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I am using my laptop to take notes in class and would like to use my android based e-ink tablet for quick handwriting and diagrams. What is a good way to get the content from the tablet to my vault as quickly and smoothly as possible? First-party sync? Note files pushed through Syncthing?

I would like to use my laptop for note taking in class, and use an android based e-ink tablet for handwriting and diagrams. What are your recommendations for delivering the tablet's notes to the vault? Obsidian on the tablet with first party sync looks like a possibility. What about another app that can use SyncThing or similar that the laptop vault can turn pull?

If you are like me and use in-line (double colon) fields more than YAML, the improvements to metadata management (Properties) wasn't much of a help. The new filter syntax, ["key":value], and the glob version, ["key":], don't search in-line fields.

Of course, this isn't unexpected. Obsidian, for what I'm sure are good reasons, resists embracing in-line metadata, even though it is very widely used. Oh well, hope springs eternal... Nevertheless, though I've tried many times, I can't give up on the convenience of in-lines.

Because in-line fields use two colons, which do not appear together in ordinary writing, it is easy to filter for them. For a glob filter like ["key":] in the new Properties, you can simply use "key:: " to achieve the same effect, querying in-line metadata instead of YAML.

Filtering for specific values is a little trickier, because we must take into account multi-value fields. Fortunately, Obsidian allows us to use regular expressions in filters, and a simple one will achieve our goal. To use regular expressions, use the slash, /, as a delimiter instead of ". (In the example above, we actually could have used /key:: / instead of "key:: ".)

In regular expressions, a period, ., matches any character, and an asterisk, *, indicates that there can be 0 or more of a character. By putting the combination .* before the value that we are filtering, we are saying that there may or may not be other characters between the field name and the value being searched. In other words, there may be multiple values.

So, even if the value we are looking for is one among many, to search for a specific key/value, you can use /key:: .*value/, which does the same as ["key":value] does for YAML.

Obsidian at biscotty's Workshop

Does anybody know how I can whitelist obsidian synch server ips every time they change?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/2768533

I have a vm for which I have s specific whitelist only firewall. It is supposed to only allow connections to the IPs an app connects to when syncing.

I first got the sync server IP's listening to tcpdump, then when I had the IP's I activated the whitelist.

This worked perfectly for some time, but now it appears that the IP's have changed. I could do the same thing again but repeating the process regularly is annoying and defeats the whole purpose of only ever allowing network connections to specific whitelisted serves.

Alternatively, I could set up a process to only allow network traffic from that app somewhat.

Using debian-11 btw.

Any help is appreceated !!!

Supercharged Property Management

With the release of Obsidian 1.4.5, many people’s focus has been on metadata, which Obsidian calls Properties. I have written a series of articles on using Obsidian’s natural database features, and my entire workflow depends heavily on metadata. Naturally, I was anticipating this release with some excitement, having seen some previews on YouTube.

I was frankly disappointed. It is movement in a positive direction, and has some very nice features for managing metadata. However, its insistence on YAML for properties when many users such as myself prefer in-line metadata for its flexibility, makes some of its features useless to me.

Another reason for my disappointment, or feeling underwhelmed, was that I had already discovered a truly amazing plugin for managing metadata which did everything I need and more. Metadata Menu, a Community Plugin by mathieu, provides a full set of features for managing properties. It has a modal, available in multiple places, which allows you to manage literally all aspects of a file’s metadata without opening the file, perfect for my workflow. It even has a file class template system which supports nesting groups of metadata fields. Fields in tables can have actions, allowing for direct editing of metadata in the table itself using standard widgets. And, it is visually clean and attractive.

This video isn’t a guide to using Metadata Menu. Rather, it’s to show off some of its features. If metadata is important to you, you must check it out.

Video:

• biscotty's Workshop <- not mobile friendly :-(
• Substack
• medium.com

A lot of time and energy is spent on thinking about how to organize your notes into folders, and many people use Quick Switcher as the main way to both create and open notes, even to simply access some information. I started this way, too.

But none of this is necessary, because Obsidian is a non-relational (NoSQL) database containing information of a data type called graph. You don't access information in a database by navigating to a table and opening it up, you use queries. In Obsidian, you can use filters.

Filters can be bookmarked, and the bookmarks can be organized any way you want. This way you can build an information tree instead of a file tree. You can easily move your information around, and even have the same information in multiple locations. With Hover Preview and Hover Editor, you don't even need to actually open files except when creating or developing them.

I wrote a series of articles describing this system. It seems a bit scary at first, but the efficiency gain is considerable. You can read the articles here:

Website:

• biscotty's Workshop

Substack:

• Stop Wasting Time With Directories and Filenames
• Meaningless Names, No Directories, Now What?
• Obsidian is a NoSQL Database

Medium.com:

• Stop Wasting Time With Directories and Filenames
• Meaningless Names, No Directories, Now What?
• Obsidian is a NoSQL Database

I go against recommended practice and have different vaults for different things in my life. The academic note vault is separate from the personal vault is separate from the creative projects vault. I have also committed sacrilege by not having many notes linked to each other. I’m trying to migrate a lot of notes from Google Docs and Notion over into Obsidian, so all of the vaults are pretty messy.

I love the LaTeX integration. Lots of math formulas in the academic note vault. I use the callout feature everywhere. I also nest callouts in callouts. I’m frankly treating them as equivalent to toggles in Notion.

I most often go to the personal vault where I have a list of things I’ve 1) seen online before, 2) spent at least an hour trying to refind that thing later and 3) will probably want to find again. This way I don’t lose time trying to find it again. It’s really helpful for me. I also have a list of food brands and how much I liked them, so I can remember which brand of turkey was bad and which was tolerable and which I’d definitely buy again.

