The 5 BEST Obsidian Plugins I Use // EP 2 Mastering Obsidian

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:17 - My Favorite Plugin
08:23 - Kindle Plugin
09:57 - The Plugin That Has Made Me NOT Miss Notion
12:39 - An Improvement On Obsidian's Word Count
14:10 - How To Never Forget Which File You Were On
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[@FromSergio]

After using Obsidian for 2 years, a lot has changed, so I updated this video with this one here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXPQamifeMiLaKc

[@MGlennRoss]

LOL! I just spent an hour watching (and pausing your video while I installed these plugins) only to find this update. Seriously, though, as a writer, these plugins will be enormously useful. Now off to watch some videos on Kanban as I haven't used it before.

[@delayedgrowth]

Thanks for your videos, Sergio. You present things very clearly and make a good teacher. I picked up some great ideas from this Obsidian post. Hope your channel grows and you keep this up.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks a lot Peter, it really means a lot, especially for a really small channel like myself! I love doing these videos so I'm glad they're helping people out :)

[@samistrickland962]

Both part 1 and 2 of this series have been so helpful already so far! I just downloaded Obsidian last night, and thanks to your clear instructions was able to download and enable all these features and be able to easily visualize useful ways in which I could use these tools myself. Thank you!

[@FromSergio]

Hi Sami, was offline for a week! Thanks so much for the kind words, enjoy the rest of the videos :)

[@jabuci]

Thank you Sergio! Excellent series. You give a lot of useful information and a lot of tips. I was lost with Obsidian but now I'm getting to see how useful it could be for me.

[@FromSergio]

Glad i helped! :)

[@charlesianima]

Sergio, I truly appreciate your videos. I have just recently stumbled upon Obsidian and it has fully grasped my attention. Because of your videos, I am now learning how to code (which I've always wanted to), can finally not get overwhelmed from all of these plug ins, and getting lost in the customization. Thank you for producing these videos and am glad I could be apart of the awesome obsidian community.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Charles that means a lot :) Best of luck in your coding journey! It's a rewarding one!

[@MarkDMoore-rr1rv]

I've watched all of your "Mastering Obsidian" videos along with those of several other people. I want you to know that your videos are the ones I keep coming back to in order to help me with setting up my Obsidian. Thank you for the great work. I hope you plan to make periodic update videos for when Obsidian has updates.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks! That really means a lot :). As for the periodic updates - absolutely!

[@engageintellect]

Same here.

[@TheJoshtheboss]

I second that. Well structured, easy to come back to. Very informative.

[@starkxz]

Thank you so much Sergio. Your videos are clear an easy to follow and at the same time you provide helpful details. I really love this series keep it up ☝🏻

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed it! More are on the way :)

[@JuanOliveiraOficial]

If you can't see the calendar: drag the right panel divider until the icon shows up, I searched the whole internet for this, thought the plugin was broken

[@enviableace9987]

I found this solution on Reddit, Thanks anyway my man

[@hello1414276]

I just used Obsidian recently to organize my daily life and taking engineering notes, I would like to say a big thank you to you for making these useful tutorials. Hope to see more of your videos!

[@FromSergio]

Thanks for taking the time to leave a message! I'm glad you've enjoyed them, more are coming :)

[@alexmitchell9561]

Thanks for another great video on Obsidian Sergio! I will definitely be checking out the Kindle and recent files plugins! Keep up the quality content

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Alex it really means a lot, definitely check them out, couldn’t work without them at this point! Have a great week 👌

[@quickontheballpaul]

Gees, that Kindle plugin is an absolute life saver. Thank you!

[@SamA-ll2dt]

Just wanted to let you know how useful this series is so far. As simple as Obsidian can be, it's really overwhelming but the things you go over and the way it's done is extremely useful. Thanks!

[@FromSergio]

Thanks! That means a lot, I hope you are still finding them useful, they are still far from finished!

[@TravelNakisa]

Thank you so much for these videos. You saved me lots of days.

[@Johns1]

I think this is one of the best videos I have seen in a very long time, this is actually "gold" for me that started to use Obsidian today. THANK YOU!

[@FromSergio]

That means a lot! Be sure to enjoy the rest of the playlist :)

[@Johns1]

@@FromSergio I have just started :-) Download Obsidian yesterday, and I think I "fall in love" with it as soon as I started to fill it up with my notes. You are doing a fantastic job in your videos, really appreciate this, you save me for months with "self-learning" :-) THANK YOU!

[@slenderjake5301]

Man, some of the best & most useful obsidian videos I’ve seen! New sub.

