Was looking for what's this obsidian I keep hearing about on YT and stumbled on this. And I must say without any doubt that this, has to be the best - "Look what I can do with Obsidian" - FLEX, I have seen so-far. My word, I am now completely sold on Obsidian as my notetaking tool. Love ya work chap.
I do the same thing with my breadcrumbs being generated from the file title. One thing I've found helpful was to add a link from my daily note to the corresponding weekly note, weekly -> monthly, and monthly -> yearly. I'm now going to integrate something similar to what you have for the highlights, though I think I'll just use a separate property for the major highlights, rather than overloading the alias property as you have. That way it can just all be taken as notes with the appropriate properties, rather than putting some notes in alias and some in the notes.
Love the setup and how the daily note drives the weekly, montly and yearly reviews. I've long struggled with doing reviews. I agree that it can get to be a shore but this automation really seems to help. I've reproduced your setup and got it working. There is just one adjustment I'm doing for now. Instead of using the aliases propierty in the daily, I am using a "Milestone" inline property along with "highlight". So, the dataview for the yearly looks something like this: ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID link(file.link) AS Date, Milestone FROM "Journal" WHERE Milestone != null AND file.day.year = 2023 SORT file.day ``` I get the same result. It's just that instead of looking for an alias, it's looking for the Milestone inline property. Thanks for sharing 🙃
My husband has been trying to get me to use Obsidian for years, and I've dabbled a couple of times but ultimately failed to pick it up. Until he shared your video with me - I love to journal but haven't found a way to surface insights/notes when journaling, and this is a brilliant system! Thanks for sharing!
This is eye opening. Thank you for the sharing :) I loved how you collected simple positive things which will create a bit more momentum and motivation while reviewing.
I had the exact same idea to automate it a little while ago since I just started using Obsidian but I wasn't sure how to design it and was left with a vague mess. Now I can take inspiration from yours and focus on actually using it instead of being in design limbo. Thank you!
I like this style. I do something a little bit less but with the “title:: “ for the note being listed out. Might try this roll up. Though I always look to write something in reflection as just on the day is a good reference for the reflection writing. But so good to save the reviewing first.
I stumbled on this video after discovering Obsidian recently. Your system inspired me to create my own daily note flow. Being able to automate my personal reviews like this is really cool, thanks for the idea.
Nice. As an aside: I also use breadcrumbs for navigating between daily notes. One small aesthetic thing you might want to consider: I centered my breadcrumb bit and put a border around with with a bit of css... at least to me, it looks much better that way.
I used to have this kind of setup in Notion but ofcourse couldn't keep up with it just like Notion loading can't keep up with my thoughts. So I am going to have it in Obsidian now. Thank you for this awesome video!
🐄 Thanks Bryan, I always enjoy your Obsidian videos. Feeling inspired to go back and tweak my vault. Thanks for taking the time to share what you learn!
Wasn't expecting to watch the whole video. You actually have some great things here. I feel like, while useful, many of obsidian videos feel very artificial, this is very practical and contextualized. So thank you! I think I'll be adding some automatic highlights to my daily notes as well, so that I can aggregate it as you have.
Hey Bryan, thank you for this video, recently I made similar changes to my daily notes, your input though filled some gaps in my system. By the way, congrats for your promotion! :) Keep on rocking! 🤘
Incredible as always Bryan! These improvements are amazing and I'm already playing around in my Obsidian to integrate this to my daily, weekly, and monthly reviews as well. Quick question: For the "Notes Created Today" query, I'm noticing that it also pull notes I've created on the same date of the year but from previous years which I'm trying to figure out. I'm not 100% comfortable the dataview queries. Any suggestions on how to filter them out?
I honestly haven’t bothered with tuning it but it does pick up some stuff it shouldn’t based on text matching I believe, I need to look into it more but no I haven’t found a way just yet
It's a bug in the date formatting. "YYYY" gets formatted as four "Y" characters. Should be "yyyy". (Only noticed because I made a different error with "MM" 😄)
Ooohhhh #MeLikey I started using Obsidian and went well down the rabbit hole, then when I got it as I wanted it (mostly) I just stopped using it as there was a lot of manual reviewing and rewriting. This idea has re-enthused me to get back into it, updating my templates (maybe using your current ones) and having these summaries automatically populated. And congrats on the promo...
