Obsidian — Topic Summaries
AI-powered summaries of 83 videos about Obsidian.
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creating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
Digital gardening is presented as a practical antidote to doomscrolling: instead of passively consuming information, people capture it as notes that...
Zettelkasten Smart Notes: Step by Step with Obsidian
A practical Zettelkasten workflow in Obsidian can turn scattered “quick captures” into a searchable knowledge base that actively supports new...
I started a blog.....in 2024 (why you should too)
Starting a blog in 2024 doesn’t have to mean picking a template and hoping for the best. The core pitch is that a blog becomes far easier—and far...
Go From PARA Method Beginner to Second Brain Pro with Obsidian MD (Free Setup Templates and Course)
A folder-only PARA setup can’t deliver a true “second brain” because notes need to appear in multiple contexts at once. The core fix is to treat PARA...
Why Zettelkasten Is the ONLY Note-Taking System You’ll Ever Need
Zettelkasten’s core promise is simple: notes shouldn’t sit in folders or become unread blocks of text—they should be written so they can link to...
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...
Obsidian Just Won
Obsidian’s “Note Wars” win hinges on a simple bet: keep knowledge in local, plain-text files so AI can plug in without locking users into fragile...
Unlock Your Ideas: Nick Milo's Obsidian Secrets for Project Success!
A link-based “content workbench” in Obsidian can turn a messy pile of research into a navigable map that makes creative decisions easier—especially...
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...
How I Built a SECOND Brain 🧠 in Obsidian MD (Tiago Forte BASB / PARA Method)
A practical second-brain system in Obsidian hinges on turning constant intake—highlights, bookmarks, and personal insights—into organized, searchable...
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...
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...
Building A Book Library In Obsidian
A practical Obsidian setup turns a folder of Markdown book notes into a searchable, filterable “book database” using two plugins: Book Search and...
3 ways I organize my PhD notes
A growing Zettelkasten in Obsidian can quickly become “mentally squeezed”—not because note-taking stops working, but because the sheer volume makes...
How To Create a Movie Database in Obsidian
A personal movie database in Obsidian becomes practical by combining Dataview tables with Quick Add macros that pull movie metadata from OMDb. The...
How To Use Words Like Shakespeare
A digital thesaurus built for “linked-based thinking” is presented as a practical antidote to the shrinking vocabulary that makes people easier to...
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”...
growing a digital garden to end my doomscrolling (part 2)
Digital gardening isn’t a blog or a weekly roundup—it’s a private, iterative system for turning what grabs someone’s attention into their own...
Obsidian vs Notion for Knowledge Management? With Life OS
A single, integrated knowledge system matters more than chasing “smarter” note links: keeping all contexts under one umbrella is what makes knowledge...
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...
Make Better Notes by Linking Your Thinking (LYT Kit Lesson 1) w the Obsidian App
Linking your thinking is presented as a practical way to turn scattered notes into a navigable “ideaverse” that makes insights easier to generate and...
How I Built a Task Management System using Obsidian MD and Todoist Sync Plugin
A practical way to turn Obsidian into a real task hub is to pair it with Todoist and the Todoist Sync plugin, then drive everything inside Obsidian...
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 Write Mini Essays (in Obsidian)
Mini essays are a practical antidote to passive consumption: writing one idea per page (100–300 words) in your own words forces comprehension,...
How I annotate books as a PhD student (simple and efficient)
For a PhD student moving between reading, dissertation writing, and exams, the biggest problem isn’t finding ideas—it’s retrieving them later without...
Zettelkasten & Obsidian Workflow in 10 MINUTES For Busy People
Zettelkasten turns note-taking into an engine for thinking: instead of storing information in folders that fade into an archive, it builds a growing...
FULL note-taking session for my PhD with DETAILED commentary!
A structured note-taking workflow is helping an Arts and Humanities PhD writer turn dense readings into reusable, citation-safe “atomic” ideas—so...
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...
How I Listen AND Take Notes on Podcasts INSIDE Obsidian
Obsidian can become a full podcast hub—complete with an in-app player and automatic note creation—by using the “Pod Notes” plugin. Once installed,...
Excalidraw-Obsidian 1.7.27 - Image editing power tools
Excalidraw-Obsidian 1.7.27 adds two image “power tools” aimed at making imported graphics easier to reuse and more consistent inside Obsidian notes....
Using Pandoc to write PDFs, Word documents, and slideshows in Markdown - Obsidian Community Talk
Pandoc turns an Obsidian-style Markdown file into polished outputs—Word documents, PDFs, and Reveal.js slide decks—by converting the content through...
How I Automate ⚙️ My Periodic Notes using Obsidian (Daily, Weekly, Monthly Reviews and Planning)
An Obsidian-based “periodic notes” system turns daily reflection, weekly planning, and longer-horizon reviews into an automated workflow—so tasks,...
