Beginning again in Obsidian
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:35 Canvas dashboard
2:25 Setup
4:00 Properties
6:30 Metadata Menu
12:15 Project Class
15:50 Homepage
20:40 Commander button
24:30 Queries
28:50 Quick Add
37:10 Sources
44:40 Complete query
49:10 Temp workspace
53:00 Research
1:07:05 Colourful words
1:12:00 Dataview sorts
About:
Danny Hatcher is a researcher, filmmaker and journalist. He currently is based in Eastbourne, UK, researching interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe. Danny's storytelling blends rigorous research with plain language to communicate complex topics in relatable ways. He holds a BSc in Sports Coaching from Brighton University and an MSc in Strength and Conditioning from Brighton University.
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For those struggling: dv.pages('"Class"').map(p => p.file.name).
There should be a ' and then " before and after the folder.
So good. Seeing it built from scratch really helps with understanding how the different tools integrate to produce the complete system.
LOVED this; thank you for doing "from scratch", and not skipping anything. Those troubleshooting steps are definitely SUPER important
hands-down the best obsidian video I have seen. Learned so much, thanks man
Thank you so much for this unedited tutorial. 😊 I follow along from the beginning, and now I am familiar with the metadata / quick add and the dataview plugins. Looking forward to more tutorials like this!
Guy! I always learn something new or a new way to do the things with yours videos.Thanks a lot!
Way to go, Danny -- showing us your setup "live" -- daring. Love your Obsidian content! Thanks.
Fantastic setup and clear explanation! Thanks a lot.
Brilliant mate. This was really helpful
Thanks you so much for the clarity of the concepts
woahhh crazy insightful thank you soo much
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🧳 Demonstrates how to build an Obsidian vault from scratch, including handling mistakes along the way.
01:06 📝 Sets up a home dashboard with categories like projects and sources, and outlines the importance of creating a list for better organization.
02:59 🗂️ Organizes files into folders like projects and sources to keep the vault tidy.
04:05 🔌 Installs community plugins to enhance Obsidian's functionality, showcasing DataView and Metadata Menu plugins for better data and property management.
12:03 🔄 Sets up project classification and status tracking to differentiate between active and passive projects, and further breaks down projects into essays with distinctstatuses like research, write, and publish.
22:31 🏠 The video demonstrates creating a home button in Obsidian and removing unnecessary icons for a cleaner look.
23:26 🛠️ The presenter tinkers with plugins, keeping useful ones and removing or replacing others, to enhance functionality according to personal preferences.
24:50 📑 They discuss organizing different project types (like essays and videos) in Obsidian, showcasing how to categorize and manage them effectively.
28:28 📂 Creation of a templates folder and setting up hotkeys for quick note additions is shown, along with how to use the quick add plugin to streamline note creation.
38:32 🔗 Explains the process of adding sources to notes using a template and a plugin to paste URLs, along with showcasing a plugin for easier URL pasting over text selections.
45:24 💾 Discusses the ease of having all data view queries in one place, making it simpler to navigate and customize queries.
46:16 ✅ Mentions how to filter projects by status, specifically showing completed projects.
50:28 🔄 Describes the process of creating, saving, and switching between different workspace layouts for different contexts.
53:36 📚 Explains his system of managing research files, emphasizing that research is ongoing and not categorized as projects.
01:00:19 📌 Illustrates the use of footnote shortcuts for easy referencing and navigation in research files, enhancing the organization and workflow.
01:07:33 🔄 The presenter discusses installing plugins and enabling style settings in Obsidian, but mentions no style settings were available initially.
01:08:16 🎨 Shows an attempt to change the color of status tags to red but encounters a hiccup, which gets resolved after a restart.
01:09:26 🔗 Mentions Supercharge Links for adjusting priorities and colors, and highlights the process of changing color settings for different priority levels.
01:14:35 📊 Demonstrates how to sort tasks based on priority and status, explaining how to modify the sorting order from ascending to descending.
01:16:57 🛠️ Details the process of modifying sorting orders and observes the color changes on the tags based on the edits made.
