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2024-06-05

How I use obsidian

What is obsidian?

Obsidian is a markdown note taking app that is heavily customisable and and be used for almost any type of notes.

Why do I use it?

I use obsidian to organise my ideas, projects and knowledge. Obsidian uses a note linking system that allows you to link other notes using links and tags which makes a graph of your notes which can be helpful in organising notes.

Vault download

If you want to download the base configuration for my vault you can do so here

Vault configuration

My vault is configured in a way that makes it easy to navigate between the different parts of my life and to make it quick and easy to format pages with just a few taps.

Extensions

Firstly lets talk about what extensions i'm using. Im currently using the following:

Home tab

Home tab is a plugin that puts a search page on each new tab to quickly find files

Kanban

Kanban is a plugin that allows you to create kanban boards in obsidian to keep track of tasks and projects.

Excalidraw

Exalidraw is a plugin that allows you to create diagrams in obsidian.

Completr

Completr is a plugin that allows you to autocomplete whole words to speed up typing.

File color

File color is a plugin that allows you to colour code files in obsidian.

Iconize

Iconize is a plugin that allows you to add icons to files in obsidian.

Templater

Templater is a plugin that allows you to create templates for notes in obsidian to speed up note taking.

Projects

Projects is a plugin that allows you to create projects in obsidian to keep track of tasks and notes.

Vault statstics

Vault statistics is a plugin that allows you to see statistics about your vault.

Advanced slides

Advanced slides is a plugin that allows you to create slides in obsidian.

Calendar

Calendar is a plugin that allows you to create a calendar in obsidian.

Linter

Linter is a plugin that checks your markdown for errors.

File structure

My vault is structured in a way that sections out the different types of notes.

Maps

Maps are files that contain links to parts of my vault. There like mini maps for sections of my vault to help me find my way around the vault.

Areas

Areas is the different interests and areas of my life that I have notes on. In my vault there are the following sub folders:

In your vault you can have any thing:

Daily

In here I have notes that are daily notes that I write to keep track of what I have done that day and things I have read or watched.

I use template to autofill things like the date and basic structure of the page.

Fleeting

Fleeting notes are notes that are quick notes that I write down to remember things or ideas that I have and want to quickly write down.

Resources

Resources is where I keep things like quick tips, cheetsheets and other things that can be quickly used as reference or to help me remember things. Lets say I keep forgetting a bash. So I would look it up and write it down in a note in the resources folder. That way I can quickly look it up in my own notes.

Projects

Projects is where all my projects are kept. Each project has its own folder with notes on the project and its progress.

Archive

Here is where old notes that are no longer needed are placed but might come in use at a future date. Lets say its a old project for example.

Literature

Here is where you put in things you didn't write yourself but use it as reference. Sort of like a reading list.

Meta

Meta is where configuration files, templates and other notes for the obsidian app are kept.

Templates

With the templater extension you can crate templates for notes to speed up note taking.

Daily

Template for daily notes:

---
tags:
  - Daily_note
date: <%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>
cssclasses:
  - daily
---
# DAILY NOTE
## <%tp.date.now("DD-MM-YYYY")%>
***
### Overview
INSERT
### Events
#### Morning
INSERT
#### Afternoon
INSERT
#### Evening
INSERT
### Articles and sites read
- INSERT
- SITES

We will talk about CSS classes in a bit.

Base note

Template for general notes:

---
tags: 
cssclasses:
  - neo-headings
  - bai-headings
  - rounded-images
---
# <% tp.file.title %> 

Subtitle


***

CSS Snippets

There are many CSS classes that I use. Many of which are inspired by CyanVoxel's obsidian vault template. CSS Snippets

Daily

Tweaks

Fonts

Fonts

The main font in the vault is Jetbrains Mono with neardfonts. Here are all the fonts I use.

Page colours

I colour my pages to help give my notes more life and to help separate parts of my notes

Again this is part of my vault base template and CSS snippets.

Inspiration

I took heavy inspiration from Cyan Voxel's video that he made.

I also used his obsidian vault template as a reference.

Again you want to download my vault template you can do so here

git clone https://github.com/0x4248/My_obsidian_vault_template

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