== 12th Nov 2024 == Hello, it's been a while! I haven't posted in ages because I was busy helping other TH-camrs and making a bunch of courses about TH-cam for creatorside.io . If you're interested in TH-cam, feel free to check that out! Regarding Obsidian, there's some important updates below regarding backups and sync. == 10 May 2024 == [At the time of writing this], the video is at 999K views. So this is the last chance I have to write a comment before this video hits 1M views, which will be my first ever video to do so. Firstly, just want to say thanks for needing out with me. The story behind this video I find kind of interesting: the main reason I just said “screw it, make it free” was actually just because it really was a paid course…and it made a grand total of one sale. It seemed like a waste, given it probably took somewhere around 30-40 hours to make and edit (the details are fuzzy). So throwing it on TH-cam for free was this crazy experiment of, “maybe this will be useful to someone anyway.” I’m super grateful for your time spent here and I genuinely hope this video proves useful for the rest of your life, not just in Obsidian specifically, but in this new style of thinking about thinking. I’m slow to post, but there are indeed videos in the works, so please look forward to them. ✨ And in case anyone was wondering…yep, I still use Obsidian every day, in pretty much exactly the same way as I detailed in the video. Maybe one small difference is that I’ll title my notes something like “Interview - Nathan Barry x Thomas Frank - Literature Notes”. Also I tend to use AI a heck of a lot more for full transcription of things, as well as actionable summaries when I’m time poor. But I’ll be sure to talk about that in future videos. ;) 🙏 THANKS: Thank you so much for watching this video! I didn't realise this many people would want to watch content about Obsidian, but I'm glad that you get to be here to nerd out with me. :) == CORRECTIONS/ADDED NOTES == READWISE ALTERNATIVES: @Susan Pearson - “If you don't want to pay for Readwise you can also use Matter or Glasp. I use them both for different things. (Glasp works with TH-cam transcript notes as well).” DATAVIEW AND GETTING AROUND IT (1:22:35): @PigPog - “Great stuff - I learned plenty of tricks and tipshere, thanks, Dabi. The Dataview bit failed because of the smart quotes - looks like a plugin changed the quotes, and Dataview wants 'normal' straight quotes, not the fancy stuff. @MichaelMigdolSJ "At 1:22, you are talking about problems pasting code into a dataview. I think the problem you were having was that the source text has stylized quotes, like “this” instead of "this" -- if you look carefully you can see it in the paste that had problems. Probably when you "fixed" it, you actually did a "paste as plain text"." @PedroGomez: "I think the reason your example at 1:22:35 wasn't working is because the quotation marks around "Queryable Database" need to have the formatting removed. CTRL + SHIFT + V will allow you to paste without formatting.” BACKUPS AND GIT: @PigPog: Oh, and sync is not the same as a backup. Your setup does give you both, by archiving everything in Git with versioning. But just using iCloud or Obsidian Sync alone won't necessarily let you restore previous versions (well, I think Obsidian Sync actually might, I haven't used it). Simplest way is just to regularly zip up the whole vault folder, rename it with the date, and dump it in a folder somewhere safe - preferably in the cloud or another machine.” LINKING: @joaoa.soares772: "A quite useful plugin is rich links, it's designed for saving bookmarks on Obsidian just like Notion format for bookmarks." CHECKBOXES: @virgulilla9469 1:11:36 "If you press ctrl + L you can make a checkbox faster" OTHER: @alu3000 "we all die alone" == IMPORTANT UPDATE RE: CLOUD/SYNC/BACKUP - 12 Nov 2024 == - When I made this video, I used iCloud Drive for my iPhone, just because that was one of the only ways you could automatically have notes sync in the cloud between iPhone and computer (in my case, my MacBook Pro). - But iCloud honestly kind of sucks because at some point in time, it starts taking longer and longer to load on iPhone, making it decently unsuable. - However, I've literally just tonight implemented a new method which is much better! The only problem is that it's reasonably technical. But I will give a very brief guide as to the steps here. 1. Back up your Obsidian vault, if you have one. Just copy and paste the vault into any hard drive you have. 2. Install the 'Remotely Save' plugin, found in the community plugins section of Obsidian. You'll have to install this on every device you want to sync to, separately. Detailed instructions: github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save/tree/master 3. I use the S3 bucket on AWS. This is daunting, but you can get it set up with these instructions: github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save/blob/master/docs/remote_services/s3_general/s3_user_policy.md 4. I can verify that this method ⭐definitely⭐works, as I got it working on my Mac + iPhone + Boox Palma (Android) setup. I did try to use Dropbox initially, but there were a bunch of errors with the plugin with that. However, confusingly, you can actually keep your vault wherever you like (including Dropbox). It doesn't really matter, because no matter where it is, this plugin will take the files and upload a backup up to your S3 bucket anyway. So I've "double" backed it up now, by keeping the actual vault in my Dropbox, and then having the Remotely Save plugin automaticaly upload it to the S3 buckets. This is a relatively new thing for me too, so I haven't yet battle-tested the long term implications of it, but that's the setup that I'm super happy with. :)
First-time viewer, and new subscriber. There are whole books that take more than 2 hours to listen to or read that weren't this concise and value-packed, and the best praise one can get is: it was worth their time, the one thing nobody ever gets back, though with proper utilization of knowledge from material like this, time in the future can be much more efficiently used for either getting more of this done in the same amount of time, or minimizing the amount of time on PKM towards enabling that time be available for other things. The two most important points for me that you covered (as so many hinge on this, but you covered a huge amount) are using daily notes and how they're used as a daily dumping ground/fleeting notes sort of intake that then leads to (if desired, and anytime later as desired) literature notes, and the nature of them being in-depth and what they include. If you get hung up along the way because you get too caught-up in trying to be "perfectly organized" you're screwed and can't take enough notes fast enough to then focus on the ones that matter longer than a few minutes, which you create later as a side-effect of transcoding them into literature notes seeds, if you deem them worthy of the effort on review. After all, in practice a lot of notes you record during the day may be very short-term reminders or thoughts that only really matter that you kept that context recorded and not lost for that day, or even a few minutes. I work in a tech role doing developer support for a certain well-known software company, and for years, my most valued application has been Windows Notepad: it's delightfully simple and stupid and doesn't get in your way attempting to be too smart for its own good, and yours. It's great for quick-and-dirty very short-term notes due to minimized friction and maximized speed, and is also a good way to strip out obnoxious formatting when transferring stuff from the clipboard. But, Obsidian thus far (I've not transitioned to it yet, and I can't use it at work, I expect) appears to be designed to minimize the friction in so many ways that it's more than worth it, and it greatly helps that it's so fast, and extensible. Thank you for spending your time to make this 2 hours worth of concise video.
@@strictnonconformist7369 thank you for your super kind words and detailed reply! I'm really happy it's been useful. I tried to keep it as concise as possible, though it still ended up being 2 hours long 😂 cheers!
Approximately a year and a half ago, I watched your tutorial and thought, "Yes, this is for me!" Now, I can confidently say that I'm a power user in Obsidian. I'm grateful that you took the time to create these tutorials, as I'm now referring my employees to watch your video. This decision has been life-changing for both my personal and professional note-taking. Thank you very much.
Love this :D that’s so nice of you, thanks for such a lovely message. I wish you and your team the best of luck on your projects and I’m glad it could be so helpful!!
00:00:00 - Once $97, now a TH-cam video! 00:00:36 - Introduction: Pages and Links 00:23:31 - Hashtags 00:27:52 - Links vs Hashtags 00:38:47 - The Obsidian Zettelkasten 00:53:46 - Search 01:07:14 - Special Formatting 01:16:33 - Dataviews in Obsidian 01:27:45 - Version Control 01:37:03 - Templates 01:40:43 - Backing Up Obsidian Files 01:42:49 - PDFs in Obsidian 01:45:31 - Plugins in Obsidian 01:58:02 - Yay, finished! Already in the Video Description.!!!
