I'm in the perfectionist trap when it comes to note taking. I watch tons of videos about fancy and sometimes overwhelming Obsidian workflows and methods and I don't know what to choose so I end up not taking any notes at all.
I feel that irritation and have been there! I am out the other side and am actively taking notes each day, making edits and expanding my knowledge base. I have made it fun for me. Always happy to help 😁
I used to be the same. Then I just stopped watching Obsidian videos and set up something for myself that worked. Now I use Obsidian many times every day. Now I can watch Obsidian videos and learn from them and sometimes adopt practices I learn about, but since I already have my own system set up that works for ME, watching more videos won't change much for my workflow as I don't want it to change.
Spend £1000+ enrolling on an Obsidian course, or immerse myself in the World of Danny Hatcher...no contest! Fantastic as always with a gentle bit of trolling thrown in for good measure. Informative AND entertaining!
Thank you so much for this video! I needed to hear this so bad. Iv'e been drowning in confusion for the past month trying all different types of systems, but everything just added to the confusion. I'll take this as a message to just stop going off other people and just do what I want to with it. SERIOUSLY NEEDED THIS VIDEO IN MY LIFE, THANK YOU.
I'm starting to use Obsidian this weekend and found your channel, this is exactly what I needed because I was starting to feel overwhelmed with all the different methods out there. TYVM.
I feel you Mitch. There are way to many methods out there that just replicate one another with different words. My notes are public if you want to have a look at how I organize and right them.
I wish I would had seen this last semester. Trying to figure out how I'm suppose to take my notes actually caused me more stress, and actually hurt me something awful academically. Danny, I really appreciate this video and your work.
dude, just create file and type something on it, it's dead easy. it's basically just a notepad. you don't need linking, header, or any other markdown features. i can't even fathom when people called Obsidian a complex app and they got stressed when using it. if you can type, you can use obsidian.
@@DannyHatcherTech Ya know.. you were right. At first I was so frustratred trying to learn how to use this or that plugin when tbh I only needed 2 of them to use Obsidian the way it works best for me right now. Only when I followed yours and other people's "start simple and build from that" advice that something clicked and my vault started being functional for me. Turns out I don't need pie charts or fancy views atm, just sliding panels and backlinks lol :). I'm glad Obsidian exists. That's my experience report lol ; thank you so much for your videos!
It's very difficult to explain ideas in the form of a dialogue - usually, it sounds pretentious, unnatural, and always, at some point, it sounds forced because your second character MUST say something specific to move the explanation forward. However, you managed to make it work - aside from the explanation being easy to understand and informative, you also made it funny, and your characters never went... well, out of character. It was a pleasure to watch this!
this was an excellent overview that i needed to understand what a second brain was and what obsidian is/does. i had to slow it down bc you were so efficient in your script to talk about the details w/o the ummm's and uhhhh's that come w/unplanned/unscripted speech! well done! thank you!
I have been working with Notion for a few months. Tried to develop big systems when I should have started one thing at a time... so my systems are still not in place fully. Your content makes me want to try Obsidian. Not sure if I should finish the setup of Notion or just start trying to learn Obsidian. It sounds way better for many reasons. But if I switch now, then I have to take the time to learn Obsidian. I have not tried the other apps either such as Roam. You also talk about how you didn't know what you needed until you started doing projects in the app. That makes me want to stay with Notion at least for a bit longer. Thoughts?
The type of projects and needs for the app are key. If the projects are worked on outside of the app, and it is predominantly planning and basics notes then Notion works well. If the projects require more integrated notes, and is more like research then obsidian would be my pick. Continue using Notion until you find friction points in the projects your doing, at which point see if those issue can be solved in another tool. Hope that helps
You are literally my spirit animal. Notion, Obsidian, Asana, multiple self-hosted project management apps. But I always, ALWAYS find myself howevering back to Obsidian. Currently, I'm working on rebuilding (to be read hamfisting) project management tools/features into Obsidian, and to be honest, it might be easier than I think :).
@@DannyHatcherTech How in the world this is the first time I'm hearing about this? Quick question, cuz I can't find on their website. Is the calendar 2 sync? As in modifications going from Outlook are reflected in Morgen and viceversa? Edit: I'm watching your video on it :) Thanks for the reference.
This is exactly it. Obsidian give you powerful tools, but very little in terms of how to use them. That leaves you with a lot of freedom to make it a thing that works for you ... or the possibility to spend days/weeks/months obsessing over details and trying to emulate other people.