Been taking daily notes now like 6 months now, this system looks very very nice, and I will definetly implement some version of this. Do you happen to have templates for these? Thank you for sharing, subbed :)
Good setup, I use similar principles: spending less time on my notes and use them effectively. This is a reason why I use dataview and nested tags for MOC, don’t make them manually
Thank you for sharing this approach. Your work was an inspiration for me to make my own system. The only thing I didn't like was that Dataview plugin renders final result but it does not generate the markdown code. This means that Obsidian does not track the links created by Dataview and therefore the visual representations of the notes linking does not work. I've been thinking on this and doing some research, and I've come with a solution that makes use of Dataview within Templater, so can use the app global object inside a Templater template, load the Dataview plugin API, make the queries and whatever you want, and then render the query result to markdown, appending this result to the Templater template. This approach generates the proper markdown so Obsidian keeps track of all the linked content in the Graph view. However this approach has some drawbacks: The main one is that it creates actual markdown code, so the generated content is static and it won't update in real time. I find this a problem if you are creating some sort of living database, however, for the weekly, monthly or yearly notes I find that this is not a problem because the content is a snapshot that it is generated only once. For other purposes it may not be convenient to generate static markdown.
that is actually something i like, i might not want a lot of "noise" linkages between notes because of a dataview query, i want them to be explicitly and intentionally linked, but might want to see a broad context of related things based on a query, so there are pro's and con's to this for a variety of workflows
A very good idea to put lighlights in daily notes. Let me copy your idea. (I was thinkg to have several properties, but it is complex to make dataview tables with multiple properties). Many thanks Bryan !
Good One. One questions, apart from the reasons you cited why you were trying to devote so much energy into doing this, what about connecting dots? if the purpose is just glancing, checking, every month/year, not sure what significant value it adds. If I can use this like a MAP rather then just a recorder, that would be more helful, ins't? Thanks again for sharing
you have to take into account the context of my use case, i said why it added value to ME but maybe not for others, this isnt about something to USE for a purpose, its just my daily journal and the highlights of my life. if you expanded on this to include more things from a PKM workflow sure there could be modifications made to USE this approach to glean more VALUE from your workflow, but this is what im doing for the reasons i have for doing it, your milage may vary
This is honestly the best setup that I've seen for daily notes that actually makes sense and inspires me to take my own daily notes. I downloaded Obsidian a week ago, so all of this Dataview and Templater stuff is hard to reproduce. Do you have your daily templates anywhere we can download and copy? That would be really great!
I stumbled across this looking for ideas for Daily Notes with reviews, I love what you have done and how you roll it all up into its components. Do you go back and add reflections for the weekly/monthly/yearly reviews or do you simply read it and enjoy the memory being triggered?
Thanks Bryan! I'm making progress on my weekly/monthly/yearly note automation with your help. Can you please explain what "0, 4" and "6, 8" in the following lines does? AND file.day.year = number(substring(string(this.file.name), 0, 4)) AND file.day.weekyear = number(substring(string(this.file.name), 6, 8))
sections of the dates that are in the file name, numbers correspond to the number of which character in the file name to start at and then a number of how many characters to return. where the left most character is 0 and it returns 4 characters so 0, 4 of 2024-04-14 is 2024 0, 2 of 2024-04-14 is 20 0, 3 of 2024-04-14 is 202 get it?
Great ideas, Bryan. I am trying to use your weekly dataview query and I cannot get it to display a Sunday through Saturday listing. It only shows Monday through Sunday. I have the start of the week setup for Sunday in calendar. I'm at a loss.....
I did look at that and it was set correctly, BUT I found thought that the plugin Natural Language Dates was causing the conflict. I changed start of the week to Sunday in that plugin and Bryan's dataview query still did work. I just added a 'week' property to my daily note and adjusted the weekly note dataview template using that property and it was a workable workaround.
I love this... thank you for sharing. I have a question about the monthly note.. Your highlights are being grouped by the week, with only one week number showing.... I copied the query, and I have multiple 40s and 41.... What might I be doing wrong?
