Special thanks to the Obsidian ExcaliBrain developer, Zsolt Viczián. You can check out his channel here: ua-cam.com/users/VisualPKM . The theme I used in 02:15 is Sanctum (light mode) and my main vault's theme at 19:28 is Minimal (dark mode). Some of the plugins I mentioned in this video are: Excalidraw, Dataview, graph view (core plugin), and ExcaliBrain.
Thanks for featuring ExcaliBrain. Undoubtedly it takes some time until it clicks... but when it does it becomes addictive. You are so awesome at keeping your explanations simple and accessible!
Thanks, Zsolt! I really appreciate it, coming from you. :) I totally agree that it gets addictive. I've spent a lot of time putting relationships on all my notes!!
Did i miss it? 7 minute in and I still don't really know what it does. Aggregation and contextualization, but no explanation of how it is better and different than graph view.
As i understand graph look at any links as equal links, but excalibrain build visuals of links differently, for example map of content always will be at top of visualization. If you build your link system, making properties "up" and "relatives" then it can be handy.
What the graphic view does is a simple Mind Map and what ExcaliBrain tries to do is a Concept Map. It still lacks important items to be a Mind Map, but it's on the way. I hope the plugin evolves in this direction
Hi, I have tried Logseq and found it very restricting. It is an outliner only (everything is bulleted) and its extension system isn't where I would want it to be. But if you use it and are happy with it, good for you!
You are exceptionally good at explaining the What with the Why - thank you so much for staying on the context path - your content is so well thought out
I've just done a fresh start on my vault, and going to really try setting up more semantic relationships as I go forawrd. Thanks for explaining it so clearly, and showing how we can make Obisidian so much more like how we actually think!
I will help you with some concepts: Holonim x meronim: Holonim is the whole, example: the body; while meronin is the part, example: the arm. Hiperonim x Hiponim: Hiperonin is upper classification, more general, example: Aninal; Hiponim is the lower classification, more particular, example: a caw. (this relation is like parent and chield; sibiling are called Co-hiponims) So we have relations in ontology: An upward relationship is semantically represented by: A caw is an animal. (So the structure is: An: "A" "is a" "B"); A downward relationsip is semantically represented by: Animal classification has a CAW specie; (So the structure is: An "A" "has a" "B"; for integrity with previous example the better way to describe would be: An "B" "has na " "A") Note that the Holonim x Meronin relationship is monodirection and downward dominance and is represented by "A Car" "has a" "motor". The inverse direction is "A motor" "is part of a" "car". But note too that all cars(automobiles) has motors. But, motor do not only exist in cars. The others relations you can deduct by yourself it is not so dificult. It is still important to notice that is prefferable to construct semantically relationships downward; so "has a" is the prefferable expression in constructing semantically relations., at least in computation. The upward relationship is easier and simpler to construct semantically but it is much more weak and poor and it is strutured only by "is a"; A Caw is a Mammal; A Mammal is an Animal; but, this can't be applied to Holonim-meronim relation because a mortor is not a car but "is part of a". Semanticall constructions are base on: Subject verb Predicate. Subject and predicate are concepts(read notes), linked by verbs (and prepositions etc.). The concepts are represented by the notes itselves, that is the easy part. But the verb is not present. Is is weakly represented by the link itself. So in a well rigid relation construction using the idea of "has a" in a uniform way the link can remain with some semanticall integrity between two concepts (read notes). Graph view should have a direction force to push integrity to the construction in a more sofisticated way. Note that on Scalibrain the Up/parent x Down/chield relationship is intended to preserve this integrity and in reality this is the sense of it. About Scalibrain standart (like showed in this video) I think that the positional representation, with higher hierchy up, is not the ideal form specially to complex models. It is well used to one subject concept maps. The best system would be directional arrows for links because with them the complexity of relations can grow up in a more natural and meaningful way. I hope I could be helpful.
Note: I found the channel of the producer, 𝒁𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒕'𝒔 𝑽𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, specially at this video 𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 - 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕 (𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝟏 𝒐𝒇 𝟑), and his Excalibrain representation uses arrows. This is important to strong concept integrity and I think you should activet this resource on your system, probably is on the settings or is another version. Really I do not use Obsidian yet. I'm attached to old concept maps but this tool finally will let me integrate more dinamically my knowledge bases that used less sofisticated systems.