It's 8pm Sunday and I've spent most of the weekend watching videos about Obsidian, Roam/Logseq and Notion. Not actually tried any of them yet so had to sheepishly laugh at your 'research procastination' comment!
You like orange, eh? The game changer are dataview, excalidraw, kanban, checklist and templates. The rest of organization you can just program. I can just list all undone tasks of all files, sorted by date or just list all files with certain tags and sort them by another dataview information. Is awesome for chaotic people. Order and structure is automatically and on demand produced for me
@@DannyHatcherTech exactly^^ that's why I could never stick long enough with Notion, OneNote or EverNote. At one point, it starts to limit and annoy me. Obsidian can be super chaotic if you do not understand how to organize your stuff. It took me several months to create my system. Thus, I would say Obsidian is only for people who love the concept of taking notes and building up a PKM. My girlfriend hates Obsidian haha and switched back to analog notebooks
In a previous video, you were notetaking using your Zotero database. Zotero would contain the highlights of documents you read (establishing relevance to you), with pinpoint comments capturing your thought at the time. Zotero offers free association, using tags, notes, and hyperlinks, captured together with text/image media. An added bonus is some limited ability to format and edit compilations of your study records. Obsidian is unattractive for use in this first part of the research process because it is not a reference manager, and given the black hole it is for customizations and brain-building addiction. Second brain software, like Obsidian, connects related ideas because you tell it to make connections, and it is a good record keeper of your instructions. This is parallel to creating related hyperlinks in Zotero. Duplication of function. But connecting and synthesizing are not the same. Obsidian can't think, yet. The synthetization of records in the brain is random, a biological phenomenon. The synaptic sparks of realization we call aha moments are biological. Truly, your brain does not need a command line to create a synapse (and may not make one if you underwent shock therapy to change it). I presume you must spend your free-association linking-time in Obsidian, returning to Zotero only to read and pull down data to inform your notions. When the moments come of the big, biological sparks of realization, the big ideas that birth academic theses, where will you go to gather your breadcrumb trail of research? Will it be your Obsidian collection data imported from Zotero, or will it be from the shelves of Zotero, where you last left that research (hopefully orderly enough for quick retrieval). When preparing to write a thesis, it is necessary that the data be considered to fit a hierarchical structure of argument. Can one afford to scattergraph the data at this productivity stage in the research? Have I got it completely wrong?
Great question and very useful context of your thinking! To make it brief, zotero is for reference collection, reading, highlighting and status management. Obsidian then has all my highlights of each reference (source note) with links back to zotero if I need more context later in the writing process. I then write in an Obsidian file linking each point to the source note. The connections that I realise are searched in Obsidian - all highlights are there so I pick anything about the source for recall. This makes referencing quicker and easier. Some essays relate to one another so I link sections or full files for awareness in future. There are lots of other smaller parts of my workflow Obsidian helps with, but are personal to me. Hope this helps 😁
Hey there, just so you know with the release of version 1.5.8 of the obsidian calendar plugins, which is not available at the time you posted this video, you can now calculate the days in the template. Took me sometimes to figure out how to have all the days listed like what you have in your weekly template using all the plugins and whatnot {{yesterday}} {{tomorrow}} {{date-1d:YYYY-MM-DD}} // yesterday {{date+2d:YYYY-MM-DD}} // in two days {{date+1M:YYYY-MM-DD}} // next month {{date+10y:YYYY-MM-DD}} // in 10 years {{date +7d}} // use default format
Yes thank you. You can also create the page using templater. Liam has evolved the calendar plugin quite a lot since my video. Always so good with development.
I feel people are complimenting Danny on this style of video, when in reality, he just got fed up hearing his twin brother Donny whining about not having a part in his videos. ;)
2:00 hah, thats me I'm tryign to temper this by practicing what I learn as I go along But there is so much integration / technicalities to figure out which makes me think I should cut it back but if you know how it is to be future you wishing you learned it before, you preemptively cram 6:10 based
Danny - Makes video on obsidian Also Danny - Don't watch videos on obsidian 🤣 Yes you are right, when you break things you learn how to make it work. So go break your obsidian vault
People just making things hard for themself and blaming the App for their own mistakes. it's just a notepad, if you can type on it, you can use it. you don't need Linking, Header, Graph or all other Markdown features, you don't need zettlekasten, Todo, Kanban or any other notes structures. just write something. it's dead simple. don't say that you don't have any clue how to type thing even if you somehow screwed things up, you can easily restructure things in obsidian. you only need to know how to create file and how to type, in order to use Obsidian. it's just a place to store your text file the structure will emerge itself the more you use it, it's not something that you can figure it out instantly. you need to build your preference slowly first in order to know how to structure your notes.
