The BEST Way To Add Media To Your Obsidian Vault // EP 4
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Adding Media That You Own
02:41 - TH-cam Videos w/Notes Taken in Browser
05:16 - Adding Tweets (incl. Threads)
08:43 - Adding Images While Taking Zero Space
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November 2023 update: Memex has changed significantly since this video was published. I no longer recommend it if you are considering the paid version. Instead I highly recommend readwise reader. I. made 2 videos on it:
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I just subscribed, brilliant content. No timewasting, no BS, quick and to the point. Thank you so much for all the effort that you put into these videos, it`s really paid off beautifully.
Thanks for the encouragement, it helps a lot! :)
New to Obsidian, using your series as a kind of onboarding session. I love it so far, still relevant a year later.
Thanks, I'm glad it's still relevant! :)
This was mind blowing thank you. I have just discovered Obsidian and am so excited. This is the start of proper metacognition!
I've been using obsidian daily for nearly 2 years now and that exact feeling is still here :)
Your site is a great find Sergio. Thank you for the time saving work that you have done. So impressive!
Thanks so much I'm really glad :)
Man, this makes a lot of things much simple and opens a lot of doors for more effective note taking. Thank you so much!
Thanks Jake!
I'm glad i have discovered your channel, Keep going Sergio, you are so helpful and clear.
Thanks Stefan, much appreciated! Have a great week :)
Great video!
I've been using Obsidian for written notes, but I also have screenshots, videos, and Twitter threads I'd like to add to it. This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
Thanks! I'm glad! Have a great weekend!
Tremendous help, Sergio - thank you! You have a new subscriber. I'll look forward to more Obsidian content, as I'm very much a beginner. God bless!
Thanks Ted much appreciated! Ep 5 published tomorrow :)
You are just the best, started yesterday and yet learned so much. THX for your time and effort to help us noobs with obsidian 😊😊
Possibly the best/most useful tutorial I've ever seen on YT. Thank you!
Wow, thanks! Really glad you enjoyed it, enjoy the rest of the series!
1000%
Fantastic tips - and excellent delivery - THANK YOU!
Glad you enjoyed it! Have a great weekend!
Thank you for this video; your instruction is very clear and understandable with great examples!
Glad it was helpful! Enjoy the rest of the series!
Your videos are useful. It helps me take smart note. Thank you so much !!
Glad you like them!
Thank you, your videos help me a lot.
Thanks for this videos Sergio!! These are invaluable!
Thanks Fulvio! :)
I had been looking for something of this kind! Thanks a million!!
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
thanks for the note about tweets. I think the screen capture route is much better since if you embed and the tweet gets taken down you will lose the media.
Good video mate, thanks for the quick and precise info, appreciate it.
Thanks glad you liked it :)
Another great one. Thank you.
thanks for the shoutout man! this was an awesome video! keep up the great work
Glad you liked it :)
just what i needed! well done
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your videos. I have been going back and forth, just doing random searches. I am learning more in just a few videos I watched than through all of the other folks combined. Also, I wonder if it is just me, but World Brain Memex is no longer in the store. Thank you for all of the great content!!!
Thanks a lot! Sorry just got back to you, was on break :)
Yes it's gone, can anyone suggest an alternative?
this is a master class.. thank you so much!!
I thought I didn't need this "class" but it will be awesome for my blog pretendings. Thanks a lot for the video.
Yeah I get that a lot, people just assume its for those that never opened obsidian but even the more seasoned users might pick up a thing or two :)
Excellent, yes.
Very good tutorial. Thank you!
Hi, was away all of last week. Here! It seems like I'm maxing it out. If it doesn't work today, try it again tomorrow, refer.beeper.com/OTMhRJ
Thanks,that was helpful!
Thanks Caribou!
it's really helpful, thank u so much
glad you enjoyed it!
Timestamp at 0805... There is actually a free extension FireShot. It gives you many more useful features other than the scrolling screenshot. It allows you to screenshot an entire webpage. Just for your knowledge...
BTW, you have created nice and cool stuff that is practically useful too. Hats off buddy!
Thanks for sharing!
You gained a sub :) ..thanks for sharing all the information
Thanks for that :) and glad you enjoy it!
