You can edit the metadata of a file from within the data view list or table, or a canvas, without having to open the file and manually changing it. 😲 This is wonderful! Thank you!😀
Just blown away with the homepage / dashboard use case. Ive been using the tracker and multicolumn plugins and watching things groan. I moved to this over the weekend and its way more useable. Thank you very much !
I had no idea you could set it up so that moving things around would change the properties. I haven't yet looked at properties, I guess now I should. Thanks for a very helpful video!
The graph view is excellent for a bottom-up approach to organization. Spam files out, tag them however you feel like, figure out what goes with what, what random connections you can make along the way, etc. Then you go through every so often to group and structure things so they're easier to navigate. If you have one tag with many connections, it becomes an index file. One of my indices is math. I have a lot of notes on that as a math major. It's good for my ADHD brain, where I can throw bullet points down in a daily note, then go back through once every week or two to pull things out of that, then organize them later if I can be bothered. The canvas is much more deliberate. It seems better for deeper, more careful research and inquiry than the very spontaneous nature of the bottom-up approach. I'll likely leverage that the next time I (have to) write an essay.
Hi, my inner Monk wanted to tell you to sort the VARK cards so they match the acronym: Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, Kinaesthetic. Thanks for all the cool canvas tricks!
Since I found Canvas Candy from you, it's been handy for making those kinds of charts and graphs. Although on mobile, the front matter is tedious and not easy to type each time.
I am still a noob at obsidian but I am trying to create something like you're doing at 3:21 but with youtube videos. I usually have my browser filled with tabs open with links of youtube videos that I am trying to watch and at one point it becomes too much and I can't read the titles of what I am trying to do unless I open them one by one. Also if they have to do with learning, it takes time to go through a single video and understand it before opening the next. which causes a flux of youtube links to be opened up for different topics having different priority. To this, I would keep a 'Keep' pile which would have a Ghostreader summary along with what I think/learnt from it and a discard pile without a self written abstract on why it was non-optimal. Your video helps a lot!!
Moving cards in canvas changes the properties of the items, and they are well-formatted, which might be analyzed by ChatGPT with prompt engineering. This means one can create a map by the visual approach ( moving cards) and then throw them to LLM to generate the text based on the map. I feel SO excited about this!😂
What a myriad amount of possibilities! But i wonder is there a templater for canvas, cause it would be such a game changer if so, btw love your videos, it helped me a lot :]
I am curious to know how the new properties in Obsidian will integrate into your workflow. Full disclosure, I haven't investigated how properties might overlap with metadata menu plugin.
the Graph view would be awesome if auto-linking and improvements to filter and sort where added. i don't know how well is uses available hardware, but i want it to be able to auto-link according to a category of terms (like in ide's) and relationally, large bases of text spread across many folders.
Love your use of Canvas, but would you suggest using limited number of rows in a page for example in your case "Article Ideas". Would you ever use a page in a canvas with a large number of rows of information( I have some with many gene listed) and wonder if you would suggest using canvas in some alternative way. While I do know you can scroll, I just wonder if there might be a better way to display in a canvas. Still working my way through the video, so this could be addressed later on.
(sorry if I missed it) but i feel like this doesn't scale sometimes? Like, if you've read hundreds of books. Then the 'read' section in that canvas would just get massive, right? (Just asking)
I wondered that but then thought you could probably limit the query to the last 5 etc then have a separate data view note that is purely your watched films that you could then sort in whichever way you prefer.
Excellent tutorial, Danny! But I'm curious about the query for the To Add-card in the Media Library section: What query strings do you use to create a table with files not already on the canvas?
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks - but I still don't get it! :) At 3:36 you are adding "Conscious Coaching" as a new book to your library. But from what I can tell, there is no property in the YAML that specify wether that book is represented on the canvas or not. At 3:41 it shows up in the To Add query at top of the canvas. So I guess that mean that there is some way to have a Dataview query that filters based on wether a file is on the canvas or not? Embedding a file on a canvas doesn't create a link between canvas and file, so basing that search on links isn't an option. And that's the only thing I can think of, and I find no other ways when browsing Dataview's documentation either. :)
@@DannyHatcherTech the main difference is with a mindmap you have a central idea you group ideas around, while a concept map is more about connecting concepts with each other, defining your relationships in a more direct way
@@ironic_razor Still not sure the difference - mind maps don't need to go outwards and concept maps start at one point before connections are made. I feel the creation process can be the same 🤷♂
Looks like youve solved a missing feature from Kanban and Projects plugins...moving cards from a list doesnt update the underlying frontmatter. You have to chnage thr frontmatter and its just shows in kanban...not as helpful. This is huge. Thank you!
want to ask, why i drag and drop image to obsidian canvas, there is duplicate in vault, is there a way to address the image directly from the original drive without duplicating it to the vault
If Obsidian sees the image in the vault it will use the same path unless you have directed it to search in a different folder. Then it will make a copy of the image in the new folder. A new image will also be made if the names dont match.
