Mate, I know next to nothing about coding, and am a writer trying to see whether Obsidian is right for my notes/creative process, but I have to say that you make, hands-down, the best tutorials I've seen on the web, paid or unpaid, for... pretty much anything. This could be so utterly confusing for a luddite like me, but you've somehow managed to elucidate it step-by-step without being patronising or superfluous. Brava.
Came back for a refresher, and I honestly appreciate your style so much. Everything is so clear, and concise, and easy to find. There are a ton of Obsidian tutorial that don't accomplish what they advertise. I need good tips and explanations for notetaking, not some deep philosophical tangent essay on productivity, and the human condition. Not everything needs profound to be useful and praiseworthy.
Nicole - first your love of TTRPGs is amazing but your ability to communicate is astounding. Thanks for all your videos on obsidian I reference them often.
Thank you so much, Don! I really appreciate that. I always THINK it sounds ok in my head, but sometimes it doesn't work out, you know? Glad you liked this one and I'm very humbled to know you reference my videos.
Nicole - I am a public lecturer/teacher and I can assure you - YOU ARE AN EXCELLENT communicator. I watch some videos for the visual help…some for the communicator…but rarely do I watch videos for both You are the exception.
You actually can change font color using the Colored Text community plug in. I absolutely LOVE this plug in. It works by highlighting selected text. You first have to set up a color palette that shows up in the bottom left hand part of the screen
😱 I've been using Obsidian for almost a year and I didn't even know you can do header and section-specific wiki links. I literally learned the difference between quotes and callouts just now 😂 Your videos are EXTREMELY helpful!! 🙏🔥✨
Happy to hear that!! That I could help you, that is. :) I think there are a lot of things about Obsidian that are not obvious, so I'm glad to be able to highlight some of these things!
I like your videos, I'm bored when I hear from some youtubers that Obsidian is for developper, I'm myself a developper and I'm not using Obsidian for that (even if I made some python plugins around it to replace some laggy/buggy Obsidian plugins) but I mostly use it because I feel it helps me with ADHD, and to also help making connections to improve my memory on the subjects that matters to me.
Thank you for the very clear overview. I'll be adding all of these to my own note taking process. I like the equal signs using to highlight. Very cool features all around.
I'm just starting to use Obsidian and I have almost zero knowledge of coding and minimum knowledge of Markdown, I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but you know, I'm kind of a person who needs this type of video. I appreciate your help, thank you. It's difficult but I'm enjoying this,.
Thank you so much. I also learned a lot more during your video than I have learned in 6 months of implementing obsidian. Keep doing what you are doing! Blessings to you!
Hey, thank you! I'm glad you found it useful. I've gotten some questions on Markdown-related things, so I thought I'd make a video to refer people to. :) Thanks for watching!
Excellent video. I especially appreciated your positivity with the "you don't have to be a professional to sing" comment, (and you don't have to be coder to use Obsidian). Loved the video!
Thank you for making tutorials that made my ADHD brain not only understand the topics discussed but also kept it from drifting its focus off to other distracting things in my room. Well done and I would love to watch what you put out in the future!
@@nicolevdh Just wanted to say that the toughest thing about getting started with Obsidian is that everyone immediately starts talking about more advanced workflows and skips the basics. This video taught me SO MANY basics that I didn't even know I was missing!
Keep exploring at brilliant.org/Nicolevdh/ Get started for free, and hurry-the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. THEMES used: Everforest. PLUGINS: I know I said no plugins, but apparently I accidentally showed one that I forgot was a plugin! It's Query Control, and it's what I use to get extra controls when embedding a search query.
I release all my videos to my Patreons before I release them to everyone else. :) Also, people always ask about themes and such, so I make sure to note down what I was using right after I upload something!
I'm just at the very start of using Obsidian but your sources have been a great help so far, especially the callout of this episode is something I'm gonna use a lot!
I have been trying to use Obsidian for so long but it didnt work out until I found your vdo. I cant wait to dive in the power of Obsidian. Thank you Nicole.
I am new to Obsidian, but this will definitely change the way I use it for my bible studies, so thank you so much, Nicole. It really is appreciated. God bless you and Happy New Year!
OMG! Love you, Themes brought color into my monocromatic Obsidiannotes:) Like watching your favorite cartoon in color for the first time :)) Thank you!
Qapla'! Thanks for the video, I learned a lot of things which I have wondered how to do for a long time! Your videos have definitely helped show me what is possible in Obsidian beyond "just notepad". Keep it coming with the fantastic content!