If I didn't already have 5000 files formatted in a completely different way, this new 'properties' feature in #obsidian would be a total game changer.

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Syncthing is free, open source software that can be used to easily synchronize an Obsidian vault between your computer and phone/tablet. Not only free, but completely secure, private, and blazing fast. Here are links to an article I wrote explaining how to use it.

• Biscotty's Workshop not mobile friendly :-(
• Substack
• Medium.com

Just bought the @macsparky #ObsidianMD #Obsidian field guide. Really looking forward to watching it. I suppose I should make a note to watch it 😀

https://learn.macsparky.com/p/obsidianfg-plus

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I had my first @obsidian issue today. I have been using it years. It has been flawless.

My iMac would hang loading the workspace. I removed the vault and re-synced. That fixed it. I was fine on my other Mac and would open fine.

I then pinned a note on the iMac, and Obsidian would hang. The workspace then hung again when I re-opened. Very odd.

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Does anyone else use the Spaced Repetition plugin?

I'm still trying to figure out the 'base ease' setting. I find the gap between reviews is often larger than I would like. Would making the 'base ease' setting larger make the gap between reviews bigger or smaller? I can't seem to find the answer on the plugin's algorithm explanation page.

edit: I've so far found DecSync CC on @fdroidorg: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSyncCC which I will test in the near future.

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Are there any #Android utilities that sync contacts and calendars to a local file?

Like #Obsidian does for notes? Which I can then sync using #Syncthing.

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After reading this post on how to organize people in Obsidian, I finally started doing it myself.

Immediately I was faced with a new problem: how do I organize locations? I could think of two ways to deal with it from the top of my head:

• Each location has its own note, which is then cross-linked. So department would be linked to company which would be linked to the city where it is located.
• Hierarchy inside a few notes. This would look like [[country#subregion#city#company#department]]

The second option would result in fewer scattered notes, but I'm unsure if that is actually desirable.

What system do you have?

From the screenshots I've seen Obsidian seems to take up a lot of screen space. Is there any themes or settings to make it take up less space when using it?

As an example I'm very fond of the Zeal Offline Documentation Browser (screenshot on the page) and I like how I can have it open besides my work.

When reinventing the wheel and coming up with a new clever way to structure notes or new info to add to the YAML, how do you treat your old notes?

Do you go back and apply the new format or do you just leave them as is only looking forward?

If you revisit old notes, do you have a strategy?

I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions.

Hello, currently studying calculus and taking notes in Obsidian using the Latex Suite plugin, highly recommended plugin!

However, i am struggling to align the equations in a $$ ... $$ block to the left.

Tried to make a snippet like this :

div.math mjx-container[jax="CHTML"][display="true"] {
  display: block;
  text-align: left;
}

But to no success. Any pointers to where i am going wrong?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2457599

I think it might be useful for some. Especially for those who prefer their notes and highlights well organized.

I'm looking for a way to create a vault TOC in a separate note including all subheadings of each note.

At the moment I do this manually into a 00.TOC note where I list notes 1.Start to X.Last with all their subheadings.

I could probably do this with Dataview, but I would prefer proper wikilinks.

Obsidian 1.4.0 is currently in early access and it introduces Properties!

This is a game changer for me! I've had to use Dataview and other plug-ins to achieve something similar, so I look forward to the native support.

Thanks to @idle @Dakspyker for pointing me at the Tag Wrangler plugin for #obsidian

https://github.com/pjeby/tag-wrangler

So all this time I had the tag pane disabled (!) and had totally missed the "list of all tags by frequency of use" list, which has prompted a certain amount of cleanup and tidying to at the minimum try to fix single-use tags. Tag Wrangler helps that effort.

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Downloaded Actions for obsidian month ago, and decided to use it today. And for the mother of god i couldn't get past this step:

When i click on the "Ask Obsidian to call back", a window popped up ask me to open via obsidian and i did. Obsidian opens, and that was it. I switched back to Actions for obsidian and it still says "working...", after couple seconds it says "no response in the last 30 seconds; maybe try again?"

I tried to create a simple shortcut to create a daily note. When i test run it, it always transfer me to obsidian, and then nothing happens, I switched back to the shortcut page, and the action is highlighted in green, and then a box appears above the action in red saying "The action 'create daily Note' was interrupted because it didn't finish executing in time"

Then i tried the Action for obsidian Mac version. When i click on the "ask obsidian to call back" button, nothing happened, it just switched me to obsidian and that was it.

Community plugin was already enabled, advanced URl is already installed and enabled. I'm not sure what i did wrong. I did bought the app for $22 (both ios and mac), because i thought that was the problem since it says i'm at 0 days out of 14 trial days. problem persists

Help from you guys is much appreciated.

Edit: I would like to inform you all that the problem has been solved: I misread the name of the plugin, “Actions URl” as “Advanced URl”. Hence the persisted error and malfunction.

I want to use a monospace font for editing and a sans-serif for reading -- is this possible? I can only see a single "Text font" parameter in the settings and can't find plugins that can set different fonts.

Hi! I wish to create a dataview query formy deadlines that will inform me some days in advance (7, 15 or 30 days by example). At the moment I have in my daily note a query that show me the today's deadlines using: WHERE deadline = this.file.name How can I get a reminder in advance? Thanks for any help

Fixing Obsidian’s Markdown Display with CSS

https://blog.kizu.dev/fixing-obsidians-markdown-display-with-css/

A new blog post in my blog: I am sharing a #CSS snippet I wrote for #Obsidian, which makes the default Markdown display better for me by always showing the corresponding formatting symbols.

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