Notion-like content calendar in Obsidian // Obsidian Projects plugin
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- If you're looking to create a content calendar in Obsidian just like in Notion, the new Obsidian Projects plugin presents new options for managing content using multiple views: Table, Board, Calendar, and Gallery to start with, but hopefully more in the future. Projects is a framework for creating new views for the same data and aims to play well with other plugins.
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0:00 Intro
0:23 The old way: Kanban + Fantasy Calendar
03:21 New: Obsidian Projects plugin
04:34 Creating a content template and folder
07:14 How to use Obsidian Projects
09:15 Calendar View
10:30 Board View
11:02 Gallery View
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If you'd like to see Obsidian Projects support a new view other than the four mentioned, reach out to the developer of that view (for example, Kanban), as they will need to make some changes to make their plugin compatible with Projects.
THEMES USED: Minimal (dark) and Minimal (light).
PLUGINS mentioned: Projects, Kanban, Fantasy Calendar, Database Folder.
Hi Nicole. I am new to this, and I am able to follow aong till 08:52, but then you change the values directly from the columns, and that's not happening in my version. I have to double click the field and edit it like normal text. Is that something up with the plugin, or is it just me?
Uplifting video for Friday, just what I needed! Looking forward to making progress in Obsidian, this plugin looks like another must -have... Thanks!
Yay! Happy to oblige. I think it's a great plugin too. :)
Thanks Nicole. All the important bits and non of the fluff. Love and light.
Thank you! You're always kind. :) Glad you liked this one!
@@nicolevdh You deserve kindness. Positive comments of praise are easy. It takes a thinking pause to write a positive critique lest is comes over as harsh.
Thanks so much Nicole, this plugin is amazing and you did such a great job demoing it. Can't wait to try it out
Thank you so much! I think it has a LOT of potential, and I really can't wait for other plugin developers to integrate with it!
This seems like an incredible framework. I hope it blossoms and gets support from the community and other developers. Amazing work so far Marcus!
You and me both, Rob! Happy you see the potential as well! :)
Love it! Have a use case for it already! Can't wait to put it into action.
Nice to see you here too! :) Glad you like the plugin!
This is a great start to a must-have plug-in. It's not quite there for me yet because I have those other plugins working just fine, and I want some functionality like more drag and drop, but I think very very quickly it will be a truly amazing plugin. Hopefully other plugin developers will all get on board making project management easier for everyone.
You nailed it! Once others integrate with it, it's going to be fantastic! Database Folder looks like it will be the first to integrate with it, which should be fantastic.
Don't know how recent it was, but the Kanban does have drag and drop functionality on it!
Perfect, super-useful, thank you!
Como siempre un video excelente! Gracias por compartir tu conocimiento, un saludo desde Argentina 😊
Muchas gracias! :) Me encanta compartir estas cosas con ustedes. Un saludo :D
You're my favorite obsidian youtuber :)
I have devoured your Obsidian content, which has changed my daily life, so thank you so much for making this a passion project.
I don't want to come off as someone who can't wait to correct mispronunciations. Lord knows I mispronounce words all the time, and I'm always super grateful when people take the time to let me know the right way to say it. Maybe someone already helped you out; I don't know; I didn't read any of the comments.
Kanban is pronounced like the word "on," so it rhymes with Bonbon.
Again, thank you for all your super helpful content! I appreciate you and all your hard work!
It's always interesting to hear the original pronunciation of a word but it's not really needed when you are speaking. I am Swedish myself, and if I were to pronounce IKEA i would pronounce it "i·kee·ah", but when I'm speaking English I would pronounce it in the English way, "eye·key·ah". Just like how Mexicans say Mexico as "meh·he·koh" instead of the American mek·suh·kow. This is just much easier way as it doesn't distrupt the flow of your speech. And even when it doesn't, it can come off as a bit pretentious if you insist to do proper pronounciation on many things, like saying "bar·the·lona" or "pari".
Wow this is a game changer 🔥
I think so too! Glad you like it. :)
@@nicolevdh Your videos are so crisp and clear, thanks for sharing! 🤩
Thank you, Deepak! I try! :)
Loving your videos. Very informative. I haven't checked out this Plugin yet but I watched your video with the creator. My initial thought is what if you have a file that is shared between multiple projects, you can't have it inside a project folder. Maybe there's a solution to this already. I saw something about Subfolders. As a Notion user as well, this plugin looks promising
This is the one and only plugin that I need! Hope it’ll be on mobile version ASAP😭😭😭😭
Tackar! Ännu en plugin att installera!
