Obsidian

How a Markdown list of links can help preserve your personal map of the internet — Bookmarks! They keep our place in both physical and digital books, and beam us to specific needles in the internet haystack. But are these carefully curated maps of the labyrinth as efficiently and reliably stored as we think they are? I organised the life out of my browser bookmarks recently…

Having written a recent article containing tips to overcome the learning curve of Obsidian, I wanted to follow up by giving some plugins that reduce the complexity of the software. This is contradictory to a point that I made in the previous article, which was to avoid complexity, but these…

You’re all reading my work on note-taking, Obsidian and PKM, but I was far from the first person to write about these topics. I’m standing on the shoulders of giants in this respect and I wanted to acknowledge the most influential pieces I’ve read in my journey since focusing on…

The Quest for the Best Second Brain Continues. — After using Workflowy for two years, I picked Evernote as my note-taking app to build my second brain. But I could not stick with Evernote’s limitation for long. The Journey to Building an Efficient Second Brain As our digital lives become increasingly complex, the need for a second brain — a digital place to organize all your ideas…

Introduction For quite some time now, all attempts at getting Obsidian to talk to Zotero have failed. This has not been with just one plugin, all have been tried, but none worked satisfactorily until now. Inspiration and determination came because of Bryan Jenk’s latest video on the Zotero Obsidian plugin. However…

The start of a mini-series — It’s very common in the PKM space for people to search for comparisons between two or more apps in order to understand new apps, or to decide which to use. This Capacities vs Obsidian series offers some comparison of the key differences between Capacities and Obsidian, which are two networked…

Today I want to talk about this beautiful and useful plugin: Meta Bind. This plugin allows you to create different types of input fields (text, slider, toggle, date, select, etc.) inside your notes and the data you enter will be bound to specific metadata fields. This article is not supposed…

How are the apps organised? — This article assumes prior knowledge of Obsidian, hence the lengthier discussion on Capacities. See the intro for more. Structural Basics Obsidian is organised by files (mainly markdown, but assets too such as pictures and PDFs) in folders that are stored in a ‘vault’ which is a file location of your choosing. I…

Raycast recently unveiled its new “Pro” model to its already wonderful (and very useful) platform, with AI being the standout feature. Being a long-time user of Raycast already, I figured it would be worth exploring the additional productivity potential by using it as a companion tool that works alongside Obsidian…