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loved your video so much! thanks for that!
Thanks mate ! There is really few just from scratch videos. I had to watch tens of videos, choose, between the good one or the bad ones without even any knowledge about them..
funny, smart, brilliant!! thanks a lot for sharing
Awesome, so nice to have an unedited video
crazy setup! 🤪
very nice，thanks
thank you for the good content
There is a lot of very worthwhile content in this video. What would make it more valuable for me would be to understand 'what' you are setting about to achieve before you begin the 'how' you go about achieving it, thereby contextualising the various configuration option choices you make. Thanks for putting this vidoe together!
I thought the title explained that "Beginning again in Obsidian" - Building my Obsidian vault from the beginning.
Apologies if my assumption caused confusion.
Love this Danny! the build from scratch. I have gone and started a new one and followed every step.
I am thinking of alle the classes I want to see in my home view.
I am going to make a book canvas as you have in your vault where you showed a sneak at 7.43
I think I need a little bit of help to be honest 😅
What I want in my Home Canvas is projects, Habits and Tasks overview.
You think joining your discord is a good Idea to ask for help?
@@WesXpress yes. I spend my days with discord open and is the easiest way to ask me questions.
I am thinking of what type of projects I want to use.
Obsidian for me is more of storing information from courses and litrature sources I consume. Hmm probably tasksk in general I think @@DannyHatcherTech
Hey, Danny, Big supporter here, love your content so far, I was just curios to ask, if theres a Zotero :How you store your data/ Folder Hierarchy for your Pdfs, on your Video-creating Idea-Horizon. Thank You ~Simon
I have previous videos about Zotero on the channel already.
In my course, there is more updated information about my personal nuance use cases.
What do you have in mind for a Zotero update video for the channel?
PS: tag me so UA-cam notifies me, or send me a message in discord.
@@DannyHatcherTech Oh, I overlooked that video. My apologies. I'm curious, are you looking forward to Zotero 7? And have you had any experience with the beta version yet?Best,
Simon
@@simona.digruber9581 To be honest, I haven't heard much about it as my time is spent researching.
No worries, always happy to help and learn.
Interesting that I should come across now, especially as I am approaching a big birthday... something that I'd rather not think about. I've been thinking of starting my system completely from scratch, archiving my current data, seeing how I go (with my knowledge) during the next stage of my life. 🤔
Great video Danny! Quick question, what is the syntax around 9:19? I've put in dv.pages("Class").map(p => p.file.name) -- How are the quotes being used around Class; I've tried every combination between a single and double ('"Class'"), two double quotes (""Class""), three single quotes ('''Class''') and I can never get the Default page to pop up. Appreciate it!
It should be ' " word " '
@@DannyHatcherTech Thank you! Finally worked
Is it a good idea to add things like this to the single vault for everything (that has notes, info dumps, etc.), or does it make more sense to have multiple vaults for different purposes?
I prefer 1 vault as the links can then be added. Seperate vaults limit linking options.
@@DannyHatcherTech Thanks so much ☺ Your videos are super-inspirational
Great video danny. I'm having some trouble in home page queries. It didin't show any of class from the selected value that i input. How to fix this?
I am not sure if your issue is the dataview query or metadata menu class.
Discord is better than UA-cam for troubleshooting 😁
You should add sections for plugins and synch between devices
Don't you think that after Obsiidian 1.4 came out with native typed properties support, those overcomplicated 'wonder weapon' plugins like Metadata Menu and DB Folder became outdated a bit? For me, as someone striving for simplicity, they bring more accidental complexity than benefits now.
For me no.
Without Metadata Menu, I can't edit properties from the canvas view. Nor can I have select and multi select options from dataview queries, or specific lists.
If that isn't something you need, then totally get your point!
01:07:00 - Words between quotes are strings. Boolean true or false is not a string so they don't need to be between quotes.
For false - where Status != true
For true - where Status = true
I tried those first and that didn't work for me.