Glad att höra det! Och utvecklaren av Projects är svensk!
Hi is that possible to make a certain page with a certain tag has bigger font, with custom css or any thing maybe?
I have some Arabic text which seems smaller than usual text.
Yes, it is, but unfortunately I'm not the person to ask! CSS is not my forte. :) Sorry about that!
Is it possible to use start and end date to make something like Gantt chart or something similar to Timeline view in Notion?
Obsidian Projects doesn't come with that, and I have not used of other Obsidian plugins with a Gantt chart, sorry!
From Turkey Hi. Your channel is very useful. You have no idea whose lives you have touched in a positive way. Keep going
Great video, like always. I want to ask you 2 things Nicole:
Metadata that is not in the YAML does not work for me (especially I am going to talk about the table, which is what matters the most to me and would be used the most). That is, they appear in the table as text metadata, whatever their content, but it does not return any value in said table
Is there a way at least in the YAML to put a value, like "status", with the content of one or more tags, like "#ToDo, #Completed, etc." And that the Projects table shows you not only what is written but also in label format? (To be able to see all the notes with said label and, by the way, make them appear beautiful, because with css you can put the name of a specific label of the color you want)
Hi! Have you tried reaching out to the developer, Marcus Olsson? You can raise an issue on the GitHub repo for Projects or find him on the Obsidian Discord as well: @marcusolsson. He's the best person to talk to about Project-related issues/questions. :)
First of all: thank you, Nicole, you're great; I'm literally learning Obsidian from your videos. About this plugin: my Calendar view splits the screen in two, where the calendar is on the left, and the right side is empty. Do you know why? I followed precisely your steps (maybe is something about a calendar plugin that I don't have?
Try it with Default theme. A custom theme or custom CSS snippet may be causing the issue.
Just what I was looking for. Thank you! However, I have noticed most of the project plugins are based on buttet points, not in the the long note-taking research format such as script writing etc... Would love to see this as well.
Hi Patricia! A prose-form view is not available yet, but there's nothing technical that prevents that from being built.
Great video! I noticed that when you change the title the automatically updates even after it has been renamed to Untitled. How do you do that?
I saw in one of her other videos that she put [[ ]] and that seems to work as it becomes a link.
How do you put images in kanban, or thumbnails.
Thank you for this! Exactly what I was needing. I do have a question though, (which might be more for the developer). Is there a particular date format required? I have multiple dates in my front matter for projects. i.e. due, next_review, etc. I'm using the standard YYYY-MM-DD format for my dates. It seems to view these as text rather than dates which leads me to believe that it's looking for the "date" tag specifically.
Hi! YYYY-MM-DD is fine, but make sure you are selecting the right field-- it recognizes `date` by default, so if yours is called something else, you'll need to select it from the dropdown menu in the upper right so that it knows which field to use as the date.
@@nicolevdh Hey Nicole I have the problem I can't select anything there. In this field there stands the word None. What can I do to solve my problem?
Thanks for your videos they are great have a nice time :)
Hmmm, not sure.. if you have the parameter in there, it should see it. I don't do anything else to get it to show up. If you're still having issues, maybe you should contact the developer, Marcus Olsson! He will for sure help you out. :)
The plugin "Projects" doesn't work well on android :( , do you have an alternative for it?
Here for Obsidian...commenting because...THE ONE RING!!!
For select list when you creating video template, could be well if you do the keys to [0,1,2,3].
And the projects plugin is so good. Notion had this, now obsidian too.
Good idea! I may just do that. :) Thanks! Yeah, I really missed this from Notion and I'm excited it's come to Obsidian too!
Great video Nicole!
I have a question about project organisation. If you'd have various types of public content (RUclips videos, podcasts, articles, etc) and also various types of private and clients content (family/friends photos to develop, audio/video/photo work for clients) how would you organize them?
Would it be project per type of content (videos project, podcasts project, articles project) or just a single project? Would you separate personal/work/public content stuff into separate projects? Again, per content type or just something like "public stuff", "personal stuff", "clients content"?