Hey Danny great video, I'm using your daily note template and can't seem to get the links of yesterday and tomorrow daily notes working correctly. I just get todays date using [[{{date:DD-MM-YYYY}}]] for all three links. My Daily note settings are DD-MM-YYYY, do you any idea why its not working?
It is working correctly, I change the yesterday and tomorrow links manually. You could use auto hotkey, or text expander if you want but I like to do it myself 😁
When making videos some people talk about how awkward they feel making jokes in an empty room. I can imagine you must have felt a bit dumb making those jokes. But I really liked them haha
Sheesh, does being organised really need to be this hard? How did the likes of Churchill manage to write “The Second World War” without the availability of this kind of tech, sure beats me. TBH I think if I went down this route I’d just drown in the system and never get anything actually written or done, I’d be too “busy” fiddling and trying to make things look good! I was like that as a kid, endlessly rewriting revision timetables in the run-in to exam season, instead of actually revising 😂😂 All that said, it still draws me in and makes me want to have a dabble!
It has been a while since I have explored the tool but it is very powerful and does much of the same as obsidian. I will stick with obsidian because I have an established workflow in the tool but If it was to break for some reason logseq would be my first consideration.
@@DannyHatcherTech thank you so much for your valuable insights. I have one more question as I am starting to make my knowledge base in Logsec... Can you tell which aspect(related to knowledge management system) of Obsidian will I miss by comparing both of these?!
@@harrylorane4807 I am not familiar enough with logseq feature set to give you a good answer. My immediate thinking would be community plugins, and multiple panels, but they are guesses. 😁
I will be exploring logseq more soon but my initial worries are the multiple pane issue, footnotes, mobile, audio recording, and kanban board/calendar plugin.
@@DannyHatcherTech Although I don't use it multiple pane is there (as far as I know) . Not as snappy as in obsidian. Mobile is now live. Kanban and calendar plugins are there. Don't know footnotes though
Yeah. The content may be good but the speed at which this guy is spewing out words is just not constructive. Take a chill pill, man! In the meantime i’ll look for that slow down feature..
its normally around 205 wpm but I get your point 😁 I recently measured my speaking speed and my natural speed as far above average so am making an effort to slow down in future videos.
@@DannyHatcherTech literally, I have no idea what I could use clarified. I heard of Obsidian, visited their website for the first time in my life, then went to your video here 4.2 minutes later.... And now... I'm afraid of it. 😄
@@williamgollatz1911 aha well that is not the intention 😅 Obsidian is essentially a text editor with backlinks that are stored on your device. The rest of the features are more like nicities 😁
Look, I'm sticking it out because you seem to have some kind of nugget you're trying to share with me, but the bickering with your inner antagonist format is awful. Please bypass this schtick in future videos. :(
Understandable. I used them at the start cos they were new, then didn't use them for months. Now use the bacli ks all the time and the local graph for quality of a page 😁
I'm in the perfectionist trap when it comes to note taking. I watch tons of videos about fancy and sometimes overwhelming Obsidian workflows and methods and I don't know what to choose so I end up not taking any notes at all.
I feel that irritation and have been there! I am out the other side and am actively taking notes each day, making edits and expanding my knowledge base.
I have made it fun for me. Always happy to help 😁
I wanna add that note-taking should be a source of joy, not an archiver/librarian chore.
1000% agree!
I want to work in my notes just as much as I want to play games 😁
THISSSSSSS SPOKE TO ME!!!!!
I used to be the same. Then I just stopped watching Obsidian videos and set up something for myself that worked. Now I use Obsidian many times every day. Now I can watch Obsidian videos and learn from them and sometimes adopt practices I learn about, but since I already have my own system set up that works for ME, watching more videos won't change much for my workflow as I don't want it to change.
This video is brutally honest of what 99% of us probably do using Obsidian 😅
You just gained yourself a sub!
Thanks 😁
Yeah, I certainly fell into so many unnecessary rabbit hole.
