You can past images from your Clipboard directly in your markdown document in obsidian. It will past the image in the folder and make a link to it. I use it a lot for screenshots
@@christianlempa what did you use to draw your network diagram that you have in your obsidian?? Also, do you have a daily notes app you use other than obsidian?
The biggest benefit of Markdown is that is a text/character-based language, which means placing the file in a GIT repository means you enjoy all the benefits of DIFF changes and Pull Request branch policies. There are multiple programs that convert Markdown to any other formats, which means you can store the text in a repo and in you pipelines just convert it to whatever format you need, thus maintaining version compatibility between the code and the documentation.
I have seen some videos about Obsidian but never understood how useful it is. Now after watching your video I am eager to start using it, its wonderful. Thank you so much!!! I think that Obsidian team should recommend your video as the best Obsidian video ever.
Glad to see this as obsidian is the focus of my channel, after 2 years of using it, it still amazes me! Keep up the good work, you've helped me a lot in my self-hosting journey :)
You've both helped me loads in completely different areas. I use your Obsidian tips and recommended plugins to take notes of what I learn from Christian haha!
Though Obsidian is free, it's actually not an open-source application (sorry for the confusion and mistake in the video!) EDIT: I've cut out the misleading parts
A fantastic libre alternative is Logseq! They have a very active and very helpful discord as well. Its quite similar to Obsidian, but its a little different. After using it for a while I eventually grew to prefer it though :)
I have been using it myself and at least it is based on open standards and is fully cross-platform, so definitely no lock-in. So my markdown files from 100's of meetings and knowledge base stuff is already years old, even though I just started with Obsidian about 6 months back.
@@dexterflodstrom9975 as a guy who always trys to self host -- obsidian was a no go for me, since it is not open source. this video should have been about Logseq instead, the video clearly says obsidian it is open source and free but that is just not the case,... making me think I should unsub from this channel,.. its unfortunate but this video is going to mislead people and introduce them to a program that very well could be malicious.
I think the portrayal of this app as open source is a huge oversight. In my view it’s not a small error, but rather a detail that could in theory change the entire conclusion and presentation of this video. Mistakes are human. Maybe a follow up and a presentation on open source alternatives would be great
@@charlescc1000 it is a huge oversight, I'm sorry for that. However, it doesn't change the conclusion or point of the video. Actually, I don't care much about whether a software is open-source or not (which is the reason why I intentionally thought it was open-source :D)
I am a retired EE, systems/software/hardware/IT/automation person. I use Nike Milo for Obsidian techniques, but you have given me a USE case that fits my background and thinking ... Many Thanks!👍
Obsidian has been the best this I have ever come across and has come so far from where it was. Personal notes, knowledge base, D&D campaigns, work notes, and so much more. It replaced MS one-note and Joplin and Cherry tree. Good to see others are loving it. Also learned a few things here I did not know. Consider me subscribed
I LOVE Obsidian! I started using it earlier this year, as I found I was forgetting the process mid-project with a lot of things. It's been invaluable and I take notes on everything now, it's so easy. I sync it up with Syncthing between all my devices and my server.
Excellent video explanation of Obsidian! I've been using Obsidian now for about a year and it has become one of the best Markdown editors/PKM tools I've ever encountered.
Amazing video. I'm too on the tech side...and got burn out when I was trying to find something from tons of things I learned. This video is exactly I was looking for..!!
I´m using Obsidian for some months now. I really like it! It´s simple and has all features I need for taking notes or organizing my daily tasks for example. (For documentations I´m using BookStack.) I also use Obsidian on my mobile phone. For syncroization of the vaults (and other important data) I use syncthing. Just an other great open source tool that does one thing and does it great🙂. This works perfectly fine across all my devices.
Been meaning to try and learn this and just gave it another go. Went to give this video a "like" and seems like I have already been here before. Thanks for doing what you do! Cheers
Need to use it ASAP. I've been using notepad for taking notes and, to be honest, I wasn't taking that much notes because of the program. Thank you very much!!! 🥰
I'm using Typora for my documentations, notes etc. in Markdown and it's for me it's the best md editor atm, but it's much simpler than obsidian, doesn't have this kind of vault functionality etc. Sadly, since the version 1.0 it's not free. One thing I really like in Typora are CSS stylesheets, so when exporting a PDF or printing out a document, I can style it using CSS, so the documents fit in the general design and colours of the company. I'm going to give Obsidian a chance and test it for my documentations as the vault and ordering single notes inside the vault seems to be pretty handy. Maybe I'll switch from Typora, although I already paid for it.
I've only used VS code for my markdown notetaking, but I'll definitely be checking out Obsidian. I also looked at Joplin, but the fact that it doesn't store plain markdown files makes me hesitate to use it. The big strength of markdown is that it's simple text files I can edit with anything.