I wish I'd had Obsidian and this course 40 years ago when I was in school... The amount of stuff I've forgotten that I wish I hadn't is overwhelming. Thank you.
so many productivity TH-camrs focus on just making their workspace look good. This guy actually cares about learning stuff and thinking through his computer. What a lad!
Thank you so much for this video. As someone with ADHD, I have a million thoughts a day and no way of capturing of them. I plan on going back to school to get a masters and do neuroscience research. Tools like Zettlekasten, obsidian and notion are really life-changing for me. I can finally organize all those great thoughts in one place!Thank you very much!
You’re totally welcome!! My attention span is limited (which is kind of ironic given this is a 2 hour tutorial LOL) so I guess Obsidian fitted nicely into my own needs with this regard too. Good luck for your masters/neuroscience stuff, remember me when you’re famous plz 👍
Great job in giving us beginners the entire Obsidian on youtube. I have had this for sometime and am still grappling with many things that i don't understand. Thanks a lot.
damn, this really is a full tutorial, he walked us through every thing, out of leaning the app user interface, he showed how he actually uses obsidian in his actual practical life, thank you @dabi this is better than any 4hr udemy tutorial
I don't usually write comments, but this time I need to. Congratulations on making this video and make it open source. I see you on a good track. I have started using Obsidian for the last 3 days, and I see nothing more powerful and potential as this regarding the competence. Finally, I can organize my thoughts in a synaptic way.
Hey Christen! That’s kind of you and I appreciate it; I’m really glad it’s been helpful to you. :) Obsidian really is a fantastic piece of software, so I’m happy this has been well received.
@@aaabbb-py5xd and a bicycle is just two wheels stuck together with a metal frame. does it really matter so much if a thing is simple, if it helps to achieve something substantial?
I switched from Milanote to Obisdian after realizing it was precisely the type of system I needed for my history notes! I have a hard time remembering dates, places, events and how they all correspond to each other and what Obsidian does is forces me to find relationships between the isolated facts and link them together. It's inspired me to even deep dive into subjects to make proper backgrounds on eac subject. Keeping Mila for Storyboard and Game Dev/Comic Creation but Obsidian is my go-to study tool. So sad I didn't discover it before. This is my last History course and I needed it years prior. But I am definitely gonna use it for my novel ideas and song writing to help fix all my randon audio recordings and perhaps created a proper song! Even use it for character design ideas and environment design! The list is endless! Thanks so much for making this tutorial free becuase it was a breakthroug development and I needed someone to break it down beautifully and you did excatly that.
You’re more than welcome!! Actually I do use it to note down dialogues for stories I wanna work on and stuff like that too, so it’s super great for capturing those novel ideas. :) if you’ve got a complex set of relationships between characters, you could do something with data views too like in this tutorial. Anyway, happy obsidianing!
I am so grateful for the guidance provided by this tutorial. It has transformed the way we approached planning and researching for our project. It has made everything much more organized, efficient and streamlined. This app is truly a game changer for journaling, researching and connecting all the different aspects of our project. We have primarily been utilizing Obsidian for our work-related tasks and even though I am yet to master the art of creating a "second brain" with Obsidian, it has proven to be an invaluable tool for our team. I cannot express enough gratitude towards the creators of Obsidian. It has been a lifesaver! Here a summarized quote for it: "Unlock the power of Obsidian and experience the revolution in the way you journal, plan, and research. Say goodbye to scattered thoughts and disorganized projects and hello to efficiency, clarity and success."
I really hope making this video free on YT has provided you the well deserved boost on your channel! I’ve been in Obsidian for 1.5 years, but this connected SO many dots for me, thank you for this amazing content! Two items: 1. The Extract Highlights plugin may help in how you create links in Literature notes 2. I think the reason your example at 1:22:35 wasn’t working is because the quotation marks around “Queryable Database” need to have the formatting removed. CTRL + SHIFT + V will allow you to paste without formatting. Thanks again for this wonderful video and best of luck to you with your channel…I’ll be following :)
THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭😭😭😭Dabi you don’t understand how much of a blessing your work into this video is and I’m so thankful you made it open-accessed! I was so freakishly overwhelmed by Obsidian hearing so many beautiful experiences but not knowing a single thing. YOUR VIDEO IS SUCHHH A HUGE RELIEF AND HELP I literally spent a week watching each part of your video and using obsidian at the same time DABI THANK YOU ❤❤❤❤ I finally feel I have control to obsidian having set up the note method that works for me! You took away so much of my stress and I’m just so grateful 😭😭😭😭 I’m subscribing to you and please know your work all the efforts you’re putting is NOT AT ALL GOING IN VAIN 🙌thank you so much again, hope you have a beautiful day!! ❤
This is exactly what I needed! I've always struggled with consistently organizing and elaborating on topics I'm researching / studying. Because of my thinking pattern, this was 10x more difficult. It's obvious you put a lot of hard work into your content. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow, Dabi!
Obsidian is defs super useful for those of us that have thoughts flying in all directions, with the optional oft to organise them later :D very useful for deep thinking in that sense. Glad this was helpful!
at every job I start I go back and watch this video once more just to make sure I got most of the basics down! legit changed my life and made it far easier to be tracked and get things done faster! tysm
Obsidian is a very powerful app. I used your video to make transcript and then put it in "Chat with Any PDF". Now your video is a good text book for Chat GPT to teach me how to use Obsidian. Thnnks.
I expected at least a million or so subs for content like this. Thanks for showing us the world of Obsidian, in 1 day I've managed to finally get my thoughts together in a single app
I'm from brazil and i really think you would feel good to know that your content is helping people all around the wolrd. Thanks! All that effort is going to worth it
Wow blown away by this extensive in depth tutorial. It’s definitely not a beginner’s beginner guide, I’d say it’s aimed at an advanced beginner. Someone who has been toying and tinkering already, so after the initial basics are starting to become familiar. Beginners use the search term tutorial the most, so you might do some expectations management in the title. The YT algo brought your video and I was shocked at about an hour in when I noticed how few subs you had, just as I was subscribing. Such quality, very information dense, excellent explanations. Good luck on your path. Hope your wishes may come true.
I’ve been meaning to respond to this since like four days ago but am only now getting the chance to because have been so busy! I wanted to thank you for this super kind message, it really meant a lot. 🥺 I genuinely appreciate it greatly and I’m glad you found the video helpful. Hahahaha you’re right, maybe it’s not a beginner tutorial after a little while 😂
@@dabi_to be fair i only clicked on this because it said "ULTIMATE TUTORIAL" and i consider myself an ultimate learner, so great decision!! (assuming you previously named it a "beginner" tutorial)
Thank you for the video boss. I just got out of hospital and want to do research again like i did in the old days, and with your video I feel like im set up for success. Thank you!
I just installed Obsidian and is still trying to familiarize myself with how to use it. This was such a big help. Thank you so much and congratulations for creating a well-done and well-thought out guide. Rooting for you!
Excellent video, Dabi! I’ve been using Obsidian for a while but never comprehended it’s full power up till now. Thank you for the time and effort put into getting this video out😊
Every couple of years I get introduced to a new technique that is going to change everything. First there was pamodoro and then Anki, now obsidian. They can only help you as much as you can help yourself by doing stuff.
Man, it's so sad to hear that you were going to become a doctor and that you left that profession in order to work on your youtube channel. Well, I believe that your time and effort dedicated to making videos will be worth it in the end. I don't believe anything special can be achieved without sacrifice and I see how large yours is. Thanks for putting out this free content. I wish you the best in making it to 10k subs.
Oh! I actually went back to being a doctor, ‘cause I missed it. So now I work on half TH-cam-related and spend the other half of my time being a GP. :D I’m really happy with the balance as I have it now, and probably will continue to do medicine for a long time whilst growing my channel and other things. Thanks for your kind message though :D
You are really something, Dabi. Thank you so much man! You deserve a standing ovation. I'd like to see more courses from you-free and paid. Your gifted talent for teaching is remarkable. 🚀
Watched the whole video and took notes. Ended up deleting my git desktop/repository because my windows command line wasn't recognizing the git command, this in turn deleted my vault. But hey, that's whatever. Great video, glad I have this info saved in my brain at least haha.