@@DannyHatcherTech thanks for your reply, So there's no setting that can prevent it from being duplicated to the vault, right? I just want to drag and drop directly from Windows Explorer to the canvas with the original path address
@@fannycarlo9443 when you drag it in if the filename or path doesnt match the existing image it will create a new file - the image maybe the same but Obsidian thinks they are different. Likely a pasted image v named image filename.
What would be the difference in purpose between article and research note for you? I think I have a hunch from your other videos, but wanted to clarify. I'm trying to understand what I can use for my purpose, but in my case it seems articles are just smaller research notes
Does anyone know how to use file recovery for a canvas? When I do is usual prompts, all it does is copy paste a ton of jargon into a single card, when what I want is for the original canvas to come back!
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks for responding, on a side note, would anyone know why the bookmark menu, despite being lengthy, all of a sudden only displays a short few, and then when scrolling between the zoom size, influences this, but now only shows the full list when Zoomed out to the max, meaning, everything is all tiny now, but the bookmark list is finally Displaying the full list, but then as soon as I move up one Deviation, it goes all Askew again?
"I didnt understand nothing" - I am confused. Not understanding nothing is underatanding everything - but you said it was too complex. How can I help 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech I don't know yet, I don't understand what links between items, groups, etc in canvas do and what for, I don't understand what are cards for, maybe I need to replay and watch the whole video from start again...
@@WillFalcon A 'card' in an Obsidian canvas is the box that you see. A card could just have text in - like a file but not stored in a folder. A card could be a file already in your Obsidian vault. A card could also be media like an image, a video, or an external link like a website. Using the cards in different ways lets you visualize information in a concept map.
@@DannyHatcherTech thank you. I realized this video is too brief for me with too many unknown strings attached and I need to dig deeper starting from small tutorials "monkey see monkey does"
The content looks interesting. Unfortunately, at the speed at which the presenter speaks, it is very difficult for someone who is not a native English speaker to follow. It looks like he's rushing to get his father off the gallows. Slowing the video down to .75x doesn't help as the speech becomes distorted.
Sorry to hear that. I slow down my natural speech speed for these videos. Any slower and I struggle to speak without making many mistakes. I am happy to answer questions you have in discord - RUclips isn't great at notifications.
@@DannyHatcherTech Thank you for your kind response. Anyway, it's my fault, for not being fluent in the English language. I will watch the video again, as it is really interesting. 🙂
You can set the playback speed in RUclips slower, and also make use of the transcript. Not a perfect solution but will work across almost all videos on the platform. Hope that's helpful.
@@psgpoanot your fault for English not being your native language, no one should ever feel fault for English being their second language as theirs 8 billion people on this planet and so many different lovely languages
Never thought we could do that kind of tricks. Wonderful
You can edit the metadata of a file from within the data view list or table, or a canvas, without having to open the file and manually changing it. 😲
This is wonderful! Thank you!😀
How is that done, no one ever explained how that was set up?
Just blown away with the homepage / dashboard use case. Ive been using the tracker and multicolumn plugins and watching things groan. I moved to this over the weekend and its way more useable. Thank you very much !
Glad you found it useful.
The canvas dashboard is the best way imo 😁
thank you for building this community that I enjoy reading every single comment of your videos.
Thanks for being involved 😁
The coolest use for Canvas I've seen so far 🤩
I had no idea you could set it up so that moving things around would change the properties. I haven't yet looked at properties, I guess now I should. Thanks for a very helpful video!
Thanks, Danny. I use it in a similar way just for fantasy novel writing. It makes sense as I steal all your best ideas.
The graph view is excellent for a bottom-up approach to organization. Spam files out, tag them however you feel like, figure out what goes with what, what random connections you can make along the way, etc. Then you go through every so often to group and structure things so they're easier to navigate. If you have one tag with many connections, it becomes an index file. One of my indices is math. I have a lot of notes on that as a math major. It's good for my ADHD brain, where I can throw bullet points down in a daily note, then go back through once every week or two to pull things out of that, then organize them later if I can be bothered.