Your videos are constantly scary on point with what I'm working on. I appreciate your videos and content. I always come away knowing more about the subject than I started and have been able to use you as a constant resource for relevant knowledge. Thanks!
I had not used Obsidian before but I'm giving it a go as a result of this video. So far, it's doing what I wanted. In particular, I wanted to be able to easily create documents that link to each other and Obsidian does that very easily.
Very intelligent presentation! I have looked at several introductions to Markdown and Obsidian but this one is special and I will be looking at it again.
Me too! Switched from onenote. I also use sublime for on the fly stuff but I'm not a fan of being forced into markdown editing format for everything. Still looks like a good product!
For my own notes I use Joplin which does support cloud storage services, so in my case I sync to my mobile using OneDrive. At work where I need to be able to share knowledge, I use bookshelf which is a wiki like server. both are based on Markdown
Not going to lie, since watching your video earlier today, I downloaded the flatpak and spent a good chunk of time setting it up for use. As someone who supports end users on the regular, this is a great way to keep cheat sheets and reference material. Took your advice and I am Trying to keep points brief and link to elsewhere. Thanks for showing this to us. New sub.
Ah dude this kind of did what the iPad dude to my workflow… I use vsCode for absolutely everything, but I was bored so I downloaded this and 20 mins later I love it. That’s how it went with my iPad… like ‘this is the dumbest thing ever… it’s just for watching Netflix on a plane’ but instantly it changed the way I work
I'm using Joplin as my note taking for all IT & technical documentation. It is free and open source software which is a huge must for me, paid version is really cheap starting from $1.99 give you the ability to sync your notes to multiple devices using Joplin Cloud and the ability to publish notes online by shareable link. It also got many plugins that you can install to create the note taking experience you desired.
I have been slowly going down this path and continue to think about actual implementation. Great video, thank you for sharing this Christian! Just subscribed.
I keep coming back to your videos Christian, they have great video quality and show/teach stuff in a simple way. I use OneNote to keep my notes but will definitely have a look to this.
Hi Kristian, I would like to advise you this, 1. Use Zotero to manage the references, there're are many youtube videos that tech how to link Zotero's references with Obsidian. 2. Make your notes more atomic (smaller), then make a host file that is composed of those atomic notes
You are god sent. Exactly the content I needed to make up my mind about a Second Brain App, or Knowledge management system app. And at the same time, you have provided a clear and concise explanation for a lot of different topics. Well done! Thanks a lot. Just subscribed to your channel!
I've been keeping a knowledge base for the last 5 years and converged to a very different system (I saw a few things in your presentation I consider suboptimal, at least for me). Most importantly, I think it's best to use a single file with search (!) so I don't need to think what file/vault is something stored at or where do I write in (very important if you have like 100+ files like I did at a point). Second, I write much less stuff for systems like Docker (just a glossary of definitions and commands, no installation guide lol). Third, I only write for myself so it doesn't need to be neat like yours (no sharing with ppl). Fourth, I mostly organize by dates, so I don't need to think where to write (I always on top, unless it's expanding a prior topic). Details: I use a simple file on Dropbox, that grew to 80k lines, in emacs org mode, but those choices are unimportant.
I used a very long period keynote - it was written in delphi, I think. But it's developer quits work on it. So many years I used it (its like the first OneNote). It worked good, but not on linux, so many years I searched for a new tool. a few years ago I found joplin and it fits my needs very well. I saved the database in my seafile cloud so I can use it at work or at home. I started using note-tools when starting work as an developer. As you said, you forget many things when you need it once every year.
This video is very useful. Obsidian is something I needed horribly but had no idea I needed. I've always struggled with finding good solutions to organization problems. The linking you can do in obsidian is simple but genius. I can't wait to learn more and grow my data map.
Thanks Christian. Your ideas for using your pkm and obsidian are very similar to mine. I realize i have alot of information on it and linux, sometimes i find copies , or i cant the data. So i am using obsidian as a organizer of my knowledge, then take it from there. Many thanks again....see you in the next one :)
Thanks for sharing your Cheat-Sheet repository!. It is useful to have content in text files easily migrated to Obsidian. A suggestion: define some templates for automation and other kind of notes. I personally use LogSeq for notes I daily take and move to Obsidian definitive information for my "Second Brain". Thanks again Christian.
i absolutely love obisidan. i use vautls for whatever im studying at the time like certifications then i consoldiate everything into a self hosted mediawiki. probably overkill but thanks to pandoc its prety easy to convert markdown to wiki. fun fact discord also will also do a lot of markdown in the chat as well.
Initially I thought this would be overkill for a novice like myself. However, you’ve made a great argument for using a markdown editor for lab management. Several times I’ve reinvented the wheel due to bad or no documentation.