Hey, I just finished the Harvard CS50 course for AI with python taking extensive notes with obsidian. Before I started watching that I watched this video to get me up to speed with using obsidian. This video was really helpful, I appreciate the hard work you put into this.
Thanks for making your tutorial free on TH-cam, I'm new to note-taking apps and needing to use them to organize school notes and keep everything in one place. This was super helpful.
Amazing video. I used obsidian for a couple minutes months ago but I didn’t understand it, it looked just an ugly word pad. Now I see how powerful it can be and I love that i have much more control over my data. Thank you so much for this lesson
Dabi I love your laugh!!!! It's so warmhearting and bright. Thank you for the great content also. I've been using Obsidian for roughly a year now but it's nice to watch this type of content from time to time to see if there's any other hidden bits about obsidian i haven't uncovered yet, and you've succeeded in making that happen! :)
Dabi laughing out of nowhere is hilarious asf. He laughs then becomes serious. Sometimes borderline sarcastic. Anyway bro, thank you for the great tutorial.
This is the first video of you that I am seeing and hats off to your teaching style. It is very fluid and comprehensive. Keep it up mate! You have huge potential
Excelent video! Very useful for beginners in Obsidian. The first half explains the basics very clearly, the second half offers a "city tour" of the main useful resources and plugins. Nice idea to join many videos in one course! Thank you for the great job!
Thank you for sharing your invaluable knowledge to us on the internet. I can’t believe that you are just starting off (relatively new), but I really enjoy the structure and the high quality of your TH-cam videos. You’ve earned a devoted follower. Wish you all the best in your lucrative journey! I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun and insights on the way.
I think too many people who watched this video forgot to like it. So if you are watching it and you get to read my comment, don't forget to like this video. It doesn't cost you anything but it means so much for this guy who took so many hours of his life and gave it to you for free so you can make something useful out of it. Give a Thumb Up 👍🏻
Great stuff! I just recently picked up and started using Obsidian. I like it thus far and still working out my format. This course has given me some ideas.
god this is awesome thank you so much. your thoroughness and expertise is really incredible, i've always been writing memos down everywhere and obsessively journaling to try and document and sort my mind out but i could never quite organize, this is huge for me thank you
you’re more than welcome shadow!! glad you found it useful. also re your profile pic, one day I’ll get around to watching Neon Genesis Evangelion but it’s on my anime bucket list !
Thanks for helpful video! Two quick comments: 1) I was very happy to see the reference to the 37% problem -- it's one of my favorite things to talk about on first dates. 😁 But I thought you might want to be aware, the class of problems is optimal STOPPING, not STEPPING. 2) At 1:22, you are talking about problems pasting code into a dataview. I think the problem you were having was that the source text has stylized quotes, like “this” instead of "this" -- if you look carefully you can see it in the paste that had problems. Probably when you "fixed" it, you actually did a "paste as plain text". Hope this is useful -- thanks again, and keep up the good work!
Thanks you Dabi for making this wonderful video. I sometimes struggle to release the whole power of obsidian and find it's hard to comprehensively understand obsidian's potential. After watching this tutorial, I think I am more confident to utilize obsidian into my life, and some tricks you shared in the tutorial is so cool! Thanks again!
The reason the dataview table referencing a folder didn't work the first time is because, when you added the double quotes at 1:22:00 it added fancy, curved double quotes and these are not the same as the simple, straight double quotes you have around Source and Score at the same time stamp. Simply replacing these fancy quotes with simple ones would have fixed the issue. Note that this same problem can happen with single quotes.
I've been researching using obsidian and your video has helped me grasped the program a lot better. Also, I can't be the only one who thinks you are very charming
Notion does all this in its own way, and doesn't charge you for public links. Not sold...If I could automatically build relations between all those notes if I were to import all of it, that'd be quite a step up. I want this to save me time and pull out better insights I may have missed or not have time to reach on my own. I imagine AI agents can help with this goal. When that time comes, I'll import everything into Obsidian and fill up my tokens. Something else I'm working on that folks like you and copywriters, for example, aren't really doing is I write newsletters about current events, and I want to use my database to track changes based on what's happened chronologically. So: 1. How can you rapidly add context to a huge pile of imported content? 2. How can you best manage drawing insights from the context of current events, which all have their own separate dramas and relationships over time? (e.g., a court case, or price action of Bitcoin, or AI developments in general).
Wow, that was very useful, thank you. Even life-changing, maybe. I mean, I've heard about second brain before and used obsidian before, but first time dropped it, because didn't know where to start. So thank you for guiding through the first steps.
You’re welcome Oranoid, glad to hear it’s been helpful on your journey and you’re so right, it’s one of those things that seems overwhelming initially. That’s where I started, experimenting over time, and then came to this. :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH DABI! You have empowered me with the tools to get my thinking, life, and goals more organized. I have only learned about data view today and I am mad that I didn't discover it sooner. There are so many powerful community plugins that I've been too daunted to try, but your video gives me the confidence and inspiration to try the many that I've heard about. Thank you for showing me how I can transform my life with Obsidian's potential. You are saving lives in a different way as a TH-camr haha.
HELL YEAH I’m so glad! Best of luck on your obsidian journey. You’re right, data view is one of those things that looks crazy difficult, but actually when you just do it step by step it’s quite straightforward. :)
I'm really glad that I sat down and watched this (while taking notes on Obsidian of course). This is some great video and I'm really happy I came across it. Thanks Dabi
Thank you Dabi for putting the effort into making this course and sharing it for free. I found it very useful and really enjoyed how you demonstrated the tool and it's capabilities. I really appreciate it and look forward to checking out more of your content.
As a common hater, someone that criticize everything, this was a great tutorial. very straight foward, simple, a bit too long and such but I do have a short attention span. Thank you for the help for markdowns its the same for steam and every gaming website host literally no difference since I was a kid. If you start it firsts w the approprate symbol it automatically fills it for me
I do not comment, i think this is my first one. Thank you for this, I have just installed Obsidian (want to migrate from Notion) and your video has been really helpful. Very good quality!
Very nice video series, I think it will help me improve my recent transition to Obsidian so thank you for posting! I also like the daily note approach since it is similar to the physical journaling I was doing before. With Obsidian I have found myself frequently creating new notes without a clear idea of what I was writing about because it felt like having many focused, inter-linked notes is the "encouraged" approach in other creator videos. That "extract selection to note" feature is excites me because I think it will streamline the daily-journal-to-useful-note pipeline that feels more natural.
Thank you for this. I have downloaded (and deleted) Obsidian at least 10 times. I was hunting for a place to store my information and, as you mentioned, I could not get past the first blank page! So I played and paused the first 30 seconds over and over again until I had a vault and two notes!
Thank you so much for sharing this video for free. That was the most helpful video on obsidian I've found on TH-cam. I also intuitively think your approach is likely to work best for me
Really good video. Great length. Great audio. I usually listen in the car but some videos are not loud enough. This video is different, it’s loud and clear. I can hear it at a decent level with my window down too. Thanks for this. Great work.
This was super useful! Thank you for the detail-orientation and practical application. I really need to see a process in full in order to understand concepts. Most of the other tutorials I’ve seen so far stop once they’ve given us the key information, so seeing how you’ve utilised Obsidian's features for your personal notes was a great teaching method :))
Glad it was helpful! It honestly took me ages to figure out myself, so hence why I wanted to make a video that would have been useful to someone who was just like me but not me. :)
Love love love this video. So helpful. One constructive criticism is I wish that you can recorded the all of the screen. It's hard for me to sometimes follow where you are clicking when you go outside of the recorded area. Thank you again!
Excellent tutorial.. This overview was definitely a deep dive for me, but one I'll definitely link in my notes to comeback to ;). Android user here and since I'm already using syncthing for my phone back up to my unraid NAS, I just added folders for Obsidian. So now I have a 3 way sync going on between my galaxy, home pc, and office pc.