It is an excellent vault!!! Fun to work with. I have a question about the highlight function: It does not have the Templates/templaterjs file. This makes it unable to do the highlighting method you showed. Can we get it, or is there a workaround? Again, thank you for all that you have done. Cheers
oh yes, i need to fix that. the issue is resolved by editing the templater plugin settings and removing the reference to the folder in the user scripts section of the plugin config
Hello! Thank you so much for this video! Very enlightening. I had originally been planning to implement a similar system but using tags on each item instead of each item being a separate property. Did you consider using tags in this way and then opt for the property approach? (I’m not 100% I’m using my terms correctly.) Would you recommend using YAML instead of using tags? My thinking was that this way, I single item could be tagged as a “highlight” and as something else…say a fitness goal to be pulled into a note that only lists fitness goals. But it would be the same single line item. I’m quite new to Obsidian though, so i don’t know how implement-able this would be.
there are good reasons to use both approaches, for one, links in the content can be more like wikipedia articles where youre reading prose but the words themselves could be links to the content that is connected rather than all of the connections being in the file properties
Is there a way to have the notes created using your breadcrumb technique to appear in my weekly folder. It seems to create the note in my root folger. specifically talking about the last next "breadcrumb" query
Hey Bryan. The Metadata Menu plugin had an update that allows you to automatically inject (using lookup query) the highlight of the day for a particular week into your weekly note's frontmatter. My issue is that I do not know how to do it.
neat! however given my preference, i can minimize the amount of plugins im using by keeping what i have right now, no need to overcomplicate things if they're already working for you as is :)
I didn't understand the point of this until the very end of the video, makes sense finally haha You may have another video on it, but just wondering all the journalling of day to day life, do you use that for anything else other than reviewing later? I only note ideas and cool things I read, I don't really journal day to day stuff.
Thank you so much for sharing this!! i've made my system for like almost a year ago and can't seem to find the sweet spot, it's simply just want to get my minds out to somewhere i can wholefuly trust, all i did was overcomplicating it as time goes, and in the end i don't even bother using it. Anyways is there a config for when a templater file is pasted, it automatically runs the templater codes?
This is exactly what Im looking for to build my project notes. An aggregator that pulls from daily notes where i log everything. Would it work if you tag a project, or would the aggregator note (in this case the yearly, monthly, weekly) have to be tethered to the daily note via a link?
Might even be better to use a specific project value to use in dataweave like in todays daily note have: “projects:: my data text” and then in the project have a dataweave query pulling all those “projectA”key value pairs out of the daily notes in and ordered list 🤷🏻♂️
@@BryanJenks so the query will pull from an inline field? Would it be able to pull it if the field has several sub bullets and is repeated in another inline field later in the note? Also is dataweave different from dataview?
How do I customize the folders to look like the ones in your template? I have a couple additional folders I'd like for my organization and they look so out of place.
hi bryan. really like your videos. could you help me with writing smart note? I'm still confused on how permanent/evergreen note are written compared to note you got from a piece of media. could you refer me to your published note that demonstrate the difference. ahren talks about writing permanent in context to your entire zettelkasten, but i still find it difficult to wrap my head around it
@@BryanJenks Sorry. I didn't communicate well enough :) It's the theme I am using that hides the bullets in the tables. I've already put them back with some custom CSS. Thanks!
😂 thanks. very straightforward, just installed it. You know, I think i’ve been afraid to incorporate diary/daily notes into my zettelkasten in obsidian. But a principle Sonke Ahrens teaches is that your notes should work systemically, and I do eventually write about things I care -in my daily life-, on the zettelkasten at the end of the day so a merge is O.K. The thing I’m concerned about is fighting through the noise of ideas and thoughts dumped in the daily note. For temporal notes I do use Apple Notes and Telegram which I think is great and necessary, but diary and daily notes I do them in Notion, and again i’ve been wanting to change that
I am having trouble with the monthly and yearly notes, is there a way to group them by week for the month, and by month for the year. So for example in Week 45, show all highlights in one Row, and for the year, show all highlights for one month. Can't seem to get it to work
Takk for at du lager videoer Bryan! Jeg ser du studerer norsk, så da kan du bryne deg på denne kommentaren :) Har du laget noe content om hvordan du kombinerer Todoist med Obsidian tidligere? Jeg er i ferd med å sette opp slik setup men synes det er veldig uvant. Alle tips er hjertelig velkomne :)
haha i WAS able to read much of this so that made me feel good! i did some early stuff where i mentioned the integration, maybe on of my comprehensive videos? i cant recall, but i dont actively use that integration anymore so im not going to be the greatest help there 😅️
@@BryanJenks Good to see your practicing is not for nothing! You dont? How do you manage tasks then? Just seperate in todoist? Not taking meeting notes or similar that spawns new tasks? I hope you dont mind me asking, its because I feel a lot of your setup resonnates with me :)
@@BryanJenks Thank you for your help. For a long time I felt like there was something wrong with my notes. By setting this up, I have found I am stable.