Hi great Video. Tanks a lot. Regarding footnotes I also like to just put in a space and then write ^[This is the content of the footnote] this way I don’t have to copy something to the end of the document. Obsidian just makes all the work for me.
You've been the go to person for anything Obsidian related. I'll vote for you in the next Obsidian presidential election for sure. Keep up the good work! May the light illuminate you!
the footnote feature saved me! I had to use dataview for that HAHAHA which made it more complicated to make sure that the note title is in every outgoing links I needed compiled (hence, i had to keep jumping from my main note and making sure that my dataview has every path i need there.)😢
Thanks for all the help. I gave up scrolling through all the comments. If someone else has asked this question, please forgive me. I have trouble with the implementation of adding a footnote to a page. How do I find the bottom of the page? It seems to scroll endlessly.
Great video, straight to the point. Thanks for sharing. I used the Canvas feature in real time to create a map of all of this so I can refer back to it later. What an incredible program.
Fabulous intro video. The best I've found for my level -- rank beginner. I'm not opposed to coding, but I just needed to know the very basics of markdown and Obsidian. Thanks!
Thank you for the clear explanations Nicole. After switching back form Logseq to Obsidian, this was a great fresh up with some nice new features I didn't know about.
Didnt know footnites exist in obsidian! They look like a good way to link notes without cluttering the main space too much, especially on subatomic notes
incredibly helpful and clear - thank you Nicole! I wish I had found this video before watching so many others searching for these answers - just a suggestion but maybe adding something like "tips and foundational shortcuts to using Obsidian" could help beginners like me find you more easily? also question - when I do the Embedded Search /query in markdown - it shows up but doesn't have the sort features? wondering if there's something I don't have turned on for that? thanks again!
Hey again Rachael, I did think about talking about shortcuts, but they're so OS-specific and can be seen in Options > Hotkeys, so I thought maybe it wasn't worth me doing... but maybe I'm wrong! Oh! You may need the Query Control plugin. Sorry, I forgot I had that enabled.
I have been playing around with Obsidian this morning to learn more about how to use it, so this video is perfect timing! Thanks! I have a little programming background, but am still a beginner, so this video is great! I found your channel from your learning Swedish video, because I've started using obsidian to help me learn German. I initially tried using Notion since every youtuber seems to use it, but I found Notion to be so frustrating! I really like Obsidian, but I do think a better way to use tables/spreadsheets in Obsidian would be clutch. I do have the advanced tables plugin, at least, but creating tables in markdown is just kind of a pain. Do you use tables in obsidian? Also, I noticed that search results don't include when the search terms show up in headings or note titles, which is very frustrating, but I could just not know what I'm doing.
Hey Kristine! Welcome! :) Glad to hear from another person who went from Notion to Obsidian. I think you might like the Database Folder plugin, though it really isn't as good as Notion still. But development is happening, and quickly. I hadn't noticed the issue with headings, but certainly with filenames! Since you mentioned you have a programming background, perhaps you have an IDE like VSCode installed? You can open your vault in your IDE and do searches from there... not as convenient, I know, but it does search headings.
@@nicolevdh I will look into those plugins and options, thanks! It's very encouraging to see how quickly the Obsidian devs jump on making updates, and the potential is so great considering how new it is. Thanks for your high quality videos and your contribution to the community!
Ok I think I figured out my problem with the search! The "Match Case" (Aa) option was selected, so it wouldn't pull up any results if it wasn't exactly matching my search term. When I untoggle that option, the titles do come up in the results! I'm not sure I will ever want to have my searches be case-sensitive, but good to know it's available.
Oh! Good to hear! I was just about to write you because I tried it again and didn't have any issues with either. I'll remember that next time someone says that to me. Happy you figured it out! :)
Wow....just wow. I'm taking a MASSIVE amount of cybersecurity notes with tons of code. Really didn't feel like digging into CSS or HTML just to change my font colors, etc...though I could. I just needed it to be easy since I've never used Obsidian. You kick ass for making this video! I learned so much. Thank you!
I have, but it's not for me. It's an outliner only, whereas Obsidian lets me outline AND write in paragraph form, which really encourages me to write more in that format. There are also too many Obsidian plugins that I'd miss if I went to Logseq.
Yep, I'm not a fan of Tana either, although it's a better Roam Research. It's also cloud-only, which isn't great for me. Supertags were interesting, but nothing that I haven't already solved using templates.
Thanks! Definitely a non-coder here. This was helpful. Question: for the footnote, does it automatically convert it to numbers? I noticed you typed in vulcan, and I was expecting the superscript to be vulcan instead of a number
Very nice video. I can agree that Obsidian is not only for coders however it is also not for mainstream users. At least it is for “geeks”. I do not means that as a negative word. After all, I am a SAP developer and to me, using Obsidian to its full extend seems like learning a new language.
