The least scary Obsidian guide you’ll ever see

[@chowrites6179]

You taught this like you ACTUALLY like using this software. I can't tell you how many times I watch a vid like this and its got all the flair and know how but it really feels like the youtuber just uses it to make content not to actually enjoy and show off how much they know. Its amazing and I felt genuinely engaged in everything you explained. Thank you!

[@adesai1000]

THANK YOU for actually showing a way for beginners to start rather than just piling on complicated stuff to overwhelm the viewer

[@abelardadebayor5642]

LOL i expected to just create a tree of notes in 2 mins, because i want to start myself. I have adhd, i dont have patention for dark mode info xd

[@RustAlderson]

@@abelardadebayor5642 you dont have adhd you want to have adhd , ADHD is a choice just like depression and other illnesses

[@shotbyphase]

Just learned about obsidian an hour ago, this was the first video I watched after downloading it and right out of the gate, you have given me a great head start on things I would’ve had to look up individually after exploring the app myself. The UI has changed a little but only minor changes, your video is still very relevant and a great video for people just getting started. Thank you for that!

[@Sammysapphira]

Turning Obsidian into light mode is absolute heresy.

[@jdawkins111]

and not what we need to see in a video

[@Jay-ko8ng]

Literally why would you film the entire video in light mode.. my eyes...

[@venykrid]

​@@Jay-ko8nghe has a w*ndow open!!

[@sabastian3022]

Jailable offense no doubt

[@Catwomen4512]

It's great for engagement ;)

[@Merryande]

The Assets folder thing helped me so much, thank you!

[@CoreLeadership]

Great video! I was thinking about Obsidian, but was completely overwhelmed by the other videos I watched. This one really simplified things and helped me get started.

[@mezalos]

In your intro you've just summed up my 2 years' struggle with Obsidian, Notion, Click up, (even paper notes), an so on.

[@patataeve]

I had given up on obsidian because everything look super complicated and I just needed a simple notebook with smaller notebooks xD Thank you for the awesome video! Now I want to learn more!

[@Pyankie]

I love the way you teach; it's not clickbait content and is really useful. Please continue creating other content as well. I will watch each and every one of the videos you post. It's truly helpful!

[@Aselia-q6w]

You know this is not normal when he uses light mode instead of dark mode...

[@xu83r]

Cannot watch that because of light mode lol

[@jonr6680]

The guy has runway lights in the ceiling, so...

[@BathtubStillBill]

Right? Overhead lighting suuucks

[@garrettpatten6312]

i can't see well in the dark mode

[@garrettpatten6312]

i can't see well in the dark mode

[@amandaalyse]

I'm glad the first thing I did after installing Obsidian was watch this video. Super helpful!!!

[@watheusbr]

Thank you very much, Matt! I saw some tutorials for obsidian and none explained it as well as you. You showed everything I needed to understand the app and start using it. One more subscriber!

[@sketchley]

Great video. I think you're absolutely right about productivity videos on KZbin: they're often just too much for us mere mortals.

[@actionsdotwork]

That was a good watch! The beginner stuff is often overlooked (I'm guilty of this as well) but important. Know the basics *before* installing the first 100 plugins 😅

[@bringonautumn]

fantastic video, starting with the basics and getting to know the settings menus, just what I wanted as a starting point - thank you!

[@valentinpetrov9759]

You are the reason I re-installed Obsidian and decided to give it another try! Thank you again in advance!

[@pointeplusplus]

Great intro! I just started using Obsidian yesterday and I’m liking it so far. I definitely want to make an assets folder like that 😊 To play devil’s advocate for a second I do see some value in the super complicated KZbinr walkthroughs of how people use apps like Obsidian. I did a bunch of research before selecting obsidian and I was a bit worried about it lacking some of the features and templates of notion. I really value it being open source and using a non-proprietary file format and I wanted to make sure it did everything that I needed. Seeing some “endgame” obsidian setups (endgame in quotes because whose productivity setup is ever really done?) helped me make that call

[@mffaruqi6830]

Your video lived up to its title. It's is the best and the least scary Obsidian guide on KZbin. You covered all the basics I needed to get started. Thanks.