I found this video rather difficult to follow. A lot of technical advice without reminders of what it is for, which is what would motivate me to sort out this technical stuff. Perhaps it got better further on, but I had to give up. I am sure it is fine for more technically minded people
I also found it tough to follow. I started obsidian exploration about two months ago, but I do love the thought behind this journaling method as with my ADHD my memory tends to be poor. @BryanJenks do you have any resources or other video recommendations to bolster my obsidian knowledge to reach this level of comprehension?
Hi Bryan! First, thanks for sharing everything! Second, could you or anyone please help with an issue: I am trying to use this querry ''```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.day.weekyear AS Week, highlights FROM "Journal/Daily" WHERE highlights != null AND file.day.year = number(substring(this.file.name, 0, 4)) AND dateformat(date(file.name), "yyyy-MM") = replace(this.file.name, "M", "") SORT file.day ``` My Daily Note: DD-MM-YYYY-ddd My Monthly Note: YYYY-[M]MM I ve passed all day long just trying to solve Journal notes
@@BryanJenks By the way i had a bit of a problem downloading your templates and stuff. The site gave me a 404 files don't exist or something. And got any tips on tasks dependency? Spent some time searching for it and been hitting walls of it not working.
👕INTO THE AM: intotheam.com/TALLGUYJENKS
Code: TALLGUYJENKS
"The days are long, and the years are short."
This one just hits different. Thank you.
Truer statement was never made
Yep, that bit really jumps out to me too.
Was looking for what's this obsidian I keep hearing about on YT and stumbled on this. And I must say without any doubt that this, has to be the best - "Look what I can do with Obsidian" - FLEX, I have seen so-far. My word, I am now completely sold on Obsidian as my notetaking tool.
Love ya work chap.
im glad you enjoyed the video so much!
I do the same thing with my breadcrumbs being generated from the file title.
One thing I've found helpful was to add a link from my daily note to the corresponding weekly note, weekly -> monthly, and monthly -> yearly.
I'm now going to integrate something similar to what you have for the highlights, though I think I'll just use a separate property for the major highlights, rather than overloading the alias property as you have. That way it can just all be taken as notes with the appropriate properties, rather than putting some notes in alias and some in the notes.
That’s a clever idea!
Love the setup and how the daily note drives the weekly, montly and yearly reviews. I've long struggled with doing reviews. I agree that it can get to be a shore but this automation really seems to help.
I've reproduced your setup and got it working. There is just one adjustment I'm doing for now. Instead of using the aliases propierty in the daily, I am using a "Milestone" inline property along with "highlight". So, the dataview for the yearly looks something like this:
```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID link(file.link) AS Date, Milestone
FROM "Journal"
WHERE Milestone != null
AND file.day.year = 2023
SORT file.day
```
I get the same result. It's just that instead of looking for an alias, it's looking for the Milestone inline property.
Thanks for sharing 🙃
nice!
Is it possible to do this by querying bullets under a specific header instead of using inline queries?
BTW: had to change LIST to TABLE and remove the SORT AS line as I was receiving an error. Hope this helps!
My husband has been trying to get me to use Obsidian for years, and I've dabbled a couple of times but ultimately failed to pick it up. Until he shared your video with me - I love to journal but haven't found a way to surface insights/notes when journaling, and this is a brilliant system! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you found it helpful!
This is eye opening. Thank you for the sharing :) I loved how you collected simple positive things which will create a bit more momentum and motivation while reviewing.
Glad it was helpful!
Had similar changes in my daily note taking, but as always got new tips from you, to make things better. Thanks for the continious inspiration
Glad you got something valuable from this!
Awesome video Bryan. Congrats on the promotion.
Thank you!
How is this channel not a big hit ? I have gone through so many videos today from this channel and I can’t stop having enough.. Pure gold man!!!!
Glad you think so :)
I had the exact same idea to automate it a little while ago since I just started using Obsidian but I wasn't sure how to design it and was left with a vague mess. Now I can take inspiration from yours and focus on actually using it instead of being in design limbo. Thank you!
my pleasure!
I like this style. I do something a little bit less but with the “title:: “ for the note being listed out. Might try this roll up.
Though I always look to write something in reflection as just on the day is a good reference for the reflection writing. But so good to save the reviewing first.
Glad you like it!
This is excellent. I love the last next "breadcrumb" query as well as the day/week/month/year progression on highlights.
Glad you like it :)
I stumbled on this video after discovering Obsidian recently. Your system inspired me to create my own daily note flow. Being able to automate my personal reviews like this is really cool, thanks for the idea.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is incredible! Thanks! I've incorporated many of your ideas into my own system.
