Nicole van der Hoeven — Channel Summaries
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Top 10 Obsidian Plugins I Can't Do Without
Obsidian’s “missing piece” for many users isn’t the core note-taking interface—it’s community plugins that turn a plain vault into a searchable,...
How to get started with Obsidian in 2022 - from scratch!
Obsidian is positioned as a practical, low-friction way to start building a personal knowledge base without getting trapped in note-taking theory....
How to use the Obsidian Dataview plugin
Obsidian Dataview turns an entire Obsidian vault into a queryable database, letting notes behave less like a static archive and more like structured...
How to organize your notes in Obsidian // The LATCH method
Note organization in Obsidian boils down to one practical question: how should a person reliably find a note again later? The approach starts with...
Notion vs Obsidian // Databases vs Dataview
Notion and Obsidian diverge at the moment a user creates a note: Notion pushes a top-down hierarchy where every page must be placed in the “right”...
Using the Obsidian Templater Plugin
Templater turns Obsidian notes into structured, semi-automated documents by letting users define reusable formats that can be filled in...
Obsidian task management with Dataviewjs, Templates, Daily Notes
A practical Obsidian setup can turn scattered checkbox tasks into a single, automatically populated “tasks due today” list—without manually hunting...
How I use Obsidian for work as a software developer advocate
Software trends swing fast enough to make even basic planning feel unstable—monoliths, microservices, and back again. The practical countermeasure...
Obsidian for non-coders (no plugins)
Obsidian can be used effectively without writing any code, but the real unlock comes from learning a small set of Markdown syntax rules for...
Actually getting things done with Obsidian // Checklist plugin
A modern task system built inside Obsidian can borrow the most useful parts of David Allen’s Getting Things Done—especially the discipline of...
Visual note templates with Obsidian Excalidraw
Most note systems force a tradeoff: either stay fully textual for searchability and sharing, or go visual and lose easy text handling. A new workflow...
Taking notes from YouTube videos in Obsidian
Turning YouTube learning into usable notes inside Obsidian hinges on one practical problem: getting reliable timestamps or highlights from a watched...
How to use the ExcaliBrain Obsidian plugin
ExcaliBrain turns plain Obsidian notes into an interactive, relationship-driven visual map—helping users keep notes useful by placing them in the...
Obsidian properties in YAML frontmatter (v1.4 - OUT NOW!)
Obsidian 1.4 introduces a redesigned YAML frontmatter experience that adds a real “properties” layer on top of plain text—complete with typed fields,...
How I use Obsidian to run and play D&D online
Obsidian becomes the command center for running and playing D&D online by keeping campaigns, knowledge, and spoilers strictly separated—so the same...
Using the Obsidian Quick Add Plugin
Obsidian’s QuickAdd community plugin earns its keep not by making note-taking easier, but by automating repeatable actions—turning “a few clicks”...
Obsidian Canvas core plugin (new in v1.1.0)
Obsidian’s new Canvas core plugin (arriving publicly after insider/alpha testing) turns note-taking from a strictly file-and-tab workflow into a...
Overview of Obsidian (Obsidian for Everyone announcement)
Traditional school note-taking often produces isolated, temporary notes tied to a single class or moment—useful for exams, then discarded. The core...
Every single Obsidian plugin I use (Obsidian tour 2023)
Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem has exploded—so much that one vault can end up with dozens of add-ons—yet the practical challenge is choosing what to...
Should you use multiple vaults in Obsidian?
Most Obsidian users should stick to a single vault because cross-vault linking, search, and “aha” moments break down once notes get...
Taking notes for work with Obsidian
Taking notes isn’t just a way to remember facts—it’s a career tool for building an evolving, interconnected knowledge system. The core claim is that...
New in Obsidian: Obsidian Callouts (available now!)
Obsidian is rolling out “Callouts” as built-in functionality, bringing the familiar “admonition-style” note boxes into core so they work out of the...
Real use case for Obsidian: Dataview and Database Folder
A practical Obsidian workflow turns a messy, multi-year crowdfunding backlog into a searchable “Kickstarters I’ve Backed” database—using templates...