My last 24 hours
Popping out of the corner Danny is best Danny
Aha, 😅
That "planning to organize a future that may not even happen" in the intro was my long due conclusion yesterday, glad to find this video today.
Ah good timing then 😁
Spend £1000+ enrolling on an Obsidian course, or immerse myself in the World of Danny Hatcher...no contest! Fantastic as always with a gentle bit of trolling thrown in for good measure. Informative AND entertaining!
Appreciate it! Always like adding a bit of fun into another wise bland topic 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech Danny, I love you :)
@ 😁🙏
Thank you so much for this video! I needed to hear this so bad. Iv'e been drowning in confusion for the past month trying all different types of systems, but everything just added to the confusion. I'll take this as a message to just stop going off other people and just do what I want to with it. SERIOUSLY NEEDED THIS VIDEO IN MY LIFE, THANK YOU.
We are all different, which I think should be embraced not forgotten 😁
Somehow, simultaneously this was the best video tutorial I've seen all day and the funniest video I've seen all day.
Aha, thanks. Glad I ticked both boxes 😁
WOW! That was a load full of GREATNESS! Laughed about you, you and me :-) Top notch video, great information. Thank you!
Thankyou, glad you enjoyed it a learned something along the way 😁
I'm starting to use Obsidian this weekend and found your channel, this is exactly what I needed because I was starting to feel overwhelmed with all the different methods out there. TYVM.
I feel you Mitch. There are way to many methods out there that just replicate one another with different words. My notes are public if you want to have a look at how I organize and right them.
This video is an absolute gem!
Thank you! It was fun to make 😁
I wish I would had seen this last semester. Trying to figure out how I'm suppose to take my notes actually caused me more stress, and actually hurt me something awful academically.
Danny, I really appreciate this video and your work.
Thanks Tim, glad I helped eventually 😉😁
dude, just create file and type something on it, it's dead easy.
it's basically just a notepad.
you don't need linking, header, or any other markdown features.
i can't even fathom when people called Obsidian a complex app and they got stressed when using it.
if you can type, you can use obsidian.
Great video, that's exactly what I'll do: play with Obsidian and learn while using it. Thanks! I needed this level of honesty, tbh lol.
Nice! let me know what you learn, there are always new ways to do things.
@@DannyHatcherTech Ya know.. you were right. At first I was so frustratred trying to learn how to use this or that plugin when tbh I only needed 2 of them to use Obsidian the way it works best for me right now.
Only when I followed yours and other people's "start simple and build from that" advice that something clicked and my vault started being functional for me. Turns out I don't need pie charts or fancy views atm, just sliding panels and backlinks lol :). I'm glad Obsidian exists.
That's my experience report lol ; thank you so much for your videos!
It's very difficult to explain ideas in the form of a dialogue - usually, it sounds pretentious, unnatural, and always, at some point, it sounds forced because your second character MUST say something specific to move the explanation forward. However, you managed to make it work - aside from the explanation being easy to understand and informative, you also made it funny, and your characters never went... well, out of character. It was a pleasure to watch this!
Thank you!
I really enjoy this style but it doesn't seem to resonate with my audience unfortunately...
i needed this. i needed this so much.
aha good to hear 😁
Watching you talk about obsidian makes me feel like we just became friends. subscribed.
I have spoken about it alot recently 😁
Happy to see you in the comments!
That was awesome and very creative. I didn’t know you can star a search, thanks
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it is a feature I use sometimes during a project but most of my starred things are pages.
Absolutely brilliant!
Thankyou 😁
this was an excellent overview that i needed to understand what a second brain was and what obsidian is/does. i had to slow it down bc you were so efficient in your script to talk about the details w/o the ummm's and uhhhh's that come w/unplanned/unscripted speech! well done! thank you!
Thank you that is great to hear! Glad I could help.
This is easily my most favorite Obsidian video so far. Bravo chap!
Thankyou 😁
I have been working with Notion for a few months. Tried to develop big systems when I should have started one thing at a time... so my systems are still not in place fully. Your content makes me want to try Obsidian. Not sure if I should finish the setup of Notion or just start trying to learn Obsidian. It sounds way better for many reasons. But if I switch now, then I have to take the time to learn Obsidian. I have not tried the other apps either such as Roam. You also talk about how you didn't know what you needed until you started doing projects in the app. That makes me want to stay with Notion at least for a bit longer. Thoughts?
The type of projects and needs for the app are key.
If the projects are worked on outside of the app, and it is predominantly planning and basics notes then Notion works well.
