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Interview with the new Obsidian CEO, Stephan Ango

This week's video is going to be a livestream! My friend Andy Polaine (whom I met when we did 2023-03-07 13:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Writing a book in Obsidian, about Obsidian

Hey everyone! This week's video is about the very beginning of another goal for me: writing a book. It's something I've wanted to do for a while, but never got around to doing. Well, I've decided i...

My full TTRPG setup for 2023

This one's for the TTRPG players/GMs! I've gotten a few questions about the TTRPG vault, in particular regarding the "...

AI for PKM and Obsidian

This week's video shows some of the artificial intelligence tools that I've been experimenting with and have impressed me enough to include them in my workflows, specifically:

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Top 10 core plugins for Obsidian + Patreon Q&A

Hey folks! This week's video is about how I think Obsidian core plugins are overlooked in favour of "shinier" community plugins, when actually they're more futureproof, secure, and plenty flexible ...

Obsidian for Everyone: a beginners' course for Obsidian

I made a thing. A really scary thing to start off the new year: I made my first course ever.

Obsidian for Everyone is a true beginners' course: it's everything you needed to get started with ...

My 2023 planning setup + Etherpad + #TIL

Happy 2023, folks!

🎥 My time management setup in Obsidian

This week's video is about all the plugins and apps I use to get stuff done and make sure my priorities are aligned. The g...

Notes on YouTube videos

This week's video: YouTube videos in Obsidian

This week's video is about different ways to take notes from YouTube videos that I've tried, including a recent release I'm pretty excited by. ...

Visual atomic note taking + 20k

Visual atomic note taking with Obsidian Excalidraw

This week's video addresses the gap between taking notes textually and taking notes visually. I talk about how to bridge th...

Top 10 tips for reading on a Kindle

Hey folks! I love to close out the year with some type of readathon, and this year I'm doing the Reindeer Readathon ...

What's in my tech bag for working remotely?

I've been a remote worker for years (even before the pandemic), and I've found I work best that way. Here's what I bring with me to coworking spaces or while travelling and working away from home f...

Making notes actually useful + TTRPG stuff

This week's video is about my process for turning a raw note into something that enriches my day-to-day life and career. I also talk about some other plugins I've been using but haven't talked abou...

Obsidian Projects plugin video + PKM.social

Hey folks! This week's video is about the Obsidian Projects plugin. I had a chat with the developer of this plugin last week, an...

Video preview: Should you have multiple vaults in Obsidian?

How many Obsidian vaults should you have? The short answer is that you should do what makes sense for you. I don't like to state definitively how things should be done, so instead, in this video, I...

How to organize your notes in Obsidian // The LATCH method

In this video (out later this week for non-Patreons), I tackle one of my most frequently asked questions: How should you organize my notes in Obsidian?

I think this is a personal question, so...

New Patreon perk: Discord server

Hey folks! Some of you have noted that Patreon isn't great for two-way communication: only I can create posts to address the community, and everyone else has to comment on existing posts or message...

Video preview: Taking better notes from books (Shortform review)

Hey friends! Here's a preview of the video I'm releasing this week-- it's about a platform called Shortform that I use for:

- pre-screening books to figure out if I want to buy them/read them...

New perk: Patreon exclusive videos - Quick look at Dataview

Hey folks! You might have seen my video preview earlier this week, about Obsidian for non-coders. Here's a part of the...

Video Preview: Obsidian for non-coders

This week's video is going to be one for non-coders or developers who have found Obsidian's Markdown syntax a little confusing. This is the companion video to the 2022-10-17 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

I'm making a course!

I've been meaning to make an Obsidian for beginners course for a while, but I'm finally at a point where I feel like I've got enough of a handle on doing YouTube part-time to tackle something new!<...

New Patreon-only perk: Private online vault

Hey folks! I'm trying something new and tentatively adding a new vault to the list of perks you get from this Patreon, one that is online and password-protected.

I've been wanting to add writ...

New video + new in Patreon vault: Database of Stuff + Database Folder

Hey folks, I was going to release the Tabs video this week (it's one I've already previewed on Patreo...

Cheat Sheet for formatting Obsidian Notes

Hey everyone! I've gotten a lot of questions about formatting notes in Obsidian, so I thought I'd make up a quick one-pager with the most common things one might want to do in Markdown, along with ...

Video preview: What's in my tech EDC bag?

Time for something different! I LOVE these "what's in my EDC" type videos and I am an absolute gearhead, so I wanted to show you some of the stuff I carry around every day. It's a small package, bu...

Video preview: How I learn languages in Obsidian and other apps

This week's video is going to be about how I studied Swedish for 30 days using a variety of tools, including Obsidian. But those of you here get it first!

I've gotten a lot of questions about...

Tabs in Obsidian (new in v0.16)

Here's what you can look forward to in the next release of Obsidian, v0.16. I've been testing it for a few weeks now, and particularly love the new tabs feature. However, this release DID initially...

I can finally tell you about Readwise Reader!

I WAS going to post the ExcaliBrain video this week, BUT! Last night I got an email from the Readwise team about their product Reader, which I've been privately beta testing for over a year. The em...

Video preview: How to use the ExcaliBrain Obsidian plugin

I've been wanting to create a video of ExcaliBrain every since I made a video about its sister plugin, Excalidraw. However, the ...

Q&A Thread (September 2022)

Hey everyone! I didn't do Q&A last month due to some commitments, but you can always message me-- I always answer Patreon questions. :)

This month, though, I want to start this up again! ...

Video preview: How to take notes from a book with Obsidian - The Culture Map

Last week was a blur! I spent the full week with my work colleagues in Sweden, getting to know each other in person after years of working together online. It was fantastic but exhausting, and I'm ...