Thank you, this was great for someone just getting started with Obsidian like me! I'd love to learn more about YAML or what you think are the best practices for using tags in notes.
Thank you for the suggestion! Those are always useful. I've made a note of that. And I'm happy I helped you get started! :) Welcome to the Obsidian community!
Thank you very much, just a suggestion: can you pls use a light theme while demonstrating so we can easily see different symbols even on low resolution?
Hi! I do generally try to use light themes. Funnily enough though, I also get comments on those videos from people saying that the light themes are glaringly bright... so now I try to use a bit of both!
I like to do it when I'm in the middle of doing research for something (for a video, or presentation, or blog post). It's handy to have multiple searches in the same note where I'm trying to piece things together!
This is amazing. Can anyone help me out? I was able to embed a query, but it's not finding any matches for the tag. Does the tag need to be in any specific place (like the metadata) for it to be searchable?
Nicole, thank you for your excellent videos on Obsidian! I was wondering if you could do a video on notettakiing for university students. I'm a math major looking to use Obsidian for my studies and was hoping you could make a video on how you would approach notetaking for a university student, particularly one in a technical field. Thank you so much for all the work you do!
Hi! Glad you're liking them! Thanks for the suggestion-- I'm not a university student so I can't really talk about that well, but I think a lot of general learning advice should apply, and I can definitely add that to the list. In the meantime, here's a video about how I learn technical subjects, in case it's useful! ruclips.net/video/6kzsCBKCl94/видео.html
12:40 but if you use the read view mode its just still 3 underlines, not a constant line... how to fix that? Also a Question about Space between textes in the Reading view mode, how to do that?
Thanks for the video. I watched the video about the new v.1 features. Do you know how to make the call-out look the same way before like title and body have different background colors and a larger line space without using CSS?
The only way to change how things look is by using CSS. But you can either use CSS OR change themes, which also work based on CSS. So maybe you could try looking around for other themes, if you would prefer not to modify the CSS.
Thank you very much, this video helps a lot by laerning markdown! One thing didn't worked. When I want to embed a search, I don't have this option bar for sorting and this stuff. It's just embeds the result from the search. Has someone an idea why and how to make that this ist shown?
Hey, Nicole. I really like your vids coz yours is probably easiest to understand. Can I make a request for you to feature tag pills/tag colors? I've found bits around the internet about the css snippets, copy pasted them but it doesn't work. Tag pills/Tag colors are really useful. I use tags to quickly check if that note is #unfinished or #ready_to_post so I know if I forgot something. However, I want the tags to be in separate colors. Do you know how to make it work?
Also, I'm not sure if obsidian devs removed the capability of the tag pills but right now, nothing seems to be working because most of the thing I saw is pre-version 1.0.3
23:20 wait I don't have the options (2nd line) in a query. is it new? another stuff I use with search is regex /# title (no need the second /) to find titles because for example in _JS I have some wikilinks like function leading to a new page but I have some titles not a page yet. You wanted to keep Ctrl+enter :)
Sorry about this... I spent a while trying to figure out how I managed to get those extra controls and finally found it! Lesson learned... I'll try and be more careful about what's available by default and what's not. The good news is that it's not in any early access version of Obsidian. The bad news is that it's a community plugin that's still experimental. It's this plugin: github.com/nothingislost/obsidian-query-control . If you would like to use it in Obsidian, you'll need to first install the Obsidian42 BRAT plugin and then install Query Control through there. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Hi Nicole, thanks for that great video. What are the icons for on the left side of your screen (how do you anchor them there?) and also the "traffic lights" above them?
Hi Thakius! The icons on the left are part of Obsidian - they come with Obsidian and I didn't do anything to put them there. :) The "traffic lights" are the controls to close, minimise, and maximise the app because I use a Mac. :)
Thanks for your answer, Nichole. :) I appreciate it. I downloaded Obsidian but I just have quick switcher, open graph view, daily note, insert template and open command palette as icons in this side bar.