How to make your notes visual in Obsidian
Visual note-taking in Obsidian isn’t about matching “visual learners” with pictures. The more practical takeaway is that memory improves when notes...
Best tools for organizing PDFs in Obsidian
A 127GB pile of RPG rulebooks and reference PDFs was slipping through a highlight-and-notes workflow built around ebooks, because PDFs mix “fiction”...
My time management setup in Obsidian (2023)
Time management, in this Obsidian workflow, is treated less like squeezing more hours out of the day and more like managing priorities across a full...
How to publish your notes for free with Quartz
Quartz is a free static site generator built to publish Markdown notes from Obsidian (or any Markdown source) without paying for Obsidian Publish or...
How I structure my Obsidian vault (Obsidian tour 2023)
The core finding is that a high-volume Obsidian vault (8,000+ notes) stays usable long-term when organization avoids rigid “either/or” placement and...
Notion-like content calendar in Obsidian // Obsidian Projects plugin
Obsidian Projects is positioned as a cleaner, more reliable way to build a Notion-like content calendar inside Obsidian—by separating the “input”...
Creating a content calendar in Obsidian
Obsidian can be turned into a full content-calendar system—complete with table-like idea capture, Kanban-style workflow stages, and a true calendar...
My setup in Obsidian for TTRPGs in 2023
A tightly connected Obsidian vault can turn tabletop roleplaying prep and play into a single system: world-building pages feed session logs, maps,...
Learning Swedish in 30 days with Obsidian (and other apps)
Learning Swedish from scratch in 30 days wasn’t built around chasing “fluency.” Instead, it centered on a smaller, concrete outcome: being able to...
How to create things with your notes
Notes only stay valuable when they stop being a storage problem and start feeding real output. Nicole van der Hoeven’s core message is that “use it...
Top 10 Core Plugins for Obsidian in 2023
Obsidian’s “core” plugins deserve more attention because they deliver most of the day-to-day value without the security, stability, and long-term...
Reclaim.ai Review: Smart calendar blocking for the productive engineer
Calendar blocking often fails when it’s too rigid—people underestimate task durations, then end up doing “Calendar Tetris” to reshuffle everything....
Making notes actually useful in Obsidian
Notes only matter if they get used—and in Obsidian, that usefulness depends on a two-stage workflow: capture first, then process. The capture phase...
Regular reviews in Obsidian with Periodic Notes
Regular reviews are the backbone of a system that stays useful as life changes—and Obsidian’s Periodic Notes plugin turns that habit into something...
How to process notes in Obsidian // Readwise Official Obsidian plugin
A practical workflow for turning scattered highlights into usable knowledge is built around Readwise as a “middleware” layer between raw reading and...
Note taking templates I use in Obsidian (Obsidian Tour 2023)
Obsidian templates have become a practical antidote to repetitive, low-value note-taking—turning repeated “same-structure” work into one-click...
How I study using Obsidian
Spending more than €7,000 in online learning over a year didn’t just buy courses—it forced a system question: how do you turn short-lived lessons...
Tabs in Obsidian (new in v1.0)
Obsidian’s latest release adds browser-style tabs to note-taking—then goes further by letting users rearrange notes dynamically across panes,...
How to take notes from a book with Obsidian // The Culture Map
A practical workflow for turning book highlights into usable, connected notes in Obsidian—without forcing a rigid system on every read—anchors the...
Why I chose Obsidian over Roam (as a Roam investor)
The decisive reason for switching from Roam to Obsidian is simple: notes should live where the user can control them—offline, in plain text, and...
How to set goals in Obsidian // Templates, Periodic Notes
Keeping resolutions is hard partly because people don’t build a tracking system. A practical fix is a layered goal workflow in Obsidian that turns...
Presentations as Code // How to use the Obsidian Advanced Slides plugin
Obsidian’s Advanced Slides plugin turns Markdown notes into fully navigable slide decks—without requiring PowerPoint, Google Slides, or any separate...
Writing a book in Obsidian: The beginning
Brandon Sanderson’s 2008 decision to publish every raw chapter of Warbreaker online while drafting it has sparked a bigger question: can “writing in...