Great video! If you ever want to try something that's open source, there's Logseq, which uses markdown as a backing format as well, but shares its code.
hey Christian, I use iCloud to sync my Obsidian folder and that allows for iPhone usage that stays up to date with the desktop. This also allows for vault sharing too, if you share the vault folder with someone else; I use this to keep my up to date vault on my mobile, personal mac, and work mac (my work mac has a different iCloud user for instance).
I started to using it for my AWS Studies and extended it with all sorts of hobby projects. It's great , fast and simple. I may have a look in the multiple plugins available. Need to get into the graph thing:)
Obsidian is excellent. I’ve been using it about a year now and learning more all the time. For me I started using markdown as I was needing to document client systems I was installing. With markdown I could easily write and format the documents from my iPhone either on site whilst working on it or when I was on the train home. I started with Typora on the desktop and Ulysses on iPhone. It was a bit clunky having to use different apps and cloud storage. Eventually I heard of obsidian via federico viticci and gave it a go and got on with it really well. I decided to dive in, I cancelled my Evernote account I’d had for 10+ years and moved over anything important I wanted to keep and signed up for sync and haven’t looked back. Similar to you I also write up tech notes and instructions etc and cheat sheets. I’ve also taken to copy and pasting some knowledge bare articles official pages and I’ve found over time some useful pages I refer to a lot can just vanish one day when the web designer decides to change a few things. I tend to copy and paste (and it often keeps the formatting, excellent 👍🏼) then link the original page at the top I can refer too if it’s still located there meaning I can see if it’s changed or find where I clipped it from
Great video, as always! Big fan of your channel. So I tried Obsidian and I truly like the way of orchestrating all sources of knowledge in this horizontal way (instead of the vertical mapping type of structure). Particularly for academic purposes, I am enthusiastic about the Zotero integration. On the other hand, I am not that fond of the complexity and the endless fiddling. So recently I may have found the actual gem: Anytype. It is provided for all distributions (Mac, Windows, Linux) and is apparently open sourcing their code (really looking forward to the first one to set up a Zotero integration). There is also a self-hosted version planned for this year.
Hello Christian, Thank you ! You made me discover Obsidian and I'm installing it right away :D. I'm currently using Simplenote from Wordpress. It is not a GREAT tool, but I like the "publish" feature which allows me to quickly share notes with coworkers. Still I'm happy to test Obsidian, especially if I can share a knowledge git repository with my team ! About code blocks : you said to use "three single quotes". I think you meant "three backticks". But anyway, people will figure it out (or already know) :) Cheers ! EDIT : I just saw that it is free only for personal use. So I will not use it with my team.
Great video. I've been using a plain text file to keep notes on commands while learning Linux which offers no organization and a lot of scrolling. I think this will be a great help. Thanks.
@@christianlempa yeah love it! Although reluctant to use any special proprietary syntax in case I want to take my notes to another application in future. But definitely love the interface and customisation options. I had been using Typora but their 3 license limit has started to cause me problems using my notes on my machines. Thanks for this recommendation!!
Also markdown understands some html commands which means that if you already got used to markdown, you can always go deeper in improving your documents
The main reason I've stayed away from MD is dealing with tables. They are a huge hassle to use and you can't do something like resize columns easily. I hope there's a plugin that can give me a table like Atlassians Confluence.
Indeed, handling tables manually is awkward and cumbersome in Markdown, but there are all kinds of plugins for this in all markdown tools, including Visual Studio Code and Obsidian. Christian is talking about one of such plugins @16:00
Can you explain how you got your infrastructure to work so well? Is that all with Obsidian? How did you manage to show which port is connected to which port? Which program do you use for that? Can you make a video of how to create something like that and what? Thanks 😊
Hmmm maybe I'll do some network planning videos in the future. But currently, I'm still evaluating a new structure and layout. Maybe in the second half of this year.
I came a long to Obsidien last year I found it not friendly enough, but after your offering I am using it already. O searched about and i found many people use it
Something to keep in mind is that Obsidian requires a license if you are going to use it for commercial use. They are, however, pretty liberal about it. With that said I finally paid for a commercial license to use it for work without having to worry about getting myself or my company in trouble. While the chances of getting caught are slim, in many companies using unlicensed software is a fireable offense due to the cost of an audit. I've heard horror stories about Oracle going after companies who use the non-free plugins for VirtualBox.
Git is great, but I'm surprised that no one ever mentions Syncthing as an alternative for keeping your Obsidian vault in sync across multiple devices. While I rarely edit files on the go, having access to my obsidian vault from my mobile device has proved invaluable a few times. I use my TrueNAS server as the main hub, and use syncthing to keep my entire documents folder (including the Obsidian vault) in sync across my main workstation, my laptop, and my mobile devices. It also has version control built in, though I have run into issues occasionally with anything other than simple versioning. I've only noticed this with Obsidian specifically though.
