The reason I'm asking this is because I kind of want to create my own #markdown format. And this could be used there.
The reason I'm asking this is because I kind of want to create my own #markdown format. And this could be used there.
Since today I'm locked out of Microsoft ToDo on my phone. Dunno if there is a problem with my account or if it's a bug.
Little do they know I've been switching to #obsidianmd since many months and just haven't completed the migration, and that I possess a json backup of my to-do items because I jumped through a lot of extra hoops years ago.
Never rely on a proprietary service if you can avoid it!
Using Obsidian for writing is almost perfect.
It's fine by default, but even better with plugins.
pandoc
.I wanted to be able to use regex for search and replace. There's a plugin for that! Regex Find / Repalce
Look at this.
[
"obsidian-contextual-typography",
"editing-toolbar",
"obsidian-icon-folder",
"insta-toc",
"copy-url-in-preview",
"make-md",
"omnisearch",
"obsidian-smart-typography",
"recent-files-obsidian",
"tag-wrangler",
"better-word-count",
"edit-history",
"table-extended",
"templater-obsidian",
"obsidian-excel-to-markdown-table",
"obsidian-importer",
"obsidian-pandoc",
"obsidian-enhancing-export",
"obsidian-regex-replace",
"obsidian-linter",
"text-extractor",
"dataview",
"modalforms",
"update-time-on-edit",
"folder-note-plugin"
]
So many interesting plugins.
So what's missing?
No nested tables. I can't embed a table inside another table. It just doesn't work. That's a Markdown limitation that Obsidian inherits.
If I am entering a contest, I often have to format the document with very specific fonts, spacing, headers, and footers. Obsidian doesn't do that. It doesn't even really have a concept of how many "pages" a document is or know anything about A4 vs. Legal vs. 8 1/2 X 11. I have to rely on exporting to Word via pandoc
and then fixing it there.
One last thing: if you like genAI, there are plugins for that. You can plug that stuff directly into your workflow if you want to. It isn't forced upon you.
Here's how my graph is going after 1 mo of obsidian-ing from a fresh vault
Unlike most people, I'm incredibly unsentimental about my notes. So, when @Daojoan wrote that she deleted her second brain I nodded in understanding. I used to do just that with my worklogs.
A second brain isn't a shrine. It's just a utility. A tool. I don't even think my thoughts are especially, well, noteworthy.
If you want to delete a second brain and start anew, you totally can!
#PKM #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain
http://elizabethtai.com/2025/06/29/i-support-deleting-your-second-brain/
New this week: Obsidian plugins for devs, time trackers & visual thinkers.
Mark Open Files
Prettier Auto-Format
JIRA & YouTrack Support
Cut the Fluff
Simple Password
Image Border Style
Outliner Cards
Timeline Lists
Full showcase → https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-28th-2025/
#obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain #type/note #note #NoteTaking @obsidian @obsidianmd@a.gup.pe @obsidianmd@lemmy.world
I love how placid the Obsidian forum is. If there are arguments it's about ... graphs.
TIL that in #Obsidian, you can deep-link headline *hierarchies*:
`My Note.md`:
```
## Section 1
### Subsection
## Section 2
### Subsection
```
- `[[My Note#Section 1]]` (I knew that, of course)
- `[[My Note#Section 1#Subsection]]` (ooh!)
- `[[My Note#Section 2#Subsection]]`
New Obsidian plugins to clean, convert, sort & explore your notes:
Checkbox Sort
Base64 → PNG
Custom Commands
Notes Explorer
Tasks Cleaner
Markdown Flip
MemoChron
Easy Keep View
… and more!
Read it all → https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-21th-2025/
;#obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain #type/note #note #NoteTaking @obsidian @obsidianmd@a.gup.pe @obsidianmd@lemmy.world
Obsidian plugin drop of the week:
Reveal Folded
Water Tracker
YT Summarizer
Tick Tones
Rainbow Sidebar
VCF Contacts
Model Viewer
Limitless Lifelogs
...and more! Full list: https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-14th-2025/
#obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain #type/note #note #NoteTaking @obsidian @obsidianmd@a.gup.pe @obsidianmd@lemmy.world
@AuntyRed oh yeah this would absolutely work with anything a s final destination!
Half a year ago I’d have send the notes to #obsidianmd or #logseq
Any netizens of the fediverse using #ObsidianMD in interesting ways?
If you are curious about Obsidian plugins but concerned that they would affect the plain text format of your notes, here are ten useful ones that don't change any formatting.
As mentioned, I've started to use #ObsidianMD again. It's been about a week. I'm not committing to making daily notes, but when I feel like it, I'll do morning pages, and then I work on some other long form notes little by little, like things I know I enjoy and how they make me feel. A lot has changed since I started using the tool in 2020. People have designed new systems, like PARA, there is a nice UI for properties that makes it a lot easier for someone like me without much YAML knowledge to utilize, as well as a canvasses feature that supports live browser windows. I haven't figured out what I want to use it for yet, but for now, I put some clocks: the witch clock by @garbados and the neralie clock from @neauoire. https://clock.bovid.space/
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/neralie.html
Finding the #linter community plug-in useful for auto adding date created and date added times, but there still is not a way to get those dates to backlink yet https://forum.obsidian.md/t/backlink-in-daily-note-from-property-link/64240 I also use this templater plug in to let me set a template specific to morning pages and automatically file them away into a morning pages folder. https://share.note.sx/2rskmna5 The goal is to spend as little time on trying to tinker with the system and more time just expressing myself.
Another #Obsidian #ObsidianMD before I embark on trying to organise notes better.
Are plug-in selections per vault specific or would they apply to all?
15 new Obsidian plugins just landed:
Inscribe
Proofreader
Auto Daily Note
Simple Banner
Reader Mode
BibLib
Completed Tasks
Quick Peek Sidebar
Daily Notes Automater
...and more! Full list: https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---june-6th-2025/
s#obsidian #ObsidianMD #secondbrain #type/note #note #NoteTaking @obsidian @obsidianmd@a.gup.pe @obsidianmd@lemmy.world
Anyone do the whole folderless or simple #Obsidian #ObsidianMD note organisation?
Any tips? I have too many folders but I’m brain works around having had folders for files for my entire computing life. Must be a better way to
Here's one for all my fellow #Obsidian fans: I'm building a new thing, it's called "Notes From Email", and I *think* you might like it…?
notes-from.email – A hosted service that turns every email it receives into a new note in your vault, with its attachments intact.
Yes, no?
#ObsidianMD #PKM
Notes From Email: Your New Ema...