This was so impressive. I am massively thrilled about your effort, your skill and particular your communication skills. TH-cam has never really been my thing, to be honest. But notetaking is :) So I am very excited about the fact that your video has shown me A) How youtube can be used for proper teaching and learning and B) How to be more skilled in Obsidian (which currently is af huge interest of mine) Lot of high fives from Denmark :)
That’s so nice of you! I never would have realised that my communication/teaching skills were anything too special since it feels like for TH-cam in particular I’m still learning, but that’s kind of you. :)
The way you say Archaive ～ reminded me of Conan pronouncing chaos chasm wrongly on purpose in one of his videos. Great video by the way, helps a lot. TQVM
I am not much of a techie but I wanted to give Obsidian a try, again it was really intimidating at first because it has so many options and so many features but this video really really helped me setting it up. Thank You so much for helping out and i really hope you hit a million subscribers. You are amazing.
Thank you so much for watching my video Priyanshi!! I’m glad the video could be useful to you and I totally agree, it seems *so* complicated the first time you use it, but I’m glad this cleared things up for you. ^^ I’ll try my best re sub count!
Another youtuber I follow did a little taster video on Obsidian that got me super interested, but I had no idea how I would actually start using it myself as anything except a simple notepad. I could see the potential but a video like this seems perfect! Although from my little mess around in the program, it seems like some of the things you go over in the beginning are slightly outdated or have been changed in newer versions of Obsidian.
Thank you for creating this free tutorial, learned some new and useful stuff on how to optimise my note taking in Obsidian. And all the best with your channel!
on my quest to find a method that helps me organize myself better I stumbled across your video / channel Thank you for putting so much time into explaining the concepts of Obsidian and how to use it in a proper way. I applauded your way of explaining concepts and simplifying complex processes / boiling it down to key principles. Well done, and thank you!
So this is the second video of Obsidian that I'm watching because I'm like "Hell yeah, this software is awesome" but like... I realize that I don't take anywhere NEAR that many notes. You state early on (paraphrasing): "The main benefit of Obsidian is when you have a lot of notes." and then you showcase your notes, which is A LOT OF NOTES! Yeah, that's... a lot.
hey Dabi, Just wanna say thanks! You uploaded this 4 months ago, but I just came across it and it's been a huge help! it's been like a day and a half after discovering this video and I decided to download Obsidian and literally follow this to the end. I've become pretty proficient with structuring, and even developing my own templates for my own use. I was really intimidated when I first opened it up and it felt like a blank canvas with nowhere to go, but you made this super easy to understand 😅🙏. This is the first time I've ever used anything with markdown, but I feel pretty comfortable and that was after the first hour or so. I love love loooove this far and I've been making studying notes, as well as saving random crap that pops up in my brain. I've used this as a basic foundation and haven't even downloaded any plugins yet besides the core ones that are given. You're a great teacher and I just wanted to say thanks 🥺🥺🥰
Wow this is like the nicest comment ever!! Thank you so much for giving such a detailed reply and I’m super glad my tutorial could be so helpful. 🙏 You’re absolutely right, Obsidian is so intimidating at first, because there’s this huge feeling of “where the heck do I start?” Thank you for your support and for watching through much of the video, wishing you all the best in your studies or professional life or whatever it is you’re using it for. ^^ this comment made my day.
@@dabi_ Awe, Yay! I'm glad 🥺😊. Fr you did a lot with this and I just wanted to let you know that it's still helping people like me to this day 💯 Thanks for the best wishes it really helps me power through, there's just so much info I'm learning rn, it's the medical field. So, the backlinking and footnotes, as well just being able to hover over is such a god send!😭I hope you keep doing what you're doing and best wishes on your career path/youtube journey as well. Reach for that 1 mill subs 😤 you got this.
@@AmayaChibi14 I totally get you, medicine is crazy in terms of amount of knowledge 🤯 consider checking out the Anki plugin for Obsidian, it actually will let you make flashcards really quickly from your notes :) 💪 you can do it!! And once again, thanks so much for the kind encouragement and support ^^
First, thank you for putting together this tutorial! It is excellent. Second, I ended up jumping to a the most replayed point in the video and was *very* pleasantly surprised to see a picture of Doug Engelbart. Extra certain you know what you're doing because of that little easter egg
== 12th Nov 2024 ==
Hello, it's been a while! I haven't posted in ages because I was busy helping other TH-camrs and making a bunch of courses about TH-cam for creatorside.io . If you're interested in TH-cam, feel free to check that out!
Regarding Obsidian, there's some important updates below regarding backups and sync.
== 10 May 2024 ==
[At the time of writing this], the video is at 999K views. So this is the last chance I have to write a comment before this video hits 1M views, which will be my first ever video to do so. Firstly, just want to say thanks for needing out with me. The story behind this video I find kind of interesting: the main reason I just said “screw it, make it free” was actually just because it really was a paid course…and it made a grand total of one sale. It seemed like a waste, given it probably took somewhere around 30-40 hours to make and edit (the details are fuzzy). So throwing it on TH-cam for free was this crazy experiment of, “maybe this will be useful to someone anyway.”
I’m super grateful for your time spent here and I genuinely hope this video proves useful for the rest of your life, not just in Obsidian specifically, but in this new style of thinking about thinking. I’m slow to post, but there are indeed videos in the works, so please look forward to them. ✨
And in case anyone was wondering…yep, I still use Obsidian every day, in pretty much exactly the same way as I detailed in the video. Maybe one small difference is that I’ll title my notes something like “Interview - Nathan Barry x Thomas Frank - Literature Notes”. Also I tend to use AI a heck of a lot more for full transcription of things, as well as actionable summaries when I’m time poor. But I’ll be sure to talk about that in future videos. ;)
🙏 THANKS:
Thank you so much for watching this video! I didn't realise this many people would want to watch content about Obsidian, but I'm glad that you get to be here to nerd out with me. :)
== CORRECTIONS/ADDED NOTES ==
READWISE ALTERNATIVES:
@Susan Pearson - “If you don't want to pay for Readwise you can
also use Matter or Glasp. I use them both for
different things. (Glasp works with TH-cam
transcript notes as well).”
DATAVIEW AND GETTING AROUND IT (1:22:35):
@PigPog - “Great stuff - I learned plenty of tricks and tipshere, thanks, Dabi. The Dataview bit failed
because of the smart quotes - looks like a plugin changed the quotes, and Dataview wants
'normal' straight quotes, not the fancy stuff.
@MichaelMigdolSJ
"At 1:22, you are talking about problems pasting code into a dataview. I think the problem you were having was that the source text has stylized quotes, like “this” instead of "this" -- if you look carefully you can see it in the paste that had problems. Probably when you "fixed" it, you actually did a "paste as plain text"."
@PedroGomez:
"I think the reason your example at 1:22:35 wasn't working is because the quotation marks around "Queryable Database" need to have the formatting removed. CTRL + SHIFT + V will allow
you to paste without formatting.”
BACKUPS AND GIT:
@PigPog: Oh, and sync is not the same as a backup. Your setup does give you both, by archiving everything in Git with versioning. But just using iCloud or Obsidian Sync alone won't necessarily let you restore previous versions (well, I think Obsidian Sync actually might, I haven't used it). Simplest way is just to regularly zip up the whole vault folder, rename it with the date, and dump it in a folder somewhere safe - preferably in the cloud or another machine.”
LINKING:
@joaoa.soares772: "A quite useful plugin is rich links, it's designed for saving bookmarks on Obsidian just like Notion format for bookmarks."
CHECKBOXES:
@virgulilla9469 1:11:36 "If you press ctrl + L you can make a checkbox faster"
OTHER:
@alu3000 "we all die alone"
== IMPORTANT UPDATE RE: CLOUD/SYNC/BACKUP - 12 Nov 2024 ==
- When I made this video, I used iCloud Drive for my iPhone, just because that was one of the only ways you could automatically have notes sync in the cloud between iPhone and computer (in my case, my MacBook Pro).
- But iCloud honestly kind of sucks because at some point in time, it starts taking longer and longer to load on iPhone, making it decently unsuable.