I do like your videos (although I have to pause often, because they are to fast to catch up). Some things are not easy, e.g. to finde [ ] on my keyboard (where there is no picture of them engraved - also missing | :-). I noticed through the video that you always entered an empty paragraph to create more space for readability. - I rather would like to avoid these empty paragraphs because in other programs they lead to problems (and I had to delete them there). After searching for clues I came up with margin-bottom - and snippets, but to be frankly I have no clue how to make these simple adjustment to my template (and no template seams to care about space between two paragraphs - exactly for the purpose you use these empty lines - that are driving me crazy, because they are totally unnecessary. Best regards
Mate, I know next to nothing about coding, and am a writer trying to see whether Obsidian is right for my notes/creative process, but I have to say that you make, hands-down, the best tutorials I've seen on the web, paid or unpaid, for... pretty much anything. This could be so utterly confusing for a luddite like me, but you've somehow managed to elucidate it step-by-step without being patronising or superfluous. Brava.
Thank you! I appreciate this comment more than you know. Cheers!
I learned more in 24 minutes and 6 seconds than an entire year of trying this on my own - thank you so much !!!
Happy this was useful, Jeff!! :) Yeah, lots of things that aren't immediately obvious in Obsidian.
what did you fist find most difficult to grasp in Markdown syntax ?
Came back for a refresher, and I honestly appreciate your style so much. Everything is so clear, and concise, and easy to find.
There are a ton of Obsidian tutorial that don't accomplish what they advertise. I need good tips and explanations for notetaking, not some deep philosophical tangent essay on productivity, and the human condition.
Not everything needs profound to be useful and praiseworthy.
Nicole - first your love of TTRPGs is amazing but your ability to communicate is astounding. Thanks for all your videos on obsidian I reference them often.
Thank you so much, Don! I really appreciate that. I always THINK it sounds ok in my head, but sometimes it doesn't work out, you know? Glad you liked this one and I'm very humbled to know you reference my videos.
Nicole - I am a public lecturer/teacher and I can assure you - YOU ARE AN EXCELLENT communicator.
I watch some videos for the visual help…some for the communicator…but rarely do I watch videos for both
You are the exception.
Thank you, Don! :) For the support and kind words. Happy to help!
yea, i thought the same. Nicole, you are a great communicator
You actually can change font color using the Colored Text community plug in. I absolutely LOVE this plug in.
It works by highlighting selected text. You first have to set up a color palette that shows up in the bottom left hand part of the screen
😱 I've been using Obsidian for almost a year and I didn't even know you can do header and section-specific wiki links. I literally learned the difference between quotes and callouts just now 😂 Your videos are EXTREMELY helpful!! 🙏🔥✨
Happy to hear that!! That I could help you, that is. :) I think there are a lot of things about Obsidian that are not obvious, so I'm glad to be able to highlight some of these things!
I missed the header and section-specific wiki links. Where in the video was that?
@@YasarHabib I think this refers to linking to a specific section within a note ([[your note here#section header here]])
While there are many videos about Obsidian on RUclips, I see yours is the easiest to understand
I'm glad that you think so! I try. :)
I like your videos, I'm bored when I hear from some youtubers that Obsidian is for developper, I'm myself a developper and I'm not using Obsidian for that (even if I made some python plugins around it to replace some laggy/buggy Obsidian plugins) but I mostly use it because I feel it helps me with ADHD, and to also help making connections to improve my memory on the subjects that matters to me.
Thank you for the very clear overview. I'll be adding all of these to my own note taking process.
I like the equal signs using to highlight. Very cool features all around.
I'm just starting to use Obsidian and I have almost zero knowledge of coding and minimum knowledge of Markdown, I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but you know, I'm kind of a person who needs this type of video. I appreciate your help, thank you. It's difficult but I'm enjoying this,.
Thank you so much. I also learned a lot more during your video than I have learned in 6 months of implementing obsidian. Keep doing what you are doing! Blessings to you!
I can't like this video enough. I already knew some markdown, but always felt I was missing things. Thank you!
This is one of the best markdown tutorials I have ever seen, thank you for sharing this! 😊
Hey, thank you! I'm glad you found it useful. I've gotten some questions on Markdown-related things, so I thought I'd make a video to refer people to. :) Thanks for watching!
Excellent video. I especially appreciated your positivity with the "you don't have to be a professional to sing" comment, (and you don't have to be coder to use Obsidian). Loved the video!
I really wish I had found your channel a couple years ago when I began my PhD in physics but I'm so glad I found you now! THank you so much!!
Thank you for making tutorials that made my ADHD brain not only understand the topics discussed but also kept it from drifting its focus off to other distracting things in my room. Well done and I would love to watch what you put out in the future!
I didn't personally need this but I love your videos they are so intuitive for people new to Obsidian, thank you
Thank you, Owen! Appreciate the comment anyway! :)
@@nicolevdh Just wanted to say that the toughest thing about getting started with Obsidian is that everyone immediately starts talking about more advanced workflows and skips the basics. This video taught me SO MANY basics that I didn't even know I was missing!