There are quite a number of products in this space. There are subscription-based ones like RemNote, Roam, Notion, Heptabase, Scrintal, with Roam and RemNote leading the pack. For ones w/o subscriptions (i.e. free for use), there are Obsidian, Athens, and Logseq. In the latter category, the most advanced one right now seems to be Logseq. For syncing, if you're using Google Drive for Desktop, it shouldn't be too hard to point Obsidian to your synced folder. So there isn't really a need to pay for any storage service if you got gmail account. I believe the alternative, like OneDrive, should be able to fill in the role as well.
@@christianlempa Mostly yes. For those Android folks who really don't want to pay, I see many of them going for "Autosync for Google Drive" app (and tolerate the ads). If they shell out for an in-app purchase (once), they can make all the ads go away, so this approach arguably saves money in the long run. Those who are wary of 3rd party app accessing their Google Drive, though, will still skip this app.
Yeah, THX. I'm going to use it only for the Table editing. I use VSCode with the Preview-Window and put them into a Container full of "Bookstack". c.u. and greetings from Hamburg
You can past images from your Clipboard directly in your markdown document in obsidian. It will past the image in the folder and make a link to it. I use it a lot for screenshots
Yep that's nice! Great tip, thanks for sharing ;)
@@christianlempa what did you use to draw your network diagram that you have in your obsidian?? Also, do you have a daily notes app you use other than obsidian?
@@Cloverpine1234 Using asciiflow for the diagrams, and notion for daily notes
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@@christianlempa Is it only possible to resize images in addition with html/css in obsidian?
The biggest benefit of Markdown is that is a text/character-based language, which means placing the file in a GIT repository means you enjoy all the benefits of DIFF changes and Pull Request branch policies. There are multiple programs that convert Markdown to any other formats, which means you can store the text in a repo and in you pipelines just convert it to whatever format you need, thus maintaining version compatibility between the code and the documentation.
That's indeed a big plus of Markdown!
I have seen some videos about Obsidian but never understood how useful it is.
Now after watching your video I am eager to start using it, its wonderful.
Thank you so much!!!
I think that Obsidian team should recommend your video as the best Obsidian video ever.
Oh I'm glad it was useful to you :D Thanks :)
Glad to see this as obsidian is the focus of my channel, after 2 years of using it, it still amazes me! Keep up the good work, you've helped me a lot in my self-hosting journey :)
Amazing ;)
You've both helped me loads in completely different areas. I use your Obsidian tips and recommended plugins to take notes of what I learn from Christian haha!
@@tomaytto9407 haha that's great! Love to see it:)
Though Obsidian is free, it's actually not an open-source application (sorry for the confusion and mistake in the video!)
EDIT: I've cut out the misleading parts
A fantastic libre alternative is Logseq!
They have a very active and very helpful discord as well. Its quite similar to Obsidian, but its a little different.
After using it for a while I eventually grew to prefer it though :)
I have been using it myself and at least it is based on open standards and is fully cross-platform, so definitely no lock-in. So my markdown files from 100's of meetings and knowledge base stuff is already years old, even though I just started with Obsidian about 6 months back.
@@dexterflodstrom9975 as a guy who always trys to self host -- obsidian was a no go for me, since it is not open source. this video should have been about Logseq instead, the video clearly says obsidian it is open source and free but that is just not the case,... making me think I should unsub from this channel,.. its unfortunate but this video is going to mislead people and introduce them to a program that very well could be malicious.
I think the portrayal of this app as open source is a huge oversight. In my view it’s not a small error, but rather a detail that could in theory change the entire conclusion and presentation of this video. Mistakes are human. Maybe a follow up and a presentation on open source alternatives would be great
@@charlescc1000 it is a huge oversight, I'm sorry for that. However, it doesn't change the conclusion or point of the video. Actually, I don't care much about whether a software is open-source or not (which is the reason why I intentionally thought it was open-source :D)
This is excellent! Not referring to Obsidian, but to your presentation of it - especially in this particular context. Great work.
Thank you so much 😊
I am a retired EE, systems/software/hardware/IT/automation person. I use Nike Milo for Obsidian techniques, but you have given me a USE case that fits my background and thinking ... Many Thanks!👍
Thank you that is amazing!
Obsidian has been the best this I have ever come across and has come so far from where it was. Personal notes, knowledge base, D&D campaigns, work notes, and so much more. It replaced MS one-note and Joplin and Cherry tree. Good to see others are loving it. Also learned a few things here I did not know. Consider me subscribed
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I LOVE Obsidian! I started using it earlier this year, as I found I was forgetting the process mid-project with a lot of things. It's been invaluable and I take notes on everything now, it's so easy. I sync it up with Syncthing between all my devices and my server.
