@@Justgoodvids Lol, yeah I feel like it's kind of like when people learn vim: the initial learning curve is so massive that break-even point of time saved is pretty far off.
@@nicolevdh Straight up watchin this 2 years later and its still one of the most concise and effective dataview tutorials. If I had you teach me vim i feel like I woulda actually used it xd. Seriously great work, as someone who really just needed a general overview and sample syntax this is exactly what I was looking for.
This is sharp, concise, to the point, and cuts all the redundant non-informative "info". Instead of pressing the fast-forward button to find some parts of interest (and often being disappointed that there is none), I found myself pressing pause and rewind to absorb it all. Love your style!!!!
Oh yay!! Don't give up. Dataview can be really daunting, but once you get an example working, then it's just a matter of changing it slightly. At least, that's been my experience! :)
Hello fellow PTYA'er! I have been bingeing your Obsidian videos all day. You're a great teacher. These videos are so clear and succinct. It's making my move from Roam to Obsidian painless. TY
Hi! Welcome! I'm really happy to help with your migration -- it's no joke moving notes from one app to another. LOTS of reformatting. I hope it's a while before I do it again! :D
This is the best dataview explanation for beginners that I've seen. The examples you provided are perfect, starting from very basic and then building on that. Thank you!
Hi, I'm new to Obsidian and I've come across to your channel. Your videos on Obsidian are really helpful for me as a beginner. It's a step by step, crystal clear explanation on process & progress for me as a beginner. It really is useful as I find other videos kind of overwhelming for me. I'm like, doing a marathon, watching your videos, and then watching it again while toggled on the Obsidian. I'll binged watch all your videos other than Obsidian. I'm a new fan of yours. Thank you for the informative videos 😊
Your videos make my brain swim in a good way! I was looking at dataview yesterday for aggregating my planned encounters in D&D 5e. I think I was using it wrong, trying to aggregate content blocks of encounters (1 to many in a single file). Watching this video, it seems like dataview would work way better if I made a file per encounter. This would actually make my module vault cleaner, as I would likely put those planned encounters in an Encounters folder at the top and transclude where needed, allowing me to better structure their data.
I am a newbie who started using obsidian just a couple of days ago. The video you made is really great! I have watched a lot of RUclips videos, but yours is compact and very informative. Thank you so much.
Welcome to the Obsidian community! Happy to have you here, and even happier to know that you are enjoying my videos. Thanks for the support, and if you have any specific questions, please feel free to leave a comment-- I often get ideas for future videos from comments. :)
Love the video. Like everyone's been saying, dataview looked helpful, but I couldn't wrap my head around how to get started. Great job on mahjong this so simple. I've watched once already, and I'll be gong through it again when I get home tonight 🙃
Thanks, Lynn! I felt the same way! It was Dataview this, Dataview that... but it took me a while to understand how to use it, and then longer to understand how I'd actually use it.
Thank you!!! Ive been transitioning to Obsidian to Notion for it feels like the past 6 months, but Dataview was a bit tricky for me, but with tutorial has really helped me to become more confident in using it in my setup
there's so much on your channel to learn from. I'm new to obsidian and your channel has gotten me so excited about this whole journey. thank you thank you
This is such a helpful introduction to Dataview for non-coders! Than k you so much. And THANK YOU also for zooming in close enough during the screen capture parts! I have given up on some Obsidian tutorials because it's assumed that I'm watching the video on a monitor, and the text is too tiny to read on a phone screen.
Thank you so much! I am at the start of my PhD and I'm so excited to use dataview. I was struggling to figure out how to use it but this was super helpful!
I've seen your videos on TTRPG management in Obsidian and other plugins and I went to look for a short basic intro to Dataview not really paying attention to who it was by and I was so relieved to see it was one of your videos when I clicked on it. Your videos are so helpful
Hi Nicole! What an excellent video - thank you! I’ve been looking vaguely at Dataview for a little while and it seemed obscure and complex, but this explainer was perfect. You cover each step clearly and concisely, in an order that makes sense, and your examples (including building queries by refining your output) are brilliant. I am just about to like and subscribe, and looking forward to working my way through your back-catalogue!
Hi Graham! Thanks for the comment! Really happy that this video helped. Dataview totally IS obscure and complex-- I thought so too when I first got into it! Welcome to the channel. :)
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Thank you for another great video Nicole! I see you navigating Obsidian using keyboard shortcuts - I would love to learn that as well. Could you please take that as a subject for a future video? 😊 - how to bring up the switcher, and how to create new notes and folders by simply writing the title -how to view notes flexibly side by side - how to get around in Obsidian using just keystrokes. Would love such a video - thank you again! 🙌
You're a fantastic teacher! You explain the important points clearly and at a pace that is very easy to follow. Thanks *very* much for all of your Obsidian tutorials!
Great video. You just lost me at 2:37 when you added the Front Matter above what I thought was the file name? I can only hope to have my coding skills ascend to your level.
The Dataview plugin is great, I can't imagine using Obsidian without it. Honestly, I wish it was part of core Obsidian as getting the most out of it requires all your files to have the appropriate metadata, and it can take a lot of work to go back and update all your notes.