Sergio, Thank you so much for your work! All of your videos look extremely professional and well done! Could you tell me what setup you‘re using like specific hardware and software? Thanks Simon
Hi Simon, hardware is in the description (at least most of it). As for software I simply use final cut pro
Love u bro!
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Best Obsidian TH-camr I have found
"not great lighting" made me laugh over your kind of humor 😂 great content!
Glad you enjoyed! 😅
THANK YOU!
Thank you!
Wow! Thank you!!
Thank you :)
Hello! Great content I've watched lots of obsidian videos but yours are some of the best!
One thing though, I can't seem to find the chrome extension for TH-cam notes (worldbrain's memex). Is it no longer available? Are you using any alternatives?
Thanks!
Hi "Tocayo"! I found it's possible to hide a folder from Obsidian app if you add a dot at the beginning of the name. You could use it for hiding the attachments folder. Excellent videos by the way, I'm learning a lot from you!
Thanks for the imgur tip!
Definitely one of my favorites!
nice vid bratan
Thank you :)
Hey, I've been getting more into obsidian and loved this vid! How are you handling other media? Powerpoint/word/pdfs? Like self generated content? Are you leaving them in like dropbox or gdrive and linking to them or do you embed them another way?
Hi! I don't personally work with word or ppt files, as for the odd PDF I embed them as if it were a picture, simply dragging and dropping it. You could drag and drop ppts and word documents if space is not a concern, failing that linking to where you are hosting them (dropbox, Gdrive and all that) would work just fine!
This was super handy
Glad you enjoyed!
Exactly what I was looking for, can't wait to try it out. Thank you for the hands-on approach! On an unrelated note, I'm really impressed by your desktop background. Any chance you could share a link please?
Glad it was helpful! As for the wallpaper it was just a stock mac wallpaper, judging by the date this video was uploaded I'd say it was Big Sur's alternative wallpaper, but I'm not 100% sure!
@@FromSergio Found it. You're a saint! thank you!
The problem is that videos on TH-cam often vanish for any number of reasons. So one day your note isn't gong to play. That's why I have a 4 TB external thunderbolt SSD for my vault and a duplicate drive for backup. I download the videos from youtube. I put them in folders to separate them out. Then I drag them to an Obsidian note when I'm ready to re-watch and take notes.
Make a screenshot, and add a transcription (that will be searchable in Obsidian).
EXACTLY! Lots of content YT will consider "misinformation" and will delete it.
It may be good to have the time stamps jump to that time in the embedded video; and have a freeze line below the video so you can scroll through all the video notes and still have the video visible at the top.
for a second there i thought you were referring to my video. Yeah, that would be good but they always default to that segment of the video on the web browser. Better than nothing but I agree that havi ng it done on the embedded video would be a better experience!
Great info Sergio. I just started using this "monster", big learning curve. I learned that I had set up my attachments file wrong - it included a space, and the files were not going there. Since fixing this, thanks to your video, I have found that any images that I have pasted do not go there. Is there something else I am missing? Trying to lighten the load of info on my system. If I drag and drop I am basically repeating the file so I have three instances. If I can copy and paste, I would only have the two in the vault...? really hoping to have a clean file at the end.
If your attachment file is correctly configured every time you drag and drop an attachment into obsidian it should simply go there and you can check it on your actual file directory. This way you'd only have 1 copy in your vault. If you want to keep a local file in your system (outside of the vault) you can use the imgur plugin so that you only have 1 instance in your system.
just learning about the IMGUR plugin alone is worth watching this video. *golf claps*
:) I'm glad!
Thanks for this video! I'm on day 6 of using Obsidian on a Windows 11 laptop. I've successfully set up an "Attachment" folder as you instructed. Is there a way to have all of my "Today's Daily Note" default to be saved into their own folder?
Not gonna lie, wish I knew about Obsidian 4 years ago when I started college. It would have been super useful back them.
Tell me about it! Would've helped me loads as well
Great video. One question: do these media attachments sync to your other devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
Hi Dan, just saw this. You’ve probably figured this out already but yes they do as they do it via icloud. Best!