[@FromSergio]

That's awesome thanks a lot :) New video this week!

[@davel3895]

Fantastic video Sergio. Just came across your video. As a non-programming-Obisidan user, I'm counting on you and others to teach me how and why to use new plugins. I just subscribed... hoping you will continue these in the future. 👍

[@FromSergio]

Hi Dave, thanks for that! I most certainly will, EP 4 Monday :)

[@mediocremind3730]

That was an awesome video, well thought out and explained. I was wondering about some of these plugins and how to use them. Thanks!!

[@FromSergio]

That's awesome to hear! Hope you enjoy the rest of the series!

[@jondesousa]

These videos are amazing. Please keep up the excellent work!

[@FromSergio]

Thanks for the kind words, so grateful :)

[@achinikeamadi6956]

Detailed video, will be checking out the periodic notes plug in

[@MarcDimmick]

Thank you Sergio, great information and I got some great ideas and have implemented the periodical plugin

[@FromSergio]

Great to hear! Have a great one Marc!

[@barryfeatheringill6472]

What a super video. I have been trying to understand Obsidian spending hours and becoming more confused. Simple short video covers it while making it simple. THANKS

[@FromSergio]

I'm really glad it was helpful! Enjoy the rest of the series!

[@benacker8525]

Thnaks man this was really helpful. Appreciate the time you've put in and how well you explained it!

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Ben :)

[@viktorsirin]

I always like to say thanks for a well-made, informative, video...so...Thanks. I'm relatively new to using Obsidian, but I've subscribed to your channel.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Viktor, was away for a few days, just saw this! Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos and thanks for the kind words!

[@enviableace9987]

You are AMAZING, all of these plug-ins cause me have SOO much ideas on things I want to do so I still take notes with other apps like google docs lol, and this us only episode 2, wow Once I am completely situated, I can make a full transition to Obsidian and multiply my work tenfold. The potential is limitless I deeply thank you

[@FromSergio]

That's great! Thanks for the kind words :)

[@MustafaAlbazy]

Thanks man, really got some nice ideas for my studying notes from here.

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed it! Uploading ep5 tomorrow :)

[@tom22333]

So excited to begin using obsidian. Thanks for all your vids

[@FromSergio]

And thanks for watching them! Glad they're helpful!

[@24pfilms]

Really awesome great work, thank you

[@luccicorp]

Amazing. Simple and straight forward explantion and illustrations.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks, glad it was useful!

[@PandalPan]

Thank you for your video with detailed explanation, it does help me a lot, especially for the Recent file plug-in (big 👍for you)

[@FromSergio]

Thank you :)

[@lotsa2000]

This is an awesome course so far! I'm very excited to ditch the journal app that refuses to sync until I throw money at it!

[@kev14learning]

Appreciate you, man. Thanks for sharing your experience with this tool.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks man I appreciate it a lot! Enjoy the rest of the series!

[@reg8746]

Just started trying Obsidian. I noted by reading the documentation that if you wanted to navigate recent open files you can go backwards ( on my PC with CTRL + ALT and forward again with CTRL + ALT ... Seems to work back through my history for a long while. I have only started using it while following along on your tutorials. This relates to your last community plug in " recent files "

[@DennisEye]

love the video, it really helped me, thanks

[@ruiwang3332]

Thank you so much for your wonderful video. It really is practical and helpful.

[@FromSergio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@goldfishy]

Excellent video, very helpful, thank you.

[@FromSergio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@christophhaug]

3 weeks of consistency, yay! Keep it up!

[@FromSergio]

I was not expecting anyone to notice so this definitely put a smile on my face! Thanks for taking the time ❤️

[@christophhaug]

@@FromSergio Having watched Ali for some time now, I'm starting to notice things on youtube ;-)

[@stefanhansen5882]

Thanks a lot of these wonderful recommendations!

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Stefan, glad you enjoyed them. :)

[@davidgrubba]

Thank you so much for your amazing videos. I'm switching from Notion to Obsidian.

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@silvavadney2267]

Thank you so much for the good content, please keep uploading, good stuff :)... Thanks again!

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed it, hope you enjoy the rest of the series! Uploading EP10 tomorrow!

[@g.milano3768]

very useful video, thank you very much!

[@FromSergio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@adidammusic]

Great video! Thanks for the tips!

[@FromSergio]

Glad it was helpful! Have a great one :)

[@DodefiEnglish]

Thank you. That was sooo usefull.

[@quockhangho8440]

Thanks for your videos, i learn a lot from them.