Hello Nicole (and everyone). Here’s a question so basic it may not be answerable. Is there a way to see more than three levels (parent, selected note, and child) at once? Can we extend the number of levels shown in Excalibrain-in order to include grandparents and grandchildren, for example?
Watched 10 times on loop. Excellent. I am a long time Brain user so Zsolt's work here is a dream come true. Your writing prep and presentation on this relatively deep topic are top notch.
Wow! 10 times!!! Thank you for your kind comments. I remember making this video-- it was a tough one to make because, as you said, it's a pretty deep topic and it was difficult to know how to present it. I'm grateful you noticed the effort. <3
I’ve tried answering this question via Googling but failed. Hate to ask this here, but it’s surely a common problem. How can we see more than two levels (parent and child) at once? Can we extend what is shown to 3, 4, 5, etc. layers? E.g., grandparents-parent-children-grandchildren? Thanks.
Awesome video, Nicole. You convinced me to try Excalibrain ;) As always, Você faz um trabalho incrível ao compartilhar seu conhecimento sobre o Obsidian. Graças aos seus vídeos eu consegui tornar meu Obsidian mais útil às minhas necessidades. Infelizmente aqui no Brasil pouquíssimas pessoas falam da ferramenta. Mas como você explica tão bem e torna tudo mais simples, fica acessível.
Your video just convinced me to start using excalibrain 😊. I have a question. How do you make changes to the excalibrain. For example, I want to make some changes on those excalibrain graphs related to some notes. I want to make some the arrow looked longer and some nodes to be placed much further to the left and right by unselecting the view mode. However, those changes are not saved. How do you make changes on the excalibrain graphs?
@@nicolevdh I wanted it to be clickable so I figured it out with quick add with capture filename{{Value}} and capture format {{Linkcurrent}}, I wish {{Value}} had autocomplete
I really enjoyed this great, clear summary of Zsolt's plugin. He did a fantastic job, while you gave an enjoyable review. Thanks a lot, viszontlátásra! ♥️😊
Another great video Nicole, thank you! I didn't think I'd have much interest in the Excali plugins but now I have to try them. How do you display your keyboard commands on your videos?
Hello I'm new to obsidian and enjoying your videos to learn about it :) Actually all needs for me is fulfilled by your previous videos (Thanks again). BTW, I'd like to know how you do styling on your vault. Is it from your customized snippet, or do you use a specific theme? I hope to change the style as yours (internal link, frontmatter, etc..), but it's quiet tricky understand tag hierarchy
Glad you're liking the videos! :) I only do themes, which I change frequently. I always mention in the first pinned comment what theme I used for a particular video. :)
Excellent explainer video, thanks a lot! I was a long time user of TheBrain (now fully converted to Obsidean), I have been postponing to try out Excalibrain. Your video and tips on Child:: & Parent:: was the breakthrough for me: I am now using he Excalibrain window frequently to help organize my notes.
Really happy to hear that! I never used The Brain, but that is absolutely what the developer, Zsolt Viczián, was hoping to replicate! Glad you are using it now. :)
Does Excalibrain scan the result from a dataview qurrey? So for example I have a parent that has Databiew query that shows 4 child documents... Is Excalibrain able to see the links generated from Dataview Table? This way, I don't have to explicitly go in to each file and put in Parent::[[Link]]
It does not, no. You'll need to either explicitly set the relationship in the frontmatter or rely on implicit (parent/child) links that are hardcoded into the note (not Dataview queries).
Cool video - again. I just had a spontaneous idea about 'semantic relationships': So-called ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) could be linked to this: "Decision xy overrides decision abc". Or "decision xy supports decision abc".
Thank you. I've been looking at Logseq for a few weeks. To become good with advanced queries I had to learn the schema, Datascript and Clojure. Not a problem as I was a developer for 35 years before I retired. I've been looking at Obsidian this week and it has a lot more polish and way fewer dark, incomplete corners. I think it gets in the way less. The next step is to get on the forums/discord and get a handle on the problems the user community are having. I'm very happy to sub to your channel and binge-watch loads of your videos.
