Obsidian

Obsidian is a knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files. Think of logseq and roamresearch.

How I’m using Obsidian

This website is orgnized using markdown
I open up the content directory as a vault (obsidian word).
I edit them as any other markdown file
The hotkeys and / commands are handy in writing
I use WikiLinks (double square brackets) to link to peer pages, these are converted to HTML links via the Python-Markdown extension. wikilinks = WikiLinkExtension(base_url="/", end_url=".html")

Templates

Creating and using templates in Obsidian.

Use case: I write my notebooks and posts using markdown and ergo obsidian. The two types have a frontmatter that looks like this (taken from this document):

---
title: Obsidian
kind: notebook
date: 2023-04-12
tags:
  - pkm
  - markdown
  - text-editor
---

Using instructions from the templates page, i created _obstemplates directory and added notebook.md as a file with the following content:

---
title: {{title}}
date: {{date}}
kind: post
description: TODO
tags:
  - TODO
---

To use this template, use the “ribbon” and select “Insert Template”. voila!

Plugins

I’m using these plugins

dataview
emoji-toolbar
style-settings
periodic-notes
table-editor

Alfred Workflows

Quick Journal Logging in Obsidian using Alfred and Shortcuts - Sridhar Katakam’s Blog; useful ref : Navigation | Obsidian Advanced URI

Obsidian published websites

Examples of interesting obsidian published websites

MTH 225 Fall 2023 - Obsidian Publish
Second Brain - published using Quartz
Home - Chris Albon, notes on machine-learning

Templater

Introducing My Knowledge Lakehouse

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