Keep exploring at brilliant.org/Nicolevdh/ Get started for free, and hurry-the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.
THEMES used: Everforest.
PLUGINS: I know I said no plugins, but apparently I accidentally showed one that I forgot was a plugin! It's Query Control, and it's what I use to get extra controls when embedding a search query.
A comment from 4 days ago when the video is not even 1 day old lol
@@guizarbayardoemmanuelisaia1718 Nicole has super powers, that even You Tube is scared of... ... : ))))))
I release all my videos to my Patreons before I release them to everyone else. :)
Also, people always ask about themes and such, so I make sure to note down what I was using right after I upload something!
I'm just at the very start of using Obsidian but your sources have been a great help so far, especially the callout of this episode is something I'm gonna use a lot!
This is one of the clearest videos I've seen on Obsidian. The examples are well thought through too.
Thanks, Phil! I'm glad you liked this one! Happy to help.
I have been trying to use Obsidian for so long but it didnt work out until I found your vdo. I cant wait to dive in the power of Obsidian. Thank you Nicole.
Glad to hear that, JB! :) Welcome to Obsidian and to the Obsidian community! :) Hope you like it as much as I do!
@@nicolevdh I was jaw dropping when I successfully creat the first link. 🤣
I'm learning Obsidian. Your video has been most helpful. Thank you
Explaining is your God given gift. Keep up the beautiful work.
Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment! :)
The Everforest theme made my eyes relax instantly. Thanks for the suggestion.
Easily the best intro to Obsidian on the Choob. Also, mad props for the lowkey Into the Odd promo in the background, love it.
Wow. I started with obsidian for notes and organization. Now I want to learn more code. Thx again
That's a great progression! Happy to help!
I am new to Obsidian, but this will definitely change the way I use it for my bible studies, so thank you so much, Nicole. It really is appreciated. God bless you and Happy New Year!
That’s awesome! Thank you, and welcome to Obsidian!
So simply and plainly put- this, folks, is how you teach people.
Thanks, Mikel! I was worried about this being on the long side. I still need to work on my brevity, but I'm glad you liked this one!
this app is awesome. I don't know a lot about it, but I have sync thing setup and I can already feel like I'm gonna love this.
OMG! Love you, Themes brought color into my monocromatic Obsidiannotes:) Like watching your favorite cartoon in color for the first time :)) Thank you!
I like your videos, I'm learning a lot. just a quick note, on 18:00 - It's not footnote, it's called Anchor Links. ✌🏼
Qapla'! Thanks for the video, I learned a lot of things which I have wondered how to do for a long time! Your videos have definitely helped show me what is possible in Obsidian beyond "just notepad". Keep it coming with the fantastic content!
Yay! That's what I was hoping to do! Thank you for watching, and qapla' to you too!! ;)
I am really glad I found your video just starting out... one question tho, how did u make the right arrow for indenting your quote?
Hi great Video. Tanks a lot. Regarding footnotes I also like to just put in a space and then write ^[This is the content of the footnote] this way I don’t have to copy something to the end of the document. Obsidian just makes all the work for me.
WHAT. I never knew you could do this!! Thank you!
@@nicolevdh I‘m glad I could give at least a little bit back 😄.
I'm new to Obsidian and this video has helped me get started! Thanks Nicole!
Hey Nicole! This is a goldmine of a Channel. Love your energy and lucid explanations!
Much love!!!!
Yay! Thank you so much! Glad the energy is coming across! :)
Excellent video and playlist! I've been using Obsidian for a little while and learned a lot more from your video. Thanks!
Your voice provides a sense of comfort for me :D Happy to learn from your vids!
Thanks, I'm happy to hear that! :)
You've been the go to person for anything Obsidian related. I'll vote for you in the next Obsidian presidential election for sure. Keep up the good work! May the light illuminate you!
LOL @ presidential election! Thanks for the laugh. I'm happy you liked it!
Nicole you are the absolute obsidibest. I love you and your content.
You make this all so pleasant and simple. Thank you.
This might seem basic, but is absolute gold for amnesiac obsidian noobs like me...
Yay! I think it's only basic if you've used Markdown before, so I think it's reasonable if you're new to it! :) Really happy that it helped you!
Scratched my itchy spot 😄Many thanks!