I’m glad!
Nice. As an aside: I also use breadcrumbs for navigating between daily notes. One small aesthetic thing you might want to consider: I centered my breadcrumb bit and put a border around with with a bit of css... at least to me, it looks much better that way.
drop that CSS! lets see it :D
I used to have this kind of setup in Notion but ofcourse couldn't keep up with it just like Notion loading can't keep up with my thoughts. So I am going to have it in Obsidian now. Thank you for this awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
🐄 Thanks Bryan, I always enjoy your Obsidian videos. Feeling inspired to go back and tweak my vault. Thanks for taking the time to share what you learn!
Glad you feel that way!
Wasn't expecting to watch the whole video. You actually have some great things here. I feel like, while useful, many of obsidian videos feel very artificial, this is very practical and contextualized. So thank you! I think I'll be adding some automatic highlights to my daily notes as well, so that I can aggregate it as you have.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
I aim to just give details about what I’m doing and if people like it then I hope they run with it!
Could you please post the codes that you've used? Mine is not working well. Thanks a lot!
they are available in my template vault
Hey Bryan, thank you for this video, recently I made similar changes to my daily notes, your input though filled some gaps in my system. By the way, congrats for your promotion! :) Keep on rocking! 🤘
Glad it was helpful! and thanks!
Incredible as always Bryan! These improvements are amazing and I'm already playing around in my Obsidian to integrate this to my daily, weekly, and monthly reviews as well.
Quick question: For the "Notes Created Today" query, I'm noticing that it also pull notes I've created on the same date of the year but from previous years which I'm trying to figure out. I'm not 100% comfortable the dataview queries. Any suggestions on how to filter them out?
I honestly haven’t bothered with tuning it but it does pick up some stuff it shouldn’t based on text matching I believe, I need to look into it more but no I haven’t found a way just yet
I feel the same atsaotsao!!
It's a bug in the date formatting. "YYYY" gets formatted as four "Y" characters. Should be "yyyy". (Only noticed because I made a different error with "MM" 😄)
Ooohhhh #MeLikey
I started using Obsidian and went well down the rabbit hole, then when I got it as I wanted it (mostly) I just stopped using it as there was a lot of manual reviewing and rewriting. This idea has re-enthused me to get back into it, updating my templates (maybe using your current ones) and having these summaries automatically populated.
And congrats on the promo...
thank you! and glad you got some ideas from the video :D
Been taking daily notes now like 6 months now, this system looks very very nice, and I will definetly implement some version of this.
Do you happen to have templates for these?
Thank you for sharing, subbed :)
Good setup, I use similar principles: spending less time on my notes and use them effectively. This is a reason why I use dataview and nested tags for MOC, don’t make them manually
Great tip!
Thank you for sharing this approach. Your work was an inspiration for me to make my own system. The only thing I didn't like was that Dataview plugin renders final result but it does not generate the markdown code. This means that Obsidian does not track the links created by Dataview and therefore the visual representations of the notes linking does not work.
I've been thinking on this and doing some research, and I've come with a solution that makes use of Dataview within Templater, so can use the app global object inside a Templater template, load the Dataview plugin API, make the queries and whatever you want, and then render the query result to markdown, appending this result to the Templater template. This approach generates the proper markdown so Obsidian keeps track of all the linked content in the Graph view.
However this approach has some drawbacks: The main one is that it creates actual markdown code, so the generated content is static and it won't update in real time. I find this a problem if you are creating some sort of living database, however, for the weekly, monthly or yearly notes I find that this is not a problem because the content is a snapshot that it is generated only once. For other purposes it may not be convenient to generate static markdown.
that is actually something i like, i might not want a lot of "noise" linkages between notes because of a dataview query, i want them to be explicitly and intentionally linked, but might want to see a broad context of related things based on a query, so there are pro's and con's to this for a variety of workflows
A very good idea to put lighlights in daily notes. Let me copy your idea. (I was thinkg to have several properties, but it is complex to make dataview tables with multiple properties). Many thanks Bryan !
My pleasure!
I really like your idea for highlights, I've started using it in my own vault!
That’s awesome!
