Oh this makes me so happy! Thank you for sharing! I'm using callouts to keep track of certain things like ideas, quotes, thoughts, ... across several files, giving me the opportunity to just slab that in when it comes to my mind on any file like little postits.. But up until now it wasn't possible to retrieve them all as an overview, since dataview isn't able to render the callout specificly and the inline query obviously didn't as well. Closest I could get so far was to plot a list of files with that given callout by additionally adding a tag, which I didn't really like. Now I can skip that and finally see all my e.g. Ideas in one file. YAY. :D
Omg thank you so much! Obsidian was my favorite tool but I switched back and forth for the last two years between Obsidian, Notion, Logseq and Nextcloud Collectives. My struggle was always how I'd organize my quotes because no solution besides Notion was how I would like it and I didn't wanted to use Notion because of it being online, unencrypted (or not E2EE) and not based on standard file formats you can read outside of Notion without issues. But this method finally fixed my only struggle with Obsidian and I can now finally use it in peace and organize not only my second brain but also my quotes and books!
I'm actually using a system font for macOS for everything. I like to keep things as vanilla as possible so things don't break in updates. I think it's called San Francisco, but I'm not 100% sure 🤷🏼♂️
This is really helpful, thanks! I'm not a coder, but I'm doing my best to follow your instructions. I've downloaded your test vault that the link above sent me to, but I don't see the CSS Quotebook snippet you've mentioned. And I have no idea how to "modify the .internal-query ...". Is there any way you can explain that or point me to the CSS snippet? And thanks so much for all your videos and tips!
Great video but I never quite understood why use this approach instead of Dataview. You still installed plugins so what is the benefit of this approach over dataview?
The big benefit is it looks a lot nicer IMHO 🙂 I had tried to build this in Dataview but was never happy with the results. This gives me exactly what I want, but Dataview is a fine option too (I use it a few other places in my vault).
I’m starting to do the same thing building out lists for my tasks 😊 Are you using the Obsidian Tasks plugin? That’s what I’m using, it adds those completed dates automatically. But does require another plugin.
@@MikeSchmitz No plugins just like this with query and line:#todo. I use some nested tags to indicate priority, then I can make separate queries for each nested tag.
Hi, I appreciate your content but it really drives me crazy when you always show the Obsidian screen with the queries only for a second and the immediately sweep back to your face (nothing personal ;)). I’m here for Obsidian, want to follow and understand what you are doing there, don’t need to see your face at all for that, I just need your Obsidian screen for that. It’s like you are doing a product review in which I only see the product for 1% of the time and the presenter 99% of the time. It should be the other way around!
I do have several courses where I focus only on the screen, but for RUclips I am going for a slightly different vibe. Maybe I’ll change that up though. Thank you for the constructive feedback 😊
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Oh this makes me so happy! Thank you for sharing! I'm using callouts to keep track of certain things like ideas, quotes, thoughts, ... across several files, giving me the opportunity to just slab that in when it comes to my mind on any file like little postits.. But up until now it wasn't possible to retrieve them all as an overview, since dataview isn't able to render the callout specificly and the inline query obviously didn't as well. Closest I could get so far was to plot a list of files with that given callout by additionally adding a tag, which I didn't really like. Now I can skip that and finally see all my e.g. Ideas in one file. YAY. :D
I ran into the same roadblocks for years… was very happy when I stumbled on a solution that worked for me 😊 Glad you found it useful too!
Fantastic walk through of your method Mike, thank you so much for the clear explanation of how to implement!
Thanks for the kind words, glad it was helpful 😊
Omg thank you so much! Obsidian was my favorite tool but I switched back and forth for the last two years between Obsidian, Notion, Logseq and Nextcloud Collectives. My struggle was always how I'd organize my quotes because no solution besides Notion was how I would like it and I didn't wanted to use Notion because of it being online, unencrypted (or not E2EE) and not based on standard file formats you can read outside of Notion without issues.
But this method finally fixed my only struggle with Obsidian and I can now finally use it in peace and organize not only my second brain but also my quotes and books!
Awesome! Glad you liked it 😊
Great solution and I really like the CSS hack for the query control.
Thanks! Glad you liked it, and thanks for the BRAT plugin 😉
This is amazing Mike, thanks a lot for this epic knowledge! Can’t wait to build my quote book
Awesome! Glad it was helpful 🙂
Really cool, thanks for sharing!
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching 😊
Nice work mate, What font are you using in obsidian?
I'm actually using a system font for macOS for everything. I like to keep things as vanilla as possible so things don't break in updates. I think it's called San Francisco, but I'm not 100% sure 🤷🏼♂️
Hey, thanks a lot, this is amazing !
Thanks for the kind words 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!
This is really helpful, thanks! I'm not a coder, but I'm doing my best to follow your instructions. I've downloaded your test vault that the link above sent me to, but I don't see the CSS Quotebook snippet you've mentioned. And I have no idea how to "modify the .internal-query ...". Is there any way you can explain that or point me to the CSS snippet? And thanks so much for all your videos and tips!
Thanks for the kind words! I think I just replied to you via email, but let me know if you have more questions 🙂
Nice. I’ve been thinking about this too. Good ideas in there.
Thanks! I’ve literally been struggling with this since I switched to Obsidian. Glad to finally have a solution that works 😊
Great video but I never quite understood why use this approach instead of Dataview. You still installed plugins so what is the benefit of this approach over dataview?
The big benefit is it looks a lot nicer IMHO 🙂 I had tried to build this in Dataview but was never happy with the results. This gives me exactly what I want, but Dataview is a fine option too (I use it a few other places in my vault).
Will using #quote tags work for quotes which are spread across multple paragraphs/linebreaks? Plz respond
No. It only shows the line the tag is on.
@@MikeSchmitz Awww. I wonder if there could be some way to do that - like using tags to wrap paragraphs with and look them up later.
Doing the same thing but for my #todo tasks I add to my notes
Oh and when I complete a task I change it to #done [[2023-12-25]] -
To create a completed list
I’m starting to do the same thing building out lists for my tasks 😊 Are you using the Obsidian Tasks plugin? That’s what I’m using, it adds those completed dates automatically. But does require another plugin.
@@MikeSchmitz No plugins just like this with query and line:#todo. I use some nested tags to indicate priority, then I can make separate queries for each nested tag.
Most of my tasks don't have a hard deadline, but if they have a deadline I mostly use TickTick
Hi, I appreciate your content but it really drives me crazy when you always show the Obsidian screen with the queries only for a second and the immediately sweep back to your face (nothing personal ;)). I’m here for Obsidian, want to follow and understand what you are doing there, don’t need to see your face at all for that, I just need your Obsidian screen for that. It’s like you are doing a product review in which I only see the product for 1% of the time and the presenter 99% of the time. It should be the other way around!
I do have several courses where I focus only on the screen, but for RUclips I am going for a slightly different vibe. Maybe I’ll change that up though. Thank you for the constructive feedback 😊