Very informative video. I've watched a lot of obsidian tutorials, but this one is the best
the footnote feature saved me! I had to use dataview for that HAHAHA which made it more complicated to make sure that the note title is in every outgoing links I needed compiled (hence, i had to keep jumping from my main note and making sure that my dataview has every path i need there.)😢
Excellent tutorial. Huge fan of your communication style and content
Thanks for all the help. I gave up scrolling through all the comments. If someone else has asked this question, please forgive me. I have trouble with the implementation of adding a footnote to a page. How do I find the bottom of the page? It seems to scroll endlessly.
Great video, straight to the point. Thanks for sharing. I used the Canvas feature in real time to create a map of all of this so I can refer back to it later. What an incredible program.
That's awesome that you did that already! Happy to help out. :)
Fabulous intro video. The best I've found for my level -- rank beginner. I'm not opposed to coding, but I just needed to know the very basics of markdown and Obsidian. Thanks!
Well Markdown is similar to HTML but much more simple and can't be considered a programming language.
Thank you for the clear explanations Nicole. After switching back form Logseq to Obsidian, this was a great fresh up with some nice new features I didn't know about.
You're welcome, Andreas! I'm happy to have helped with that transition. Welcome back! :)
Have to drop a comment to say thanks! Your videos are immensely helpful for an Obsidian beginner like me!
Didnt know footnites exist in obsidian! They look like a good way to link notes without cluttering the main space too much, especially on subatomic notes
Exactly! They're just unobtrusive little numbers but they still preserve links and references. Glad I could spotlight them!
Yeah, that's a great surprise!
@@nicolevdh likely needs a colour change to give them a bit more 'pop'.
@Tim Bushell You could probably change the colours in the CSS! But I kinda like them being unobtrusive and out fo the way. :)
Nicole, Thanks, a good introduction.
incredibly helpful and clear - thank you Nicole! I wish I had found this video before watching so many others searching for these answers - just a suggestion but maybe adding something like "tips and foundational shortcuts to using Obsidian" could help beginners like me find you more easily?
also question - when I do the Embedded Search /query in markdown - it shows up but doesn't have the sort features? wondering if there's something I don't have turned on for that?
thanks again!
Hey again Rachael, I did think about talking about shortcuts, but they're so OS-specific and can be seen in Options > Hotkeys, so I thought maybe it wasn't worth me doing... but maybe I'm wrong!
Oh! You may need the Query Control plugin. Sorry, I forgot I had that enabled.
I have been playing around with Obsidian this morning to learn more about how to use it, so this video is perfect timing! Thanks! I have a little programming background, but am still a beginner, so this video is great!
I found your channel from your learning Swedish video, because I've started using obsidian to help me learn German. I initially tried using Notion since every youtuber seems to use it, but I found Notion to be so frustrating!
I really like Obsidian, but I do think a better way to use tables/spreadsheets in Obsidian would be clutch. I do have the advanced tables plugin, at least, but creating tables in markdown is just kind of a pain. Do you use tables in obsidian?
Also, I noticed that search results don't include when the search terms show up in headings or note titles, which is very frustrating, but I could just not know what I'm doing.
Hey Kristine! Welcome! :) Glad to hear from another person who went from Notion to Obsidian. I think you might like the Database Folder plugin, though it really isn't as good as Notion still. But development is happening, and quickly.
I hadn't noticed the issue with headings, but certainly with filenames! Since you mentioned you have a programming background, perhaps you have an IDE like VSCode installed? You can open your vault in your IDE and do searches from there... not as convenient, I know, but it does search headings.
@@nicolevdh I will look into those plugins and options, thanks! It's very encouraging to see how quickly the Obsidian devs jump on making updates, and the potential is so great considering how new it is. Thanks for your high quality videos and your contribution to the community!
Ok I think I figured out my problem with the search! The "Match Case" (Aa) option was selected, so it wouldn't pull up any results if it wasn't exactly matching my search term. When I untoggle that option, the titles do come up in the results! I'm not sure I will ever want to have my searches be case-sensitive, but good to know it's available.
Oh! Good to hear! I was just about to write you because I tried it again and didn't have any issues with either. I'll remember that next time someone says that to me. Happy you figured it out! :)
Wow....just wow. I'm taking a MASSIVE amount of cybersecurity notes with tons of code. Really didn't feel like digging into CSS or HTML just to change my font colors, etc...though I could. I just needed it to be easy since I've never used Obsidian. You kick ass for making this video! I learned so much. Thank you!
Markdown is great for quickly styling text without letting us go overboard with making things look too pretty. :) Happy to help!
Amazing. Learned a ton about markdown. You mentioned 'downloading cheat sheet" but can't see a link. I'd assumed it was something you'd put together.