Yeah, I think it should be part of core too! I do understand your pain on having to go back and add metadata to all files. One cool thing about Dataview is that unlike with a database (where everything has to have the same parameters), Dataview still works even with only a subset of your notes having parameters. I haven't gone back and added meeting parameters to my older meetings, but it's the newer ones I need the most anyway...
@@nicolevdh Luckily I only started using Obsidian this year so there wasn't that much to update. I agree that Dataview is able to do more interesting things than traditional databases because of how you can add and remove parameters as you want.
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This was such a helpful video Nicole. Thank you. I have already started using Dataview since watching this and am loving it, I mean loving it. Thank you.
Wow I am so happy that I discovered your channel. Where have you been all my life!! lol I am brand new to Obsidian but I can tell this is the world I want to live in, and I am taking my first shaky steps. The big task I need to chip away at now is taking all of my random unorganized notes from Things (and reminders, and notion, and bookmarks, and....) and bring them in to Obsidian in a deliberate way. I feel like ultimately there is enough flexibility within Obsidian that I can always refine things later but I am resistant to the idea of just dumping all of these things in at once. I've watched most of your videos at this point, and I know data view and templater are going to be key tools to master. If I could make a request for a video topic, I would be very keen to learn tips and tricks for bringing in all of the components of a second brain from all of the disorganized places it currently exists, and doing it with intention. Setting up the structure and skeleton of your system as you go... I know that sounds more like the realm of Notion but I just know once I get into the "flow" of Obsidian its going to be second nature, just need to figure out that "aha" moment!
Jeremy, welcome to the Obsidian community! So happy I could help, and that you're starting out with Obsidian. I hope it wll be as good for you as it has been for me. I know it can be really daunting to get all set up, but hang in there! It DOES get better when you're past the icky migration stage. Also, maybe consider not expecting yourself to migrate absolutely everything before you start using Obsidian. You can always keep migrating things over while you're already reaping the benefits! :) Thanks for the idea. Video requests are always welcome! Will have to think about that one and collect my thoughts on it. Appreciate the support, and welcome again!!
@@nicolevdh oh gosh I feel a bit star struck that you replied, and so quickly too! 🥰 Yeah right now I’m going through a similar process migrating all my images into MyMind, taking the opportunity to prune the vast archives I’ve collected over the years haha When it comes to notes, I have tons and tons of thoughts I’ve written down that might be along the lines of a journal entry, an app idea, a book I want to read, or some cool character class that I want to refine. I’m super attracted to the concept that things like categories and organizational structure emerges naturally in Obsidian, because I would have no idea how to sort it all out if I had to decide the hierarchy in advance I guess the migration process is kind of like a necessary struggle step, I’ll be chipping away at it for probably a month or so I would estimate lol. To take one example of something I’m wrestling with, I have a word doc that’s about 20 pages long of random thoughts and ideas not necessarily tied together. If I just drop the text into an obsidian note and go through to add brackets around concepts that I think will warrant their own page, can I expect a coherent structure to start emerging? Or would it be better to make a new note in obsidian for each “slice” that I can take out of the document, one thought at a time? I think I have some more research to do on this idea of Zettlecasten and specifically how to achieve it using Obsidian. But I just really like your style so I’m gonna keep re-watching your videos to mine all the nuggets of info I can!!
Thank you! And thanks for your feedback about what you'd like to see in this video as well - I made sure to add the dictionary and the Goodreads use cases here.
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Thank you so much Nicole, this was helpful, as I have been due dating my tasks always, but always hat to go through the backlinks. This is over now, amazing. Also thanks for role modelling female tech and programming knowledge work, your videos are a blast and give me courage to process trying 😊
Thank you so much! It's sad that there are still relatively few women in programming, but we are growing! Glad you are enjoying the videos, and welcome!
Great video! One thing is still not sure about: Can we make a daily note (a page) with multiple sections that each have their own tags and then search/query by tag and see only the relevant sections of the pages? If I do this in OneNote I'll get a list of pages where the tags are on, but each element in the search will take me to that entire page including all other sections and content on that page. Hope this makes sense!
While tags in Obsidian are also applied to the whole note, clicking on a search result will take you to where the tag is, so it would let you jump to the section you put the tag in.
Hi NIcole, thank you for these great videos on getting started with Obsidian. After a year in Notion I am migrating to Obsidian now and your videos have been a great help. Everything is going pretty smoothly but I need to put in a lot of work to get a decent task management system going. PS groeten uit Noord Holland :)
What a powerful plugin ! It's really good to have you exploring the capability of note taking ,and share it with us. Many thanks! I'm thinking about using this with my vocabularies since they need tags like "times of ran into " "different meanings" and "memory rank" etc I wonder if there's anything like checkbox , but more like a slider or button, to mark the rank of my memory, so I can work with my phone more often to memorize them.
Glad you liked the video and the plugin! Unfortunately, I don't know of a plugin that you describe. For spaced repetition, I use another app called Anki. It's so much better for that particular use case than Obsidian is, so I've just continued to use it.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this. Between Dataview and Kan Ban I'm going to migrate completely to Obsidian. One question: When I do the LIST query I'm not seeing the titles of the different pages tasks are being pulled from. Is that a setting or plugin you're using?