Awesome! I need to try out Syncthing
Sehr cool, genau so etwas habe ich gesucht, ohne aktiv zu suchen. Durch deinen Kanal erfahre ich immer von den coolsten dev Tools, vielen Dank dafür!!
Excellent video explanation of Obsidian! I've been using Obsidian now for about a year and it has become one of the best Markdown editors/PKM tools I've ever encountered.
Thank you! It’s really amazing :)
Amazing video. I'm too on the tech side...and got burn out when I was trying to find something from tons of things I learned. This video is exactly I was looking for..!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you learned so much :)
I've heard people rave about Obsidian, and now I can see why. It looks really fantastic.
I´m using Obsidian for some months now. I really like it! It´s simple and has all features I need for taking notes or organizing my daily tasks for example. (For documentations I´m using BookStack.) I also use Obsidian on my mobile phone. For syncroization of the vaults (and other important data) I use syncthing. Just an other great open source tool that does one thing and does it great🙂. This works perfectly fine across all my devices.
Oh cool! I need to try out syncthing ;)
@Orko Obsidian isn't open source.
Been meaning to try and learn this and just gave it another go. Went to give this video a "like" and seems like I have already been here before. Thanks for doing what you do! Cheers
Awesome video. That ASCII network diagram is next level!
Indeed, is that a plugin or just elbow grease?
I was using asciiflow
@@christianlempa Oh my god, that website is absolutely amazing. Thank you so, so much, best thing I took out of this video (already used Obsidian :P)
@@agentxx3022 Haha thanks mate :D
Need to use it ASAP. I've been using notepad for taking notes and, to be honest, I wasn't taking that much notes because of the program. Thank you very much!!! 🥰
Glad it was helpful!
Obsidian isn't open source, though you say it is in your intro. Maybe I'm wrong!
Yep, you're absolutely right! Sorry for this mistake, don't know why it was burned in my head, it was :D thanks for the heads-up mate!
Obsidian isn't but Trilium is!
As is Joplin
Obsidian isn’t open source but it’s output/files are in markdown only so you’re not stuck!
Excellent video, Christian!!
Many thanks for making it!
Thank you so much :)
I'm using Typora for my documentations, notes etc. in Markdown and it's for me it's the best md editor atm, but it's much simpler than obsidian, doesn't have this kind of vault functionality etc. Sadly, since the version 1.0 it's not free. One thing I really like in Typora are CSS stylesheets, so when exporting a PDF or printing out a document, I can style it using CSS, so the documents fit in the general design and colours of the company.
I'm going to give Obsidian a chance and test it for my documentations as the vault and ordering single notes inside the vault seems to be pretty handy. Maybe I'll switch from Typora, although I already paid for it.
Btw you can import own CSS in obsidian as well, pretty useful
I've only used VS code for my markdown notetaking, but I'll definitely be checking out Obsidian.
I also looked at Joplin, but the fact that it doesn't store plain markdown files makes me hesitate to use it. The big strength of markdown is that it's simple text files I can edit with anything.
Your videos are constantly scary on point with what I'm working on. I appreciate your videos and content. I always come away knowing more about the subject than I started and have been able to use you as a constant resource for relevant knowledge. Thanks!
I couldn't have said it better myself. I've also started the Obsidian journey a few weeks ago.
Thanks guys :D That tells me I'm on the right path
I would recommend using Syncthing (FOSS) in order to sync between devices. I have Obsidian on my smartphone and two laptops and it works great!
Same for me... Obsidian and Syncthing is a great combo! Works perfectly on Android as well.
What theme do you use for Obsidian?
Thx for the suggestion
To use Syncthing I need to set up my own server or NAS, right?
@@FKZYTV yes, I believe you have to host it yourself. A raspberry pi should be enough.
Thank you for sharing how u use it and not just talking about the tool.
This inspire us to get the best practice.
Thank you! :) great feedback
Greate stuff! Started with obsidian 3 weeks ago. Thank you for sharing your knowledge base with the rest of the world!❤
I've been using VSCode for a while now, but never knew you could live view md files.
Thanks!
I had not used Obsidian before but I'm giving it a go as a result of this video. So far, it's doing what I wanted. In particular, I wanted to be able to easily create documents that link to each other and Obsidian does that very easily.
Nice! Hope you like it :)
Incredible presentation of using obsidian from a tech perspective Chris, Thanks.
Thank you! :)
Very intelligent presentation! I have looked at several introductions to Markdown and Obsidian but this one is special and I will be looking at it again.
I personally use Notion and love it’s versatility
Me too! Switched from onenote. I also use sublime for on the fly stuff but I'm not a fan of being forced into markdown editing format for everything. Still looks like a good product!
For my own notes I use Joplin which does support cloud storage services, so in my case I sync to my mobile using OneDrive.
