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Hi Obsidian legends!

I’m trying to find a way to do this:

1. I type /@PersonsName
2. Obsidian recognises /@PersonsName is a person because of the @ symbol
3. Wraps in a hyperlink: [[/@PersonsName]]
4. Creates a templated note in a specific folder e.g. /people

Is something like this possible?

I do a lot of pasting files into notes, and this works really well. However, is there a way to have the paste default to [[attachments/filename|filename]] instead of ![[attachments/filename]] ?

Taken directly from Deathau's Notation theme.

I could not find this key feature anywhere else but noticed it was implemented in Deathau's theme so I ripped it straight from there and can confirm it works great!

A must have feature if you are constantly switching focus and need to find which pane is currently active.

Just copy the below into a snippet file:

/* 7.2. Active pane border */
/* Notion doesn't have multiple panes. And with the header modifications above,
  how do you tell which pane is active? I'm just putting a border around the
  active pane for now (unless there's only one pane) */
.workspace-leaf.mod-active {
  border: 1px solid var(--interactive-accent);
}

.workspace-leaf:not(.mod-active),
.workspace>.workspace-split>.workspace-leaf:first-of-type:last-of-type {
  border: 1px solid transparent;
}

I had a really hard time finding any beginner friendly info on AidenLx's Zotero plugin despite it potentially being the end-all zotero plugin, so I have written up a summarized guide to it on github here with all the information I could find distilled into a single page for how to use it and how to start making templates.

Please drop any feedback you have here, especially if you have any advice on how to make it better. Thanks!

Follow Up FAQs

Q. Can you say what make AdienLX's plugin better than the Bibnotes Formatter plugin (or other implementations)?

A. Check out this comparison thread here. Right now I would say personally, bibnotes formatter is the most feature complete but is also very "jank" and pretty much does not work for me at the moment. The AidenLx plugin interacts directly with the Zotero database and thus is very fast and very smooth in experience, especially when updating a note. It also has a many features as bibnotes (almost, see the custom frontmatter issue) but these require knowledge of javascript / eta in order to do more than the basics.

I would like to make a template but I would like to see some examples of what is possible to achieve.

New to lemmy, new to this community. Hope it's okay to do some self promo, otherwise I'll just delete. Didnt see anything in the community description about it.

Just a heads up: I was just trying to drag and drop images and urls from FF and it was putting little icons in the pasted text. Brave and I assume other Chromium browsers work fine.

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I am making a table, and I want to have links to urls as little icons. I can't figure out how to do this.

I've been using Obsidian for a year or so now, and I really want to move over some Trello boards into Obsidian. Is there a tool out there that can turn Trello lists into folders and Trello cards into .md files respectively? I've been doing it the long way of just manually creating the files and copy-pasting from Trello, but I'd love to be able to speed up the process.

EDIT: For future reference, I used this tool to get my Trello boards and convert them into Obsidian-ready .md files.

@nicole has a fantastic 16-minute Youtube video at https://youtu.be/vS-b_RUtL1A explaining how she organises her notes in Obsidian for findability with LATCH: Location, Alphabet, Time, Category and Hierarchy.

Cater to each of these search approaches with combinations of Obsidian's organising methods: Folders, Links, Tags and Metadata.

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Hi! I've created a Book collection and, with Dataview, I've created also a table with a link to a folder containing one file for each author (where I can find all the book I have read or want to read belonging to this author). So I have a folder with the books and a folder with the authors. How can I create a table (or something similar, maybe a Kanban Board?) where I can see, for each author, the book in my folder. Hope to have explained clearly what I have in mind: sorry, English is not my mother-language as you can easily guess Thanks in advance for any help

One of the things that attracted me to Obsidian was the flat, local file structure that (in theory) would allow me to use other apps on conjunction with Obsidian by accessing the same “vault” (aka, file folder on my computer).

In reality this has been a bit more difficult, as apps vary in terms of how they access files or use file names.

I do use Taio alongside Obsidian on my iPhone and that works well. But curious if there are other apps, particularly on mobile, that play nicely with Obsidian.

Replacing (most?) Obsidian note tags with internal links and Maps Of Content | josschuurmans.com
https://josschuurmans.com/blog/replacing-most-obsidian-note-tags-with-internal-links-and-maps-of-content/

"(...) In conclusion, for now, I will run both types of metadata side-by-side: hashtags as well as internal links. And I’ll create group views, ie. lists, using Maps Of Content and Dataview. (...)"

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Would you like to see some plugins which integrate with local/self-hosted AI instead of sending it to ChatGPT? Or don't you care about privacy there as long as the results are good?

You might be interested in GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io/index.html), which can be easily downloaded as Desktops GUI. Simply download a model (like nous Hermes) for 7.5GB and run in even without a GPU right on your CPU l (albeit slightly slowish).