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed them, I love making them! :)

[@johnauckerman682]

I appreciate your videos. I'm having an issue with the calendar plugin. The calendar doesn't appear in the sidebar when I install and enable it. I tried a couple of different calendar plugins. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I'm using the Brave browser.

[@philipped.6118]

Very good, Thank you.

[@konstantin5021]

thanks for your video! Tell me, is it possible to do automation? For example, to collect all the entries that were made in the past week, at the beginning of the next? And for example, to collect all the notes of the last month in one metacard?

[@fullbellygod]

Very helpful. Your videos are great.

[@FromSergio]

Glad you like them!

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

Thanks so much, so informative!

[@FromSergio]

Glad it was helpful!

[@youssefiskander8910]

Thank you!

[@dorchy12]

Wow. Thank you. Appreciated

[@FromSergio]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@jeffbrownstain]

My most needed: Folder Note File Color Persistent Graph Vault Changelog Link Archive Better Codeblock

[@FromSergio]

Make sure to checkout the update to this video posted 3 videos ago :)

[@jeffbrownstain]

@@FromSergio I watched that one too! I find it infinitely fascinating how radically differently other people can use the exact same software. Obsidian is of the rarest breed in the digital world.

[@SridharKatakam]

Obsidian has a daily note feature built-in. Is it recommended to use it instead of Periodic Notes for this? Periodic Notes should still be useful for weekly/monthly etc. notes. But if we use the built-in daily notes, will it sync with the calendar?

Thans for this course Sergio, I am an advanced user of Obsidian and I consider if you could do a more complex Obsidian's videos will be great

[@FromSergio]

Thanks Victologo, I am already working on a 2 part video about Dataview, one for metadata and Yaml and anohter for the dataview plugin. As the obsidian series progresses I will be covering more advanced topics. Thanks for the feedback!

[@alejandroarizaz.5796]

¡Gracias! Eres extraordinario.

[@FromSergio]

Thanks so much for your generosity Alejandro! Much Appreciated! Have a great week :)

[@maximartinezluengo8089]

Thanks!

[@noobedition9109]

Do you know how can i take notes like cornell system in obsidian?

[@nizomiddinovabulmansur4736]

The best plugins. Thanks man

[@FromSergio]

Thanks :) Make sure to check out the video on all the plugins im using after 2 years in obsidian, was posted 2 videos ago!

[@rakhimann5175]

Hey i find your videos very helpful but i want to know how to see the calendar plugin on the tablet app. Or is it only available for the windows or mac app?

[@FromSergio]

Hi there, I'm unsure as I don't use obsidian on my iPad.. maybe others can chime in? The new obsidian version that was just released has a heavy focus on mobile though!

[@maurolimaok]

A while ago I've been thinking about notes. We go to school to learn things, but rarely we are educated on forms to take notes. They just fill the board with content and assume we know, since we were children, that we know how to get the best notes from that, witch is far from the reality. If we have had some classes about how to take better notes, I'm sure the educational system results would be much better, even more in places like Brasil, where I live.

[@FromSergio]

I agree, the education system has some serious reforms to make. Too many to type in a comment! I remember the days where I would just copy everything in the board (which in turn caused me to never listen to what was being said) to only then stare at my hardly legible handwritten notes trying to make sense of it.

[@maurolimaok]

@@FromSergio Same here! KKKK

[@jeffbrownstain]

I was taught to take notes six different times and in four different ways in school, and I dropped out by the 9th grade. While I agree many fields are poorly taught in western schools, this is not one of those areas. I'm willing to bet you either went to a very, VERY poor school, or you just weren't paying attention to the information you didn't like. As someone who's always paid attention in my writing classes, this was never an issue for me, even having grown up in some vastly undereducated areas.

[@maurolimaok]

@@jeffbrownstain In Brazil, the teaching system always was poor, not only because it's bad structured, bud bad professionals too. No interest in teaching, at all. To know how to do notes in some organized would have helped a lot, even if not the best.

[@bobby.2]

hello. how do you create monthy/quarterly/yearly journal template? i understand how to select specific date or specific week but how do I select a group of days/months in order to make them fit into monthly/quarter/year journal?

[@FromSergio]

I have a video on that topic titled " Journaling - How I Track My Long Term Quality Of Life In Obsidian"

[@holocronite]

Hello, it’s not possible to have kindle Highlights plugin on IPad Pro. Have you any informations about this problem ? The only alternative I’ve foins is to get Readwise (highlights kindle sync with Readwise and readwise sync with obsidian)

[@FromSergio]

I don't use obsidian on my iPad so I'm not sure unfortunately!

[@monster7398]

Mind blown!!