At work where I need to be able to share knowledge, I use bookshelf which is a wiki like server.
both are based on Markdown
Sounds interesting as well!
Thanks a lot for you video, i finally decide to use Obsidian, i really need my data under my control .
Nice! You're welcome :)
So glad I saw this video! Using Obsidian now for all of my documentation and loving it!
Thx! :)
Not going to lie, since watching your video earlier today, I downloaded the flatpak and spent a good chunk of time setting it up for use. As someone who supports end users on the regular, this is a great way to keep cheat sheets and reference material. Took your advice and I am Trying to keep points brief and link to elsewhere. Thanks for showing this to us. New sub.
Thank you 😊
Ah dude this kind of did what the iPad dude to my workflow… I use vsCode for absolutely everything, but I was bored so I downloaded this and 20 mins later I love it. That’s how it went with my iPad… like ‘this is the dumbest thing ever… it’s just for watching Netflix on a plane’ but instantly it changed the way I work
Thanks for your video I will definitely give it a try, almost all the features are what I need in my current certification path documentation
Glad it was helpful!
I'm using Joplin as my note taking for all IT & technical documentation. It is free and open source software which is a huge must for me, paid version is really cheap starting from $1.99 give you the ability to sync your notes to multiple devices using Joplin Cloud and the ability to publish notes online by shareable link. It also got many plugins that you can install to create the note taking experience you desired.
I have been slowly going down this path and continue to think about actual implementation. Great video, thank you for sharing this Christian! Just subscribed.
Thank you for your content and your pronunciation!
I can watch interesting video and improve my listening skill at the same time. 👍🏻🙂
Thank you! 😃
Haven’t finished watching the video but I love your content. Fun to watch, informative. All around great!
Thank you :)
I'm that dinosaur that physically takes down notes with a pen and a notepad. 😂
Hey at least you’re taking notes 😜🤘
Here's to dinosaurs. When I'm feeling techno, I use Zim.
I keep coming back to your videos Christian, they have great video quality and show/teach stuff in a simple way.
I use OneNote to keep my notes but will definitely have a look to this.
Thank you so much :) tell us how you like it!
Hi Kristian, I would like to advise you this,
1. Use Zotero to manage the references, there're are many youtube videos that tech how to link Zotero's references with Obsidian.
2. Make your notes more atomic (smaller), then make a host file that is composed of those atomic notes
Thanks for sharing
Hi, can you elaborate 2nd point?
This will be great for engineering courses next semester !
Great stuff! It is amazing to see your vault repo is actually public!
Thanks :) you’re happy to use whatever you need, and a small contribution always helps xD
You are god sent. Exactly the content I needed to make up my mind about a Second Brain App, or Knowledge management system app.
And at the same time, you have provided a clear and concise explanation for a lot of different topics. Well done! Thanks a lot.
Just subscribed to your channel!
Thanks for bringing this fantastic app to my attention.. Been using One note for a while now but this one beats it in many ways!!!
You’re welcome :)
I've been keeping a knowledge base for the last 5 years and converged to a very different system (I saw a few things in your presentation I consider suboptimal, at least for me). Most importantly, I think it's best to use a single file with search (!) so I don't need to think what file/vault is something stored at or where do I write in (very important if you have like 100+ files like I did at a point). Second, I write much less stuff for systems like Docker (just a glossary of definitions and commands, no installation guide lol). Third, I only write for myself so it doesn't need to be neat like yours (no sharing with ppl). Fourth, I mostly organize by dates, so I don't need to think where to write (I always on top, unless it's expanding a prior topic). Details: I use a simple file on Dropbox, that grew to 80k lines, in emacs org mode, but those choices are unimportant.
Of course, many many other things I also agree with you :)
Thanks for presenting this important aspect for home labs.
You're welcome ;)
Insta like even before watching! I run my life around Obsidian! Love it.
Awesome :D
I use Obsidian a lot for educational contents. I also learnt Markdown while using it.
Hi :) Habe gerade dein Channel entdeckt. Geil... hast das beste aus der Pandemie gemacht. Well done
I used a very long period keynote - it was written in delphi, I think. But it's developer quits work on it. So many years I used it (its like the first OneNote). It worked good, but not on linux, so many years I searched for a new tool. a few years ago I found joplin and it fits my needs very well. I saved the database in my seafile cloud so I can use it at work or at home.
I started using note-tools when starting work as an developer. As you said, you forget many things when you need it once every year.
Joplin also seems like a viable option!
I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED THIS IN MY LIFE
XD
At the moment i make all my notes in Notepad++, but i definitly are going to switch to Obsidian.
Thnx a lot Christian !!
You're welcome! :)
This video is very useful. Obsidian is something I needed horribly but had no idea I needed. I've always struggled with finding good solutions to organization problems. The linking you can do in obsidian is simple but genius. I can't wait to learn more and grow my data map.