Connecting visual notes with Obsidian Excalidraw
Connected-note systems like Zettel-Kasten and Second Brain typically assume links point to text. The practical gap shows up when notes are...
Easiest way to share a note on Obsidian - Obsius Publish plugin
Obsius Publish offers an easy, free way to share individual Obsidian notes online via a hard-to-guess URL—useful for “send this to a few people”...
Taking notes on people in Obsidian
Taking notes on people in Obsidian is framed as a practical way to keep relationships intentional when life involves frequent travel and mostly...
Notion database views in Obsidian Projects plugin
Obsidian Projects is built to make “Notion-style” database views possible inside Obsidian without forcing users to rewrite their notes for every...
Creating a D&D DM's Brain Attic with Obsidian
A sprawling pile of D&D sourcebooks and third-party content stops being useful when it turns into a “titles I’ll never read” problem. The fix is a...
How I learn in Obsidian // Keeping up with tech trends
eBPF is framed as an efficiency-and-operations upgrade to traditional monitoring: it shifts observability work from user-space instrumentation agents...
How real people process notes
Note processing is the real bottleneck in most productivity and personal knowledge management systems—and the fix isn’t building a bigger pipeline,...
How I refactor notes in Obsidian
Refactoring notes in Obsidian is treated like refactoring code: reorganize and improve clarity without changing the underlying ideas—so the knowledge...
How to use maps in Obsidian // Leaflet and Kanban
A cross-country move becomes manageable when personal knowledge management turns into a working system: Obsidian is used to research Portugal’s tax...
My top 10 favorite plugins for Obsidian
Obsidian power users don’t need community plugins to get value from the app—but a curated set can turn scattered notes into flashcards, dashboards,...
Learning new things in Obsidian (2024): In defense of remembering
Forgetting may feel natural, but the path to real learning depends on building durable traces of what was learned—so ideas can be tested, connected,...
Introducing Popout Windows for Obsidian
Obsidian desktop 0.15.6 adds “pop-out windows,” letting users open the same vault in multiple independent windows—solving a long-standing problem for...
Text expansion in Obsidian with Espanso
Text expansion in plain-text, cross-app shortcuts is the practical upgrade that makes heavy typing feel manageable—especially inside Obsidian...
AI tools for PKM and Obsidian
AI tools are being folded into personal knowledge management (PKM) workflows not to replace reading and writing, but to speed up the “processing”...
Reading and taking notes on a Kindle and Obsidian
A streamlined workflow for Kindle highlights and notes can turn passive reading into a searchable knowledge base inside Obsidian—if the setup is...
How to do D&D prep with Obsidian
D&D prep in Obsidian can be more than a place to store notes—it can become a working control panel for running a campaign, tracking continuity, and...
Taking notes on podcasts with Snipd, Readwise, and Obsidian
Snipd turns podcast listening into a skimmable, note-ready workflow by combining AI transcription, automatic chapters, and “snips” that export...
The Future of Obsidian with CEO Stephan Ango and Andy Polaine
Obsidian’s CEO Stephan Ango (Kepano) frames the product’s future around three non-negotiables—privacy, note longevity, and extensibility—arguing that...
Taking better notes from books: Shortform
Shortform is positioned as a “Netflix for books” that does more than summarize: it adds fact-checking, research-backed notes, and practice-oriented...
Obsidian Dice Roller: not just for gaming
A lightweight Obsidian plugin called Dice Roller can turn plain notes into interactive randomness engines—useful far beyond tabletop gaming. After...
My Year in PKM: 2024 in numbers
A year of personal knowledge management (PKM) for Nicole van der Hoeven produced a striking mix of output and upkeep: 1,613 new Obsidian notes, 3,616...
More than just taking notes - Learning exhaust
Learning notes as “learning exhaust” is the through-line: notes aren’t the goal, they’re the byproduct of turning an idea into understanding and then...
Emergent note taking: what ants can teach us about notes
Emergent note-taking treats a personal knowledge base like a living system: notes start as loosely connected “whatever I’m interested in right now,”...