[@surabhisalian]

hey guys. I wanted to do the monthly journal thing instead of the weekly one. I did it but i dont know where to click :( Like I mean for the daily journal we click on the date and weekly journal we click on the week. where do i click for the month ? if anyone knows please helppp

[@jeremydrennen6967]

Hi Sergio - Is there a way to use Templater or some other obsidian plugin, to "prepend" the current note name to the newly created note? So if I'm in a note named "Test_Note_Parent" and I select some text in that note... Say I select the word "Child" and type in the doubles [[]] brackets to create a new note. When I click to add the note, it will create the note with the name as "Test_Note_Parent:Child" Basically creating a new note with the selected text as the Note name, but Prepending or prefixing the current note name to the beginning of the newly created note?

[@FromSergio]

I understand your question, that's a tough one, there might be a workaround but I'm not aware of one. You can ask the broader community at the obsidian forum and, failing that, even make a feature request to the obsidian community. If there isn't yet a fix for this and others would also benefit from it then there's a chance it gets made!

[@isaiahhenry6343]

Just got interested in this series after reading the book. How to take better notes by Sonke Arens also, but I have a question can I also link my apple books or downloaded books on my device to obsidian instead of kindle because I don't have that?

[@FromSergio]

Hi there! I'm unsure of this one, I haven't looked into it as I use Kindle myself. If anyone reading this wants to chime in, feel free!

[@WatchmanNiel]

Thanks man. One small input - Templater is far more potent as a templating plugin!

[@FromSergio]

Absolutely, it's just that I feel the vast majority of people will be put off by its complexity. I wanted to keep it simple, and certain plugins like Templater and Dataview deserve a dedicated video!

[@HiroZi-vp9cb]

wow, tanks a lot

[@tanvisawant567]

Can you please tell me why can't I see any Community plugins when I search. Its empty and I am looking for a solution since 2 months

[@joashgeorge6870]

Better Word Count might seem small but really thankful it's there

[@FromSergio]

I agree, it's one of those things you don't notice until you lose it!

[@JuGGerJuGGs]

I have a cool plugin idea: linking suggestions An "AI" for lack of better words, that first starts by suggesting links by highlighting all nouns / noun phrases in your writing (lightly so as not to be distracting). If you click the suggestion, it adds a [[link]] (but not a note, just the brackets - you can create a note by clicking it again to create a note as usual). If you do not click any of the suggestions, those nouns / noun phrases are no longer suggested for linking and they are never suggested again. If you re-use the same noun / noun phrase x number of times in the same note and don't accept the suggestion, it too will stop suggesting. Over time, all of the common nouns / noun phrases that you already know won't be suggested, and those obscure new words that you use will be suggested.

[@FromSergio]

Seems possible. Unsure if there's a demand for that though :)

[@jelouche]

are those plugins local to the vault, because if i create a new vault i can't see those plugins

[@FromSergio]

They are local to each particular vault, if you want to easily just "copy and paste " them to a new vault go into your .obsidian root folder where you store your vault (some OSs have it as a hidden file if you're on mac press CMD + SHIFT + (period) and you'll see the .obsidian folder. Go into it and find the plugins folder and simply copy and paste it to that location on the new vault. You can do the same for the hotkeys and everything else!

[@madnessintomagic]

Gosh I love this series. I keep referring back and re-watching but haven’t made it past video 6 or 7 😂. Gotten stuck now on the Kindle plugin. Won’t work on ipad pro apparently. I don’t like the idea of risking trying a plugin that has 8k users rather than 100k, based on your advice. Trying to figure it out. Frustrating, but fun!

[@FromSergio]

Yeah understandable 😅 I've since been using readwise, made a video on it too :)

[@madnessintomagic]

@@FromSergio hahah uh oh. I literally bought a refurbished macbook JUST so I could use non-ipad plugins and imported all kindle this morning. Next is the one that imports from my ReMarkable tablet. Also Copilot and Smart Connections. Obsidian is like crack. I get so absorbed, I’m late to work! Also finally got to use the Memex extension to take notes from your video and keep to remind myself how to use the Memex plugin to take notes from … you get it. hahaha. Thanks for all your content. It’s amazing.

[@madnessintomagic]

@@FromSergio Did templates change? Yours shows the title your daily note in the tab only, which is that date, and then the contents of the note is only your # questions to answer. When I set up templates, I end up with the title on the tab, and on the top of the page (even if I want the title to be something else) and THEN below that my first # heading. Can’t seem to make it less repetetive.