Happy to hear that! I've also looked at Logseq extensively. I really like it! It's open source, plays well with GitHub, and has a community of cool, kind people. Ultimately its limitations as a pure outliner and smaller plugin ecosystem were what pushed me to Obsidian. Welcome to the Obsidian community, and to the channel! Hope you'll be as happy here as I have been. :)
@@nicolevdh I'm sure I will be happy here. Already watched 8 of your videos today. 😄 After living in C/C++ for a lifetime I'm also loving Rust. Clojure was ok as I'd been through the functional pain with Haskell and Erlang.
is there a way to see what kinds of semantic relationships are inherent in the link? So that when you’re looking at it from the view of the excalibrain you can see “child of” “contradicts” etc? Also, curious if it’s possible to assign values to that relationship. For example, I work in ecosystem modeling, and it would be useful to be able to describe rates of energy transfer between two elements.
After viewing 3 videos from Zsolt on this subject, I still find very usefull your presentation about the 4 embedded layers from the infered relation to the semantic relationship. Thanks for all your great pedagogical & pedestrian videos.
The thing about the default Graph View is that it's best if you keep it down to only showing things two links away. Just enough to start making connections in your head without cluttering the visualizer with a million unrelated useless things.
Hi! Really grateful for ur excali videos! Is there a way to make bullet points containing drawings/shapes whether on excalidraw/brain or native obsidian?
Thank you! Its so nice that you figure out all the nitty gritty for us so that we don't have to start from zero. I also like your pace. And your useful information density (facts per minute).🎉
Awesome vid as always. I really like the way you explaining how things work. and I like how the subtitle just gave up and captioned: (Nicole speaking in foreign language) at the end. 🤣
Haha! Yeah, I'm sure I continually confound subtitlers by speaking different languages at the end of my videos. :D Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! :)
Another great video - as always! 🙏 - I know this is not the main point - what what Obsidian Theme are you using?! 🧐🤩 - love it. --Oh wait - nm - I see you answered that already. :)
Thanks for this new tech intro. So is it possible to create those relationships through dragging line and select keywords between blocks rather than typing text in notes?
Hi! Nope, you don't have to use ExcaliBrain all the time - you can turn it on and off and only use it when you feel like you might need it for context.
may i know how many hours you play the games, because it feels like you get so much done even you are playing games..do the games help with brain functions like how playing chess would?
Yes I have, but I didn't really like it (though I really liked the team building it). Scrintal doesn't use Markdown and doesn't let you store your notes locally. It's visual first, and text second. I'm sure it's a great app for some, but not me.
@@nicolevdh I do a part of my master theses in it and I like it at first. Then I started exploring it and found out that it is incredibly portable. From Notion and Obsidian to VSCode and Google docs. Than brings a consistent enviroment practicaly everywhere which is hugely important to me. Secondly, it has a ton of shapes. Literaly from rectangle to Iphone wireframe or firewall. On top of that, you can add your own design as a shape very easily which gives even more flexibility. Overall it is the most costumizable and modifiable app I've ever seen.
Excalidraw can do those things too - you can create any shape you want and also save that design for later. You can export images as .svg or .png, so you can put the drawings anywhere as well. :) However, if you're happy with Draw.io, I'm sure that's great too! :)
Great video, already using it to make my note taking more helpful. Small suggestion: I'm an artist and have almost zero dev experience and even less Obsidian experience and randomly came across your video through a link on Reddit. Sharing the commands to do things and saying them verbally while doing them would go a long way to helping new people that stumble across your videos. it literally took me 25 minutes to figure how to open the command pane (command+O), and even then I had to intuit because I couldn't find it on line or on the forums.
Hi, glad you liked it! :) Thanks for the feedback-- I actually do usually do say things verbally, but perhaps I missed something in this one. I will try to keep that in mind for the future. Btw, the command pane is actually CMD+P. CMD+O is the file switcher. Just in case you were wondering!
Special thanks to the Obsidian ExcaliBrain developer, Zsolt Viczián. You can check out his channel here: ua-cam.com/users/VisualPKM .
The theme I used in 02:15 is Sanctum (light mode) and my main vault's theme at 19:28 is Minimal (dark mode). Some of the plugins I mentioned in this video are: Excalidraw, Dataview, graph view (core plugin), and ExcaliBrain.