[@th3ja]

Beautiful! Concise and straight to the point! Thank you!

[@tantoinette]

Exactly what I was looking for. Super helpful, no frills, useful tutorial. Thanks!

[@esprusso]

I've always been intimidated by Obsidian, so this was incredibly helpful. Thank you!

[@Greebstreebling]

My day got better just with ABC= A Better Computer. 🙂 The rest was brilliant too. I'm making a Baroque Lute and wanted to document my progress. Your vid gave me everything I need to do that 🙂 Thanks for sharing.

[@zn4496]

Beginner friendly and straight to the point. Great video.

[@GaelyneGasson]

I really liked your screen share format and where you put yourself on the screen. I watch videos while having dinner. I made the video full screen so I could read the text and found every time I looked over in the corner you were there and you did one of those things I'm not seeing too often. You look at the camera fairly often. It's a really nice touch! I've been using Obsidian daily since last October but I've taken on things very gradually. I definitely have issues with reading text on the screen so I'll be looking to find the font you mentioned. Thanks!

[@DL-sx7yh]

simple to the point, clean, and efficient = new subscriber

[@Someone2random]

Thanks for the tutorial! First time using Obsidian and I'm always spending way too much time navigating new apps to figure out how they work x) Your video really helped get the gist of it, thanks again!!

[@tafkaga474]

Thanks. This is just what I was looking for. Absolute basics to get started and I'll figure the rest out as I go.

[@VaderFuntime]

Lol from the title I expected this to be a parody of Obsidian guides. Great stuff though!

[@claxhammer]

AFter endless searching, you gave me the solution on how to add external links that actually work. Thank you!!

[@beckyn9338]

Very helpful. Will watch about a zillion more times. 😂 Seriously appreciate your explanations. One of the best out there.

[@BrianRKing]

Thank you for helping me get started.

[@briannaedw]

Thank you! This video was extremely insightful and not overwhelming like other tuts :)

[@garrettcox]

This is hilarious (title) I absolutely felt anxiety watching every other video posted. Thanks.

[@hewsontran1389]

This series is really great, keep it up!

[@_elroyjetson]

On the Mac you can highlight a word or phrase, hit cmd+k and then paste in your url. cmd+k is a pretty standard way of adding links across Mac apps.

[@WalidDamouny]

This a feature copied from MS Office 98 or 95. It's good to have cross compatability.

[@NurseAyan]

I thought it was only for Google so thank you! Great to know.

[@HafizurRahman-vh7hw]

Simple yet very informative. Thank you

[@emoneylovesyou]

Finally a good simple intro video.

[@Vimblini]

Literally came to this video because the last obsidian guide was a lecture in Aristotle and Socrates.

[@Turnpost2552]

Video starts 1:20

[@ninipaints]

I freaking love the assets folder thing

[@weatherep0rt]

Awesome guide, thanks for the clarity and effort you put in this kind of videos, it shows! It'd be nice if you could explain in a video what apps do you use for taking notes etc. Also, the intro is just gold.

[@rayjermyn4541]

Within 3 minutes you're already in the deep weeds with fonts, frames and themes. Left me cold

[@xmanavenger1728]

bro woke up and chose to violate the consciousness of 165k people by choosing light mode

[@BroonParker]

Just what I needed to see. Thank you.

[@migsy1]

Man, now I want the scariest obsidian tutorial!

[@luca414s]

dude....thank you SERIOUSLY for this easy tutorial

[@winterdreaming]

Are you still using Craft? How do you decide what to put in Craft and what in Obsidian?