Good One. One questions, apart from the reasons you cited why you were trying to devote so much energy into doing this, what about connecting dots? if the purpose is just glancing, checking, every month/year, not sure what significant value it adds. If I can use this like a MAP rather then just a recorder, that would be more helful, ins't? Thanks again for sharing
you have to take into account the context of my use case, i said why it added value to ME but maybe not for others, this isnt about something to USE for a purpose, its just my daily journal and the highlights of my life. if you expanded on this to include more things from a PKM workflow sure there could be modifications made to USE this approach to glean more VALUE from your workflow, but this is what im doing for the reasons i have for doing it, your milage may vary
This is honestly the best setup that I've seen for daily notes that actually makes sense and inspires me to take my own daily notes.
I downloaded Obsidian a week ago, so all of this Dataview and Templater stuff is hard to reproduce.
Do you have your daily templates anywhere we can download and copy? That would be really great!
Signing up for my newsletter give you my template vault :)
@@BryanJenks Awesome! Thanks a lot Bryan
I stumbled across this looking for ideas for Daily Notes with reviews, I love what you have done and how you roll it all up into its components. Do you go back and add reflections for the weekly/monthly/yearly reviews or do you simply read it and enjoy the memory being triggered?
read it and enjoy :)
Thanks Bryan! I'm making progress on my weekly/monthly/yearly note automation with your help. Can you please explain what "0, 4" and "6, 8" in the following lines does?
AND file.day.year = number(substring(string(this.file.name), 0, 4))
AND file.day.weekyear = number(substring(string(this.file.name), 6, 8))
sections of the dates that are in the file name, numbers correspond to the number of which character in the file name to start at and then a number of how many characters to return. where the left most character is 0 and it returns 4 characters
so 0, 4 of 2024-04-14 is 2024
0, 2 of 2024-04-14 is 20
0, 3 of 2024-04-14 is 202
get it?
@@BryanJenks Got it - thanks for explaining that!
Great ideas, Bryan. I am trying to use your weekly dataview query and I cannot get it to display a Sunday through Saturday listing. It only shows Monday through Sunday. I have the start of the week setup for Sunday in calendar. I'm at a loss.....
Did you tried the 'Start of week' setting in the Obsidian 'General Settings'?
I did look at that and it was set correctly, BUT I found thought that the plugin Natural Language Dates was causing the conflict. I changed start of the week to Sunday in that plugin and Bryan's dataview query still did work. I just added a 'week' property to my daily note and adjusted the weekly note dataview template using that property and it was a workable workaround.
glad you figured it out!
Thanks for sharing your daily note system. Vey interesting and helpful. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
All I know today, I've learned it for sure. All I know today, I could lose it for sure. Thanks for this helpful video, have a nice day!
Glad It helped!
Continue dropping gems for the world and keeping everyone in the loop 🔁 👍
will do!
I love this... thank you for sharing.
I have a question about the monthly note.. Your highlights are being grouped by the week, with only one week number showing.... I copied the query, and I have multiple 40s and 41....
What might I be doing wrong?
i would need to see some screenshots (im a visual person) of the code and the result and the notes its pulling from
It is an excellent vault!!! Fun to work with. I have a question about the highlight function: It does not have the Templates/templaterjs file. This makes it unable to do the highlighting method you showed. Can we get it, or is there a workaround? Again, thank you for all that you have done. Cheers
oh yes, i need to fix that. the issue is resolved by editing the templater plugin settings and removing the reference to the folder in the user scripts section of the plugin config
Hello! Thank you so much for this video! Very enlightening. I had originally been planning to implement a similar system but using tags on each item instead of each item being a separate property. Did you consider using tags in this way and then opt for the property approach? (I’m not 100% I’m using my terms correctly.) Would you recommend using YAML instead of using tags?
My thinking was that this way, I single item could be tagged as a “highlight” and as something else…say a fitness goal to be pulled into a note that only lists fitness goals. But it would be the same single line item. I’m quite new to Obsidian though, so i don’t know how implement-able this would be.
there are good reasons to use both approaches, for one, links in the content can be more like wikipedia articles where youre reading prose but the words themselves could be links to the content that is connected rather than all of the connections being in the file properties
Is there a way to have the notes created using your breadcrumb technique to appear in my weekly folder. It seems to create the note in my root folger. specifically talking about the last next "breadcrumb" query
Fantastic idea! Thanks Bryan!
Glad you liked it!
@BryanJenks - how would you set up a query to automatically pull in Tasks due on a specific day within the daily note using the Tasks plugin?
this is what i could find out, paste this into a note:
- [ ] testing (due:: 2023-10-17)
```dataviewjs
const tasks = dv.pages().file.tasks
.sort(t => dv.date(t.due))
.where(t => { // exclude completed tasks and ones w/out due dates
if(t.completed || !dv.date(t.due)) {
return false;
}
const diff = DateTime.now().diff(dv.date(t.due),'days').days;
return (diff >= 0);
});
if(tasks.length === 0) {
dv.el("b", "All done ;-)")
} else {
dv.taskList(tasks, false);
}
```
Super useful as always, man ✨
Glad you think so!