Thank you! Happy you enjoyed it ;)
Thanks Christian. Your ideas for using your pkm and obsidian are very similar to mine. I realize i have alot of information on it and linux, sometimes i find copies , or i cant the data. So i am using obsidian as a organizer of my knowledge, then take it from there.
Many thanks again....see you in the next one :)
Thank you mate! :)
Ctrl + O = quick open => start typing the file name and it will smart find it
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I tried Obsidian and liked it well enough. Since the I got into Logseq and like it more…😊
@@priapulida I've never heard of Dynalist - I'll check it out
Damn, well explained. i just installed this tool but you gave me all i needed, thanks
Glad you liked it! :)
That network topology diagram at 13:47 is great, did you make it manually or did you use a tool?
Well done Christian. I'll definitely take a look.
Thx :)
Thanks for sharing your Cheat-Sheet repository!. It is useful to have content in text files easily migrated to Obsidian. A suggestion: define some templates for automation and other kind of notes. I personally use LogSeq for notes I daily take and move to Obsidian definitive information for my "Second Brain". Thanks again Christian.
i absolutely love obisidan. i use vautls for whatever im studying at the time like certifications then i consoldiate everything into a self hosted mediawiki. probably overkill but thanks to pandoc its prety easy to convert markdown to wiki. fun fact discord also will also do a lot of markdown in the chat as well.
Man thank you a lot for sharing! There are so many things I would like to have
Initially I thought this would be overkill for a novice like myself. However, you’ve made a great argument for using a markdown editor for lab management. Several times I’ve reinvented the wheel due to bad or no documentation.
Nice, let me know how it works for you ;)
Great video! If you ever want to try something that's open source, there's Logseq, which uses markdown as a backing format as well, but shares its code.
Thanks for this note app! I was working on writing a web server guide and this will definitely help!
Great to hear!
Tried all the markdown notes apps, I'm going to throw in a vote for Inkdrop as it was the only one that stuck (almost a year so far).
Cool. Haven't tried it out yet though
hey your sharing is really helpful for me, thanks !
Thank you! Glad it helps :)
hey Christian, I use iCloud to sync my Obsidian folder and that allows for iPhone usage that stays up to date with the desktop. This also allows for vault sharing too, if you share the vault folder with someone else; I use this to keep my up to date vault on my mobile, personal mac, and work mac (my work mac has a different iCloud user for instance).
That's right! Since I switched to iPhone, that becomes a viable option :)
I started to using it for my AWS Studies and extended it with all sorts of hobby projects. It's great , fast and simple. I may have a look in the multiple plugins available. Need to get into the graph thing:)
OMG°° you are my hero... I desperatly used BasKet before xD Thank you so much^^
Very clear and appreciated. Thank you!
Thanks Christian! You ROCK!!
Thanks! You too :D
This video was helpful and informative - thank you.
Thank you so much for your support! I'm glad it was helpful to you :)
*Bold markdown feature works here* :)
Obsidian is excellent. I’ve been using it about a year now and learning more all the time. For me I started using markdown as I was needing to document client systems I was installing. With markdown I could easily write and format the documents from my iPhone either on site whilst working on it or when I was on the train home. I started with Typora on the desktop and Ulysses on iPhone. It was a bit clunky having to use different apps and cloud storage. Eventually I heard of obsidian via federico viticci and gave it a go and got on with it really well.
I decided to dive in, I cancelled my Evernote account I’d had for 10+ years and moved over anything important I wanted to keep and signed up for sync and haven’t looked back.
Similar to you I also write up tech notes and instructions etc and cheat sheets. I’ve also taken to copy and pasting some knowledge bare articles official pages and I’ve found over time some useful pages I refer to a lot can just vanish one day when the web designer decides to change a few things.
I tend to copy and paste (and it often keeps the formatting, excellent 👍🏼) then link the original page at the top I can refer too if it’s still located there meaning I can see if it’s changed or find where I clipped it from
Great video, as always! Big fan of your channel. So I tried Obsidian and I truly like the way of orchestrating all sources of knowledge in this horizontal way (instead of the vertical mapping type of structure). Particularly for academic purposes, I am enthusiastic about the Zotero integration. On the other hand, I am not that fond of the complexity and the endless fiddling. So recently I may have found the actual gem: Anytype. It is provided for all distributions (Mac, Windows, Linux) and is apparently open sourcing their code (really looking forward to the first one to set up a Zotero integration). There is also a self-hosted version planned for this year.
Hello Christian,
Thank you ! You made me discover Obsidian and I'm installing it right away :D. I'm currently using Simplenote from Wordpress. It is not a GREAT tool, but I like the "publish" feature which allows me to quickly share notes with coworkers. Still I'm happy to test Obsidian, especially if I can share a knowledge git repository with my team !