How to choose a Zettelkasten application?
Choosing a Zettelkasten app comes down to matching the tool to how someone wants to create notes and connect ideas. The “perfect” app is the one that...
Bible Study: How Joschua uses the LYT frameworks (Obsidian)
A personal knowledge system built in Obsidian is being used to keep Bible study from turning into scattered reading—by turning scripture into a...
Zettelkasten: How to link and Organize notes (with 🎯 Hub Notes & Obsidian)
Building a Zettelkasten isn’t mainly about sorting notes into neat folders—it’s about using linking to develop ideas. The core workflow splits into...
Rethinking PKM Part 3: Quick Capture (with Google Keep)
A weak “quick capture” step is the bottleneck in many personal knowledge management systems—and this workflow replaces a clunky phone-first Obsidian...
Building Visual Maps of Content with Excalidraw in Obsidian
The core takeaway is a practical workflow for turning Obsidian into a “visual index” system by building Maps of Content (MoCs) with Excalidraw—so...
How To Use Obsidian: Change Your LIFE With This Plugin
A habit-tracking setup inside Obsidian can turn “did I do it today?” into a visible streak—so the system nudges people to avoid “zero days” and keep...
Obsidian & Zettelkasten for Book Summary (Literature Note)
A practical workflow for turning book reading into durable knowledge hinges on one move: convert highlights and personal reflections into a...
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...
Use AI To Help Build Your Second Brain in Obsidian MD (Dataview Plugin Queries Example)
AI can cut the time spent wrestling with Obsidian’s DataView plugin by turning natural-language requests into working DataView query code—complete...
Take RANDOMIZED zettelkasten notes with me!
Atomic notes plus constant, connection-driven “random note” sessions keep a Zettelkasten system usable long after the original project ends. The core...
Linking your Images in Obsidian with Excalidraw and ExcaliBrain
Linking Excalidraw images to Obsidian notes through structured metadata turns one-off PNG pastes into searchable, navigable knowledge objects....
The Joy of Writing with Rok Sanda (made better through Obsidian)
Creative breakthroughs, in this account, come from treating writing as a non-linear discovery process—and using Obsidian’s linking and graph tools to...
I quit Obsidian for 1 Year. Here's what happened.
A year-long break from Zettelkasten and Obsidian left Darin Suthapong less happy and feeling mentally dull—an experience that pushed him back to the...
Part 1: Circle Map - Thinking Maps with Excalidraw in Obsidian
Circle maps are presented as a practical way to define concepts and build a clear frame of reference—starting with an essential question and then...
Any Model. Any App. Build Your AI OS to Work Everywhere.
The central idea is to build an “AI OS” that stays yours even when AI tools change—by keeping identity, knowledge structure, and repeatable processes...
#8 Folgezettel - why it's important to create them in your Zettelkasten
“Folgezettel”—German for “sequence of notes”—is valuable in a Zettelkasten because it creates just enough friction to turn scattered reading and...
#9 Zettelkasten: from source card to idea card
Turning a “reminder” on a Zettelkasten source card into a polished idea card is a slow, text-driven process—one designed to preserve accuracy while...
TUTO OBSIDIAN dévore Notion avec le plugin DB folder
Obsidian can mimic Notion-style database tables using the DB Folder plugin—turning a folder of notes into a structured, filterable “database” driven...
My first steps implementing Zettalkasten using Obsidian.md, Data View, Excalidraw and ExcaliBrain
Zettelkasten in Obsidian is taking shape around a simple rule: permanent notes become the “cards,” while Excalidraw diagrams act as linked,...
A Common Place for Remembering, Organizing and Using Everything You Read
A digital commonplace book in Obsidian is being built to capture “analytical reading” artifacts—bibliographic details, re-outlined arguments in the...
Obsidian Web Clipper is Better Than What I Thought
Obsidian Web Clipper streamlines saving research from the browser by letting users clip full pages or—more importantly—only the highlighted passages...
BEST Second Brain App???? (Paid- roam research, obsidian, remnote, notion)
A second-brain app’s real test isn’t whether it looks good—it’s whether it captures ideas fast, finds them quickly, and keeps the data usable later....
Does EVERY source need a note in your zettelkasten?
A Zettelkasten built around Tle Casten-style notes doesn’t always require a dedicated “source note” for every citation or snippet—sometimes a link...
The Visual Thinking Framework with Obsidian and Excalidraw: Making Visual Connections between Notes
A practical workflow for building “visual thinking” links inside Obsidian: embed key visual frameworks from one set of notes into another, then reuse...
Use Obsidian & Zettelkasten to summarize a YouTube video
Summarizing YouTube videos becomes reusable knowledge when fleeting notes from watching are systematically transformed into literature notes and then...
Obsidian - Excalidraw - Lets Make a Map!
Excalidraw inside Obsidian can function as a practical, low-cost map-making workflow for TTRPGs—layering downloaded PNG symbols, drawing terrain...