I will so much appreciate the answer on this topic from you because I've stuck with this for a plenty of time.
Use tags instead of folders and you can do a lot!
@@darryldavis2316 Could you please show some example structure of what you're talking about?
Hello Nicole. Thank you for your video. As I'm less experienced than you in Obsidian, I'd like to know how Projects compares to Database Folder? Are the two "competitors" as they seem to fulfill the same objectives ?
Hey! They're not competitors at all. DB folder displays information, and Projects provides a framework for plugins that display information. The two developers are working together to integrate their plugins, so that we can have a Database Folder in Projects.
@@nicolevdh Thank you !
Does this proceed dbfolder or are there still thing you can only do with it
No, actually, it's even better-- Rafael, the developer of DB Folder, is working WITH Marcus, the developer of Projects, to bring a "DB Folder view" as one of the views in Projects.
Oh great looking forward to it
hi, my date column is still in the text format, not able to change it into date format
I had had the same issue. But when I opened one page from the Demo project folder and then I changed the text in metadata in my page to "due: 2023-03-01", the project started to see the column as date format. Then I changed "due" to "date" and then to other words in my native language and the format has been still date. I hope that it'll work for you as well :)
@@Alushenka it worked, thanks
Trying this out on a fairly fresh install of obsidian and seeing some discrepancies from what is in the video. Wondering if I don't have something installed to support this that may not be mentioned. For example Templater does not have the option for "Enable Folder Templates". Currently I only have Projects and Templater installed on this instance. Do I need something else that would extend Templater config options, or did Templater change in the day or so since this upload? I am also having issue with Projects Kanban view picking up the status field to map to, but it is late, and that may be on me.
Hi! I just confirmed on a fresh vault myself, and I can still see those options. Are you sure you're looking at TemplateR, the community plugin, not TemplateS, the core plugin? It's really easy to confuse the two!
Re: the Board view in Projects, did you select the status parameter from the dropdown menu, so it knows which parameter it should use?
@@nicolevdh Weird. Yeah, I am definitely in the Templater options under the Community Plugins Section. In your video the options go from Template Hotkeys to Folder Templates. In my version it goes from Template Hotkeys to Startup Templates. I don't have Folder Templates as a section to enable at all. To confirm, I am running Templater by SilentVoid v.1.16.0 with Obsidian v.1.0.3 on OSX v12.5.
I was able to figure out why the additional values were not showing up in the kanban drop down. I forgot to add the "---" open and close section around the header code. I figured that was a sloppy mistake from watching this at 5am. At least I got that solved.
If you have any tips for setting the Priority drop down values, that would be helpful. I tried to add another variable for "priority:" like this: "priority: " but that just added them to the status drop down, so I am likely not understanding how to hood it in correctly.
Either way, awesome content. You are definitely helping me think through additional use cases for this app. Keep up the great work!
@@Digital_Kyle Hi, in the Templater plugin you need to set the "Trigger Templater on new file creation" to true for the "Enable Folder Templates" options to show. At least that is what happened on my one, hope it helps you. 🤞🤞
@@MangoPlaysGames That was it. Thanks!
@@Digital_Kyle Awesome!!
Not sure what you mean by "unlike plugins like database folder this project view is across all projects".
If you have your database file in the root folder it will look at every file. You could use a dataview query to pick tags, or just use a filter to show only projects or any other attribute added to a file.
I like the projects plugin but the functionality is lacking at the moment. It will be exciting to see how this evolves!
I meant just that-- the project screen that I was showing displays all projects everywhere, selectable from the dropdown menu from the same screen. In Projects, there is no "database file" that is tied to a folder. By contrast, Database Folder creates a file per folder that saves settings for that folder alone. It's a difference in implementation.
I think what you perceive as a lack of functionality is precisely the strength of Projects. Projects is more of a framework for linking views together-- it's not meant to supply the views by itself. The views that exist were added primarily to showcase the possibilities of this approach, not to be end products in themselves, so critiquing their functionality is moot.
@@nicolevdh ah so where dbfolder are files you can query, star and refine like other files, the projects are stored somewhere in the plugin. I assume you can quick access those projects in some way?
