Obsidian Resources Dynalist

About Us

• Obsidian (in case you don’t know why you’re here)
• Obsidian Roadmap | Trello
• Obsidian Forum

Videos

• Obsidian - The Basics of Taking Notes - Effective Remote Work - YouTube
  • A very good introductory video on getting started with Obsidian. Highly recommended if you are coming for the first time and have no idea where to start.
• Curtis McHale’s Note Taking and Research Playlist
  • Curtis has been walking through many of the revisions of Obsidian as we go. A good introduction and also a great peek at the way the program has evolved in a very short time.
• Getting Started with Networked Thought in Obsidian - YouTube
  • Another one from Curtis McHale, but this one is specifically a good introduction and demonstration of how connecting notes works.
• Obsidian: NEW BEST Note-taking App Student Overview - YouTube
  • Ren gives a great introduction for students, in the context of a comparison of features with Roam.
• Obsidian - The Power of Backlinks and the Knowledge Graph - Effective Remote Work - YouTube
  • This one is a good overview on how and why connected notes are powerful, and how they work in Obsidian.
• The Productivity Guru - Obsidian - YouTube
  • An ongoing series about doing specific things with Obsidian
• Obsidian - Work on Mobile with 1Writer - Effective Remote Work - YouTube
  • Effective Remote Work talks about using 1Writer on iOS with Obsidian
• Organize Your Knowledge with Zettelkasten - YouTube
  • Not specific to Obsidian, but an excellent introduction to Zettelkasten, which uses Obsidian for the examples. If you watch that, the followup video is worth continuing with.
• Justin’s Obsidian Setup July 2020 - Effective Remote Work - YouTube
  • A good demonstration of how he uses MOC’s, Indexes, and Daily Notes to keep organized. As a bonus, the opening slide show is done using Obsidian’s slide feature!
• Justin’s Obsidian Setup July 2020 - Effective Remote Work - YouTube
  • Much of Justin’s stuff is useful, but I list this one specifically as an excellent introduction to markdown, and how to use it effectively to take notes.
• Obsidian Basics: Search & Starred Search - YouTube
  • The Productivity Guru talking about the advance search options available from v.0.8.0. Contains a lot of details and examples on how to use regex in Obsidian (also useful for general regex knowledge).
• 5 important features of Obsidian and how I implemented a Zettelkasten workflow! - YouTube
  • A good overview of how one person implemented Zettelkasten in Obsidian, specifically using multiple folders for categorization.

Scripts And External Tools

• GitHub - mm53bar/obsidian_utils: Various scripts and utilities for Obsidian.md
  • A small collection of scripts for engaging with collections of markdown files. Includes a compiled todo list, a daily note, and cleaning up empty notes.
• Auto-Linking Tool - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum
  • A python script that will auto-created forward linking within a vault.
• dotfiles/agenda at master · blay/dotfiles · GitHub
  • Not specifically for Obsidian, but works well with it, this script compiles an agenda from a specifically formatted collection of markdown files. A good starting point for making your own.

CSS Resources

• GitHub - kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian: Awesome stuff for Obsidian
  • The original github repo from which we built our Community Themes. Also has some additional CSS tweaks and links to other resources.
• Obsidian scss · GitHub
  • Obsidian SASS theme switching tools from @death_au. Kind of advanced, not officially supported, but a cool trick if you want to try to pull it off.