Thanks for featuring ExcaliBrain. Undoubtedly it takes some time until it clicks... but when it does it becomes addictive. You are so awesome at keeping your explanations simple and accessible!
Thanks, Zsolt! I really appreciate it, coming from you. :) I totally agree that it gets addictive. I've spent a lot of time putting relationships on all my notes!!
Did i miss it? 7 minute in and I still don't really know what it does. Aggregation and contextualization, but no explanation of how it is better and different than graph view.
As i understand graph look at any links as equal links, but excalibrain build visuals of links differently, for example map of content always will be at top of visualization.
If you build your link system, making properties "up" and "relatives" then it can be handy.
Thanks again for this clear, thoughtful, and insightful video. I cannot wait to jump in and use ExcaliBrain.
What the graphic view does is a simple Mind Map and what ExcaliBrain tries to do is a Concept Map.
It still lacks important items to be a Mind Map, but it's on the way. I hope the plugin evolves in this direction
What do you think it's missing?
Hi Nicole. You mentioned you don't use folders much. I think you might find Logseq interesting.
Hi, I have tried Logseq and found it very restricting. It is an outliner only (everything is bulleted) and its extension system isn't where I would want it to be. But if you use it and are happy with it, good for you!
Thanks!
I appreciate you so much, Tomas!
good！
You are exceptionally good at explaining the What with the Why - thank you so much for staying on the context path - your content is so well thought out
I've just done a fresh start on my vault, and going to really try setting up more semantic relationships as I go forawrd. Thanks for explaining it so clearly, and showing how we can make Obisidian so much more like how we actually think!
Yay! Happy to hear that! I love that Obsidian is flexible enough that we can make it work the way we think, too!
I will help you with some concepts:
Holonim x meronim: Holonim is the whole, example: the body; while meronin is the part, example: the arm.
Hiperonim x Hiponim: Hiperonin is upper classification, more general, example: Aninal; Hiponim is the lower classification, more particular, example: a caw. (this relation is like parent and chield; sibiling are called Co-hiponims)
So we have relations in ontology: An upward relationship is semantically represented by: A caw is an animal. (So the structure is: An: "A" "is a" "B"); A downward relationsip is semantically represented by: Animal classification has a CAW specie; (So the structure is: An "A" "has a" "B"; for integrity with previous example the better way to describe would be: An "B" "has na " "A")
Note that the Holonim x Meronin relationship is monodirection and downward dominance and is represented by "A Car" "has a" "motor". The inverse direction is "A motor" "is part of a" "car". But note too that all cars(automobiles) has motors. But, motor do not only exist in cars.
The others relations you can deduct by yourself it is not so dificult.
It is still important to notice that is prefferable to construct semantically relationships downward; so "has a" is the prefferable expression in constructing semantically relations., at least in computation. The upward relationship is easier and simpler to construct semantically but it is much more weak and poor and it is strutured only by "is a"; A Caw is a Mammal; A Mammal is an Animal; but, this can't be applied to Holonim-meronim relation because a mortor is not a car but "is part of a".
Semanticall constructions are base on: Subject verb Predicate. Subject and predicate are concepts(read notes), linked by verbs (and prepositions etc.). The concepts are represented by the notes itselves, that is the easy part. But the verb is not present. Is is weakly represented by the link itself. So in a well rigid relation construction using the idea of "has a" in a uniform way the link can remain with some semanticall integrity between two concepts (read notes). Graph view should have a direction force to push integrity to the construction in a more sofisticated way.
Note that on Scalibrain the Up/parent x Down/chield relationship is intended to preserve this integrity and in reality this is the sense of it.
About Scalibrain standart (like showed in this video)
I think that the positional representation, with higher hierchy up, is not the ideal form specially to complex models. It is well used to one subject concept maps. The best system would be directional arrows for links because with them the complexity of relations can grow up in a more natural and meaningful way.
I hope I could be helpful.
Note: I found the channel of the producer, 𝒁𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒕'𝒔 𝑽𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, specially at this video 𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒊𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 - 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒚 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒕 (𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝟏 𝒐𝒇 𝟑), and his Excalibrain representation uses arrows. This is important to strong concept integrity and I think you should activet this resource on your system, probably is on the settings or is another version. Really I do not use Obsidian yet. I'm attached to old concept maps but this tool finally will let me integrate more dinamically my knowledge bases that used less sofisticated systems.