The lack of dragging and dropping in the views in my mind is functionality, other examples like column type (relation, rollup, formula, date time etc) also in my mind are functionality. To me, without those features, the views are more visual than functional.
I am not sure how useful a visual is without functionality so could you elaborate how my critique is moot?
Yes, as I mentioned in the video, you can access the different projects in the projects screen and switch between them there.
The issue is that the whole point of the plugin is not the views at all. You refer to Projects as a visual, when that's not what it is. It was created to be a layer that *facilitates* the creation of views. It's like an API endpoint, not the application. The views are an afterthought. Judging it based on the views is like judging a new programming language before anyone's had a chance to use it to build things. Projects is a framework, so it should be judged as a framework.
This is why Marcus said in the livestream that this was his way to avoid creating views himself. This is also why plugins like Database Folder will work WITH Projects, not be a competitor. Projects needs plugins like DB Folder, Kanban, etc., to be useful-- that's what it was built to do.
@@nicolevdh Yeah that is what I thought. The DBFolder integration is what I am using. The projects table view, as you state, is an afterthought.
I think my interpretation was thrown off by your narrative around using 'projects' for the content calendar. My mind went to look at projects as a plugin, which as you say is true but it is more of a framework.
How we explain that to people I am not sure. My interest is what other plugins will embrace this, we will see 👀
I do already use Projects for my content calendar. I prefer to be able to use the same data for different views than to use three disparate plugins. Even as a bare framework it's already useful for me, but I also expect it to improve as other developers integrate with it.
Different strokes for different folks!
I can't open notes in board view can somebody help me?
Hi! You might not be setting the right parameter as the status. I go over how to do this step by step in the video, so it may be good to watch it and pause it at certain steps so that you can follow along exactly!
So it's airtable in obsidian, neat
Yeah! I did a livestream with the developer, Marcus Olsson, and he actually mentioned that he took heavy inspiration from Airtable. :)
how did you get the video to display as it did? All I get is the link to the video.
Hey! Not entirely sure what you mean. Are you talking about this video, or something IN this video? Could you give me a timestamp so I know what you're looking at?
@@nicolevdh It's where you had a youtube video linked in your Obsidian - all I get is the URL and no visible video. Timestamp 6:06
Ah, I see! I'm using the HTML for embedding a RUclips video, which you can get from RUclips > Share.
it looks like templater no longer has "Folder templates..."
Hi Nicole! Are you still managing your content like this a year later?
Tried out the plugin but found it to be buggy.
That's too bad! I encourage you to reach out to Marcus on GitHub-- he's pretty responsive.
Oooohhhhhhh...
I like the concept of the Obsidian Projects plug-in but I'm sure even you should admit it having some big drawbacks. Only the other week you were talking about non-compartmentalizing files by avoiding the folders route (unless really necessary) and suddenly, we find ourselves running projects in specific folders...suddenly making it really necessary - but in this case, only to use the plug-in. "Verward!!!!"
Sure, it definitely has some drawbacks. I can name those for pretty much every plugin, and community plugins are made by people for free. :) It would be a tall order to find a free plugin that doesn't have drawbacks.
However, folders are not one of them. They are not at all necessary for Projects, which is why I like the approach better than that of Database Folder. Projects CAN use folders, but it can also use pretty much any Dataview query, so it can bring together files from any folder. I actually demonstrate this in my livestream with Marcus. Here's the timestamp for it: pulse.ly/sp9eca0sam
Seems like it pretty much just does what it did 8 months ago? Which is fine...not sure I need anything else...
I really appreciate every content I found on your channel, but please, stop give me better workflow ideas with every new video, cause I've changed mine five times in a week. This one seems to be the better until now, and solve lot of imperfections.
... No, seriously, thank you for your work!
Är du svensk?? :)
Nej! Men jag lara mig svenska. :) Och utvecklaren, Marcus Olsson, är svensk.
I don't understand anything. That's why I keep Notion for my business and Obsidia for my creative projects.
Hey awesome content! If you want to shorten that templater suggester syntax you could use "` t, ["Value1", "Value2"]) %>" the first parameter being a function that just returns that string from the item list (second parameter)
Hey, thank you! That seems so obvious now that you've pointed it out. Will do that next time, thanks!