About code blocks : you said to use "three single quotes". I think you meant "three backticks". But anyway, people will figure it out (or already know) :)
Cheers !
EDIT : I just saw that it is free only for personal use. So I will not use it with my team.
Professional use isn’t that expensive
@@samuelskeirik2608 Yes indeed, but I'm not in charge of it in my company.
Liked it, and already started using it
Nice! :)
Thanks for introducing me to Obsidian.
Any time!
Great video. I've been using a plain text file to keep notes on commands while learning Linux which offers no organization and a lot of scrolling. I think this will be a great help. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for all the tips, I think this tool should help me. I am struggling with my note taking
I currently use the mac/windows sticky notes to make notes on the respective OS I'm using. I'll give Obsidian a try. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome :)
Tnx, will check it out. I'm currently using Notion.
I wrote it all directly into Gitlab before. But I'm giving Obsidian a go now :)
I had been doing this for years with Typora and Git. This program looks amazing. I also like Bear notes for Mac OS. Will give this a try
Thx! Let me know if you like it ;)
@@christianlempa yeah love it! Although reluctant to use any special proprietary syntax in case I want to take my notes to another application in future. But definitely love the interface and customisation options. I had been using Typora but their 3 license limit has started to cause me problems using my notes on my machines. Thanks for this recommendation!!
@@ic9628 You're welcome! Thanks for your feedback mate :)
that was really useful, thank you for a great video!
Also markdown understands some html commands which means that if you already got used to markdown, you can always go deeper in improving your documents
The main reason I've stayed away from MD is dealing with tables. They are a huge hassle to use and you can't do something like resize columns easily. I hope there's a plugin that can give me a table like Atlassians Confluence.
Indeed, handling tables manually is awkward and cumbersome in Markdown, but there are all kinds of plugins for this in all markdown tools, including Visual Studio Code and Obsidian.
Christian is talking about one of such plugins @16:00
Thanks! This was something I really needed
Awesome! Glad it was useful :)
Can you explain how you got your infrastructure to work so well? Is that all with Obsidian? How did you manage to show which port is connected to which port? Which program do you use for that? Can you make a video of how to create something like that and what?
Thanks 😊
Hmmm maybe I'll do some network planning videos in the future. But currently, I'm still evaluating a new structure and layout. Maybe in the second half of this year.
My best Markdown editor is VSCode.
And not only for markdown, for everything i love VSCode
You may not feel like switching but just letting you know that I think one plugin will add VS Code keyboard shortcuts to Obsidian 🙂
I came a long to Obsidien last year I found it not friendly enough, but after your offering I am using it already. O searched about and i found many people use it
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Something to keep in mind is that Obsidian requires a license if you are going to use it for commercial use. They are, however, pretty liberal about it. With that said I finally paid for a commercial license to use it for work without having to worry about getting myself or my company in trouble. While the chances of getting caught are slim, in many companies using unlicensed software is a fireable offense due to the cost of an audit. I've heard horror stories about Oracle going after companies who use the non-free plugins for VirtualBox.
Git is great, but I'm surprised that no one ever mentions Syncthing as an alternative for keeping your Obsidian vault in sync across multiple devices.
While I rarely edit files on the go, having access to my obsidian vault from my mobile device has proved invaluable a few times.
I use my TrueNAS server as the main hub, and use syncthing to keep my entire documents folder (including the Obsidian vault) in sync across my main workstation, my laptop, and my mobile devices. It also has version control built in, though I have run into issues occasionally with anything other than simple versioning. I've only noticed this with Obsidian specifically though.
I'll need to try out Syncthing, haven't used it before
There are quite a number of products in this space. There are subscription-based ones like RemNote, Roam, Notion, Heptabase, Scrintal, with Roam and RemNote leading the pack. For ones w/o subscriptions (i.e. free for use), there are Obsidian, Athens, and Logseq. In the latter category, the most advanced one right now seems to be Logseq.
For syncing, if you're using Google Drive for Desktop, it shouldn't be too hard to point Obsidian to your synced folder. So there isn't really a need to pay for any storage service if you got gmail account. I believe the alternative, like OneDrive, should be able to fill in the role as well.
Yeah that works well in Obsidian, as long as you’re not using android mobile xD
I use it with Dropbox. That works well too.
@@christianlempa Mostly yes. For those Android folks who really don't want to pay, I see many of them going for "Autosync for Google Drive" app (and tolerate the ads). If they shell out for an in-app purchase (once), they can make all the ads go away, so this approach arguably saves money in the long run. Those who are wary of 3rd party app accessing their Google Drive, though, will still skip this app.
Yeah, THX. I'm going to use it only for the Table editing. I use VSCode with the Preview-Window and put them into a Container full of "Bookstack".
c.u. and greetings from Hamburg
Grüße zurück! :)