How To Use Obsidian: Few Can Defeat This Productivity Challenge
The biggest productivity gain for Obsidian users isn’t a new workflow or template—it’s reducing context switching by cutting out mouse use while...
Obsidian - Create Random Notes with ChatGPT Templates
Random tables are a staple of tabletop RPGs, but maintaining them is tedious—especially when new books and options keep arriving. This workflow uses...
Elles se rangent toutes seules - tuto obsidian plugin auto note mover
Obsidian peut classer automatiquement les nouvelles notes dans les bons dossiers grâce à un plugin communautaire, évitant la discipline manuelle qui...
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...
How I Think Visually: My Sketched Mind in Action. Reflections on Exploring Visual PKM with Jerry.
A visual note system can turn reading into a living network of ideas—especially when illustrations and concepts are built from linked components...
Tuto Dataview dans Obsidian 2022
Dataview dans Obsidian sert de brique centrale pour transformer un dossier de notes en véritable système de gestion des connaissances, à condition de...
Obsidian & OneNote - The Perfect Personal / Work Combo?
A practical workflow emerges for people who can’t install their preferred note app on a work laptop: keep personal knowledge in Obsidian, run work...
gérer des projets avec Obsidian, tutoriel en français
Gérer des projets dans Obsidian devient beaucoup plus fiable quand chaque note porte des identifiants structurés (tags) et qu’un tableau de bord...
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...
Tutoriel Obsidian en français ajouter des graphiques avec excalidraw
Le plugin Excalidraw pour Obsidian (nommé dans la démo “excalibur drawing” / “ex-cat l’hydro”) permet de créer des schémas dessinés à la main...
Capturing actions from an Excalidraw whiteboard into your GTD workflow in Obsidian
Capturing workshop actions directly from an Excalidraw whiteboard into an Obsidian GTD workflow prevents the familiar failure mode: commitments get...
Obsidian - Initiative Tracker - Switch Between Parties
Obsidian’s Initiative Tracker has gained a practical new feature for tabletop groups: the ability to switch between multiple parties without deleting...
Stop Notion. Here's Why Obsidian is the BEST Note-Taking app in 2026
Second brains fail less because of flawed methods and more because the tools demand constant upkeep—until the system collapses under its own...
How to Bulk Move Obsidian Files with Dataview Plugin
Moving Obsidian notes between folders usually turns into a manual scavenger hunt—especially when the notes you care about are mixed into a larger...
Obsidian - Creating TTRPG Calculators with DataviewJS and ChatGPT
Tabletop RPG players can turn Obsidian into a quick-calculation workstation by embedding small “apps” inside notes using the DataViewJS plugin. The...
How I Save Time with AI Magic in Obsidian
Formatting notes in Obsidian can quietly drain time and attention—especially when raw ideas pile up without consistent structure. A faster workflow...
Prise de note réelle avec OBSIDIAN
La méthode mise en avant consiste à transformer des notes prises “sur le moment” pendant une vidéo (ou un livre, ou un podcast) en un réseau de...
Le charme des rétroliens (backlinks) tuto Obsidian plugin Influx
Obsidian peut afficher, de façon plus lisible, les “rétroliens” (backlinks) — c’est-à-dire toutes les notes qui pointent vers une note donnée — et un...
Tutoriel Excalidraw pour Obsidian n°2 en français avec une astuce inédite
Le plugin Excalidraw pour Obsidian transforme des schémas en véritables “cartes de contenus” cliquables : un dessin devient une table des matières...
Synchroniser vos highlights de READWISE dans OBSIDIAN, tutoriel plugin Readwise Official
Le plugin Readwise Official pour Obsidian permet de synchroniser automatiquement les passages surlignés depuis Readwise (Kindle, Apple Books, Medium,...
Ne perdez plus la moindre idée - avec Obsidian et le plugin checklist
Obsidian users who jot down “ideas” in daily notes often lose them later because those ideas are scattered across many tasks and projects. A...
Notes de bas de pages - footnotes dans Obsidian tutoriel en français
Les notes de bas de page (footnotes) dans Obsidian servent surtout à remplacer certains liens “dans le texte” par des références discrètes en bas de...
Écrire à partir d'un Zettelkasten Obsidian, si facile que ça? Réflexions
L’écriture à partir d’un Zettelkasten (et d’Obsidian) ne se résume pas à “copier-coller” des notes connectées : produire un texte publiable exige une...
How to Build Your Second Brain in Obsidian — Step by Step Guide
The core promise is a “future-proof” Obsidian second-brain setup that turns daily capture into an automated, navigable knowledge system—so notes,...
Using Obsidian to Manage Essay Writing - With Henrik Karlsson
Henrik Karlsson’s approach to essay writing with Obsidian rests on a blunt priority: tools matter, but output comes from doing the work under real...