Hey Bryan. The Metadata Menu plugin had an update that allows you to automatically inject (using lookup query) the highlight of the day for a particular week into your weekly note's frontmatter. My issue is that I do not know how to do it.
neat! however given my preference, i can minimize the amount of plugins im using by keeping what i have right now, no need to overcomplicate things if they're already working for you as is :)
I didn't understand the point of this until the very end of the video, makes sense finally haha
You may have another video on it, but just wondering all the journalling of day to day life, do you use that for anything else other than reviewing later? I only note ideas and cool things I read, I don't really journal day to day stuff.
It’s just for memories and looking back, the journal is personal and not heavily related to my note taking
Really cool setup!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing this!! i've made my system for like almost a year ago and can't seem to find the sweet spot, it's simply just want to get my minds out to somewhere i can wholefuly trust, all i did was overcomplicating it as time goes, and in the end i don't even bother using it. Anyways is there a config for when a templater file is pasted, it automatically runs the templater codes?
templater code automatically runs
Hey this is awesome! I have created my query based off yours. Thank you! By the way what's the font you're using?
i use a few different font, you might be asking after the one of the main ones displayed which is fira code
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Hey Bryan, great video! Can you share the dataview code for the weekly breadcrumbs, please? Thanks!
all my templates are freely available through my newsletter :)
I was wondering if you could perhaps share a gist of the dataview queries you use?
the templates themselves are given away for free for signing up to my newsletter
how do you create that "today" button thing for the breadcrumbs portion of your note?
Today
Can you do a video explaning how to instal /use your templates?
Thank you
that will be a part of a special project that is coming soon but it wont be a youtube video
Hello, I just subbed and also I was wondering how do you code a list of alias of the notes through the year like the one you showed at 10:14
dataview queries!
This is exactly what Im looking for to build my project notes. An aggregator that pulls from daily notes where i log everything. Would it work if you tag a project, or would the aggregator note (in this case the yearly, monthly, weekly) have to be tethered to the daily note via a link?
Might even be better to use a specific project value to use in dataweave like in todays daily note have: “projects:: my data text” and then in the project have a dataweave query pulling all those “projectA”key value pairs out of the daily notes in and ordered list 🤷🏻♂️
@@BryanJenks so the query will pull from an inline field? Would it be able to pull it if the field has several sub bullets and is repeated in another inline field later in the note? Also is dataweave different from dataview?
Whoops Freudian slip, it’s all dataview dataweave is the wrong word, i don’t think multi line output is possible with the inline dataview fields
Great content. thanks. 🐄, on a side note , what do you think of the Periodic PARA plugin?
Glad you enjoyed it!
How do I customize the folders to look like the ones in your template? I have a couple additional folders I'd like for my organization and they look so out of place.
i do it with custom CSS in my theme file
@@BryanJenks I'm looking through and I am still unable to find custom CSS. Possible video tutorial?
hi bryan. really like your videos. could you help me with writing smart note? I'm still confused on how permanent/evergreen note are written compared to note you got from a piece of media. could you refer me to your published note that demonstrate the difference. ahren talks about writing permanent in context to your entire zettelkasten, but i still find it difficult to wrap my head around it
Check out my comprehensive videos and other videos in my PKM playlist, that’s literally the bulk of what my TH-cam content is about
This is really helpful. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
What about tasks? For some reason it's much harder to implement with tasks
What?
Hi, love your videos. One question: I tried dataview query presented at 3:30, but it doesn't work. Any idea why?
No idea, not enough information to determine anything.
thanks for help@@BryanJenks
Thank you for sharing your content and templates. BTW 🐄
My pleasure :) 🐄
@BryanJenks, how did you get the highlights listed as bullet items in your table?
Using data view queries
@@BryanJenks Sorry. I didn't communicate well enough :) It's the theme I am using that hides the bullets in the tables. I've already put them back with some custom CSS. Thanks!
Nice!
thank you so much for this!!
You're so welcome!
Hello! Can you please make a video about the new properties and tips with datáveis and canvas? 😅 I would like that. Thank you.
We’ll see :)
I wonder if there is a way to style the higthlights and hide the yaml part.