Thank you this was literally the ONLY tutorial i could find about how to start using this
Hello Nicole (and everyone). Here’s a question so basic it may not be answerable. Is there a way to see more than three levels (parent, selected note, and child) at once? Can we extend the number of levels shown in Excalibrain-in order to include grandparents and grandchildren, for example?
Watched 10 times on loop. Excellent. I am a long time Brain user so Zsolt's work here is a dream come true. Your writing prep and presentation on this relatively deep topic are top notch.
Wow! 10 times!!! Thank you for your kind comments. I remember making this video-- it was a tough one to make because, as you said, it's a pretty deep topic and it was difficult to know how to present it. I'm grateful you noticed the effort. <3
I’ve tried answering this question via Googling but failed. Hate to ask this here, but it’s surely a common problem. How can we see more than two levels (parent and child) at once? Can we extend what is shown to 3, 4, 5, etc. layers? E.g., grandparents-parent-children-grandchildren? Thanks.
You are an exceptional instructor. Your patience & willingness to reinforce concepts as you speak. Thank you
Are you agree with me that formula is only in notion.. And obsedian lake for this feature.. ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS?
Awesome video, Nicole. You convinced me to try Excalibrain ;)
As always,
Você faz um trabalho incrível ao compartilhar seu conhecimento sobre o Obsidian. Graças aos seus vídeos eu consegui tornar meu Obsidian mais útil às minhas necessidades.
Infelizmente aqui no Brasil pouquíssimas pessoas falam da ferramenta. Mas como você explica tão bem e torna tudo mais simples, fica acessível.
Só os gênios usam Obsidian kkkkk
Obrigada! :)
Your video just convinced me to start using excalibrain 😊. I have a question. How do you make changes to the excalibrain. For example, I want to make some changes on those excalibrain graphs related to some notes. I want to make some the arrow looked longer and some nodes to be placed much further to the left and right by unselecting the view mode. However, those changes are not saved. How do you make changes on the excalibrain graphs?
Is there a way to make siblings quicker without having to go in both notes? Or parents whilst in the Child
Yes-- you only need to set it in one note.
@@nicolevdh how a link will make a Child
You can set Parent:: X in the child note.
@@nicolevdh I wanted it to be clickable so I figured it out with quick add with capture filename{{Value}} and capture format {{Linkcurrent}}, I wish {{Value}} had autocomplete
Being able to add audio (soundsbites) to Excalidraws drawing board would be amazing! Imagine the potential!
Hey, this would be a good thing to suggest to Zsolt, the developer!
I really enjoyed this great, clear summary of Zsolt's plugin. He did a fantastic job, while you gave an enjoyable review. Thanks a lot, viszontlátásra! ♥️😊
I appreciate that! Köszönöm! :)
7:55 How do you set a new note and it automatically has a date?
Another great video Nicole, thank you! I didn't think I'd have much interest in the Excali plugins but now I have to try them. How do you display your keyboard commands on your videos?
Hi! Glad you liked it! I use an app called KeyCastr. :)
Beautiful! Thank you!
Hello I'm new to obsidian and enjoying your videos to learn about it :)
Actually all needs for me is fulfilled by your previous videos (Thanks again).
BTW, I'd like to know how you do styling on your vault.
Is it from your customized snippet, or do you use a specific theme?
I hope to change the style as yours (internal link, frontmatter, etc..), but it's quiet tricky understand tag hierarchy
Glad you're liking the videos! :) I only do themes, which I change frequently. I always mention in the first pinned comment what theme I used for a particular video. :)
Too much effort. Wasted time spent trying to integrate marginal efficiency gains.
Fair enough! Not every plugin fits everyone's needs.
Excellent explainer video, thanks a lot! I was a long time user of TheBrain (now fully converted to Obsidean), I have been postponing to try out Excalibrain. Your video and tips on Child:: & Parent:: was the breakthrough for me: I am now using he Excalibrain window frequently to help organize my notes.
Really happy to hear that! I never used The Brain, but that is absolutely what the developer, Zsolt Viczián, was hoping to replicate! Glad you are using it now. :)
Does Excalibrain scan the result from a dataview qurrey? So for example I have a parent that has Databiew query that shows 4 child documents... Is Excalibrain able to see the links generated from Dataview Table? This way, I don't have to explicitly go in to each file and put in Parent::[[Link]]
It does not, no. You'll need to either explicitly set the relationship in the frontmatter or rely on implicit (parent/child) links that are hardcoded into the note (not Dataview queries).