You can also pay for the Obsidian Sync service. One of the nice things about it is that it ensures all your files are stored locally, whereas iCloud only downloads files on demand, and you never know when the local copy will be tossed and need to be re-downloaded.
I also managed, finally, to paste a Twitter on my note.
Copy the URL, paste on the note, select it and, with the right botton of the mouse "url to preview"
Select ratio 1:1
At first seems distorted. When you click on it, it fixes the image. If you don't click, you can use the scroll bar to roll up and down on it.
hey love your work, i have question how can you crop the image like the cam on you videos and but it on the top of the note.
love your work your friend form North Africa(kenya)
Hi there, just saw this. As in making it smaller? If so you can change the parameters on the markdown syntax to fit your needs. Is that what you were referring to?
Thank you. Great way to save storage! One question: If imgur ever shuts down, how can we get our images working as we are dependent on imgur's links? Say we have 1000+ images linked to imgur and then imgur announces that they shut down. How can we get our obsidian working in that case?
Exactly my problem with this method. Basically that's why I try not to use images as often; and when I do use them, I spend time on them. Naming some of the important pictures, compressing and choosing the correct format (JPG or PNG). I'd rather have them on my drive.
I've also thought of processing "Attachments" separately of the main vault, i.e. syncing and backuping. But ultimately, these methods look like hacks. That's why the bulk of my notes isn't dependant on media.
Very helpful thanks! For the memes plugin is there anything like it that works on safari? I just want to use it like you do, to annotate TH-cam videos with a timestamp I can add to Obsidian
That's the only problem I have with safari - the plugins. As much as I like it it still lacks a lot of the functionality that chromium based browsers have :/
@@FromSergio Appreciate the response! Might have to make the jump to brave then. Everything else works so great on safari though ;(
hey @FromSergio , the Twitframe embed is not rendering on Obsidian. Is there a problem now? Followed exactly as mentioned
Great video man. But idk.. I really struggle to organise my stuff. On PC I used OneNote for years - but felt messy because containers don't snap. On iphone I use notes. Never synced. Tried solving the problem and used EverNote - I like it, but still find organising things hard. Plus sometimes it's buggy, so was looking into Obsidian.
Do you have tips to how to organise things? Lets say I plan to travel a lot. So different countries / trip plans, and want to include research for things like pros/cons of different cities, things to do, video embeds, pics, order it all, etc. I just can't figure out how to organise all these things sensible, and I get a massive list of numbered points / subpoints and bullet points, with embeds, links, etc. And then wall of text bullet point comments lol.
It feels like much bigger work than actually going on the trip... But obviously I can't just google/watch videos because then I lose information, so I am trying to write it down, but yeah.. really struggling, haven't contributed in a month now to researching the trip because feel like it's currently not organised properly / hard to find key info / sections etc. I want to make some kind of template? Or even better if there is marketplace of free templates you can go through examples of other people's work and reuse/copy things. Something like in Powerpoint lol.
I understand your frustration, I strongly believe on the right tool for the right job. Not everyone will benefit from using obsidian to plan something like a trip (although I do and I actually have a video coming on exactly that) but there are dedicated apps out there like tripsy (iOS) that do a great job helping you set up a trip plan. But I feel your pain in that you end up struggling and just amassing a bunch of bulletpoints. I think that comes with practice and a bit of structure. As for templates I have 2 videos on that. One on the regular templates plugin and one on the much more advanced templater plugin. For your use case I recommend checking out the regular templates video!
Hi guys for the images you download Imagur to not even have any images on your obsidian at all. They get put online into your Imagur account. Much better that way I believe. Tbh
Just starting obsidian, want to know if it can handle timestamps, say I start my digital audio recorder, during an interview (starting time 0:0), when we go through questions in my obsidian document I can press "timestamp" so later when I am doing the writing it's simple to jump to the audio location.
“Simple Embeds” is the community plug-in I use for previewing tweets and TH-cam videos in obsidian. Just paste the link and it gives you an embed instead. No need for workarounds or getting the embed code
Thanks for sharing Will :)
Would love a plugin for better sound/music support! Would be awesome to be able to have a playlist of sound files that could be crossfaded between tracks.
as in - a music player in your vault that played files in your local system?