Hey Max! Sorry for the late reply, but I'm afraid it's not that helpful either. I'm not sure why yours is showing up differently when you use the same query as me. Afaik I didn't do anything differently, and I don't think there's a plugin for that either. Might be a question for the Dataview developer?
No clue if this is still relevant to you, but it works if you add GROUP BY file[DOT]link Just replace the [DOT] with an actual dot, had to circumvent the spam filter that thought I was posting a link.
How does one get the meta data above the page title? I have notes I would like to annotate with yaml metadata and cannot figure that out for the life of me.
Great video! I always thought Dataview looked a bit "overkill", but this made it seem pretty easy. I still don't want to rely heavily on it, because if every MOC I create relies on DV, I've got a problem in case of DV stopping to work with Obsidian, or me wanting or having to move my notes to other software. One question: In case of using it as a Goodreads replacement, is there any way to add multiple reading dates in the read-field and making it possible that the same book appears in a "Read in 2023" and a "Read in 2024" table? The only way I could make it work is creating a separate field for every reading date in the YAML, but it feels like very much clutter.
Hi! Not natively, but I saw there's an issue on the GitHub repository, so exports are at least on the roadmap! If you know how to code, you can do this in JavaScript as well. :)
Hi Nicolas, thanks for your videos. Do you mind sharing the way to have metadata above page title and maybe hide page title from the content? That would be awesome and I don't find the solution. And of course, if you know where to find the answers, let me know :). Thanks!
Great video! How does one keep data in dataview consistent? Like for example you made a mistake "email" should be "work email". Do you need to change that for all notes manually?
The best introductory dataview video!!! How do you define the taxonomy of the tags and attributes that you gonna put in the notes, so that, you can be consistently across the notes you create?
Yay! Thank you, and I'm happy you liked it! I actually created a "Metadata" page, which contains kind of like a data model of all the attributes I use for different things. That helps me stay consistent!
@@nicolevdh Super I had some Metadata files. I think I got stuck overthinking and I was not creating more as I needed. Good tip, maybe just keep creating those metadata to specific types.
Great Video - Thx. My question is: How do i handle if a person is in more than one Project? Lets say "Project X" and "Project Y"? How can i handle that and then get a lost for exampke of all persons in Project x, but not in project y?
Now I am super motivated to structure my notes with metadata, thank you Nicole you are amazing at explaining this to perfect cognitive saturation level for your listeners. I was wondering how to achieve the following: like with coding, I would like to enfore type for certain fields (and ideally have autocomplete kick in like with tags) - how would you go about doing this?
Hi Manuel! Thank you so much. I'm very happy you like the way I explain. I try to be coherent, but sometimes it's hard to tell, you know? Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to enforce types for Dataview params. The closest plugin I know of to doing that is MetaEdit. I don't believe it enforces types, but it does make it easier to edit parameters/values from different notes. Another idea that I've been implementing is to embed the type into your Dataview field. For example, `strSummary` or `dateUpdated`. Still won't enforce types, but it might lead to more consistent values. I also keep a data model note where I track different params I use, so that I have a reference if I need it. Hope that helps!
I'm writing a TTRPG sourcebook in Obisidian, and Dataview makes it super easy to put everything in a Table of Contents style hierarchy without thinking about it too hard beforehand.
Wow. Subscribed. This is a friendly readable way of applying programming syntax into a practical use for people who are starting with coding. I'm curious about how you structure your life with these tags and your workflows. For me, the difficult thing is not to understand the tool but to know how to organize myself with it and when to use it.
Yay! That was my goal - I got a lot of questions from non-programmers and wanted to make something accessible. I use most of the specific use cases I showed here. I mainly use Dataview for meetings, people, TTRPG stuff, and sometimes for tasks. I use it for a lot of ad-hoc stuff too though, which are not really part of a process.
Thanks! I haven't made a video on it, but in Markdown, you can make checkboxes by typing out: - [ ] Task here Then, to check it off, you can click on it or add an X between the brackets: - [X] Completed task If you're on a Mac, the keyboard shortcut is CMD + ENTER to toggle between them.
Hey Nicole, what is the purpose of putting the summary in double quotes in your front matter? I've been using a "description" key for Kanban card notes, and haven't put them in double quotes, but I'm wondering if I should.
So nice ! Small questions: - how do you lint the metadata of each note? - is it better to put the hashtags in metadata than in the main text with #? Thanks a lot!
Hey! I don't. Although there is a plugin for that: MetaEdit. I honestly prefer the simplicity of just having a note that keeps track of the metadata I'm using. I don't sweat it too much. Where you put the tags is just a personal preference/aesthetic thing IMO.
Hello Nicole, I am delighted with your program, especially Obsidian, a tool that I have started to use. I am from Colombia, from the city of Medellín, my language is Spanish, however, I put subtitles with translation into Spanish, this to tell you that although I do not speak English, even so, your explanations are great, in advance infinite thanks for share your knowledge, best regards
Hola Giovanni, también me puedes escribir en español. :) Aunque no soy hablante nativa, tampoco soy hablante nativa de inglés. Algún día tengo que ver si puedo hacer subtítulos en español también... que bueno oir que te gusta mis videos, gracias. :)
Hey Nicole, really enjoying your presentation style and the information you're sharing. I'm wondering in the Tasks section why your `TASKS ` query automatically shows File links (which seems handy) but when I run the query myself, it doesn't show these links or group the results by file. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere?