The canvas is much more deliberate. It seems better for deeper, more careful research and inquiry than the very spontaneous nature of the bottom-up approach. I'll likely leverage that the next time I (have to) write an essay.
Brilliant! I'm blown away!
Thank you Danny, love this!
Hi, my inner Monk wanted to tell you to sort the VARK cards so they match the acronym: Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, Kinaesthetic.
Thanks for all the cool canvas tricks!
Since I found Canvas Candy from you, it's been handy for making those kinds of charts and graphs. Although on mobile, the front matter is tedious and not easy to type each time.
Thank you!
very inspiring, thanks 🙏
Great stuff, thanks!
I am still a noob at obsidian but I am trying to create something like you're doing at 3:21 but with youtube videos. I usually have my browser filled with tabs open with links of youtube videos that I am trying to watch and at one point it becomes too much and I can't read the titles of what I am trying to do unless I open them one by one. Also if they have to do with learning, it takes time to go through a single video and understand it before opening the next. which causes a flux of youtube links to be opened up for different topics having different priority. To this, I would keep a 'Keep' pile which would have a Ghostreader summary along with what I think/learnt from it and a discard pile without a self written abstract on why it was non-optimal. Your video helps a lot!!
great work
Moving cards in canvas changes the properties of the items, and they are well-formatted, which might be analyzed by ChatGPT with prompt engineering.
This means one can create a map by the visual approach ( moving cards) and then throw them to LLM to generate the text based on the map. I feel SO excited about this!😂
What a myriad amount of possibilities! But i wonder is there a templater for canvas, cause it would be such a game changer if so, btw love your videos, it helped me a lot :]
I know there are some scripts but they complicated fast!
I am curious to know how the new properties in Obsidian will integrate into your workflow. Full disclosure, I haven't investigated how properties might overlap with metadata menu plugin.
No real changes as metadata menu works as expected.
the Graph view would be awesome if auto-linking and improvements to filter and sort where added. i don't know how well is uses available hardware, but i want it to be able to auto-link according to a category of terms (like in ide's) and relationally, large bases of text spread across many folders.
Sounds nice but I am not sure what that would look like in a workflow.
I'm sure at some point someone will make a plugin to make the Canvas act like ExcaliBrain or Graph View.
Love your use of Canvas, but would you suggest using limited number of rows in a page for example in your case "Article Ideas". Would you ever use a page in a canvas with a large number of rows of information( I have some with many gene listed) and wonder if you would suggest using canvas in some alternative way. While I do know you can scroll, I just wonder if there might be a better way to display in a canvas. Still working my way through the video, so this could be addressed later on.
Yes I use pages in canvas but often narrowed to heading sections.
The queries are for overviews.
Your media library is genius. I want this. How do I set it up?
There should be a link to a template download in the description.
(sorry if I missed it) but i feel like this doesn't scale sometimes?
Like, if you've read hundreds of books. Then the 'read' section in that canvas would just get massive, right?
(Just asking)
I wondered that but then thought you could probably limit the query to the last 5 etc then have a separate data view note that is purely your watched films that you could then sort in whichever way you prefer.
Yes exactly that.
As the reply mentions you can adjust the queries and adjust interactions so instead of a group you use links 🤷♂️
Lots of options 😁
Awesome
Excellent tutorial, Danny! But I'm curious about the query for the To Add-card in the Media Library section: What query strings do you use to create a table with files not already on the canvas?
A table query can be done with dataview or metadata menu plugins.
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks - but I still don't get it! :) At 3:36 you are adding "Conscious Coaching" as a new book to your library. But from what I can tell, there is no property in the YAML that specify wether that book is represented on the canvas or not. At 3:41 it shows up in the To Add query at top of the canvas. So I guess that mean that there is some way to have a Dataview query that filters based on wether a file is on the canvas or not? Embedding a file on a canvas doesn't create a link between canvas and file, so basing that search on links isn't an option. And that's the only thing I can think of, and I find no other ways when browsing Dataview's documentation either. :)
Regarding Mind Mapping of Concepts - have you seen the Concept Map? That looks exactly what you are doing here.
I am not sure what you mean by concept maps.
In academic literature mind mapping and concept mapping have very similar features.