- However, I've literally just tonight implemented a new method which is much better! The only problem is that it's reasonably technical. But I will give a very brief guide as to the steps here.
1. Back up your Obsidian vault, if you have one. Just copy and paste the vault into any hard drive you have.
2. Install the 'Remotely Save' plugin, found in the community plugins section of Obsidian. You'll have to install this on every device you want to sync to, separately. Detailed instructions: github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save/tree/master
3. I use the S3 bucket on AWS. This is daunting, but you can get it set up with these instructions: github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save/blob/master/docs/remote_services/s3_general/s3_user_policy.md
4. I can verify that this method
⭐definitely⭐works, as I got it working on my Mac + iPhone + Boox Palma (Android) setup.
I did try to use Dropbox initially, but there were a bunch of errors with the plugin with that. However, confusingly, you can actually keep your vault wherever you like (including Dropbox). It doesn't really matter, because no matter where it is, this plugin will take the files and upload a backup up to your S3 bucket anyway. So I've "double" backed it up now, by keeping the actual vault in my Dropbox, and then having the Remotely Save plugin automaticaly upload it to the S3 buckets.
This is a relatively new thing for me too, so I haven't yet battle-tested the long term implications of it, but that's the setup that I'm super happy with. :)
First-time viewer, and new subscriber.
There are whole books that take more than 2 hours to listen to or read that weren't this concise and value-packed, and the best praise one can get is: it was worth their time, the one thing nobody ever gets back, though with proper utilization of knowledge from material like this, time in the future can be much more efficiently used for either getting more of this done in the same amount of time, or minimizing the amount of time on PKM towards enabling that time be available for other things.
The two most important points for me that you covered (as so many hinge on this, but you covered a huge amount) are using daily notes and how they're used as a daily dumping ground/fleeting notes sort of intake that then leads to (if desired, and anytime later as desired) literature notes, and the nature of them being in-depth and what they include. If you get hung up along the way because you get too caught-up in trying to be "perfectly organized" you're screwed and can't take enough notes fast enough to then focus on the ones that matter longer than a few minutes, which you create later as a side-effect of transcoding them into literature notes seeds, if you deem them worthy of the effort on review. After all, in practice a lot of notes you record during the day may be very short-term reminders or thoughts that only really matter that you kept that context recorded and not lost for that day, or even a few minutes.
I work in a tech role doing developer support for a certain well-known software company, and for years, my most valued application has been Windows Notepad: it's delightfully simple and stupid and doesn't get in your way attempting to be too smart for its own good, and yours. It's great for quick-and-dirty very short-term notes due to minimized friction and maximized speed, and is also a good way to strip out obnoxious formatting when transferring stuff from the clipboard.
But, Obsidian thus far (I've not transitioned to it yet, and I can't use it at work, I expect) appears to be designed to minimize the friction in so many ways that it's more than worth it, and it greatly helps that it's so fast, and extensible.
Thank you for spending your time to make this 2 hours worth of concise video.
@@JA-zy7pp it's a pleasure!
@@strictnonconformist7369 thank you for your super kind words and detailed reply! I'm really happy it's been useful. I tried to keep it as concise as possible, though it still ended up being 2 hours long 😂 cheers!
Do you have a single obsidian folder or do you split based on category like work, study, research, youtube etc?
Approximately a year and a half ago, I watched your tutorial and thought, "Yes, this is for me!" Now, I can confidently say that I'm a power user in Obsidian. I'm grateful that you took the time to create these tutorials, as I'm now referring my employees to watch your video. This decision has been life-changing for both my personal and professional note-taking. Thank you very much.
Love this :D that’s so nice of you, thanks for such a lovely message. I wish you and your team the best of luck on your projects and I’m glad it could be so helpful!!
00:00:00 - Once $97, now a TH-cam video!
00:00:36 - Introduction: Pages and Links
00:23:31 - Hashtags
00:27:52 - Links vs Hashtags
00:38:47 - The Obsidian Zettelkasten
00:53:46 - Search
01:07:14 - Special Formatting
01:16:33 - Dataviews in Obsidian
01:27:45 - Version Control
01:37:03 - Templates
01:40:43 - Backing Up Obsidian Files
01:42:49 - PDFs in Obsidian
01:45:31 - Plugins in Obsidian
01:58:02 - Yay, finished!
Already in the Video Description.!!!
I wish I'd had Obsidian and this course 40 years ago when I was in school... The amount of stuff I've forgotten that I wish I hadn't is overwhelming. Thank you.
No better time than the present :D it’s like the quote: “the best time to plant a tree was yesterday, second best time is now.”
@@dabi_ I've always loved that quote. :)
Hats off to you for making such a useful course available for free. You have worked incredibly hard to make this and it pays off! All the best!
this comment has a lot of likes! thanks anav and thanks to whoever liked this ^^
so many productivity TH-camrs focus on just making their workspace look good. This guy actually cares about learning stuff and thinking through his computer. What a lad!
Appreciated Frosty :) hahahah in this case, function over beauty 🤣
Thank you so much for this video. As someone with ADHD, I have a million thoughts a day and no way of capturing of them. I plan on going back to school to get a masters and do neuroscience research. Tools like Zettlekasten, obsidian and notion are really life-changing for me. I can finally organize all those great thoughts in one place!Thank you very much!
I wish you luck I know you can do itttttt!!!!!!
You’re totally welcome!! My attention span is limited (which is kind of ironic given this is a 2 hour tutorial LOL) so I guess Obsidian fitted nicely into my own needs with this regard too. Good luck for your masters/neuroscience stuff, remember me when you’re famous plz 👍
Thank you for making this course freely available. You have a natural teaching style that makes learning fun and easy to follow.
That’s so kind of you Ross!! Thanks for the nice compliment ^^
Really grateful for making this course free. This by far the most comprehensive tutorial on Obsidian available on YT
Totally welcome Panda Pandu :D I appreciate the kind feedback!
Great job in giving us beginners the entire Obsidian on youtube. I have had this for sometime and am still grappling with many things that i don't understand. Thanks a lot.
Hope it helps! :)
damn, this really is a full tutorial, he walked us through every thing, out of leaning the app user interface, he showed how he actually uses obsidian in his actual practical life, thank you @dabi this is better than any 4hr udemy tutorial
I don't usually write comments, but this time I need to. Congratulations on making this video and make it open source. I see you on a good track. I have started using Obsidian for the last 3 days, and I see nothing more powerful and potential as this regarding the competence. Finally, I can organize my thoughts in a synaptic way.
Hey Christen! That’s kind of you and I appreciate it; I’m really glad it’s been helpful to you. :) Obsidian really is a fantastic piece of software, so I’m happy this has been well received.
Lol. This is just mediawiki stored locally with some visualization tools
@@aaabbb-py5xd okay? you're saying that like it's not a useful tool, just because something similar exists.
i fail to understand what's good about obsidian for some reason@@aaabbb-py5xd
@@aaabbb-py5xd and a bicycle is just two wheels stuck together with a metal frame. does it really matter so much if a thing is simple, if it helps to achieve something substantial?
I switched from Milanote to Obisdian after realizing it was precisely the type of system I needed for my history notes! I have a hard time remembering dates, places, events and how they all correspond to each other and what Obsidian does is forces me to find relationships between the isolated facts and link them together. It's inspired me to even deep dive into subjects to make proper backgrounds on eac subject. Keeping Mila for Storyboard and Game Dev/Comic Creation but Obsidian is my go-to study tool. So sad I didn't discover it before. This is my last History course and I needed it years prior. But I am definitely gonna use it for my novel ideas and song writing to help fix all my randon audio recordings and perhaps created a proper song! Even use it for character design ideas and environment design! The list is endless!
Thanks so much for making this tutorial free becuase it was a breakthroug development and I needed someone to break it down beautifully and you did excatly that.
You’re more than welcome!! Actually I do use it to note down dialogues for stories I wanna work on and stuff like that too, so it’s super great for capturing those novel ideas. :) if you’ve got a complex set of relationships between characters, you could do something with data views too like in this tutorial. Anyway, happy obsidianing!