Hi Brandon! Thank you for that! I think something might have changed with Dataview since the time I made this video. I didn't do anything different and it just showed the link. Now it seems you have to add this line: `group by file.link` and you'll get the same thing. :)
Been digging thru the forums for Dataview tips but didnt realize you had a video til now. Super helpful and a balm for my confusion!! Is there a way to tally the number of results returned by the dataview query? For example show a table with the total number of notes where YAML parameter type = Type1 or Type2 etc
Thank you very much for your awesome tutorials. I just got started with obsidian and it really helps a lot. I got one problem with this dataview plugin though, maybe you orr someone in here can help me out: if i create a new note, on the top i have to name it. I cannot add the --- tags: ... --- section above that name of the note, just below it. So i did and when i use just one word like "tags: recipie" or "type: cooking" or whatever, the query works perfectly. BUT if I try to use multiple tags it just doesnt find anything with the query... for example if i use "tags: recipie, recipies, cooking, something" (even if I write it with tags: and than each tagword with - in a new line) no dataview results are found. Is the tagging wrong? Or do i have to change the query somehow? maybe he wants excact matches for ALL tags and not just ONE tag of the many?
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YES! Thank you for being the first person to explain dataview in a video that is not an hour long! Yet you covered all of the basic functions.
Thank you so much! :) I totally think I could talk about Dataview for an hour, but really tried to compress it. Thanks for appreciating that.
@obs81 Thanks, you're sweet! Glad I could help!
It cracks me up that the Quick Add plug-in video is an hour long
@@Justgoodvids Lol, yeah I feel like it's kind of like when people learn vim: the initial learning curve is so massive that break-even point of time saved is pretty far off.
@@nicolevdh Straight up watchin this 2 years later and its still one of the most concise and effective dataview tutorials. If I had you teach me vim i feel like I woulda actually used it xd. Seriously great work, as someone who really just needed a general overview and sample syntax this is exactly what I was looking for.
I really appreciate you for the details, every other video I saw just skip the important stuff like we already know it . But you keep it smooth.
Hey folks! The themes I used in this video is are Everforest (dark mode one) and Primary (light mode) with no custom CSS. :)
This is sharp, concise, to the point, and cuts all the redundant non-informative "info". Instead of pressing the fast-forward button to find some parts of interest (and often being disappointed that there is none), I found myself pressing pause and rewind to absorb it all. Love your style!!!!
Thank you so much! That was exactly what I was going for. Love hearing that. Thanks, Koen!
Clear to me, Nicole. 76 years old and still shaping and shining my obsidian weapon.
Thanks for all the videos you share on Obsidian, I have been able to learn so much 😇
This was fantastic. New to Obsidian and Dataview sounds amazing. Thanks for a concise, useful explanation of the main features!
Happy to hear that! Thank you, Tim!
I was struggling with dataview yesterday and I know this video is going to help me tremendously when I watch it tonight. Thank you so much Nicole!
Oh yay!! Don't give up. Dataview can be really daunting, but once you get an example working, then it's just a matter of changing it slightly. At least, that's been my experience! :)
Hello fellow PTYA'er! I have been bingeing your Obsidian videos all day. You're a great teacher. These videos are so clear and succinct. It's making my move from Roam to Obsidian painless. TY
Hi! Welcome! I'm really happy to help with your migration -- it's no joke moving notes from one app to another. LOTS of reformatting. I hope it's a while before I do it again! :D
This is the best dataview explanation for beginners that I've seen. The examples you provided are perfect, starting from very basic and then building on that. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Kris! It makes me happy to hear that. :)
The distinction between hoarding data and learning from it (at timestamp 15:35) was just brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you, I'm glad you got some value out of that, Michael! :) Cheers for the support!
Hi, I'm new to Obsidian and I've come across to your channel. Your videos on Obsidian are really helpful for me as a beginner. It's a step by step, crystal clear explanation on process & progress for me as a beginner. It really is useful as I find other videos kind of overwhelming for me. I'm like, doing a marathon, watching your videos, and then watching it again while toggled on the Obsidian. I'll binged watch all your videos other than Obsidian. I'm a new fan of yours. Thank you for the informative videos 😊
Your videos make my brain swim in a good way!
I was looking at dataview yesterday for aggregating my planned encounters in D&D 5e. I think I was using it wrong, trying to aggregate content blocks of encounters (1 to many in a single file). Watching this video, it seems like dataview would work way better if I made a file per encounter. This would actually make my module vault cleaner, as I would likely put those planned encounters in an Encounters folder at the top and transclude where needed, allowing me to better structure their data.
Yeah, that sounds like a better approach! Great use for dataview. I'm glad it was in a good way that I made your brain swim... :D
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I am a newbie who started using obsidian just a couple of days ago. The video you made is really great! I have watched a lot of RUclips videos, but yours is compact and very informative. Thank you so much.
Welcome to the Obsidian community! Happy to have you here, and even happier to know that you are enjoying my videos. Thanks for the support, and if you have any specific questions, please feel free to leave a comment-- I often get ideas for future videos from comments. :)
Your breakdown of information is great and your persona and delivery is so approachable; I look here first. Thanks for sharing!