It's amazing what's already possible with local AI instead of relying on large scale expensive and corporate-dependent AIs such as ChatGPT

I would like to call for collaborators to categorize Obsidian plugins

I love Obsidian for everything but moved to Logseq a while ago because I find it better for handling quotes from books more fluid. However, maybe there's a better way to achieve what I'm trying.

So...I'd like to be able to write specific quotes somewhere and link them to a book. That's pretty easy due to internal links. However, can I somehow write (i.e. into my daily note) the quote, place a #quote [[Link to Bookname]] behind it and then display it (for e.g. with the Dataview plugin inside the note for the book the quote is from?

In Logseq I can do this using their queries and filter for the "nodes" I have a specific link or tag included while leaving out the rest of the page.

My main reason for trying to achieve this is because I don't want to force myself to have my quotes only inside the book's note (maybe 2 quotes of 2 books are connected. Having all quotes of a book inside the book's page prevents me from correctly linking) and I also don't want to create a specific page for that quote because:

• this would create thousands of files that would at some point have negative performance impacts onto my vault
• I struggle with naming those files in a good way when creating a file for every note

I mostly want to have this fluid approach of just showing / querying for the quotes I want to query after using tags or something. It's much more flexible so I just write and don't care about the structure or having to plan beforehand which YAML frontmatter to use, etc.

AI-TRIGGER WARNING: I've asked ChatGPT to revise my writing because it was ass (writing a stream of coherent looking text is not my forte). Proceed at your own discretion.

Yes the emoji 's all on me, I've been too much influenced by Bing Chat lately---even ChatGPT took it out but then I pestered it to move it back.

Below this line it's all text that has been retouched by AI 😱:

Title: Archiving Reddit Threads During Protests: Suggestions Needed

Body:

Hello everyone,

As many of you are aware, numerous Reddit subreddits are temporarily closed due to the ongoing protest. While I completely support this action, it is causing some issues with my hobby research. Many posts are being deleted or replaced with placeholder scripts, leading to a loss of valuable information. Source: https://lemmy.ml/post/1259772

In an effort to address this, I have been using a script to save Reddit threads that I find interesting to my Personal Knowledge Management system: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/104k0om/script_save_reddit_posts_to_obsidian/ . I have managed to successfully use it, but since I don't have a strong understanding of Ruby code 😅, I'm worried about its future functionality, especially if it depends on the Reddit API.

I recently discovered a thread discussing Reddit dumps: https://lemmy.nz/post/52092 . This discovery made me curious if it would be possible to modify the Ruby script to work with a local version of Reddit or even directly with the Reddit logs. To my understanding, these logs are in JSON format, but I haven't downloaded them yet.

Additionally, I've come across the concept of vector embeddings and a tool called Pinecone. Would it be more straightforward to use this tool to extract the necessary information, as opposed to manually searching through the data? Ideally, I would like to create a local search function, similar to Google, specifically for this dataset dump. However, I'm unsure of how to search a local database of Reddit submissions. I have found potential solutions such as Semantra and Qdrant, but I'm uncertain if these are the best tools for this task. Perhaps there is a more suitable option?

I will be honest, I don't have a strong background in technology, and this problem is proving to be quite complex. But I'm willing to tackle it. I would greatly appreciate any input or suggestions that you could provide.

Thank you in advance, everyone! 😊

I have a number of individual notes for various books I've read, with a YAML field for "author." This works great with Dataview, except when there are multiple authors of a book. I assumed I could just add another YAML line "author: Sample Author" to add the second author, but then Dataview does not return results for either author.

Does anyone know how to change my query so it will return results for either author? Is this possible?

My current search is:

dataview TABLE without ID link(file.link, title) as "Title", author FROM #books Where author = "Sample Author"

Stuffed if I can figure how to add this community to Jerboa or the web interface on my instance.

I have a weekly page that transclude (show a section of another page ![[other_page#section]]) notes from daily pages.

Is is possible to copy all the content from the daily page in the weekly? Via a script / extension?

I could copy by hand of course, but I'd like to keep only some info to cleanup the journal pages after a while.

Over the past year, I have been gradually abandoning the other apps and tools I have used in my daily workflow, and replacing them with Obsidian. I am not sure I can do this with my calendar, however. This is quite devastating to me because calendars allow me to see how I spend my day at a glance, and therefore, are an essential part of my productivity system. I would love to know what your experiences have been with the full calendar plugin, or with using Obsidian as your calendar in general.

I made a post on the Reddit r/ObsidianMD and had mixed responses:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/14aswv6/sick_of_reddit_drama_and_corporate_control_join

How could we go on about resolving these issues such that the migration is easier?

What do you think?

Installed the Chrome extension ‘MarkDownload - Markdown Web Clipper’.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdi

The use case was that I wanted to easily capture in Obsidian stuff that I’d published online. Starting with some Mastodon posts.

The clipper downloads a web page as markdown, with the file extension ‘.md’.

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I'm trying to make my Obsidian use a bit more efficient, and I'm still learning the product as a whole. What are some of your most-used/favorites?