If the projects require more integrated notes, and is more like research then obsidian would be my pick.
Continue using Notion until you find friction points in the projects your doing, at which point see if those issue can be solved in another tool.
Hope that helps
@@DannyHatcherTech 💪
You are literally my spirit animal. Notion, Obsidian, Asana, multiple self-hosted project management apps. But I always, ALWAYS find myself howevering back to Obsidian.
Currently, I'm working on rebuilding (to be read hamfisting) project management tools/features into Obsidian, and to be honest, it might be easier than I think :).
Aha 😁😆
I use Morgen for my tasks, projects, events and habits 🤷♂️
@@DannyHatcherTech How in the world this is the first time I'm hearing about this? Quick question, cuz I can't find on their website. Is the calendar 2 sync? As in modifications going from Outlook are reflected in Morgen and viceversa?
Edit: I'm watching your video on it :) Thanks for the reference.
@@tobiasartur9153 yeah, 2 way sync.
There have been updates since my video 😁
Good work. Good advice. Like the writing and performance!
Thanks Ryan! Hopefully it brings in various contexts and Nuance to conversation 😁
This is exactly it. Obsidian give you powerful tools, but very little in terms of how to use them. That leaves you with a lot of freedom to make it a thing that works for you ... or the possibility to spend days/weeks/months obsessing over details and trying to emulate other people.
And the same can be said for any tool with flexible features.
The best over view of how you can use Obsidian.
The best I am not too sure but thankyou!
Brilliant!! Thank you.
Happy to share 😁
You're a proper bloke for having your templates be free :) cheers!
Just trying to help everyone 😁
It's 8pm Sunday and I've spent most of the weekend watching videos about Obsidian, Roam/Logseq and Notion. Not actually tried any of them yet so had to sheepishly laugh at your 'research procastination' comment!
😅😅😁
Brilliant … I couldn’t have said it better!
Thanks David! I hope this helps someone get through the struggles I went through quicker.
great vid as always
Glad you enjoyed
Great video! Seems like Harry and Ron did the fusion dance! :)
aha thanks!
Love it❤❤❤
😁
wow..enjoyed this
😁
You like orange, eh? The game changer are dataview, excalidraw, kanban, checklist and templates. The rest of organization you can just program. I can just list all undone tasks of all files, sorted by date or just list all files with certain tags and sort them by another dataview information. Is awesome for chaotic people. Order and structure is automatically and on demand produced for me
I like orange 😁🟠
I don't use any of those plugins but that is the beauty of a tool like obsidian that let's you choose your setup. 🙃
@@DannyHatcherTech exactly^^ that's why I could never stick long enough with Notion, OneNote or EverNote. At one point, it starts to limit and annoy me. Obsidian can be super chaotic if you do not understand how to organize your stuff. It took me several months to create my system. Thus, I would say Obsidian is only for people who love the concept of taking notes and building up a PKM. My girlfriend hates Obsidian haha and switched back to analog notebooks
Fantastic video
Thankyou 😁
In a previous video, you were notetaking using your Zotero database. Zotero would contain the highlights of documents you read (establishing relevance to you), with pinpoint comments capturing your thought at the time. Zotero offers free association, using tags, notes, and hyperlinks, captured together with text/image media. An added bonus is some limited ability to format and edit compilations of your study records. Obsidian is unattractive for use in this first part of the research process because it is not a reference manager, and given the black hole it is for customizations and brain-building addiction. Second brain software, like Obsidian, connects related ideas because you tell it to make connections, and it is a good record keeper of your instructions. This is parallel to creating related hyperlinks in Zotero. Duplication of function. But connecting and synthesizing are not the same. Obsidian can't think, yet. The synthetization of records in the brain is random, a biological phenomenon. The synaptic sparks of realization we call aha moments are biological. Truly, your brain does not need a command line to create a synapse (and may not make one if you underwent shock therapy to change it). I presume you must spend your free-association linking-time in Obsidian, returning to Zotero only to read and pull down data to inform your notions. When the moments come of the big, biological sparks of realization, the big ideas that birth academic theses, where will you go to gather your breadcrumb trail of research? Will it be your Obsidian collection data imported from Zotero, or will it be from the shelves of Zotero, where you last left that research (hopefully orderly enough for quick retrieval). When preparing to write a thesis, it is necessary that the data be considered to fit a hierarchical structure of argument. Can one afford to scattergraph the data at this productivity stage in the research? Have I got it completely wrong?