Love the video. Like everyone's been saying, dataview looked helpful, but I couldn't wrap my head around how to get started. Great job on mahjong this so simple. I've watched once already, and I'll be gong through it again when I get home tonight 🙃
Thanks, Lynn! I felt the same way! It was Dataview this, Dataview that... but it took me a while to understand how to use it, and then longer to understand how I'd actually use it.
Thank you!!! Ive been transitioning to Obsidian to Notion for it feels like the past 6 months, but Dataview was a bit tricky for me, but with tutorial has really helped me to become more confident in using it in my setup
Glad to hear it, Rob! I hope this finally gets you to make the switch! :)
there's so much on your channel to learn from. I'm new to obsidian and your channel has gotten me so excited about this whole journey.
thank you thank you
Yay! Happy to hear that, and welcome to the Obsidian community! I hope it's as useful to you as it has been to me.
This is such a helpful introduction to Dataview for non-coders! Than k you so much. And THANK YOU also for zooming in close enough during the screen capture parts! I have given up on some Obsidian tutorials because it's assumed that I'm watching the video on a monitor, and the text is too tiny to read on a phone screen.
Thank you so much! I am at the start of my PhD and I'm so excited to use dataview. I was struggling to figure out how to use it but this was super helpful!
So happy to hear that, Daniella! Good luck with your PhD!
I've seen your videos on TTRPG management in Obsidian and other plugins and I went to look for a short basic intro to Dataview not really paying attention to who it was by and I was so relieved to see it was one of your videos when I clicked on it. Your videos are so helpful
Yay! Happy to hear that. Glad I came up on your feed again. TTRPGs are slowly taking over my Obsidian vault, honestly...
Hi Nicole! What an excellent video - thank you! I’ve been looking vaguely at Dataview for a little while and it seemed obscure and complex, but this explainer was perfect. You cover each step clearly and concisely, in an order that makes sense, and your examples (including building queries by refining your output) are brilliant. I am just about to like and subscribe, and looking forward to working my way through your back-catalogue!
Hi Graham! Thanks for the comment! Really happy that this video helped. Dataview totally IS obscure and complex-- I thought so too when I first got into it! Welcome to the channel. :)
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Hey, thank you so much for the encouragement! :) I appreciate it.
Thank you for another great video Nicole!
I see you navigating Obsidian using keyboard shortcuts - I would love to learn that as well. Could you please take that as a subject for a future video? 😊
- how to bring up the switcher, and how to create new notes and folders by simply writing the title
-how to view notes flexibly side by side
- how to get around in Obsidian using just keystrokes.
Would love such a video - thank you again! 🙌
I've struggled to turn official documentation into usable results. I really needed this. Thank you ❤
I really love your videos. They are easy to understand, very concise but contain advanced information.
Thank you, Hieu! The concise part is the most difficult part, and I don't always succeed, heh. Happy you are liking my videos though!
Your videos are my go-to for helping to understand Obsidian. Extremely helpful - nicely paced and clearly explained. Thank you!
Superbly helpful! Appreciate it! :)
Wow, thank you so much! Really happy I could help. :)
You're a fantastic teacher! You explain the important points clearly and at a pace that is very easy to follow. Thanks *very* much for all of your Obsidian tutorials!
Thank you so much, Jim! I'm gratified that you like my presentation style. Happy to be helpful!
This helped improve my understanding of DataView, I now have several ideas to go try out.
Yay! Happy to hear that, Bruce!
@@nicolevdh I'm looking forward to CSV as a data source soon too. My D&D are the planets, stars and DSOs
Great video. You just lost me at 2:37 when you added the Front Matter above what I thought was the file name? I can only hope to have my coding skills ascend to your level.
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The Dataview plugin is great, I can't imagine using Obsidian without it. Honestly, I wish it was part of core Obsidian as getting the most out of it requires all your files to have the appropriate metadata, and it can take a lot of work to go back and update all your notes.
Yeah, I think it should be part of core too! I do understand your pain on having to go back and add metadata to all files. One cool thing about Dataview is that unlike with a database (where everything has to have the same parameters), Dataview still works even with only a subset of your notes having parameters. I haven't gone back and added meeting parameters to my older meetings, but it's the newer ones I need the most anyway...
@@nicolevdh Luckily I only started using Obsidian this year so there wasn't that much to update. I agree that Dataview is able to do more interesting things than traditional databases because of how you can add and remove parameters as you want.
This is an excellent video Nicole, thanks so much for the clear and thorough (yet not overwhelming) tutorial.
Thank you. This is the most straightforward video I've seen on the dataview plugin! I actually GET IT!
Happy to hear you say that, Marci! Glad I could help you get it! I do think it's a daunting plugin to understand.
This is exatcly how I'm building out my note taking system! Seeing this video a few days ago would have saved me HOURS of thinking.
I'll be replaying this video ALOT. Thank you for that quick demo!
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Great teaching. Love the color pallet . You’ve got me going with Obsidian after years of Notion. Keeping it local is huge.
Oh my gosh. Finally. This is a perfect explanation of how to do this, Nicole. Thanks so much! Liked and subscribed!