@@DannyHatcherTech the main difference is with a mindmap you have a central idea you group ideas around, while a concept map is more about connecting concepts with each other, defining your relationships in a more direct way
@@ironic_razor Still not sure the difference - mind maps don't need to go outwards and concept maps start at one point before connections are made.
I feel the creation process can be the same 🤷♂
what I didn't get from the video is how to actually add fields that are linked to a group
That sounds like metadata menu 😁 a community plugin I have a different video on.
Looks like youve solved a missing feature from Kanban and Projects plugins...moving cards from a list doesnt update the underlying frontmatter.
You have to chnage thr frontmatter and its just shows in kanban...not as helpful. This is huge. Thank you!
want to ask, why i drag and drop image to obsidian canvas, there is duplicate in vault, is there a way to address the image directly from the original drive without duplicating it to the vault
If Obsidian sees the image in the vault it will use the same path unless you have directed it to search in a different folder. Then it will make a copy of the image in the new folder. A new image will also be made if the names dont match.
@@DannyHatcherTech thanks for your reply,
So there's no setting that can prevent it from being duplicated to the vault, right? I just want to drag and drop directly from Windows Explorer to the canvas with the original path address
@@fannycarlo9443 when you drag it in if the filename or path doesnt match the existing image it will create a new file - the image maybe the same but Obsidian thinks they are different.
Likely a pasted image v named image filename.
Hi,
My Canvas leaves a vertical gap on the left side of each card when I colour it
Any idea how to solve this?
I am not sure what you mean. There isa grid option which should help with alignment if that is what you are referring to.
What would be the difference in purpose between article and research note for you? I think I have a hunch from your other videos, but wanted to clarify. I'm trying to understand what I can use for my purpose, but in my case it seems articles are just smaller research notes
An article note is a source for me.
Highlights specific to a single source.
Research notes are collections of highlights across various sources.
@@DannyHatcherTech ah, got it. I call those source note and article is then a research paper. Thanks for clarifying!
Does anyone know how to use file recovery for a canvas? When I do is usual prompts, all it does is copy paste a ton of jargon into a single card, when what I want is for the original canvas to come back!
I have not tried. I would imagine the json saved file might be used 🤷♂️
A question you might want to put in the discord 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks for responding, on a side note, would anyone know why the bookmark menu, despite being lengthy, all of a sudden only displays a short few, and then when scrolling between the zoom size, influences this, but now only shows the full list when Zoomed out to the max, meaning, everything is all tiny now, but the bookmark list is finally Displaying the full list, but then as soon as I move up one Deviation, it goes all Askew again?
Is there a way to publish or share canvas views with other people? As read only or editable version?
Not outside of Obsidian sync. It is on the roadmpa I believe.
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too complex. I didn't understand nothing.
"I didnt understand nothing" - I am confused.
Not understanding nothing is underatanding everything - but you said it was too complex.
How can I help 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech I don't know yet, I don't understand what links between items, groups, etc in canvas do and what for, I don't understand what are cards for, maybe I need to replay and watch the whole video from start again...
@@WillFalcon A 'card' in an Obsidian canvas is the box that you see.
A card could just have text in - like a file but not stored in a folder.
A card could be a file already in your Obsidian vault.
A card could also be media like an image, a video, or an external link like a website.
Using the cards in different ways lets you visualize information in a concept map.
@@DannyHatcherTech thank you. I realized this video is too brief for me with too many unknown strings attached and I need to dig deeper starting from small tutorials "monkey see monkey does"
@@WillFalcon Totally understandable - happy to help if you have any questions.
I spend my day with discord open 😁
The content looks interesting. Unfortunately, at the speed at which the presenter speaks, it is very difficult for someone who is not a native English speaker to follow. It looks like he's rushing to get his father off the gallows. Slowing the video down to .75x doesn't help as the speech becomes distorted.
Sorry to hear that. I slow down my natural speech speed for these videos. Any slower and I struggle to speak without making many mistakes.
I am happy to answer questions you have in discord - RUclips isn't great at notifications.
@@DannyHatcherTech Thank you for your kind response. Anyway, it's my fault, for not being fluent in the English language. I will watch the video again, as it is really interesting. 🙂
You can turn on Captions.
You can set the playback speed in RUclips slower, and also make use of the transcript. Not a perfect solution but will work across almost all videos on the platform. Hope that's helpful.
@@psgpoanot your fault for English not being your native language, no one should ever feel fault for English being their second language as theirs 8 billion people on this planet and so many different lovely languages