[@tsukareppi]

Holy cow, I am so grateful to you for this video. I have watched 837 videos about Obsisidan, Zettlekasten, etc. until I wanted to pull out my hair. All I want is to be able to take notes and link them. Now I feel I can actually use this thing!

[@th0bse_]

Not to say that this video won't be useful for anyone, but at least for me, there's just a lot of really basic boilerplate that you can just figure out on your own really easily, like, just open the options and literally read what the options say. I feel like you explaining to me that I can change the theme (light mode is really hard on the eyes btw, one reason I like obsidian is that it has a sensible color scheme even by default) or that I can change the font really is a bit too basic. Like, I don't need a video for that, what interests me is to see how you use that app, how you use certain plugins. In short: the principles and the ideas, not the "1. click on this button 2. then select this menu option 3. "oh btw, that does..." *literally just reads what the GUI already says...*". I feel like that doesn't really add value tbh

[@sadakatu.tanzil]

Least scary guide *Flashbangs viewers with light mode*

[@tinal.4385]

I use it on my iPhone. That was very helpful. Thank you for some baby steps. :)

[@csilipo]

Hi any chance you could show up the ‘banner’ plugin? I’m really confused. Tks Carlo

[@spencerniemeier4243]

Bless this man and his suspiciously Lego shaped plants

[@felik888]

thank you. I like this KISS (Keep It SImple Silly) version of Obsidian video!

[@frodoid]

Great video! I was overwhelmed as well, this did help me with some base stuff I hadn't yet done or thought of. Thank you!

[@s6hib]

AMAZING VIDEO FOR BEGINNERS THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[@xl6mp]

Very helpful! Thanks

[@justnaturalcake1]

I have managed to making sync work with iCloud, and it's fairly easy. It works on my Mac/Windows/iPhone, there's barely any delay and it's free

[@QuikSnoopy]

great video mate

[@pseudonym9215]

I just want a note app, that i can take notes in, that i dont have to switch because basic features of it is locked behind monetization, simple, easy, something that i can comeback to months or years later and still feel approachable. I realized the best option is taking physical notes, but i tend to move around so carrying around boxes of notes becomes a chore.

[@srgb88]

This video is above average due to its simplicity.

[@shadow34137]

"The least scary Obsidian guide you'll ever see" 2:55. So that was a fucking lie, nearly had a heart attack.

[@GabeAmely]

Awesome and very unscary 😂 I’m new to PKM and have been looking for a good entry into obsidian. Thank you.

[@SivWUK]

Great introduction, thanks!

[@Alexandro436]

00:50 what a remark

[@laylam4241]

Great video!

[@jabeztadesse]

"Look at how my entire life is in here" 😂

[@utkarshkumar5774]

crisp and clear !

[@dezkar7944]

great video! helped a lot, thanks!

[@fabricioakira.]

Please i need more of that

[@one-seventh]

What is Obsidian used for? Does it actually have a use?

[@alltheloveannie]

This video is so great to get started. There is so much that you can do with the app but I found it really hard to just get started, this video really helped with that:)

[@kristiharman2843]

This is so freaking helpful thank you so much!

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Interesting video. I think some of the points you make at the start are too generalized but that is me... "look at this mindmap I created" - Most Obsidian users don't use mindmaps - maybe you meant graph or canvas but they are often briefly mentioned. "look at how my life is in here" - Most Obsdiian creators I watch discuss how their notes are in Obsidian not necessarily work things, tasks, projects etc... "producutivity youtubers" - a subjective category which in the Obsidian world to what I see is very small and many show what they are doing at the time "not useful to most people" - sharing everything for someone to get 1 tip from is the point right? as you said in the video we all organize things different. Apart from aesthetic changes I would be curious to see how you are using Obsidian. You titled it "least scary" yet discuss communities themes and community plugins which go straight into addons rather than the core app. Not saying that is a bad approach, just not sure it is the least scary from my experience helping new users. Thanks again for the video, and just sharing my initial thoughts.