Great question and very useful context of your thinking!
To make it brief, zotero is for reference collection, reading, highlighting and status management.
Obsidian then has all my highlights of each reference (source note) with links back to zotero if I need more context later in the writing process.
I then write in an Obsidian file linking each point to the source note.
The connections that I realise are searched in Obsidian - all highlights are there so I pick anything about the source for recall. This makes referencing quicker and easier.
Some essays relate to one another so I link sections or full files for awareness in future.
There are lots of other smaller parts of my workflow Obsidian helps with, but are personal to me.
Hope this helps 😁
Hey there, just so you know with the release of version 1.5.8 of the obsidian calendar plugins, which is not available at the time you posted this video, you can now calculate the days in the template. Took me sometimes to figure out how to have all the days listed like what you have in your weekly template using all the plugins and whatnot
{{yesterday}}
{{tomorrow}}
{{date-1d:YYYY-MM-DD}} // yesterday
{{date+2d:YYYY-MM-DD}} // in two days
{{date+1M:YYYY-MM-DD}} // next month
{{date+10y:YYYY-MM-DD}} // in 10 years
{{date +7d}} // use default format
Yes thank you. You can also create the page using templater.
Liam has evolved the calendar plugin quite a lot since my video. Always so good with development.
I feel people are complimenting Danny on this style of video, when in reality, he just got fed up hearing his twin brother Donny whining about not having a part in his videos. ;)
Exactly that! He just wouldn't stop moaning so I had to give him a part 😉
Did you say the "Starred" plugin? Which one specifically?
I said a lot of things 😆 If you are referring to a favourite like a plugin then yes, the starred plugin does that in Obsidian.
Goodness… I am glad I came across this video… was going nuts and this made me stop 😮💨👍🏾
Glad I could help 😄
Hello, I started notes in mindnode on my Mac and want to bring these to Obsidian. is there an easy way to do this?
I am not what the format is. There is likely a quick option.
@@DannyHatcherTech I think it's markdown
2:00
hah, thats me
I'm tryign to temper this by practicing what I learn as I go along
But there is so much integration / technicalities to figure out
which makes me think I should cut it back
but if you know how it is to be future you wishing you learned it before, you preemptively cram
6:10 based
Danny - Makes video on obsidian
Also Danny - Don't watch videos on obsidian 🤣
Yes you are right, when you break things you learn how to make it work. So go break your obsidian vault
Just adding a friendly reminder to myself when I am rewatching my own videos 😅
If you want to explain something, follow these two simple steps. (1) Don't talk too fast (2) Reduce distractions ie your alter ego.
Thnka for the feedback. It was an experiment 😁
Recent videos on the channel show my shift.
People just making things hard for themself and blaming the App for their own mistakes.
it's just a notepad, if you can type on it, you can use it.
you don't need Linking, Header, Graph or all other Markdown features,
you don't need zettlekasten, Todo, Kanban or any other notes structures.
just write something. it's dead simple.
don't say that you don't have any clue how to type thing
even if you somehow screwed things up, you can easily restructure things in obsidian.
you only need to know how to create file and how to type, in order to use Obsidian.
it's just a place to store your text file
the structure will emerge itself the more you use it, it's not something that you can figure it out instantly.
you need to build your preference slowly first in order to know how to structure your notes.
Very well put!
Hey Danny great video, I'm using your daily note template and can't seem to get the links of yesterday and tomorrow daily notes working correctly. I just get todays date using [[{{date:DD-MM-YYYY}}]] for all three links. My Daily note settings are DD-MM-YYYY, do you any idea why its not working?
It is working correctly, I change the yesterday and tomorrow links manually. You could use auto hotkey, or text expander if you want but I like to do it myself 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks Danny for your lighting speed response! Have a fantastic day and keep up the awesome community feedback!! 😆👌
@@richardnardone1927 happy to help 😁
Did you ever face the problem that interface panels in obsidian become bizarrely enlarged and you can't reduce them?
No. Each panel fills out the size of the sidebar or main panel you drag them to.
@@DannyHatcherTech little beside the point;-)
@@marekkrzysztofiak2583 Not sure what you mean?
I assumed you were referring to the panels you move around when you said interface panels
@@DannyHatcherTech general panels of the whole interface, everything horribly enlarged
@@marekkrzysztofiak2583 No I have note seen that. It might be the CSS theme you are using 🤷♂
When making videos some people talk about how awkward they feel making jokes in an empty room.