Real-time collaboration in Obsidian with Peerdraft
Real-time collaboration in Obsidian is finally getting a practical answer: Peerdraft adds live, simultaneous editing to Obsidian notes with low...
Obsidian Templater, YNAB, daily notes, emails // June 2022 Patreon Q&A
Template maintenance in Obsidian is less about command-line wizardry and more about having a repeatable workflow. When Adam G asked how to update...
How to learn stuff you have no business learning
Learning doesn’t hinge on clever study systems or productivity hacks so much as on motivation—and motivation grows when curiosity is treated like a...
Links vs tags vs folders: knowledge gardening for Obsidian, with Jorge Arango
A 10,000-note Obsidian vault doesn’t need a rigid taxonomy so much as a design that matches what each tool does best—especially the difference...
Visual Personal Knowledge Management with Zsolt Viczián
Personal knowledge management is shifting from “frictionless capture” to deliberate thinking—using Excalidraw and ExcaliBrain to make notes...
My workflow for making videos with Obsidian
A repeatable Obsidian-based workflow is what makes high-volume video production sustainable: ideas become structured notes, those notes turn into a...
Tagging and linking with AI (Napkin.one)
Napkin turns the most tedious part of personal knowledge management—manual tagging—into an AI-assisted workflow that automatically assigns tags and...
How I'm writing a book in public
A year after announcing “Obsidian Playbook,” Nicole van der Hoeven is pivoting to a new book built around a single through-line: learning in public....
Why I'm Not Setting Objectives in Obsidian in 2024
After a year of intense travel, publishing, and content creation, Nicole van der Hoeven says the OKR-style goal system she used in Obsidian...
10 ways I learn in public
Learning in public works best when it turns uncertainty into usable feedback. Instead of waiting to be fully right, Nicole van der Hoeven argues for...
How to take notes for D&D in Obsidian with Leah Ferguson
D&D note-taking in Obsidian works best when it’s treated like a session-ready control panel—built around fast lookups, templated pages, and...
Learning in public with Personal Knowledge Management
Personal knowledge management (PKM) becomes more effective when learning is treated like an observable system: make ideas public enough to create...
The dev behind the Obsidian TTRPG plugins // Jeremy Valentine
Obsidian plug-in developer Jeremy Valentine has built a suite of tools that turn tabletop role-playing sessions into something that can be planned,...
The basics of flag theory for software engineers
Flag theory treats citizenship, residence, work, and ownership not as fixed life facts but as adjustable variables—strategically chosen to maximize...
Taking notes for academic research & knowledge creation with Bianca Pereira
Academic research isn’t the only place where “research” happens. Bianca Pereira frames research as any process of knowledge creation driven by...
A Real Zettelkasten Workflow in Obsidian
A Zettelkasten workflow built around Obsidian hinges on one practical idea: write single-idea notes, then make meaning by linking them in a...
Lazy GM note taking with Notion and Obsidian
Lazy GM prep doesn’t require choosing between analog and digital note-taking—it’s about building a workflow that stays fast, portable, and resilient....
Why I've lived in 5 countries
Moving countries can cut taxes and lower everyday expenses enough to boost net worth—even when salaries rise only modestly. Nicole van der Hoeven...
How to Sketch Your Mind in Obsidian and more, with Zsolt Viczián
Sketching in Obsidian—especially through Excalidraw-style visuals—works best when it’s treated as a thinking system, not a one-off decoration. Zsolt...
State of Obsidian TTRPG plugins - Jeremy Valentine
Obsidian’s TTRPG ecosystem is shifting from “D&D-only convenience” toward reusable, system-agnostic tooling—largely driven by Jeremy Valentine’s...
Obsidian Dataview, building a second brain, and more about me // Q&A Livestream
A steady note-taking routine and a “second brain” built for active learning—not just storage—anchors Nicole van der Hoeven’s Obsidian workflow, with...
Work Week in the Life of a Developer Advocate/ Performance Testing Advocate (k6 and Grafana Labs)
A developer advocate at Grafana Labs’ k6 team spends a typical week juggling three jobs at once: creating practical learning materials for developers...