYYMMDDHHmmss}} dates: created: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}T{{date:HH:mm:ss}} last-modified: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}T{{date:HH:mm:ss}} alias: - --- {{new_note_content}} ^{{date}} **🏷 Tags**: - 🗂 Type:: #type/note - 🏁 Status:: - 👤 Creator(s):: - 👍 Recommended By:: **🤝 Related Links** - 🔮 Origin:: [[{{title}}]]

[@BenCodeZen]

@@IgorTerroso Nice! Thanks so much for including the template. I'll need to give this a shot!

[@IgorTerroso]

@@BenCodeZen No problem! I am the one that needs to thank you because my system is 99% based on yours and I really like your videos and the way you approach knowledge structuring and sharing. Keep up the inspiring work!

[@cptbrncls7050]

So you link back to the refactored note form the base note by ![[new_note^block]] rather than [[new_note]] ?

[@d6h597]

Thank you so much for your videos! And the way how you explain your thought process. Many greetings from Germany

[@BenCodeZen]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful. Many greetings from the US!

[@chuckb5860]

Ben, I've really been enjoying your videos as I'm building up my Obsidian system. One question that I don't believe I have seen you address in any videos. Why do you have the UUID in the metadata as creation date? How do you make use of that? Thanks!

[@BenCodeZen]

Great question! It started out as an artifact of zettelkasten's concept of having a UUID in the file name. But the reason I kept it around is to allow myself the possibility of identifying documents in the future when trying to generate a website of all my notes for example. Hope this helps!

[@chuckb5860]

@@BenCodeZen got it, thanks!

[@felipecruzen]

Thanks a lot! I've learned so much with the valuated information that you're sharing in the process of your videos 👏😃 I have a question with the process of extract an idea of the highlights on a book, we can use for it the Refractor Plugin and it works very well but ¿What's up if we have two or more different ideas to create different notes from the same origin highlighted? We can't Refractor the same origin. (I hope you can understand my question 😅)

[@BenCodeZen]

Hey Felipe! I'm glad that the videos have been helpful! For your question, my quick answer via comments is that you refactor a single reference for the highlighted part. And then you create two new notes that reference that specific highlight. That should get you the graph relationship you're looking for. I'll add it to the queue though so I'll live demo it in a session! Let me know if you need anything else clarified!

[@felipecruzen]

@@BenCodeZen Hey! Nice to know you´re back Ben! 🙌 Perfect, I understand the idea of your answer 😃I'll be expecting the next session. (I'm up to date with your Obsidian's videos) 👏 If it's possible, I would like to learn about your recommended configuration and workflow with Obsidian's mobile app (from Mac to Iphone and Ipad)

[@BenCodeZen]

@@felipecruzen Just to set expectations, we ran out of time and I didn't get to it today, but it's in the queue and I should be answering it next week!

[@BenCodeZen]

@@felipecruzen Good question! I'll add it to the backlog!

[@ManishPatel-he6zg]

Is there any plugin or way to graph (like sinx, e^x) in obsidian instead of copying and pasting imgs. thanks for your obsidian videos. were very helpful

[@BenCodeZen]

Unfortunately, it looks like there aren't any obvious plugins for this yet, but I can't see why this wouldn't be a thing in the future. I'd recommend posting this in the forums to get some attention on it since I imagine you're not the only one who wants this! Glad you're finding the videos helpful!

[@Mauro_P]

Hi !!! Night Own theme is awesome. However, the "CTRL + mouse scroll" does not change the font size. Do you know why? ***repeating posting*** Sorry and tks!

[@BenCodeZen]

Will respond on the original question!

[@joakin5295]

31:24 Manually create a "people" root folder. The error should go away.

[@BenCodeZen]

Thank you!

[@alwc]

Great video Ben! For the "Origin: " link that you created in your template in kzbin.info/www/bejne/raWylGCAarh8nsU, may I know how you do that? Thanks!

[@BenCodeZen]

Yeah! It's a snippet I created using Templater that pastes: 🔮 Origin:: So that I can automatically fill it out with where the note comes from. So then I usually link a person [[@Alex[] (for example). Does that help to answer your question?

[@alwc]

​ @BenCodeZen Is there code following the "🔮 Origin::"? In the timestamp that I linked above, it seems "🔮 Origin:: Git Course Notes" is added automatically to your new note "Deleting a branch". In this case, did you use "Refactored note template" option with the "Note Refactor" plugin?

[@BenCodeZen]

@@alwc OHH!!!! Yes let me get that to you: --- uuid: {{date:YYYYMMDDHHmmss}} created: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}T{{date:HH:mm:ss}} last-modified: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}T{{date:HH:mm:ss}} alias: - --- {{new_note_content}} --- **🏷 Tags**: - 🗂 Type:: #type/note - 🏁 Status:: - 👤 Creator(s):: - 👍 Recommended By:: *🤝 Related Links* - 🔮 Origin:: [[{{title}}]]

[@BenCodeZen]

This is from the Note Refactor configuration in "Refactored Note Template"

[@markrobbins1878]

About the teacher-test thing -- all that teacher is saying simply denies statistics. OF COURSE there is 'some' information we can derive about a bad test - the student may very well be more likely to X or Y. If that's what the statistics say, then that's the reality. For instance, what IF the stats say the random student is 5% more likely to be a stoner. Probably too high, but 2% is quite plausible.

[@BenCodeZen]

That's a fair point! A lot of times there are valid correlations to draw from statistics. I think the trouble is when people fail to discuss the fallacies or pitfalls of where the analysis could go horribly wrong and then draw conclusions based on that to make decisions. 😅