I can imagine you must have felt a bit dumb making those jokes.
But I really liked them haha
Aha, the wall was laughing 😅
Sheesh, does being organised really need to be this hard? How did the likes of Churchill manage to write “The Second World War” without the availability of this kind of tech, sure beats me. TBH I think if I went down this route I’d just drown in the system and never get anything actually written or done, I’d be too “busy” fiddling and trying to make things look good! I was like that as a kid, endlessly rewriting revision timetables in the run-in to exam season, instead of actually revising 😂😂 All that said, it still draws me in and makes me want to have a dabble!
This is my first video for how to obsidian…… confused ….. willl watch it again later if someone like for reminding me - thanks
As a first video might not be the best place to start 😅 Have a look around the channel as there are more beginner friendly videos.
@@DannyHatcherTech Ok noted
Yes. Yes to all of that...
😁
It just works… magic 😵💫
haha yup! Explaining all the behind the scenes was done in the long video 😅 Don't want to repeat myself.
What are your thoughts about Logsec?
It has been a while since I have explored the tool but it is very powerful and does much of the same as obsidian.
I will stick with obsidian because I have an established workflow in the tool but If it was to break for some reason logseq would be my first consideration.
@@DannyHatcherTech thank you so much for your valuable insights. I have one more question as I am starting to make my knowledge base in Logsec... Can you tell which aspect(related to knowledge management system) of Obsidian will I miss by comparing both of these?!
@@harrylorane4807 I am not familiar enough with logseq feature set to give you a good answer.
My immediate thinking would be community plugins, and multiple panels, but they are guesses. 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech I'm just grateful to UA-cam for connecting me with you💖
Orange is your favorite color, right?
Yup 😁
I'm guessing your favorite color is orange?
What gave it away 😉
Danny is so mean to Danny.
I am sure he is OK with it 😅
Everything you explained just points to using logseq rather than obsidian 😃
I will be exploring logseq more soon but my initial worries are the multiple pane issue, footnotes, mobile, audio recording, and kanban board/calendar plugin.
@@DannyHatcherTech Although I don't use it multiple pane is there (as far as I know) . Not as snappy as in obsidian. Mobile is now live. Kanban and calendar plugins are there. Don't know footnotes though
I found Logsec as pretty slow and graph view isn't good as well.
@@sannanali9656 video coming out tomorrow which mentions both of those points 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech I switched from Logsec to Obsidian today. I hope Obsidian wins 😁
This 😅
im sorry i had to play this at 0.75x speed 😆😆😆
No worries your not the only one
Yeah. The content may be good but the speed at which this guy is spewing out words is just not constructive.
Take a chill pill, man!
In the meantime i’ll look for that slow down feature..
Notion > everything else
In your opinion 😁
please use a dark theme
I did a poll and have changed theme so after the next video they will be.
I don't like dark theme so will only use it for recording.
@@DannyHatcherTech that’s great.
Love the content and style, but the white screens induce eye strain !
Thanks very much for your consideration
😣😖😬 In setting up a workflow
Happy to help where I can.
What a burden fell off my shoulders! The app should work for us not the opposite! Thank you!
Glad I could help 😁
Lol he said LYT
Oh yes, I am familiar 😁
This would be great content .... if you didn't talk at 2000mph 😕
its normally around 205 wpm but I get your point 😁
I recently measured my speaking speed and my natural speed as far above average so am making an effort to slow down in future videos.
huh?
What can I clarify for you?
@@DannyHatcherTech literally, I have no idea what I could use clarified. I heard of Obsidian, visited their website for the first time in my life, then went to your video here 4.2 minutes later.... And now... I'm afraid of it. 😄
@@williamgollatz1911 aha well that is not the intention 😅
Obsidian is essentially a text editor with backlinks that are stored on your device.
The rest of the features are more like nicities 😁
Look, I'm sticking it out because you seem to have some kind of nugget you're trying to share with me, but the bickering with your inner antagonist format is awful. Please bypass this schtick in future videos. :(
Thanks for the feedback. The format is certainly a love hate thing.
I've been using Obsidian for months and have yet to use the graph view or backlinks. I don't need them, or haven't yet, so I don't use them.
Understandable. I used them at the start cos they were new, then didn't use them for months. Now use the bacli ks all the time and the local graph for quality of a page 😁