After the recording I realised it doesn't need most of it.
where Status
where !Status
@@DannyHatcherTechMaybe some have already found the thing, but for others the correct code is:
where Complete = false
where Complete != true
2 errors here: string instead of boolean + Status instead of Complete :)
Btw, thanks for your videos!
I love your content, but I can't see much of a dark screen with my 10 inch laptop resolution. Is there a switch for me?? :):) Best wishes for You!
You can use light mode in Obsidian. I record on dark mode as that is the default of the app.
Thanks for taking the time to respond:) Best Wishes for You:) @@DannyHatcherTech
hi. I am a newbie in obsidian and I'm a Ph.D. student. it looks like a perfect obsidian note-taking project but it would be better to show how it works with one or more samples. Thanks.
I have other videos covering some of my workflows.
Hi Danny, maybe you're reading this and can help with this (or somebody else can): I remember you mentioned how you had a shortcut to very quickly and easily save UA-cam URLs that would then - when clicked - start to play UA-cam videos from that specific position. I thought that was so cool that I'd never forget it. Well, I did. Could you remind you what that method was?
Right click on the video and copy timestamp URL 😁
1:18:24 Watching this a few months later and I just figured out the issue. You were trying to boolean by 'Status' in Sources when the term you'd used for that type was 'Complete'.
is this vault available for download
Not this one.
As I show every part I didnt see why someone would want it.
+ Subcribe from Vietnam !
I dont have any "properties" to select in my hotkey search... :(
You may need to enable the core plugin. Settings get changed around as updates come out which confuses me.
I get stuck at 10:10. When I go to "Insert missing fields" it gives me two options. 0 --------Add on top of the file------- and then 1 (totally blank space). Any ideas on where I'm going wrong? I have deleted and started from scratch 3x now and always the same thing.
The missing fields option will appear when the properties are no in the file. If they are, then the plugin doesn't show the option. That would be my guess.
@@DannyHatcherTech okay, I'll delete every and try one last time. I'm not sure how to get Default to appear as you showed in your video. My attempts to replicate it haven't worked and I'm new to Obsidian
@@BradyPatterson If you are still struggling, I am happy to help you troubleshoot in discord.
@@DannyHatcherTech help here please. i ran into the same thing
I too have run into the same problem. Nothing is reflected.
In the video - you copy from your base and paste. And you get the correct query.
Can you write - what query you need to write to make the default selection.
This query doesn't work.
dv.pages("Class").map(p => p.file.name)
I have noticed your heavy reliance on properties and folders. When do you uses links as MOCs for example
MOCS are just files.
Every file has links... 🤷♂️
come on YT 1080 is even not 720 to incite to 1080 premium
... add commentary over ... BTW, excellent video and information. Will be using yout ideas. Thanks!
Error of .obsidian/ workplace file conflict error with git plugin. Bothers alot what to do
I don't use the git plugin anymore so unfortuantely I can't help there.
I recommend going to the Obsidian Discord.
@@DannyHatcherTechHey there, What do you use now ?
@@adx69 As my vault is collaborative I dont need another backup.
3 devices of my own +2 others is enough.
@@DannyHatcherTech ohh that's cool, so basically you use only their official sync to sync to all the devices? Without backups.
@@adx69yes
Just a small feedback Dan, as another comment had mentioned, this is an insanely complicated setup for Obsidian, and „Beginning again“ feels like it‘s wrong, as the content doesn‘t actually show what Obsidian is supposed to be used for, which is linking ideas!
It’s too much into the dataview plugin and setting things up, that if I were a beginner with Obsidian, I‘d be turned off already seeing this. This feels a lot like for someone who‘s already an intermediate in Obsidian, and wanting to supercharge it for their UA-cam/article/thesis research so they can have things at in a quick glance (a la Project Manager)
It‘s too much overengineering as the other comment said, but I still appreciate the content now I get ideas on using Dataview and Canvas as a homepage.
It‘d be more fitting if the title was, „How I built Obsidian as my Research Manager tool from scratch“
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Beginners come with different levels of expertise and linking ideas is very vague - this is one of various videos on the channel.
