Poking the Obsidian thread because metamour has prodded me into looking into Obsidian after I complained about formatting difficulties when making effortposts to Dreamwidth. I will at some point scan the backlog for “beginner’s guide” stuff but in the meantime. Hey hi time to advance past Microsoft Word processors I guess
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one of us! one of us! one of us!
I love Obsidian tbh. it’s so extensible so the whole program is really just what you make of it yk?
now that i know i can import notion to obsidian??? leggo!
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just spent some time shifting my unread Omnivore articles over to my vault with webclipper and can confirm it works great! I actually think I like this better than Omnivore so like. thanks Elevenlabs? I guess?? lol jk fuck Elevenlabs
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stupid question for webclipper use: do you think it’d be a good tool to like… Archive/save articles that i’ve read that i don’t want to lose via link rot or similar?
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not a dumb question, def a good use-case! it transfers all the text into a markdown file so even if the page died it’d still be there for you
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oh that’s GENUINELY PERFECT, i’ve downloaded them before as like a pdf for an image-heavy article but, more text-heavy ones this would be perf for!! :3
yeah I’m loving it, it’s so useful honestly! anything you webclip is in your vault forever/until you delete it so archiving with it seems like it’d work great.
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Web viewer seems cool but only if I can install a ad blocker lmfao
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Oh shit, I have the perfect thing to try and finally start using obsidian: Conspiracy board for Remember11, once I start that! Because in retrospect, that was definitely the better option for Ever17 than my notes app, and since I’m gonna be doing R11 on my pc anyways, I’ll always have easy access, whereas doing E17 on my vita means that switching between devices in cumbersome and inconvenient
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I wish Graph View would automatically group things in folders, so instead I had to make an index post in each folder, but now I have things a way I like it
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“Now you can watch youtube within obsidian and write less more”
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wait holy shit Obsidian devs so based
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I mean, cool, but it feels like maintaining adblock functionality seems like a huge commitment lmao
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Nah I forget the details but it’s basically piggy-backing on the system Ad Block ™ you can even import your own allow lists and stuff
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I don’t know obsidian’s code-setup but assuming it’s basically just an electron app spoilers: everything is just an electron app it’s probably pretty easy to integrate Actual Adblock because it’s basically a tiny browser already.
e: yeah it is electron EVERYTHING REALLY IS JUST ELECTRON
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Now that my garden has pretty much an entirely flat structure I’m getting into using tags as an organizational property again. I don’t plan to update all the thousands of notes that I’ve made with tags but going forward I’ve been using them and getting back into Dataview.
One thing I wanted to do was organize my clippings using the new Web Clipper. I wanted to give them tags and then list them as a table, but the problem is that I didn’t want to see “#clippings” as a tag every time. Anyways I assume someone will want to know how to do that at some point maybe, so here’s the code and the output:
TABLE WITHOUT ID
file.link AS "Clip",
filter(file.tags, (t) => t != "#clippings") AS "Tags"
from "Clippings"
don’t forget that Obsidian publish does not handle Dataview, but should when they eventually add it as an embedded feature (on the roadmap, hopefully 2025?)
i’ve also taken to adding troubleshot solutions like this to obsidian as well, i’ve found that i can pull them up pretty easily which is nice.
i also learned recently that you can query some stuff without dataview! Ex:
path:"Daily Notes"
output:
For dataview, are you typing out all the metadata on every page so you can call it later?