I am so grateful for the guidance provided by this tutorial. It has transformed the way we approached planning and researching for our project. It has made everything much more organized, efficient and streamlined. This app is truly a game changer for journaling, researching and connecting all the different aspects of our project. We have primarily been utilizing Obsidian for our work-related tasks and even though I am yet to master the art of creating a "second brain" with Obsidian, it has proven to be an invaluable tool for our team. I cannot express enough gratitude towards the creators of Obsidian. It has been a lifesaver! Here a summarized quote for it: "Unlock the power of Obsidian and experience the revolution in the way you journal, plan, and research. Say goodbye to scattered thoughts and disorganized projects and hello to efficiency, clarity and success."
It’s a pleasure, glad you and your team found it helpful :)
I have to write a comment this time. You're absolutely right, this is the only obsidian tutorial we'll all ever need. Learning with thanks.
Glad it was helpful! :)
I really hope making this video free on YT has provided you the well deserved boost on your channel! I’ve been in Obsidian for 1.5 years, but this connected SO many dots for me, thank you for this amazing content!
Two items:
1. The Extract Highlights plugin may help in how you create links in Literature notes
2. I think the reason your example at 1:22:35 wasn’t working is because the quotation marks around “Queryable Database” need to have the formatting removed. CTRL + SHIFT + V will allow you to paste without formatting.
Thanks again for this wonderful video and best of luck to you with your channel…I’ll be following :)
Thank you so much Pedro!! I’m so glad this video could be of use to you :D and also thanks for the feedback, I’ll add it to the pinned note. :)
@@dabi_ For #1, I said Annotator plugin, but I meant the Extract Highlights plugin. I edited my comment above :)
The hero we need, but don't deserve. Good stuff Dabidooo
The legend himself!! Good to see you Abhi!
MAD FACTS. this was PERFECT for the way my brain processes tutorials.
Thank you soo much for making this course available for free.
A pleasure Khalid :)
THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭😭😭😭Dabi you don’t understand how much of a blessing your work into this video is and I’m so thankful you made it open-accessed! I was so freakishly overwhelmed by Obsidian hearing so many beautiful experiences but not knowing a single thing. YOUR VIDEO IS SUCHHH A HUGE RELIEF AND HELP I literally spent a week watching each part of your video and using obsidian at the same time DABI THANK YOU ❤❤❤❤ I finally feel I have control to obsidian having set up the note method that works for me! You took away so much of my stress and I’m just so grateful 😭😭😭😭 I’m subscribing to you and please know your work all the efforts you’re putting is NOT AT ALL GOING IN VAIN 🙌thank you so much again, hope you have a beautiful day!! ❤
Aww this comment is so nice :’) I’m so glad it could be so helpful! Enjoy your second brain!
TYSM! I am so appreciative of the time and energy that you’ve put in to this. I now feel confident in my switch from Notion to Obsidian. 🎉
Hey Whitley!! Thank you so much!! I really like both of them :)
Your Channel is criminally underrated, thank you for putting this valuable course out here for free. 🙌🏻
I appreciate that a lot Jess! Thank you for the compliment and the aesthetic of your channel is really cool :)
finally someone who knows obsidian and making sense
Haha thanks!
This is exactly what I needed!
I've always struggled with consistently organizing and elaborating on topics I'm researching / studying. Because of my thinking pattern, this was 10x more difficult.
It's obvious you put a lot of hard work into your content. Looking forward to seeing your channel grow, Dabi!
Obsidian is defs super useful for those of us that have thoughts flying in all directions, with the optional oft to organise them later :D very useful for deep thinking in that sense. Glad this was helpful!
at every job I start I go back and watch this video once more just to make sure I got most of the basics down! legit changed my life and made it far easier to be tracked and get things done faster! tysm
So nice of you, thanks!!
Obsidian is a very powerful app. I used your video to make transcript and then put it in "Chat with Any PDF". Now your video is a good text book for Chat GPT to teach me how to use Obsidian. Thnnks.
Haha that’s super cool. That’s actually a great idea; I should make a book version with the transcript.
I expected at least a million or so subs for content like this.
Thanks for showing us the world of Obsidian, in 1 day I've managed to finally get my thoughts together in a single app
That’s kind of you, really appreciate it and glad you found it helpful. :)
I stumbled upon Obsidian for the first time yesterday. And I'm glad that TH-cam recommended your vid to me. Thank you!
Welcome! Thanks for stopping by :)
I'm from brazil and i really think you would feel good to know that your content is helping people all around the wolrd. Thanks! All that effort is going to worth it
Oh wow!! That’s so nice :’) thank you for letting me know!
Hey Dabi I have went through your entire course and I can say it was worth every minute. Thanks for giving me a second brain
I appreciate the kind words and glad you found it useful :D thanks for your time!!
Wow blown away by this extensive in depth tutorial. It’s definitely not a beginner’s beginner guide, I’d say it’s aimed at an advanced beginner. Someone who has been toying and tinkering already, so after the initial basics are starting to become familiar. Beginners use the search term tutorial the most, so you might do some expectations management in the title. The YT algo brought your video and I was shocked at about an hour in when I noticed how few subs you had, just as I was subscribing. Such quality, very information dense, excellent explanations. Good luck on your path. Hope your wishes may come true.
I’ve been meaning to respond to this since like four days ago but am only now getting the chance to because have been so busy! I wanted to thank you for this super kind message, it really meant a lot. 🥺 I genuinely appreciate it greatly and I’m glad you found the video helpful. Hahahaha you’re right, maybe it’s not a beginner tutorial after a little while 😂
@@dabi_to be fair i only clicked on this because it said "ULTIMATE TUTORIAL" and i consider myself an ultimate learner, so great decision!! (assuming you previously named it a "beginner" tutorial)
Thank you for the video boss. I just got out of hospital and want to do research again like i did in the old days, and with your video I feel like im set up for success. Thank you!
I wish you all the best in your recovery and glad this could help. :)
I just installed Obsidian and is still trying to familiarize myself with how to use it. This was such a big help. Thank you so much and congratulations for creating a well-done and well-thought out guide. Rooting for you!
Oh hey I’m happy to hear that!! Thanks for leaving a kind comment :)
Excellent video, Dabi! I’ve been using Obsidian for a while but never comprehended it’s full power up till now. Thank you for the time and effort put into getting this video out😊
Thank you so much Sintha! You’re more than welcome. Good luck on your journey :)
Every couple of years I get introduced to a new technique that is going to change everything. First there was pamodoro and then Anki, now obsidian. They can only help you as much as you can help yourself by doing stuff.
Hello Dabi, you are very generous for releasing this tutorial for free on TH-cam, thanks!
You’re very welcome!!
Man, it's so sad to hear that you were going to become a doctor and that you left that profession in order to work on your youtube channel. Well, I believe that your time and effort dedicated to making videos will be worth it in the end. I don't believe anything special can be achieved without sacrifice and I see how large yours is. Thanks for putting out this free content. I wish you the best in making it to 10k subs.
Oh! I actually went back to being a doctor, ‘cause I missed it. So now I work on half TH-cam-related and spend the other half of my time being a GP. :D I’m really happy with the balance as I have it now, and probably will continue to do medicine for a long time whilst growing my channel and other things. Thanks for your kind message though :D
@@dabi_ good to hear 😁
@@dabi_ Great decision.
@@dabi_so are you a doctor or no
@@MapleJokerRoflHe says he spends half his time being a GP, which is a “general practitioner”, which is a type of medical doctor. So yes.
You are really something, Dabi. Thank you so much man! You deserve a standing ovation.
I'd like to see more courses from you-free and paid. Your gifted talent for teaching is remarkable. 🚀
Working on it!
Watched the whole video and took notes. Ended up deleting my git desktop/repository because my windows command line wasn't recognizing the git command, this in turn deleted my vault.
But hey, that's whatever. Great video, glad I have this info saved in my brain at least haha.
Hey, I just finished the Harvard CS50 course for AI with python taking extensive notes with obsidian. Before I started watching that I watched this video to get me up to speed with using obsidian. This video was really helpful, I appreciate the hard work you put into this.