@@nicolevdh Okey thanks...just seem a bit redundant work.
My head is started spinning :( I feel like I'm so dump.. to understand the ExcaliBrain ..:sigh:
Awww, really sorry to hear that! You are definitely not dumb. May I ask what part I lost you at? Maybe I can do better next time, or help you here. :)
Cool video - again. I just had a spontaneous idea about 'semantic relationships': So-called ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) could be linked to this: "Decision xy overrides decision abc". Or "decision xy supports decision abc".
I don't see the added value of using Excalibrain vs. using the Local Graph while setting the level depth in the local graph settings.
What does it do if you talk about "parents" and "children" (in the more ordinary sense) elsewhere in your vault? Does that confuse Excalibrain?
Thank you. I've been looking at Logseq for a few weeks. To become good with advanced queries I had to learn the schema, Datascript and Clojure. Not a problem as I was a developer for 35 years before I retired. I've been looking at Obsidian this week and it has a lot more polish and way fewer dark, incomplete corners. I think it gets in the way less. The next step is to get on the forums/discord and get a handle on the problems the user community are having. I'm very happy to sub to your channel and binge-watch loads of your videos.
Happy to hear that! I've also looked at Logseq extensively. I really like it! It's open source, plays well with GitHub, and has a community of cool, kind people. Ultimately its limitations as a pure outliner and smaller plugin ecosystem were what pushed me to Obsidian.
Welcome to the Obsidian community, and to the channel! Hope you'll be as happy here as I have been. :)
@@nicolevdh I'm sure I will be happy here. Already watched 8 of your videos today. 😄 After living in C/C++ for a lifetime I'm also loving Rust. Clojure was ok as I'd been through the functional pain with Haskell and Erlang.
is there a way to see what kinds of semantic relationships are inherent in the link? So that when you’re looking at it from the view of the excalibrain you can see “child of” “contradicts” etc? Also, curious if it’s possible to assign values to that relationship. For example, I work in ecosystem modeling, and it would be useful to be able to describe rates of energy transfer between two elements.
After viewing 3 videos from Zsolt on this subject, I still find very usefull your presentation about the 4 embedded layers from the infered relation to the semantic relationship. Thanks for all your great pedagogical & pedestrian videos.
The thing about the default Graph View is that it's best if you keep it down to only showing things two links away. Just enough to start making connections in your head without cluttering the visualizer with a million unrelated useless things.
Nice video. I got a really good idea about this plugin, which is just what I was curious to find out. Might be in my future. Thanks!
Hi! Really grateful for ur excali videos! Is there a way to make bullet points containing drawings/shapes whether on excalidraw/brain or native obsidian?
Nicole, why are you writing the relationship ontology outside the frontmatter? Why did you prefer inline fields for that?
"Gardening of ideas" was a beautiful metaphor. Thanks for the video. I'll give this tool a go.
Your videos quality have really improved since last year, great job 🙏
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. Making videos is hard!
Great video. I wish you had made a reference to The Brain as the origins of this plug-in.
Why not just using the core plugin "Canvas" in obsidian?
Estaba buscando esta información hace una par de días. Gracias.😜
that content is pure gold! thank you very much!
Which one is better between Excalibrain and Breadcrumbs?
Thank you! Its so nice that you figure out all the nitty gritty for us so that we don't have to start from zero. I also like your pace. And your useful information density (facts per minute).🎉
I don’t know why Excalibrain does NOT work in my iPad Pro version of Obsidian. Just doesn’t open from the command on hover. Works fine on the MBPro.
Hi Roy, it definitely works for me. Check that you have all the necessary plugins installed on your tablet: ExcaliBrain, Excalidraw, and Dataview.
How would you incorporate this with canvas?