@@FromSergio Exactly. I have no idea how hard that would be on a development level haha but that would be fantastic for connecting music ideas or having a playlist for TTRPGs
WorldBrain"s Memex seems like its no longer available on the chrome extension page. Just recently watched the plugins you are using video and was curious if you know of an alternative for that? Someone below mentioned the "Obsidian plugin TimestampNotes", but I would prefer to do my watching / annotating in Chrome if possible, so I can watch at my normal 4x .
I've since transitioned everything to readwise reader, made a vieo on that as well! :)
Anyone watching this in 2022 TH-cam Timestap is done by CMD Y the insert button is no longer there.
Thanks for sharing, it is true that the feature was just removed! Pinning this for others to see!
@@FromSergio most welcome happy to help, your video has helped me a lot appreciate the effort.
CMD Y works for me... maybe they've added the feature back?
@@FromSergio I can't find the Insert feature, it just says Annotate. TH-cam is not listed in the shortcuts. I am on Windows 10
The developer is apparently going toward a paid model for "collaboration". I am now looking for something comparable. I don't hold out a lot of hope, however.
I might even get the move to a new model, but they could have left the current extension intact and forked it. They seem to have deliberately abandoned their former user base.
There is the Imagur Plugin to allow you to have attachments automatically upload to Immugur instead right?
There is yeah, wasn't available at the time of making this video!
Hey Sergio, a year (and a bit) from when this video was uploaded - do you still recommend this way of reviewing TH-cam videos in Obsidian?
Thanks!
You continue to read my mind because that's the exact topic of my next video!
@@FromSergio Amazing my friend! I'm so glad to hear!
@@FromSergio We're so synced man, so cool haha
World Brains Memex doesn't seem to be showing up when I look for it.
Memex doesn't have the insert timestamp option anymore. Any alternatives?
I know it's a low blow but the tweet embed thing is off limits now. You are lucky enough if you can get a screenshot nowadays.
Can you please tell , how to get time stamps from a locally stored video file ?
is there a way to get a list of all videos in Obsidian? I did [[Videos]] in each note that has a video but that creates a separate note called Videos which in reality is always empty because it's never used. There is no way to filter images, videos, audio?
That would be a good use case for tags, feel free to check out my tags video in this playlist!
Having trouble pasting images as plain text, Obsidian is doubling them...pasting twice the image...how i can get rid of that?
Tweet embedding is pretty interesting but I fear Obsidian might outlive twitter causing those embeds to eventually fail. Is there a way to import tweets that aren't a photo so that it can be searchable?
I don't know of a plugin that does that, but I know that the Omnisearch plugin has OCR so it can search text in photos
and another one when you crop the image into the rectangle form how can you write beside it like introduction or something else
As in - write on the sides of it and place it in the center?
I can't find Memex on Chrome. Could you help please?
Command + shift + 5 for a scrolling screenshot on mac 😁
As far as I'm aware and correct me if I'm wrong - that turns it into a video and not a picture. Which will still work albeit with a larger file size.
The layout of the Memex side bar in my browsers (Brave and Chrome) is different to what you show here (and different to the Memex tutorials). I am using WIN10 though. I have no 'Insert' button for TH-cam time stamps, but I can use Ctrl + Y instead. Also, I do not see the notes I make in a continuous box of Markdown text, instead each note is its own boxed Item; I can down load all the notes as Notion/Roam Markdown but there is too much formatting compared to what you show. I can copy to Obsidian, but then have to delete out a lot of things like bullet point markers for Notion, its a pain.
OK, I see you can make your own export templates, so you can make your own template for Obsidian Markdown. Is this what you did?
Oh that's weird. It always worked like that for me right out of the box. As for your markdown question - a simple copy and paste works fine for me copying to obsidian. I have since migrated from notionn completely but I could see it being a problem for notion. Youn mention each note is a continuous box of markdown text - is that when you copy and paste into notion?
@@FromSergio I have the same issue as @Evolution_Algorithm - it looks like World Brain fundamentally changed this plugin, and while there *is* technically a workaround for Apple users from them now, it's a standalone app for the iPad. It looks like they're moving away from this plugin side and trying to create their own note taking app now. There are workspaces and other things now.