That’s awesome! Oo that sounds like a course I’d like to take.
Thanks for making your tutorial free on TH-cam, I'm new to note-taking apps and needing to use them to organize school notes and keep everything in one place. This was super helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This was super helpful as a total Obsidian noob. Thanks so much for putting this out!
My pleasure Stefan! Thanks for checking it out :D
I can't believe that this is for free
Thank you so much...
You’re welcome!!
This is 37% better than the last Obsidian video I watched.
LOL
Amazing video. I used obsidian for a couple minutes months ago but I didn’t understand it, it looked just an ugly word pad. Now I see how powerful it can be and I love that i have much more control over my data. Thank you so much for this lesson
A pleasure :)
Dabi I love your laugh!!!! It's so warmhearting and bright. Thank you for the great content also. I've been using Obsidian for roughly a year now but it's nice to watch this type of content from time to time to see if there's any other hidden bits about obsidian i haven't uncovered yet, and you've succeeded in making that happen! :)
That’s very sweet of you, thank you Emi ^ - ^ hope there was something interesting in there given you’re already experienced!
Dabi laughing out of nowhere is hilarious asf. He laughs then becomes serious. Sometimes borderline sarcastic.
Anyway bro, thank you for the great tutorial.
HAHAHHA I appreciate the funny comments 🤣 it’s a habitual thing, too old to grow out of it now hahahaha.
This is the first video of you that I am seeing and hats off to your teaching style. It is very fluid and comprehensive. Keep it up mate! You have huge potential
Thank you Pratik! I appreciate the kind comment. :)
Excelent video! Very useful for beginners in Obsidian. The first half explains the basics very clearly, the second half offers a "city tour" of the main useful resources and plugins. Nice idea to join many videos in one course! Thank you for the great job!
Glad it was helpful!
With adhd I am reading second brain then this is just phenomenal thank you dabi
You’re so welcome!
Thank you so much for this, i've been so lost in organizing myself and I feel like I've gained a superpower!!
a pleasure darthy!!
Thank you for sharing your invaluable knowledge to us on the internet. I can’t believe that you are just starting off (relatively new), but I really enjoy the structure and the high quality of your TH-cam videos. You’ve earned a devoted follower. Wish you all the best in your lucrative journey! I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun and insights on the way.
Hey Amy!! I super appreciate it! Glad to have you here :D
I think too many people who watched this video forgot to like it. So if you are watching it and you get to read my comment, don't forget to like this video. It doesn't cost you anything but it means so much for this guy who took so many hours of his life and gave it to you for free so you can make something useful out of it. Give a Thumb Up 👍🏻
Super duper kind of you :’)
Great stuff! I just recently picked up and started using Obsidian. I like it thus far and still working out my format. This course has given me some ideas.
Thanks!!
god this is awesome thank you so much. your thoroughness and expertise is really incredible, i've always been writing memos down everywhere and obsessively journaling to try and document and sort my mind out but i could never quite organize, this is huge for me thank you
you’re more than welcome shadow!! glad you found it useful.
also re your profile pic, one day I’ll get around to watching Neon Genesis Evangelion but it’s on my anime bucket list !
Thanks for helpful video! Two quick comments: 1) I was very happy to see the reference to the 37% problem -- it's one of my favorite things to talk about on first dates. 😁 But I thought you might want to be aware, the class of problems is optimal STOPPING, not STEPPING. 2) At 1:22, you are talking about problems pasting code into a dataview. I think the problem you were having was that the source text has stylized quotes, like “this” instead of "this" -- if you look carefully you can see it in the paste that had problems. Probably when you "fixed" it, you actually did a "paste as plain text". Hope this is useful -- thanks again, and keep up the good work!
hey thanks for the feedback! oops optimal stopping makes so much more sense linguistically 🤣
it was the speech marks that were off ;-)
Thanks you Dabi for making this wonderful video. I sometimes struggle to release the whole power of obsidian and find it's hard to comprehensively understand obsidian's potential. After watching this tutorial, I think I am more confident to utilize obsidian into my life, and some tricks you shared in the tutorial is so cool! Thanks again!
Absolutely my pleasure, I’m happy that you got a lot out of it and thanks for your comment! :)
The reason the dataview table referencing a folder didn't work the first time is because, when you added the double quotes at 1:22:00 it added fancy, curved double quotes and these are not the same as the simple, straight double quotes you have around Source and Score at the same time stamp. Simply replacing these fancy quotes with simple ones would have fixed the issue.
Note that this same problem can happen with single quotes.
Dabi I could listen to your voice all day! It’s so soothing
ORBITALLL likewise x1000 ❤️ thanks for dropping by!!
Collab one day? 👀👀
@@dabi_ PLEASE
I've been researching using obsidian and your video has helped me grasped the program a lot better. Also, I can't be the only one who thinks you are very charming
Hahaha!! Very much appreciated :) I’ll tell my Mum the good news
Notion does all this in its own way, and doesn't charge you for public links. Not sold...If I could automatically build relations between all those notes if I were to import all of it, that'd be quite a step up. I want this to save me time and pull out better insights I may have missed or not have time to reach on my own. I imagine AI agents can help with this goal. When that time comes, I'll import everything into Obsidian and fill up my tokens.
Something else I'm working on that folks like you and copywriters, for example, aren't really doing is I write newsletters about current events, and I want to use my database to track changes based on what's happened chronologically.
So:
1. How can you rapidly add context to a huge pile of imported content?
2. How can you best manage drawing insights from the context of current events, which all have their own separate dramas and relationships over time? (e.g., a court case, or price action of Bitcoin, or AI developments in general).
Sounds complex. All I can say is, good luck ✌️ I’m sure there’s a way but it’d probably take me two hours to think about.
Wow, that was very useful, thank you. Even life-changing, maybe. I mean, I've heard about second brain before and used obsidian before, but first time dropped it, because didn't know where to start. So thank you for guiding through the first steps.
You’re welcome Oranoid, glad to hear it’s been helpful on your journey and you’re so right, it’s one of those things that seems overwhelming initially. That’s where I started, experimenting over time, and then came to this. :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH DABI! You have empowered me with the tools to get my thinking, life, and goals more organized. I have only learned about data view today and I am mad that I didn't discover it sooner. There are so many powerful community plugins that I've been too daunted to try, but your video gives me the confidence and inspiration to try the many that I've heard about. Thank you for showing me how I can transform my life with Obsidian's potential. You are saving lives in a different way as a TH-camr haha.
HELL YEAH I’m so glad! Best of luck on your obsidian journey. You’re right, data view is one of those things that looks crazy difficult, but actually when you just do it step by step it’s quite straightforward. :)
Currently taking notes on how to use Obsidian in Obsidian
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I'm really glad that I sat down and watched this (while taking notes on Obsidian of course). This is some great video and I'm really happy I came across it. Thanks Dabi
hey thanks for watching! you’re totally welcome Tanner
Thank you Dabi for putting the effort into making this course and sharing it for free. I found it very useful and really enjoyed how you demonstrated the tool and it's capabilities. I really appreciate it and look forward to checking out more of your content.
you’re welcome thinh!! Thanks for the comment :)
As a common hater, someone that criticize everything,
this was a great tutorial.
very straight foward, simple, a bit too long and such but I do have a short attention span.
Thank you for the help
for markdowns its the same for steam and every gaming website host literally no difference since I was a kid.
If you start it firsts w the approprate symbol it automatically fills it for me
Thanks for the nice comment!!
Congrats on hitting 1 mil views Dabi!! Thank you for being so generous with this tutorial 🥹🙏
Thank you! 😃
This is the best video on Obsidian so far.
Thank you very much Junaid!! Means a lot :)
I do not comment, i think this is my first one. Thank you for this, I have just installed Obsidian (want to migrate from Notion) and your video has been really helpful. Very good quality!