Hi Gordon! Glad you liked it! Yes, the cheat sheet is something I put together. It's available on my Patreon here: pulse.ly/oa99e6noqg
I’m deciding which app to use in the coming year, and I think your amazing tutorials will tip me over to obsidian.
Woohoo! Glad to hear it, Lee. ;) Here's to a year of note-taking, whichever tool you end up using!
@@nicolevdh Have you ever tried to work in Logseq?
I have, but it's not for me. It's an outliner only, whereas Obsidian lets me outline AND write in paragraph form, which really encourages me to write more in that format. There are also too many Obsidian plugins that I'd miss if I went to Logseq.
@@nicolevdh Thank you. Now I'm playing with Tana, but it also seems to be an outliner. Supertags are cool though.
Yep, I'm not a fan of Tana either, although it's a better Roam Research. It's also cloud-only, which isn't great for me. Supertags were interesting, but nothing that I haven't already solved using templates.
Nicole is obviously an angel, sent to clean out the mess with made with our mind (and the world) 😂
I'm no angel! :) But I'm happy you liked the video!!
Lots of things to learn although I've used Obsidian for a few months 😀 Always a lot to learn - I'm getting soo much from your videos
Glad there were things in there that were still useful for you! I know I didn't know all of this stuff right away either.
I like markdown because I come from a LaTeX background. Good job, good video.
Thanks! Definitely a non-coder here. This was helpful. Question: for the footnote, does it automatically convert it to numbers? I noticed you typed in vulcan, and I was expecting the superscript to be vulcan instead of a number
Heyyy Laila! Yes, it automatically renders it as numbers. The first time you do it for one source, it's 1, and then it increments it after that. :)
Very nice video. I can agree that Obsidian is not only for coders however it is also not for mainstream users. At least it is for “geeks”. I do not means that as a negative word. After all, I am a SAP developer and to me, using Obsidian to its full extend seems like learning a new language.
Extremely Grateful for this video!
Thank you, this was great for someone just getting started with Obsidian like me! I'd love to learn more about YAML or what you think are the best practices for using tags in notes.
Thank you for the suggestion! Those are always useful. I've made a note of that. And I'm happy I helped you get started! :) Welcome to the Obsidian community!
Very clearly explained, nice job
Thanks, Kenneth! :)
Thank you very much, just a suggestion: can you pls use a light theme while demonstrating so we can easily see different symbols even on low resolution?
Hi! I do generally try to use light themes. Funnily enough though, I also get comments on those videos from people saying that the light themes are glaringly bright... so now I try to use a bit of both!
Super useful video, thank you. Obsidian is awesome. Now I'm testing Tana, did you try it?
Yes, I've tried it and am testing it, but I'm not that big a fan of outliners. I definitely won't be switching to it from Obsidian. :)
@@nicolevdh I'm looking forward to your review :) I didn't know about "outliners", but I guess I am also not a fan of outliners.
Thankyou so much for this! Your videos are the one who make me start a journey with obsidian 😆
Awww, I'm happy you got started with Obsidian! Thanks for letting me know that-- that's so nice ot hear! :)
I was waiting for a vid like this. Thank you, Nicole!
You're welcome! :) Glad I could oblige.
Thanks. Content put across for a beginner to understand.
One video & I subscribed to your channel. Thanks for beautiful explanation with example
Thanks so much for the vote of confidence! Appreciate you. <3
Very good Nicole. Thanks
This is the video Nicole, thanks a lot.
Thanks for this video. I cant code even if my life is on stake, but this video is a godsend. Obrigado!!!
Happy you liked it, Francisco! You are exactly the person I made this for. :) Obrigada!
This is so cool! Thanks for the deep dive.
Thank you for this. Its super helpful !
Thank you so much ! i have learned a lot from this video; keep going
Thank you - this is an incredibly helpful and well produced tutorial!
this is the best Video about Obsidian
I don't know about that, but I am happy you like it! :)
Having a note or 'page' or file stack of searches is one I hadn't thought of - but should - it is an Evernote function after all.
I like to do it when I'm in the middle of doing research for something (for a video, or presentation, or blog post). It's handy to have multiple searches in the same note where I'm trying to piece things together!
Thank you for this video! Never knew any of this stuff and you explained it well and visually so I was always following along
YAY! Love to hear that. Very glad to be able to help you.
This is amazing. Can anyone help me out? I was able to embed a query, but it's not finding any matches for the tag. Does the tag need to be in any specific place (like the metadata) for it to be searchable?
Nicole, thank you for your excellent videos on Obsidian! I was wondering if you could do a video on notettakiing for university students. I'm a math major looking to use Obsidian for my studies and was hoping you could make a video on how you would approach notetaking for a university student, particularly one in a technical field. Thank you so much for all the work you do!