I agree this to too complex for some. This was me starting a vault from scratch - each person is different 😁
maybe this time i will stick to my second brain lets do it danny lets fking do it
Hehehe.... I rebuilt my vault too
TBH this tutorial was very hard for me to follow as someone completely new to Obsidian coming from Notion. Too much "what" you were doing, not "why" you were doing it. Sure someone could follow you long exactly and make a copy of what you made, but without knowing why you're doing it it's very hard to adapt it to your own system or really tweak it in any way. I'm the kind of person that wants to know the "why" so I can full understand. I don't want to just follow a recipe step by step to make a thing, I want to know why you're adding those ingredients, what each one does, what would happen if I changed it slightly, how I could change it to get my own desired result, etc. Like at about 20 minutes into the video you just start talking about Workspaces, installing plugins, without any explanation or context to what a Workspace even is, why you're doing it, what you're hoping to achieve, etc. Very jarring, I tried rewinding the video a few times because I was convinced I had missed something.
Agreed. This was a what video over a why video. I have done various videos about my why's for certain setups but Obsidian is like Notion in that each system will differ and is up to personal preference.
@Taylor,
As a newbie to Obsidian, I struggled for months to establish a workflow for my projects, articles, and notes. Here are some challenges I faced:
- Excessive mouse usage instead of writing
- Having to navigate to different files to change templates or classes
- Not utilizing Canvas or Workspace
- Initially not understanding the QuickAdd Plugin, though it's a blessing now for quick notes
Following the tutorial was tough since I wasn't used to keystrokes, and @Danny's video lacked keystroke capture. To cope, I:
- Slowed the video to 0.75x to match @Danny's fast pace
- Watched the video twice before replicating
- Noticed some missing steps in the tutorial, but Danny's workflow was clear (saving the workflow and Commander)
Overall, this is the best tutorial I've seen for a clean Obsidian setup, especially the Dashboard setup on Canvas. By the way, don't disable 'confirm on delete'-restoring from the Recycle Bin on Windows is easy.
Rgd; Srikanth Kamath
Well, this is some insanely complicated setup for such a small result. This can be done in Notion with ease. Hell, this can easily be done with the Kanban plugin and some tags! You people need to stop overengineer.
Interesting perspective. Not sure how Notion can do the canvas view for showing multiple query results. To my knowledge, you would need to do a lot of scrolling.
Not sure how the kanban plugin in Obsidian gives the flexibility to change property information without going into the file. Maybe there is an update I have missed.
Perhaps, but in this case you actually own, store, and are responsible for the security of your own data rather than having it stored on a server somewhere where you have precisely zero control over how your data is managed.
Additionally if you want “premium” features with Notion you have to cough up the dough whereas with Obsidian you can either implement a pre-built plugin or *gasp* learn to make one to suit your individual purposes.
Furthermore, you’re only limited by disk space on your end. Does Notion allow you to store every reference PDF you’ve ever downloaded and then apply OCR for easy searching and cross referencing? Because Obsidian does and it’s ridiculously simple, free, and also doesn’t require me to upload a ton of files to a cloud server (my local files are synced to cloud, hence no need to manually upload).
Yes, Notion does have a lot of great features and is very useful, but what prevented me (and others with whom I’ve discussed this) from sticking with it is the lack of modularity in personalizing the system to fit individual needs, not to mention the fact that your data is stored in a non-local proprietary format.
this is an obsidian video dummy
Got as far as 7 minutes and had to give. Confusing presentation. You maybe should have edited out all the mistakes.
Some people like the mistakes, but I totally understand your thinking.
@Danny Great TuT buddy, after your tut, just supercharged my Obsidian Notes..
If I may suggest, cause you are a keyboard person, you must capture the keystrokes in the Video, this will help, people to learn along (they are new and will not remember the keystroke) 🙏
Regards
Srikanth Kamath
PS: Joined the Discord 🚀
Thanks.
I don't put keystrokes on as I have changed the default hotkeys so they wouldn't match new users.