That’s really nice of you Varvara. Thank you :)
Very nice video series, I think it will help me improve my recent transition to Obsidian so thank you for posting! I also like the daily note approach since it is similar to the physical journaling I was doing before. With Obsidian I have found myself frequently creating new notes without a clear idea of what I was writing about because it felt like having many focused, inter-linked notes is the "encouraged" approach in other creator videos. That "extract selection to note" feature is excites me because I think it will streamline the daily-journal-to-useful-note pipeline that feels more natural.
Thank you for this. I have downloaded (and deleted) Obsidian at least 10 times. I was hunting for a place to store my information and, as you mentioned, I could not get past the first blank page! So I played and paused the first 30 seconds over and over again until I had a vault and two notes!
Amazing stuff! Glad it worked out :D
Actually priceless, considering that I have recently started to self-study. 🔥
Thank you so much for sharing this video for free. That was the most helpful video on obsidian I've found on TH-cam. I also intuitively think your approach is likely to work best for me
Awesome to hear! Thanks for the kind comment :)
Really good video. Great length. Great audio. I usually listen in the car but some videos are not loud enough. This video is different, it’s loud and clear. I can hear it at a decent level with my window down too. Thanks for this. Great work.
Incredible overview. Thanks. I just discovered Obsidian and wanted to know everything it can do -- I feel like this really answered that question.
Thank you so much!! Just tried to make the tutorial that I would have wanted myself.
I finally decided to try obsidian after watching this video. Thanks for the amazing video, your attention to detail is much appreciated!
nice one!! a pleasure rivera! thanks for the nice words :)
Just finished watching and I’m sure I’ll need to go back and review some sections! Thank you SO much for putting out this great helpful content. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
You’re very welcome 🤩
This was the best tutorial I came across about Obsidian. Thank you for this video!
Thank you for posting this long detailed tutorial. Ill come back to this often. Very helpful 🤯
A pleasure and hope it helps!
I did not know you could link to specific parts of notes with the "^"! Thank you!
This was super useful! Thank you for the detail-orientation and practical application. I really need to see a process in full in order to understand concepts. Most of the other tutorials I’ve seen so far stop once they’ve given us the key information, so seeing how you’ve utilised Obsidian's features for your personal notes was a great teaching method :))
Glad it was helpful! It honestly took me ages to figure out myself, so hence why I wanted to make a video that would have been useful to someone who was just like me but not me. :)
Love love love this video. So helpful. One constructive criticism is I wish that you can recorded the all of the screen. It's hard for me to sometimes follow where you are clicking when you go outside of the recorded area. Thank you again!
Ah so sorry about that! I realised that after I published it >
Thank you so much for sharing. I am considering to migrate from Notion to Obsidian. Your video is so helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Coming back to this once in a while as learning Obsidian, thank you!
Excellent tutorial.. This overview was definitely a deep dive for me, but one I'll definitely link in my notes to comeback to ;). Android user here and since I'm already using syncthing for my phone back up to my unraid NAS, I just added folders for Obsidian. So now I have a 3 way sync going on between my galaxy, home pc, and office pc.
Appreciated!
This was so impressive. I am massively thrilled about your effort, your skill and particular your communication skills. TH-cam has never really been my thing, to be honest. But notetaking is :) So I am very excited about the fact that your video has shown me A) How youtube can be used for proper teaching and learning and B) How to be more skilled in Obsidian (which currently is af huge interest of mine)
Lot of high fives from Denmark :)
That’s so nice of you! I never would have realised that my communication/teaching skills were anything too special since it feels like for TH-cam in particular I’m still learning, but that’s kind of you. :)
Thanks Dabi! Finally made a switch to Obsidian after seeing this video!!
The way you say Archaive ～ reminded me of Conan pronouncing chaos chasm wrongly on purpose in one of his videos. Great video by the way, helps a lot. TQVM
HAHHAHA I never realised it was wrong until this very comment! I’ll look out for it 🤣
I am not much of a techie but I wanted to give Obsidian a try, again it was really intimidating at first because it has so many options and so many features but this video really really helped me setting it up. Thank You so much for helping out and i really hope you hit a million subscribers. You are amazing.
Thank you so much for watching my video Priyanshi!! I’m glad the video could be useful to you and I totally agree, it seems *so* complicated the first time you use it, but I’m glad this cleared things up for you. ^^ I’ll try my best re sub count!
Another youtuber I follow did a little taster video on Obsidian that got me super interested, but I had no idea how I would actually start using it myself as anything except a simple notepad. I could see the potential but a video like this seems perfect! Although from my little mess around in the program, it seems like some of the things you go over in the beginning are slightly outdated or have been changed in newer versions of Obsidian.
Yep! Unfortunately is the nature of making videos on actively updated software.
Dude, this is such a thorough and quality run down, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Great Video,, i currently 47% through this video and so far is really helpful, especially the concept of Zettelkasten. It's pretty new for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for creating this free tutorial, learned some new and useful stuff on how to optimise my note taking in Obsidian. And all the best with your channel!
You're very welcome flower_mountain!
on my quest to find a method that helps me organize myself better I stumbled across your video / channel
Thank you for putting so much time into explaining the concepts of Obsidian and how to use it in a proper way.
I applauded your way of explaining concepts and simplifying complex processes / boiling it down to key principles.
Well done, and thank you!
You are so welcome!
This is brilliant and exactly what I was looking for! A brilliantly constructed course and so useful. Thanks
thank you for the kind comment uchenna!! ^^
So this is the second video of Obsidian that I'm watching because I'm like "Hell yeah, this software is awesome" but like... I realize that I don't take anywhere NEAR that many notes. You state early on (paraphrasing): "The main benefit of Obsidian is when you have a lot of notes." and then you showcase your notes, which is A LOT OF NOTES! Yeah, that's... a lot.
🤣 I find writing helps me think. I like capturing every idea, then that way finding it is possible.
hey Dabi, Just wanna say thanks! You uploaded this 4 months ago, but I just came across it and it's been a huge help! it's been like a day and a half after discovering this video and I decided to download Obsidian and literally follow this to the end. I've become pretty proficient with structuring, and even developing my own templates for my own use. I was really intimidated when I first opened it up and it felt like a blank canvas with nowhere to go, but you made this super easy to understand 😅🙏. This is the first time I've ever used anything with markdown, but I feel pretty comfortable and that was after the first hour or so. I love love loooove this far and I've been making studying notes, as well as saving random crap that pops up in my brain. I've used this as a basic foundation and haven't even downloaded any plugins yet besides the core ones that are given. You're a great teacher and I just wanted to say thanks 🥺🥺🥰
Wow this is like the nicest comment ever!! Thank you so much for giving such a detailed reply and I’m super glad my tutorial could be so helpful. 🙏
You’re absolutely right, Obsidian is so intimidating at first, because there’s this huge feeling of “where the heck do I start?”
Thank you for your support and for watching through much of the video, wishing you all the best in your studies or professional life or whatever it is you’re using it for. ^^ this comment made my day.
@@dabi_ Awe, Yay! I'm glad 🥺😊. Fr you did a lot with this and I just wanted to let you know that it's still helping people like me to this day 💯 Thanks for the best wishes it really helps me power through, there's just so much info I'm learning rn, it's the medical field. So, the backlinking and footnotes, as well just being able to hover over is such a god send!😭I hope you keep doing what you're doing and best wishes on your career path/youtube journey as well. Reach for that 1 mill subs 😤 you got this.
@@AmayaChibi14 I totally get you, medicine is crazy in terms of amount of knowledge 🤯 consider checking out the Anki plugin for Obsidian, it actually will let you make flashcards really quickly from your notes :)
💪 you can do it!! And once again, thanks so much for the kind encouragement and support ^^
This TH-camr deserves a million subs. Hats off mate! Such an informative course! Please continue on doing this 🙌
aw thank you Julius!! I’ll try and get there one day maybe :)
hey man thanks for making this it’s been super helpful
happy to hear it’s been useful dude!
First, thank you for putting together this tutorial! It is excellent. Second, I ended up jumping to a the most replayed point in the video and was *very* pleasantly surprised to see a picture of Doug Engelbart. Extra certain you know what you're doing because of that little easter egg
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