this was great. spent an hour watching youtubers try to make a science out of taking frickin notes before I found your practical guide. thank you. This is all I wanted to do :)
Thanks for sharing the templates plug-in. All these years and I’m still making templates by hand like a goober. Good idea to use “extras” folder. I will steal that.
Dann, your content rules! I just adopted your people and meeting templates for my own vault. You clearly have a knack for this. Please tell us about what you use obsidian for in your day to day
I'm just at minute six and already feel the urge to smash the like button to death. :D I really like your fast forward and direct way of explaining. I'm new to obsidian since yesterday (the hertly welcome really hit me :D) and creating a template was something I was really stuck with. Turns out my main error was not understanding, that the "tamplate folder" under settings simply wanted me to refer to an Obsidian Folder, which I then could create those premade notes in. Nethertheless: I checked your channel and saw, that the Obsidian topic is relatively new. So I'm hoping for many more videos to come, having you as a source makes me feel more comfortable with all the stuff tehre is to learn, since it is so pleasent and efficient to watch you video. It's really great how you sprinkle in "noob" information, without getting lost in lengthy explanations. I feel that you always just nail the right information amount one needs to get along. Now I have to watch on and eventually figure out how to embedd css styles to a template. Many thanks and kind regards.
Welcome to the Obsidian family. :) And honestly, my advice with CSS styling is to find a theme that gets you mostly there, and then ask ChatGPT for some help with the CSS. I've had some good luck with CSS styling and AI. Unless you already know CSS and want to know specifically how to embed CSS styles into a Template specifically. In which case I'm not exactly sure, as I don't think you can modify CSS based on tags? I'm really not sure though.
@@DannBerg Luckily, I know CSS, at least I used it some years ago and the W3 documentary still is excellent to look up all the details I forgot. What I found out so far is, that you can specify a CSS class for a note via the property function. So it is relatively easy to style certain notes, by defining a corresponding template that has the CSS class already put in it. However at the moment I do struggle a bit to address one of the main Divs, which displays the notes content. It changes its CSS class depending on whether you are in preview/reading mode and for some reason, nesting the css class doesen't work with one of this modes, as if suddelny it would loose its child properties... IDK... perhaps I'm doing something wrong, it's really strange, but I'm quite sure I can find a work around. In general, as for overall changes of background, font-family, etc it worked really well. (: You also only have to define .css snippets which override/add to the default file and do not have to upload a whole new file. That's very convenient. (: Basically I just set up a snippet to redefine the background(image), font, colours and some borders for that specific CSS class, which will be already applied to the notes in their template, to give this notes a bit of a different vibe, while the general interface of the programm stays the same.
@@toteZitrone Very cool! That's good to know that you can style notes based on a Property. That works really great with templates. I haven't messed with the appearance of my vault at all, so I can't give any help here, but it sounds like you're well on your way to getting it figured out.
Thank you! I'm glad you appriciate the chapters, too. I go through and mark them manually, which takes a little bit of time, but I always find that so useful myself too that I wanted them on my videos.
Hi Dan. There’s a massive amount of Obsidian content out there, but I like how you are teaching Obsidian as a system and a way of thinking. Observing your use of the command pallet was especially eye opening. I don’t like using the mouse so moving files in this way is going to be a nice productivity boost. I’m also excited to delve into templating. I already capture a daily note, but templating for consistency will help my brain to be more organized and methodical. Excited to learn more. Keep up the great work and for sharing your knowledge.
The command palette is super powerful! You can do pretty much anything from it. Once you get the muscle memory for opening it, everything is suddenly at your fingertips.
An incredibly useful video that I followed step by step to create my templates … I was getting overwhelmed if I should do them with YAML, Properties, curly Brackets alone , and followed some videos led to my uninstalling Templater altogether due to complexities involved. Thank you for your pace and clarity in teaching really helpful. Next I will do daily notes Template. Then hopefully I’ll actually start taking notes. The fact I’m not after putting so many hours into this is driving me crazy!