I use quickadd to create log entries in my daily note
I believe there’s a standard setting to hide YAML
@@BryanJenks yeah but imagine if you can style each highlights as a card
you would metadata like timestamps
What extension did you use to show the calendar?
I have been putting daily notes and its a mess without a calendar.
Calendar plugin
😂 thanks. very straightforward, just installed it.
You know, I think i’ve been afraid to incorporate diary/daily notes into my zettelkasten in obsidian. But a principle Sonke Ahrens teaches is that your notes should work systemically, and I do eventually write about things I care -in my daily life-, on the zettelkasten at the end of the day so a merge is O.K.
The thing I’m concerned about is fighting through the noise of ideas and thoughts dumped in the daily note.
For temporal notes I do use Apple Notes and Telegram which I think is great and necessary, but diary and daily notes I do them in Notion, and again i’ve been wanting to change that
Really nice!
Thank you!
I am having trouble with the monthly and yearly notes, is there a way to group them by week for the month, and by month for the year. So for example in Week 45, show all highlights in one Row, and for the year, show all highlights for one month. Can't seem to get it to work
i cant seem to easily do it either, probably possible, but it would take more time to figure out than im willing to give to it right now
hey, i have a issue with the highlight in my vault it doesnt work ...
Sorry to hear that, my faq repo is a good place to seek assistance
Takk for at du lager videoer Bryan!
Jeg ser du studerer norsk, så da kan du bryne deg på denne kommentaren :)
Har du laget noe content om hvordan du kombinerer Todoist med Obsidian tidligere?
Jeg er i ferd med å sette opp slik setup men synes det er veldig uvant. Alle tips er hjertelig velkomne :)
haha i WAS able to read much of this so that made me feel good!
i did some early stuff where i mentioned the integration, maybe on of my comprehensive videos? i cant recall, but i dont actively use that integration anymore so im not going to be the greatest help there 😅️
@@BryanJenks Good to see your practicing is not for nothing!
You dont? How do you manage tasks then? Just seperate in todoist? Not taking meeting notes or similar that spawns new tasks?
I hope you dont mind me asking, its because I feel a lot of your setup resonnates with me :)
@@lasseboe i just use the todoist modal pop up to add new tasks if need be, its pretty seamless for me these days
how do you automatically integrate properties in a template and populate with up to date time?
Same YAML metadata I haven’t had to change anything about my templates
And the date time is with the “update time on edit” plugin
@@BryanJenks I meant the properties, since those are the new ones
where aliases are NOT NULL, in other words... "where aliases", but no, it's NOT NULL!
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When you drop your shirt I am buying asap!
HAHA i dont know if ill be selling T-Shirts xD
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when I use ≠ they error. Can you guide me?
Try != my font turns them into ligatures for display only
@@BryanJenks Thank you for your help. For a long time I felt like there was something wrong with my notes. By setting this up, I have found I am stable.
This is awesome
Glad you think so!
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I found this video rather difficult to follow. A lot of technical advice without reminders of what it is for, which is what would motivate me to sort out this technical stuff. Perhaps it got better further on, but I had to give up. I am sure it is fine for more technically minded people
Sorry about that! I do aim for a more technical audience :)
I also found it tough to follow. I started obsidian exploration about two months ago, but I do love the thought behind this journaling method as with my ADHD my memory tends to be poor. @BryanJenks do you have any resources or other video recommendations to bolster my obsidian knowledge to reach this level of comprehension?
@evanisackson8078 my extensive collection of videos on the topic :)
Hi Bryan!
First, thanks for sharing everything!
Second, could you or anyone please help with an issue:
I am trying to use this querry
''```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID file.day.weekyear AS Week, highlights
FROM "Journal/Daily"
WHERE highlights != null
AND file.day.year = number(substring(this.file.name, 0, 4))
AND dateformat(date(file.name), "yyyy-MM") = replace(this.file.name, "M", "")
SORT file.day
```
My Daily Note: DD-MM-YYYY-ddd
My Monthly Note: YYYY-[M]MM
I ve passed all day long just trying to solve Journal notes
your daily notes are not named in a way that will work with my system. They need to be in ISO8601 standard YYYY-MM-DD
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@@BryanJenks By the way i had a bit of a problem downloading your templates and stuff. The site gave me a 404 files don't exist or something. And got any tips on tasks dependency? Spent some time searching for it and been hitting walls of it not working.
Nevermind about the task dependency. It was a new thing and my tasks wasnt up to that version.