Oh, I'm happy you liked it! Dataview's such a bear, huh? Welcome to the channel and thanks for the suport. :)
I've been snooping on your channel and I just want to say thanks so much for your very clear videos :)
Haha! Snoop away! Happy you like the videos. :)
This was such a helpful video Nicole. Thank you. I have already started using Dataview since watching this and am loving it, I mean loving it. Thank you.
Thanks, David! I'm really happy I could help you! :)
Wow I am so happy that I discovered your channel. Where have you been all my life!! lol
I am brand new to Obsidian but I can tell this is the world I want to live in, and I am taking my first shaky steps. The big task I need to chip away at now is taking all of my random unorganized notes from Things (and reminders, and notion, and bookmarks, and....) and bring them in to Obsidian in a deliberate way. I feel like ultimately there is enough flexibility within Obsidian that I can always refine things later but I am resistant to the idea of just dumping all of these things in at once.
I've watched most of your videos at this point, and I know data view and templater are going to be key tools to master. If I could make a request for a video topic, I would be very keen to learn tips and tricks for bringing in all of the components of a second brain from all of the disorganized places it currently exists, and doing it with intention. Setting up the structure and skeleton of your system as you go... I know that sounds more like the realm of Notion but I just know once I get into the "flow" of Obsidian its going to be second nature, just need to figure out that "aha" moment!
Jeremy, welcome to the Obsidian community! So happy I could help, and that you're starting out with Obsidian. I hope it wll be as good for you as it has been for me. I know it can be really daunting to get all set up, but hang in there! It DOES get better when you're past the icky migration stage. Also, maybe consider not expecting yourself to migrate absolutely everything before you start using Obsidian. You can always keep migrating things over while you're already reaping the benefits! :)
Thanks for the idea. Video requests are always welcome! Will have to think about that one and collect my thoughts on it. Appreciate the support, and welcome again!!
@@nicolevdh oh gosh I feel a bit star struck that you replied, and so quickly too! 🥰
Yeah right now I’m going through a similar process migrating all my images into MyMind, taking the opportunity to prune the vast archives I’ve collected over the years haha
When it comes to notes, I have tons and tons of thoughts I’ve written down that might be along the lines of a journal entry, an app idea, a book I want to read, or some cool character class that I want to refine. I’m super attracted to the concept that things like categories and organizational structure emerges naturally in Obsidian, because I would have no idea how to sort it all out if I had to decide the hierarchy in advance
I guess the migration process is kind of like a necessary struggle step, I’ll be chipping away at it for probably a month or so I would estimate lol.
To take one example of something I’m wrestling with, I have a word doc that’s about 20 pages long of random thoughts and ideas not necessarily tied together. If I just drop the text into an obsidian note and go through to add brackets around concepts that I think will warrant their own page, can I expect a coherent structure to start emerging? Or would it be better to make a new note in obsidian for each “slice” that I can take out of the document, one thought at a time?
I think I have some more research to do on this idea of Zettlecasten and specifically how to achieve it using Obsidian. But I just really like your style so I’m gonna keep re-watching your videos to mine all the nuggets of info I can!!
Simplest video on dataview. Cleared my lot of doubts.
Thank you! And thanks for your feedback about what you'd like to see in this video as well - I made sure to add the dictionary and the Goodreads use cases here.
omg, i was gonna ask u to do a tutorial on this plugin 😭
Thanks so much ! Love your work sm 💕
Haha, I read your mind. ;) I'm glad I could help!
Been watcNice tutorialng your vids for a good few weeks now, learning new sNice tutorialt each day. my worksoftow has improved so much since watcNice tutorialng
The Dataview plugin is an Obsidian game changer. Thanks for the video.
It really is!! I'm kind of surprised they haven't added it in as a core feature yet!
Bro RUclips way to comfy with these double 15 second adds
Best explanation by far for us totally new to the software, thanks for your ti man, really looking forward to learning how to make so
Thank you so much Nicole, this was helpful, as I have been due dating my tasks always, but always hat to go through the backlinks. This is over now, amazing.
Also thanks for role modelling female tech and programming knowledge work, your videos are a blast and give me courage to process trying 😊
Thank you so much! It's sad that there are still relatively few women in programming, but we are growing! Glad you are enjoying the videos, and welcome!
Thank you! I loved it because of how you phrase the challenge - building a second brain that is more useful !
It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.
Hi Shamal, I appreciate that! I'm happy I could get you there. :)
Yours are the best tutorials on Obsidian. Awesome Job!! Thank you …
Great video!
One thing is still not sure about:
Can we make a daily note (a page) with multiple sections that each have their own tags and then search/query by tag and see only the relevant sections of the pages?
If I do this in OneNote I'll get a list of pages where the tags are on, but each element in the search will take me to that entire page including all other sections and content on that page.
Hope this makes sense!
While tags in Obsidian are also applied to the whole note, clicking on a search result will take you to where the tag is, so it would let you jump to the section you put the tag in.
TNice tutorials is really well done Mike, thanks for putting the ti and energy into tNice tutorials.
Hi NIcole, thank you for these great videos on getting started with Obsidian. After a year in Notion I am migrating to Obsidian now and your videos have been a great help. Everything is going pretty smoothly but I need to put in a lot of work to get a decent task management system going.
