Obsidian features, functionality, Elements, & examples
Atomic Elements
Notes
Tags
Canvas
Graphs
- global graph
- local graph
Tables
Properties & Front Matter
E.g.
---
aliases: [AI, Artificial Intelligence]
---
Footnotes
Here's a simple footnote,[^1] and here's a longer one.[^bignote]
[^1]: meaningful!
[^bignote]: Here's one with multiple paragraphs and code.
Indent paragraphs to include them in the footnote.
`{ my code }`
Add as many paragraphs as you like.
Presentations
Separate slides with ---
Bullet points/lists
Todos/tasks
checklist plugin gives you a sidebar pane
- Task 1
- Completion with date stamp ✅ 2023-03-31
- Partial/in progress
- Canceled
- Moved or blocked?
- Scheduled?
Lines
Blocks
Sections
Headings
Workspaces
Links
Use more official markdown links instead of the obsidian custom [[]]. Actually, the readability of wikilinks prob makes it worth it to use. Looks like nvultra will use them too. Probably not hard to convert from them if I needed to.
You can link to notes, a heading in a note, or any block in a note
To Blocks
A "block" can be a paragraph, a blockquote, a list item, etc. In general, anything that has empty lines before and after is a block.
To link to a block in a specific file, first type [[filename to bring up a list of matched files. After selecting a file, type ^ and continue typing to search for blocks to link to.
Once you hit enter, a link to that block will be generated for you, in the format similar to [[filename#^dcf64c]], where dcf64c is the block ID that was just generated for you.
If you're not sure which file the block is in, another method is to type [[^^ and search for blocks in all files. This will search through all the blocks in your vault, so expect a bit of delay if your vault is large.
If you want human readable block IDs, you can manually put ^your-id after a block. Make sure there's at least one space if you're putting the ID at end of a line.
To Headings
Type [[ and select the page, then type # to search through headings in that file. The link will have human readable links like aNote > aHeading2
To URLS
Link to heading in same document, e.g. for Table of Contents (TOC)
Semantic links with link aliases? Missing
- Javascript's best testing framework allows blah blah blah
- e.g., to get a markdown way of making something like Tinderbox links where you can not only link 2 notes but define what the meaning of the link is - agree, disagree, issue, event, example, etc.
- Excalibrain has similar ideas
Link to other files with another app like
Link to another file on my hard drive with a specific app. Like OmniOutliner://Python.oo or something
Hold Ctrl to create file:///absolute links to those files instead of importing a copy.
Folder:
Inbox Folder
Dropbox Folder
iCloud Folder
And/or use Hook
Obsidian
Link to note
- copy url from pathfinder
Omni
(file:///Users/evan/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Omni/Omni%20Codex/Career.ooutline)
- Got via pathfinder
- You can also use the Things shortcut thing to pull it up and then copy the path from that things box. And you can name the link, then highlight that name, then cmd-k, like macOS
Scapple
Taskpaper
Foldingtext
Tinderbox
Apple notes
Will be great when i want the features of Apple Notes in Obsidian. E.g., Apple Pencil sketches.
Solution to get url
- You have to share the note and then get the url.
Apple Note: Light Bulbs
Dash
Text and note processing
Splitting/exploding A note into multiple notes
- heading?
- arbitrary character
- maintain a link in the original document. So you can have an index/outline document
Note refactor community plugin
Embeds
Webpage with iframe
Formats supported
- Markdown files:
md; - Image files:
png,jpg,jpeg,gif,bmp,svg; - Audio files:
mp3,webm,wav,m4a,ogg,3gp,flac; - Video files:
mp4,webm,ogv; - PDF files:
pdf.
Transclusion
- includes that pages transclusions as well
- can transclude only a specified heading in a page
Templates
Builtin
Templater
- for creating specific note types
- command to create new note from template
- template language
Aliases
- you can define aliases for a note in the frontmatter