Memex does not work in window i think. the insert timestamp from youtube is not there. ...
How to import pdf and markdown files to obsidian?
Love your videos but a couple of hopefully constructive criticisms: most of the world uses Android/Windows or even Linux so it's better to not be so apple centric. For example, include hot keys for all platforms. Also, I would not recommend relying on any third party website. Those images you uploaded to imager could all be gone tomorrow and be dead links in your vault.
Hi Mark, constructive criticism is always welcomed! I use Windows, and Linux, as much as I use the mac. When I started my channel I kept referencing windows as well as Mac but given that 9 times out of 10 that I mention a command it's CTRL/CMD, I decided to just stick with CMD simply because it's what I'm using. I'm sure Windows users understand that the corresponding key is CTRL. Although Linux is widely used, it's more on the server space (which I make extended use of). As for the third-party website - Imgur has stated multiple times that the images are never taken down, having said that I 100% agree with you. I have all my images stored locally on my NAS, and Imgur should be used only with images that wouldn't be devastating to lose.
Anybody know how to transcribe whole youtube video into text notes?
You can aschieve the same with a chrome extension without having to pay 20 bucks
"Name 10 book"
sadly imgur is not available for sign-up in India where I belong to
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Oh that's unfortunate! :/
But Imgur now asks for mobile number upon registration. If only I registered with them a couple of years back when it wasn't required yet. I don't wanna give them my number. LOL.
I don't blame you! I wouldn't give it either personally!
@@FromSergio I know there are alternatives for Imgur but does Obsidian have any alternative plugins similar to that Imgur plugin?
I reinstalled Obsidian and try the Twitter stuff all over. None of them works for me.
The Imgr is very nice.
Interesting, it still works for me. Might be a plugin conflict amongst your added ones :/
@@FromSergio That's not so important for me. I'll try again in the future.
can we just point obsidian to another directory instead of copying into its attachments dir?
Unsure of what you are asking - If you're asking about pointing it to a directory to see attachments that's not possible as far as I'm aware!
You can indeed do this in Windows by creating a directory junction. Open Command Prompt and use the mklink /J command and specify where you want to create the folder in your vault, followed by the actual source folder (so for example: mklink /J "C:\VaultName\Target Folder" "C:\Pictures")
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But I don't want Obsidian to copy the media into it's own directories. I just want a link to where it is on my computer. This is a deal breaker if it can't do that.
If you're on Windows, try holding down the Ctrl key while dragging an image file from Windows File Explorer into Obsidian. That will create a local file link of the form file:///
Don't worry. Elon is gonna put an end to this "Twitter thread" nonsense with 4k characters limit
Wouldn't complain! Twitter threads, especially really long ones, aren't exactly pleasing for the reader!
Now the IMGUR do not accept MY REGION to create an account.
Brazil is off. It sucks.
Ah! Unlucky :( sorry to hear that
Lol $29 for a screenshot app when you can do long screenshots natively in Firefox.
It does a *lot* more than that. Comparing it to firefox's way is not exactly a good comparison. Shutter, on the other hand, would be a great comparison as that one is a great free alternative which is still not as good but better than most paid ones.
it's really Awsome but i wanna know are u ADHd
are you asking me if I suffer from adhd? If so, not that I am aware of, why?
annoying background music. You do not need this ear noise.
Thanks!
Thanks Chuan for your generosity! Glad they're helping :)
Thanks!
Thanks so much for your kindness and generosity Mark. That was my first donation! Have a great week! 🙏
@@FromSergio There will be more. I am unemployeed and primary care-giver for both my parents (age 91,92). But your Osidian topics are "spot on" for what I'm looking for. Also - your tutorials themselves are very well made/organized. I also pick up on your editing techniques, style, presentation, etc. etc etc.
To anybody that's "listening" this guy works his tail off. Let's throw him a bone (lots of them $).
Appreciate the kind words Mark, I'm sorry to hear that and wish you the very best. I do put a lot of effort in the videos which is why I take longer than most to upload one and it feels good to have it acknowledged! Wishing you a lot of success!