PS groeten uit Noord Holland :)
Hoi Mischa! Goed om te horen dat je mijn video's leuk vindt. :) Succes met het nieuwe begin met Obsidian. Groeten uit Portugal!
Thank you for tNice tutorials, tNice tutorials was a huge help.
Fantastic tutorial Nicole! Very clear & useful examples. Best vid on dataview I've come across. 👍
Thanks so much, Soti! I'm glad that was helpful for you. :)
Thank you for your clear and straight to the point explanation! Congratulations!
What a powerful plugin !
It's really good to have you exploring the capability of note taking ,and share it with us. Many thanks!
I'm thinking about using this with my vocabularies since they need tags like "times of ran into " "different meanings" and "memory rank" etc
I wonder if there's anything like checkbox , but more like a slider or button, to mark the rank of my memory, so I can work with my phone more often to memorize them.
Glad you liked the video and the plugin! Unfortunately, I don't know of a plugin that you describe. For spaced repetition, I use another app called Anki. It's so much better for that particular use case than Obsidian is, so I've just continued to use it.
Thank you so much for this video. The only one I could find that was right to the point. Clear and concise. THANK YOU!!!
Nicole, Excellent tutorial! Very concise and thorough!
Thanks!
You're the best, Tomas! Thank YOU. :)
you should have over 50k subscribers, you saved more than once already.
I appreciate that! :) Maybe someday! Happy I could help you.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this. Between Dataview and Kan Ban I'm going to migrate completely to Obsidian.
One question: When I do the LIST query I'm not seeing the titles of the different pages tasks are being pulled from. Is that a setting or plugin you're using?
Hey Max! Sorry for the late reply, but I'm afraid it's not that helpful either. I'm not sure why yours is showing up differently when you use the same query as me. Afaik I didn't do anything differently, and I don't think there's a plugin for that either. Might be a question for the Dataview developer?
No clue if this is still relevant to you, but it works if you add
GROUP BY file[DOT]link
Just replace the [DOT] with an actual dot, had to circumvent the spam filter that thought I was posting a link.
I'm really glad that I found your channel. Excellent explanations.
I'm glad you found my channel too! :) Happy it's been useful!
This is an awesome explanation for a very useful topic. Thanks Nicole! Keep it up please :)
Happy you thought so! Thanks, Santiago!
Blakey Don't stop making soft. I wished I started as early as you. You have a lot of years to learn!
How does one get the meta data above the page title? I have notes I would like to annotate with yaml metadata and cannot figure that out for the life of me.
same here
is it possible to annotate with tables instead?
TNice tutorials was so detailed! Great video for beginners. Thank you!
Great video! I always thought Dataview looked a bit "overkill", but this made it seem pretty easy. I still don't want to rely heavily on it, because if every MOC I create relies on DV, I've got a problem in case of DV stopping to work with Obsidian, or me wanting or having to move my notes to other software.
One question: In case of using it as a Goodreads replacement, is there any way to add multiple reading dates in the read-field and making it possible that the same book appears in a "Read in 2023" and a "Read in 2024" table?
The only way I could make it work is creating a separate field for every reading date in the YAML, but it feels like very much clutter.
@Nicole is a fantastic teacher. 👏👏👏
Thanks, Elendu! Glad you liked it!
Thanks! Is there a way to export the Dataview queries to Google Sheets / Excel etc?
Hi! Not natively, but I saw there's an issue on the GitHub repository, so exports are at least on the roadmap! If you know how to code, you can do this in JavaScript as well. :)
Hi Nicolas, thanks for your videos. Do you mind sharing the way to have metadata above page title and maybe hide page title from the content? That would be awesome and I don't find the solution. And of course, if you know where to find the answers, let me know :). Thanks!
Hey have you found the solution since?
@@KenerBonifac1 No, I gave up on Obsidian and went back to Notion
Your channel and content is pure God!!!! Thank you so much.
Great video! How does one keep data in dataview consistent? Like for example you made a mistake "email" should be "work email". Do you need to change that for all notes manually?
Thank you for this! The explanations were clear and the examples were very helpful! Hoping to start using dataview soon!
Yay! Happy to hear that, Evan! I'm glad it's prompted you to try Dataview. :)
Thank you! How do I remove the bullets from my tables. Each column has bullets before each set of data
Thank you Nicole this is a terrific how-to video. It was incredibly useful.
So happy to hear that, Juan! :)
The best introductory dataview video!!! How do you define the taxonomy of the tags and attributes that you gonna put in the notes, so that, you can be consistently across the notes you create?
Yay! Thank you, and I'm happy you liked it! I actually created a "Metadata" page, which contains kind of like a data model of all the attributes I use for different things. That helps me stay consistent!
@@nicolevdh Super I had some Metadata files. I think I got stuck overthinking and I was not creating more as I needed. Good tip, maybe just keep creating those metadata to specific types.
Great Video - Thx.
My question is: How do i handle if a person is in more than one Project? Lets say "Project X" and "Project Y"? How can i handle that and then get a lost for exampke of all persons in Project x, but not in project y?
Now I am super motivated to structure my notes with metadata, thank you Nicole you are amazing at explaining this to perfect cognitive saturation level for your listeners.