Hi! Glad you're liking them! Thanks for the suggestion-- I'm not a university student so I can't really talk about that well, but I think a lot of general learning advice should apply, and I can definitely add that to the list. In the meantime, here's a video about how I learn technical subjects, in case it's useful! ruclips.net/video/6kzsCBKCl94/видео.html
Awesome explanation!
Learned a LOT thanks !!!!
Okay this is really cool. Thanks for the video
Thank you for watching! :)
12:40 but if you use the read view mode its just still 3 underlines, not a constant line... how to fix that?
Also a Question about Space between textes in the Reading view mode, how to do that?
Thanks for the video. I watched the video about the new v.1 features. Do you know how to make the call-out look the same way before like title and body have different background colors and a larger line space without using CSS?
The only way to change how things look is by using CSS. But you can either use CSS OR change themes, which also work based on CSS. So maybe you could try looking around for other themes, if you would prefer not to modify the CSS.
Thank you very much, this video helps a lot by laerning markdown! One thing didn't worked. When I want to embed a search, I don't have this option bar for sorting and this stuff. It's just embeds the result from the search. Has someone an idea why and how to make that this ist shown?
Hi how did you put the numbers before that list. I'm on my iPad and when I try to put the numbers before even doing the heading I cant
Thank you for your work!! This should also apply to fellow coders as well :)
You're very welcome! Absolutely! I meant to make this welcoming to non-coders... hope I haven't made it unwelcoming to coders. :)
How can I do both bold and italics?
Hey, Nicole. I really like your vids coz yours is probably easiest to understand. Can I make a request for you to feature tag pills/tag colors? I've found bits around the internet about the css snippets, copy pasted them but it doesn't work.
Tag pills/Tag colors are really useful. I use tags to quickly check if that note is #unfinished or #ready_to_post so I know if I forgot something. However, I want the tags to be in separate colors.
Do you know how to make it work?
Also, I'm not sure if obsidian devs removed the capability of the tag pills but right now, nothing seems to be working because most of the thing I saw is pre-version 1.0.3
Hey, I'm sorry, but I never used the tag pills, and generally don't use tags that much either. Sorry!
@@nicolevdh It's okay. Thank you for the reply. :)
Thanks Nicole!
Amazing, I learned many things that I didn't know. 👏💛
Excellent! That's what I was hoping to do! Thanks for the support. <3
23:20 wait I don't have the options (2nd line) in a query. is it new?
another stuff I use with search is regex /# title (no need the second /) to find titles because for example in _JS I have some wikilinks like function leading to a new page but I have some titles not a page yet.
You wanted to keep Ctrl+enter :)
me too, i don't have the options。 version：Obsidian1.0
@@rnzi716 soon 。。。
Sorry about this... I spent a while trying to figure out how I managed to get those extra controls and finally found it! Lesson learned... I'll try and be more careful about what's available by default and what's not.
The good news is that it's not in any early access version of Obsidian. The bad news is that it's a community plugin that's still experimental. It's this plugin: github.com/nothingislost/obsidian-query-control . If you would like to use it in Obsidian, you'll need to first install the Obsidian42 BRAT plugin and then install Query Control through there.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
@@nicolevdh THX！love U！
Hi Nicole, thanks for that great video. What are the icons for on the left side of your screen (how do you anchor them there?) and also the "traffic lights" above them?
Hi Thakius! The icons on the left are part of Obsidian - they come with Obsidian and I didn't do anything to put them there. :) The "traffic lights" are the controls to close, minimise, and maximise the app because I use a Mac. :)
Thanks for your answer, Nichole. :) I appreciate it. I downloaded Obsidian but I just have quick switcher, open graph view, daily note, insert template and open command palette as icons in this side bar.
Yes, they change depending on what plugins you've installed.
I do like your videos (although I have to pause often, because they are to fast to catch up). Some things are not easy, e.g. to finde [ ] on my keyboard (where there is no picture of them engraved - also missing | :-).
I noticed through the video that you always entered an empty paragraph to create more space for readability. - I rather would like to avoid these empty paragraphs because in other programs they lead to problems (and I had to delete them there).
After searching for clues I came up with margin-bottom - and snippets, but to be frankly I have no clue how to make these simple adjustment to my template (and no template seams to care about space between two paragraphs - exactly for the purpose you use these empty lines - that are driving me crazy, because they are totally unnecessary.
Best regards
Ignore my comment on a previous video about coding - I found this video!