It's so easy to get overwhelmed with the options in Obsidian. Sometimes you just have to give yourself permission to keep things as simple as possible. Then, maybe months or more later, you'll add one new thing, and then eventually another. I've grown my vault's functionality slowly over many years!
These videos are so incredibly helpful! I've already integrated your other MOC templates and they've really helped to streamline my work. Will you also make a video about your blog post about recalling books using Obsidian? :)
I definitely plan to make a video about my book process. In fact, that entire post is due for an update. Will be working on that soon! Thanks for the kind words.
Hey! Your videos are great! I've got a question though, I didnt quite catch what specifically defined a "snippet"? Was it the Title within the Templates folder?
I use the term "snippet" to basically refer to a template that's not a full page. You create snippets the exact same way as you would create templates (as shown in the video) but most people think templates must be entire pages, when it also works for much smaller snippets of text
Thanks, Dann. I was wondering, how can I update the old notes's properties automatically when I update the templates which created these old notes. Is that possible? For example the old templates has 5 properties. Now I want to add one more property. Which is fine for new notes. But what if I want to the old notes have the new added property as well?
I haven’t done this myself, but I imagine there’s a plugin to help with this. I just found this Reddit thread that might help: www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/169ni4o/is_there_a_way_to_add_properties_in_bulk/
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this was great. spent an hour watching youtubers try to make a science out of taking frickin notes before I found your practical guide. thank you. This is all I wanted to do :)
Thanks! I'm glad you found my video helpful. Best of luck building out your vault!
Thanks for sharing the templates plug-in. All these years and I’m still making templates by hand like a goober. Good idea to use “extras” folder. I will steal that.
Happy to help! And you’re going about it the right way: learning a new way to make an existing process easier.
Dann, your content rules! I just adopted your people and meeting templates for my own vault. You clearly have a knack for this. Please tell us about what you use obsidian for in your day to day
Thank you! Definitely have some content planned about the overall system and how everything works together. Keep an eye out!
Love your teaching style Dann. Thanks for making this.
Thank you! Love to hear that. Definitely makes me feel inspired to make more videos.
I'm just at minute six and already feel the urge to smash the like button to death. :D I really like your fast forward and direct way of explaining. I'm new to obsidian since yesterday (the hertly welcome really hit me :D) and creating a template was something I was really stuck with. Turns out my main error was not understanding, that the "tamplate folder" under settings simply wanted me to refer to an Obsidian Folder, which I then could create those premade notes in.
Nethertheless: I checked your channel and saw, that the Obsidian topic is relatively new. So I'm hoping for many more videos to come, having you as a source makes me feel more comfortable with all the stuff tehre is to learn, since it is so pleasent and efficient to watch you video. It's really great how you sprinkle in "noob" information, without getting lost in lengthy explanations. I feel that you always just nail the right information amount one needs to get along.
Now I have to watch on and eventually figure out how to embedd css styles to a template.
Many thanks and kind regards.
Welcome to the Obsidian family. :) And honestly, my advice with CSS styling is to find a theme that gets you mostly there, and then ask ChatGPT for some help with the CSS. I've had some good luck with CSS styling and AI.
Unless you already know CSS and want to know specifically how to embed CSS styles into a Template specifically. In which case I'm not exactly sure, as I don't think you can modify CSS based on tags? I'm really not sure though.
@@DannBerg Luckily, I know CSS, at least I used it some years ago and the W3 documentary still is excellent to look up all the details I forgot.
What I found out so far is, that you can specify a CSS class for a note via the property function. So it is relatively easy to style certain notes, by defining a corresponding template that has the CSS class already put in it. However at the moment I do struggle a bit to address one of the main Divs, which displays the notes content. It changes its CSS class depending on whether you are in preview/reading mode and for some reason, nesting the css class doesen't work with one of this modes, as if suddelny it would loose its child properties... IDK... perhaps I'm doing something wrong, it's really strange, but I'm quite sure I can find a work around. In general, as for overall changes of background, font-family, etc it worked really well. (: You also only have to define .css snippets which override/add to the default file and do not have to upload a whole new file. That's very convenient. (: Basically I just set up a snippet to redefine the background(image), font, colours and some borders for that specific CSS class, which will be already applied to the notes in their template, to give this notes a bit of a different vibe, while the general interface of the programm stays the same.