I was wondering how to achieve the following: like with coding, I would like to enfore type for certain fields (and ideally have autocomplete kick in like with tags) - how would you go about doing this?
Hi Manuel! Thank you so much. I'm very happy you like the way I explain. I try to be coherent, but sometimes it's hard to tell, you know?
Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to enforce types for Dataview params. The closest plugin I know of to doing that is MetaEdit. I don't believe it enforces types, but it does make it easier to edit parameters/values from different notes. Another idea that I've been implementing is to embed the type into your Dataview field. For example, `strSummary` or `dateUpdated`. Still won't enforce types, but it might lead to more consistent values. I also keep a data model note where I track different params I use, so that I have a reference if I need it.
Hope that helps!
I'm writing a TTRPG sourcebook in Obisidian, and Dataview makes it super easy to put everything in a Table of Contents style hierarchy without thinking about it too hard beforehand.
Wow. Subscribed.
This is a friendly readable way of applying programming syntax into a practical use for people who are starting with coding. I'm curious about how you structure your life with these tags and your workflows. For me, the difficult thing is not to understand the tool but to know how to organize myself with it and when to use it.
Yay! That was my goal - I got a lot of questions from non-programmers and wanted to make something accessible. I use most of the specific use cases I showed here. I mainly use Dataview for meetings, people, TTRPG stuff, and sometimes for tasks. I use it for a lot of ad-hoc stuff too though, which are not really part of a process.
Great Video? Is there any way to change the File Column header to Name instead of File?
great videos. I have a question though. When I make these 3 dashes (---) it becomes a long gray line instead. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?
outstanding Nicole! I didn't know about the calendar keyword, might test that out with daily note review
I think that was fairly recent! I don't remember seeing it when I first started using Dataview, but the dev has been hard at work!
🤯🤯🤯 this changes everything. LOVE your videos! Thank you!!!
You're welcome! It's great, isn't it? Glad I could help!
Thanks for your high quality videos! Like your style and found some other interesting videos from you in the sidebar. Subscribed!
Thanks, Adrian! I'm glad you're liking the videos. :)
This is so helpful! How did you insert the checkbox and tasks? Have you made a video on this? Thanks!
Thanks! I haven't made a video on it, but in Markdown, you can make checkboxes by typing out: - [ ] Task here
Then, to check it off, you can click on it or add an X between the brackets: - [X] Completed task
If you're on a Mac, the keyboard shortcut is CMD + ENTER to toggle between them.
Hey Nicole, what is the purpose of putting the summary in double quotes in your front matter? I've been using a "description" key for Kanban card notes, and haven't put them in double quotes, but I'm wondering if I should.
Thank you so much. I just upgraded from Making Waves, so the concepts are familiar, but tNice tutorials is a whole new world! Look forward to
omg you're really good at explaining this in a way that works with my brain, thank you!
Wow, thank you so much! I'm very happy I could help! :)
So nice !
Small questions:
- how do you lint the metadata of each note?
- is it better to put the hashtags in metadata than in the main text with #?
Thanks a lot!
Hey! I don't. Although there is a plugin for that: MetaEdit. I honestly prefer the simplicity of just having a note that keeps track of the metadata I'm using. I don't sweat it too much.
Where you put the tags is just a personal preference/aesthetic thing IMO.
Hello Nicole, I am delighted with your program, especially Obsidian, a tool that I have started to use. I am from Colombia, from the city of Medellín, my language is Spanish, however, I put subtitles with translation into Spanish, this to tell you that although I do not speak English, even so, your explanations are great, in advance infinite thanks for share your knowledge, best regards
Hola Giovanni, también me puedes escribir en español. :) Aunque no soy hablante nativa, tampoco soy hablante nativa de inglés. Algún día tengo que ver si puedo hacer subtítulos en español también... que bueno oir que te gusta mis videos, gracias. :)
Hey Nicole, really enjoying your presentation style and the information you're sharing. I'm wondering in the Tasks section why your `TASKS ` query automatically shows File links (which seems handy) but when I run the query myself, it doesn't show these links or group the results by file. Is there a setting I need to change somewhere?
Hi Brandon! Thank you for that! I think something might have changed with Dataview since the time I made this video. I didn't do anything different and it just showed the link. Now it seems you have to add this line:
`group by file.link`
and you'll get the same thing. :)
Been digging thru the forums for Dataview tips but didnt realize you had a video til now. Super helpful and a balm for my confusion!! Is there a way to tally the number of results returned by the dataview query? For example show a table with the total number of notes where YAML parameter type = Type1 or Type2 etc
Thank you very much for your awesome tutorials. I just got started with obsidian and it really helps a lot. I got one problem with this dataview plugin though, maybe you orr someone in here can help me out: if i create a new note, on the top i have to name it. I cannot add the --- tags: ... --- section above that name of the note, just below it. So i did and when i use just one word like "tags: recipie" or "type: cooking" or whatever, the query works perfectly. BUT if I try to use multiple tags it just doesnt find anything with the query... for example if i use "tags: recipie, recipies, cooking, something" (even if I write it with tags: and than each tagword with - in a new line) no dataview results are found. Is the tagging wrong? Or do i have to change the query somehow? maybe he wants excact matches for ALL tags and not just ONE tag of the many?