[@RoryRose_]

"light mode is too bright!" mfs when they see the light of day (it's too bright outside their eyes hurt)

[@arnold4631]

This is awesome! Thank you for simplified things that others not do it

[@AnimalAce]

Very nice! Thanks for these tips!

[@GarryKnight]

Great video, thanks! Like you, I created my vault in my iCloud folder, and I set Obsidian up to have my images go into a folder called attachments inside the same folder as the note the image is in. And it all works well on my Mac. However, neither the attachments folder nor the images in it get synced to iCloud and hence don't show up on my iPad and iPhone. Have you had this problem? If so, how did you solve it?

[@astty1074]

I agree that some videos start way too deep and are not friendly to beginners. But 15 minutes for mostly interface and basic functions is a stretch.

[@kas8131]

The fact that it defaults to putting images in the sidebar makes me question the software design choices

[@saschavjater9065]

Blud literally said nothing. Asset folder is cool, remove scrollbars if you have extreme adhd is cool too, but I came here for a tutorial of using obsidian, not for setting it up tidily

[@Dre2000lbs]

For real. Download plug-ins? This missed the mark so much. Terrible intro IMO

[@bobbastian760]

This should be called "interface guide to Obsidian" 😂 Still no idea really what this app even does beyond text notes 😂

[@fulllifeadventures]

Great video as usual👍🏼

[@bobbastian760]

"Light interfaces look nicer" Is this the Mirror Universe? 🤔

[@Reoku64]

Great intro video, got a sub from me!

[@luctheron8570]

Light mode made me click off

[@bobbastian760]

It would be nice to get into how it works rather than esoteric interface stuff immediately. I have no idea what this app can do and I'm half way into the video and still have no idea.

[@marcorobbe9003]

Hi and thanks for your Great Video. Yes, I think, you are right. Most People are doing think much to complex. Regarding Apple shortcuts: Do you know a way to Import contacts from the iPhone into obsidian? I think, it is possible to read Name, etc from the contact and write it to a file. But maybe there is an easier way? I would like to trigger the contact from within the contact or by selecting the contact After the trigger. Then I would like to read some contact Information and write them to obsidian and also write a Shorts Note into the contact

[@Defebwar]

Um...Lorem Ipsum are real words...just not English. Lorem Ipsum dummy text is Latin from Cicero's "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum".

[@Alche_mist]

But some of the word are intentionally malformed so that the text doesn't distract (too much) even Latin speaker.

[@thethefts1741]

so, you are also part of the Hyperlegible cult, huh?

[@shaileshsundram]

I didn't know Obsidian was free for individuals. You explain really well. Great video. Though I am hopping the Notion bandwagon, I am not sure if Obsidian will be a better choice. Have to try it.

[@bobbyrandomguy1489]

My eyes. My eyeeessss. Really tho i cant use light mode on anything anymore. It hurts my eyes.

[@stephenlister3599]

This was really helpful Thank you

[@devdofuturo]

0:47 The most big truth ever said on KZbin 😂

[@f.falkwings]

Only downside of Obsidian is that it doesn't seem to have a widget (on Android?)

[@Timey]

I still don't understand why people would use this over Google docs, is there something this can do that docs can't?

[@desativadoofficial]

I mean, why would people prefer Obsidian over Fantasia Archive for writing novels?

[@Timey]

@@desativadoofficial yeah but I can take all my notes in Google docs for every class except math but I don't think you could take math notes in obsidian either unless you have a drawing tablet

[@desativadoofficial]

@@Timey I made a chat in ChatGPT especially for notes, where I make file simulator, as /File/sub-file/math-notes as a sample of it, so that when I want to retake those notes, I call back for the directory easily, even with listed brute information of my previous texts. I mean, quite hard to use at first, but very useful.

[@EllenWalker-b6u]

Thanks dude

[@shohremansouri]

Real good!

[@chechin4797]

My savior

[@שנימוסקוביץ]

wow thanks!!