[@my_codingchannel7479]

I can't even open the right sidebar let alone find where the calendar was saved to

[@jorwegs]

I've just started dabbling in using Obsidian and it is slick! For the Amazon Kindle plugin though, couldn't that be extremely dangerous to put login information into a plugin like that?

[@FromSergio]

Hi Jordan, I 100% understand your concern and I was in the same boat myself,. but upon inspecting the code it has no way of storing your logins. Unfortunately in order to use this plugin there's no way around it, trust is necessary. If you prefer you could always manually copy and paste it once you're finished with a book!

[@eeveefae]

Not true. idk if maybe this has changed in the last year. you can upload the txt file of your highlights using this plugin. you don’t need to connect to your Amazon account. This is what I do. I have an older kindle that I keep offline and use for side-loading books. To get your txt file, just plug your kindle into you computer and look for the “My Clippings” file on your Kindle in the File Explorer/Finder. It’s a bit more work but I don’t mind.

[@ugsops]

Very useful, however your picture obscures everything you're doing on the right upper corner. I'm new to obsidian and I need to see exactly what you're selecting, etc.

[@FromSergio]

I know :( I had zero experience with this stuff at the time, I hope I've improved a good amount since!

[@knack6157]

15:24 When I watched this a year ago, it did seem useless to me, I cam back after a year to find it.

[@kawa99]

Great tutorial thanks. However, everything on your screen is so small that I can barely see them.

[@FromSergio]

Unfortunately you're right. It's a shame that I only caught up to this later on in the series... I had no prior experience with video editing so had to learn as I went. This however has been fixed in the last maybe 6-7 videos!

[@maurolimaok]

I've already reinstalled Obsidian and Better Word Cout doesn't work. Will try again later. Thanks for the video.

[@FromSergio]

Its weird because I noticed a couple of days it stopped working for me on 0.13.14. Must need a patch for the new update, I'm sure the devs will fix in no time

[@maurolimaok]

@@FromSergio It is! Nick Milo answered me that, after "live preview" some plugins are behaving abnormally. We hope things come to normal as developers update the plugins.

[@maurolimaok]

It's working now. In time, thanks for the channel. It's very useful.

[@scollurio]

While I really enjoy your explanations and desperately need a way to store and organize my thoughts, this Kanban thing feels like a lot of hassle with little benefit to me, just if you are not really able to have and hold a thought in your head without digital help. Not meaning you personally. No offense. Maybe I need to use it to see it's benefits. The biggest hurdle and CON around journaling and notetaking for me, regardless of app or even doing it the old school way, was always that it is additional work that takes a lot of time with very little benefit. But I will try Obsidian and see if I get better results.

[@lckcyy]

yes i am watching all 22 videos so that i learn to use obsidian properly and master my freshman year of college

[@FromSergio]

That's great to hear! I've put a ton of effort into the series and I'm so glad so many are finding them useful! :) Best of luck in college!

[@morphos2]

O sotaque não engana. Bora lá subscrever o canal.

[@FromSergio]

Assim tão óbvio? Tantos anos nos estados unidos!

[@morphos2]

@@FromSergio percebe-se bem. :) há aqui outro canal dedicado a PKM que tem um KZbinr com sotaque claramente brasileiro. Também não engana. :D

[@expeditioner9322]

Can a PC be hacked via a plugin ?

[@FromSergio]

Malware can happen, it's a possibility when you install any code for any app that can communicate to the internet

[@jeebee_wtbd]

9:20

[@ExplicitPublishing]

You CANNOT 'safely' turn off Safe Mode.

[@FromSergio]

Hey Tubal, absolutely. Its called Safe Mode precisely because of that. Of course any software that can connect to the internet can never be 100% safe. I was simply saying that the specific community plugins I mentioned should be safe. The safety relies on the end user and if someone wants a 100% safe, 0 risk experience they cannot turn that mode off. Should have made that abundantly clear on the video.

[@orravellir6016]

1:57 You turned off safe mode, which told you that community plugins can access files on your computer, connect to the internet, and even install additional programs. Which sounds really bad from a cybersecurity standpoint. Then you say: "I'm in full charge of my privacy and security" 7:59 Did you read the warning??? As someone who studies cybersecurity, I don't think it's a good idea to trust random individuals on the internet. Especially when you see a warning like that.

[@FromSergio]

All that you said is correct. What you are missing is that these plugins are open sourced and you're not only welcomed, but encouraged to check the code. I have checked for the ones that I use and so should you. Anything you expose to the internet carries a risk that you can only mitigate, not eliminate.

[@arete_]

Viewing this video on a mobile. I can't see jack shit. Everything is so small.

[@linezgames3893]

periodic notes, absolutely not needed, no thanks.