@@toteZitrone Very cool! That's good to know that you can style notes based on a Property. That works really great with templates. I haven't messed with the appearance of my vault at all, so I can't give any help here, but it sounds like you're well on your way to getting it figured out.
Very easy to understand. Straight to the point. Thank you, marking the chapters is usefel as well.
Thank you! I'm glad you appriciate the chapters, too. I go through and mark them manually, which takes a little bit of time, but I always find that so useful myself too that I wanted them on my videos.
Hi Dan. There’s a massive amount of Obsidian content out there, but I like how you are teaching Obsidian as a system and a way of thinking.
Observing your use of the command pallet was especially eye opening. I don’t like using the mouse so moving files in this way is going to be a nice productivity boost.
I’m also excited to delve into templating. I already capture a daily note, but templating for consistency will help my brain to be more organized and methodical.
Excited to learn more. Keep up the great work and for sharing your knowledge.
The command palette is super powerful! You can do pretty much anything from it. Once you get the muscle memory for opening it, everything is suddenly at your fingertips.
Thank you very much. Your explanations are very clear and helpful.
That's what I was going for. Thanks!
Thank you for explaining it so simply, this is such a cool feature
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful
An incredibly useful video that I followed step by step to create my templates … I was getting overwhelmed if I should do them with YAML, Properties, curly Brackets alone , and followed some videos led to my uninstalling Templater altogether due to complexities involved. Thank you for your pace and clarity in teaching really helpful. Next I will do daily notes Template. Then hopefully I’ll actually start taking notes. The fact I’m not after putting so many hours into this is driving me crazy!
It's so easy to get overwhelmed with the options in Obsidian. Sometimes you just have to give yourself permission to keep things as simple as possible. Then, maybe months or more later, you'll add one new thing, and then eventually another. I've grown my vault's functionality slowly over many years!
These videos are so incredibly helpful! I've already integrated your other MOC templates and they've really helped to streamline my work. Will you also make a video about your blog post about recalling books using Obsidian? :)
I definitely plan to make a video about my book process. In fact, that entire post is due for an update. Will be working on that soon! Thanks for the kind words.
Excellent tutorial, thank you very much for this.
Glad you found it helpful!
Just started using obsidian. Great content on this plugin! Thanks! :)
Welcome to the family! Thanks for the kind words. Happy vault-building.
Amazing video!
Thanks for the great video!
You're welcome! Glad you've found it useful.
Very cool explanatiins, thank you a lot! 😊
This was great! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you.
chapeau! really good and comprehensive video! Thx! :D
Thank you!
thx for the use cases, great value!! What's the app you're using in this vid to quickly switch between apps? Is it Alfred?
Good eyes. Yup, I use Alfred.
Hey! Your videos are great! I've got a question though, I didnt quite catch what specifically defined a "snippet"? Was it the Title within the Templates folder?
I use the term "snippet" to basically refer to a template that's not a full page. You create snippets the exact same way as you would create templates (as shown in the video) but most people think templates must be entire pages, when it also works for much smaller snippets of text
Thank you Dann!
Great video. What's the other video u mentioned at 11:13?
That would be my Daily Note Template Post: th-cam.com/video/v84uSIqqVPQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks dude
I don't understand the button, why would you make a button to insert the template when you could just insert the template and avoid the extra steps?
Just personal preference. No real reason except for that.
thanks!
And we need to code just to create templates))
Thanks, Dann. I was wondering, how can I update the old notes's properties automatically when I update the templates which created these old notes. Is that possible? For example the old templates has 5 properties. Now I want to add one more property. Which is fine for new notes. But what if I want to the old notes have the new added property as well?
I haven’t done this myself, but I imagine there’s a plugin to help with this. I just found this Reddit thread that might help: www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/169ni4o/is_there_a_way_to_add_properties_in_bulk/
@@DannBerg Thanks, Dann.
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Awesome but templater doesn't seem to work anymore 😢
Templater isn't working for you? What's the issue you're having?