Awesome vid as always. I really like the way you explaining how things work.
and I like how the subtitle just gave up and captioned: (Nicole speaking in foreign language) at the end. 🤣
Haha! Yeah, I'm sure I continually confound subtitlers by speaking different languages at the end of my videos. :D
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! :)
Another great video - as always! 🙏 - I know this is not the main point - what what Obsidian Theme are you using?! 🧐🤩 - love it. --Oh wait - nm - I see you answered that already. :)
Hey, happy to help! Yes, I get this question enough that I've started to mention it and leave it in the pinned comment for my later videos. :)
Hey Nicole, so you mention performance as being a downside of the graph you as you experienced it. Is excalibrain faster then?
Hi! Yes, it is faster, and it has more features as well!
I like your videos about obsidian so much that i have ssubscribed to your Patreon channel as well. Thank you for your passion!
Hi Caroline! I just saw you join the Discord server! Welcome, and thanks so much for the support. I'm glad my passion comes across. :)
Thanks for this new tech intro. So is it possible to create those relationships through dragging line and select keywords between blocks rather than typing text in notes?
No, unfortunately not! Maybe something you could suggest to the developer. :) Smething like Scrintal might be a better fit in the meantime.
Doesn't this make me also focus on excalibrain too while writing notes? Seems like additional work if it is...
Hi! Nope, you don't have to use ExcaliBrain all the time - you can turn it on and off and only use it when you feel like you might need it for context.
may i know how many hours you play the games, because it feels like you get so much done even you are playing games..do the games help with brain functions like how playing chess would?
I played 134 games of 3-4 hours each last year (2022). I think most games help keep your brain active, yeah!
@@nicolevdh do u track the hours your played tho? Like in obsidian use time tracker?
Brilliant Nicole. Beautifully structured explanation. I am on it!
Yay!! Another ExcaliBrain convert. ;) Happy you liked the video!
Thanks!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the support!
This seems useful! Thanks so much for sharing❤
Great! Thanks for watching. :)
Nicole / brilliant 😘😄* thank you.
Happy you liked it!
Hello loving your content keep it up.. have you tried using scrintal
Yes I have, but I didn't really like it (though I really liked the team building it). Scrintal doesn't use Markdown and doesn't let you store your notes locally. It's visual first, and text second. I'm sure it's a great app for some, but not me.
Will you please send me scrintal invite link?
Dear Nicole, can I use Excalibrain without Excalidraw because I have Draw Io which for me is much stronger plugin for drawing.
Hi! No, ExcaliBrain is built on top of Excalidraw. Out of curiosity, why do you prefer Draw.io?
@@nicolevdh I do a part of my master theses in it and I like it at first. Then I started exploring it and found out that it is incredibly portable. From Notion and Obsidian to VSCode and Google docs. Than brings a consistent enviroment practicaly everywhere which is hugely important to me. Secondly, it has a ton of shapes. Literaly from rectangle to Iphone wireframe or firewall. On top of that, you can add your own design as a shape very easily which gives even more flexibility. Overall it is the most costumizable and modifiable app I've ever seen.
Excalidraw can do those things too - you can create any shape you want and also save that design for later. You can export images as .svg or .png, so you can put the drawings anywhere as well. :) However, if you're happy with Draw.io, I'm sure that's great too! :)
I didn’t know that. There is only one more reason that I stick with Draw Io. I don’t like to switch the tools all the time"
That is a totally valid and perhaps the most important reason! :D I completely understand that!
Wow your way of thinking is awesome!
Thanks! I feel like it looks more awesome with tools like ExcaliBrain than it actually is. :)
@@nicolevdh that's the beauty of it (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
Great video, already using it to make my note taking more helpful.
Small suggestion: I'm an artist and have almost zero dev experience and even less Obsidian experience and randomly came across your video through a link on Reddit. Sharing the commands to do things and saying them verbally while doing them would go a long way to helping new people that stumble across your videos. it literally took me 25 minutes to figure how to open the command pane (command+O), and even then I had to intuit because I couldn't find it on line or on the forums.
Hi, glad you liked it! :) Thanks for the feedback-- I actually do usually do say things verbally, but perhaps I missed something in this one. I will try to keep that in mind for the future. Btw, the command pane is actually CMD+P. CMD+O is the file switcher. Just in case you were wondering!
@@nicolevdh Thanks! Yeah, I checked my notes and that's what I had. Thanks again for the great videos!
Thank you so much for demonstrating this plugin and for explaining it so clearly.
Glad you liked it! :)
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support! :) I appreciate you!