My mind is atomically blown, disintegrated, demolished, and reconstructed into a new and improved state of being. Thank you for this plug-in, it's an absolute godsend.
@@jayeshb7041 I see your point but I don't need OCR in Obsidian. I can use a stand alone OCR app + Obsidian instead. No app works for everyone. I don't use One Note because I have to log into Microsoft account. That means Microsoft can track me and view anything I am creating with One Note. On the other hand, Obsidian is privacy safe. I don't have to log into an Obsidian account to use it. In other words, it does not track what I am doing.
These are the kind of people worth supporting, not the typical youtubers/streamers who don't add anything to your life. These kind of amazing projects deserve all that support. Thanks for all your efforts and for sharing your knowledge with us
This is absolutely insane. This single-handedly adds an entirely new dimension of visual information to obsidian, and its sooo well integrated and polished that if you told me it was an official, default part of obsidian, I would 100% believe you. I can't believe I just found this after 6 months of using obsidian. Thank you for this.
You've made a huge contribution to human race. At the moment I'm a college student, which means I'm broke. But I'm still using this tool within 2 years, when I expect to be employed, I'll make sure to buy you a good coffee!!
Obsidian changed my life and this plugin changed my life again. I can now not only write ideas in obsidian but also draw them using an infinite amount of whiteboards.
I was pushing myself away from many plugins in order to keep Obsidian as vanilla as possible but after seeing this video I'm amazed about how powerful and friendly Excalidraw is. Kudos for your creativity and hard work.
I am just astonished what people have been able to make in obsidian and this is no exception. I found this extension watching a video from Randy and it just blew my mind. Splendid work!
Thanks! What many people coming to Obsidian do not realize at first, is that Obsidian is like an "Operating System" for personal knowledge management. Obsidian comes with a very strong programing interface and a vibrant developer community.
You are amazing! I have a lot of trouble because I get easily taken out of a thought process and can't find my way back. Small hurdles in software, as well as having to juggle between them to capture stuff in different ways are a deal breaker. I really like the way you turned a relatively limited amount of options into something so flexible, appealing and everything is still adjustable, always! Perhaps I finally found what I was looking for. Thanks
It could be really useful to inbed videos and to be able to collapse groups of objects into a bubble(circle or an svg icon) like it's done in facebook messenger. This could make a book review much more elegant and compact using only one page of content
Excellent, I have been using onenote because of the digital pen and I passed few days ago to Obsidian but I was bored I couldn't use the digital pen anymore. you have resolved the issue!
This plugin is so good, I think it should come preinstalled with future versions of obsidian, it just saves so much of time for a student like me. Thanks for making it.
I am just beginning to understand how powerful obsidian is, and the best thing is most things are for free. The community is very active and there are a lot of contents and tutorials online.
Not at this time. I've discussed about this with Obsidian developers, as I would need some enhancements in Obsidian to make this possible.I don't know when those enhancements are to be expected. I have some ideas for a workaround, but those are messy.
you are very talented and knowledgable sir. if you ever decide to take on app development let me know I am so ready to get some smart people behind my idea
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎨 *Introducción a Excalidraw en Obsidian* - Excalidraw integrado en Obsidian como ciudadano de primera clase. - Enlaces y transclusiones de páginas de Obsidian en Excalidraw. - Uso de enlaces a objetos dentro de dibujos y demostración de transclusiones. 01:48 🖼️ *Integración de Imágenes y Objetos en Excalidraw en Obsidian* - Posibilidad de incrustar imágenes desde el vault. - Demostración de la inclusión de ecuaciones y documentos completos en Excalidraw. - Acceso y modificación de front matter tags para personalizar documentos. 03:15 🔍 *Visualización y Búsqueda en Obsidian con Excalidraw* - Excalidraw visible en la vista de gráficos de Obsidian. - Búsqueda de texto específico en Excalidraw a través de la función de búsqueda de Obsidian. - Funcionalidad completa de backlinks para los dibujos de Excalidraw. 04:50 📱 *Excalidraw en Dispositivos Móviles* - Implementación de rechazo de palma y modo de bandeja para una mejor experiencia móvil. - Características diseñadas para mejorar la usabilidad en dispositivos móviles. - Exploración de la integración de scripts desde la biblioteca de scripts en Obsidian. 05:31 🛠️ *Motor de Scripts y Personalizaciones en Obsidian con Excalidraw* - Instalación de scripts desde la biblioteca de scripts en Obsidian. - Uso de la API de Excalidraw para la automatización de tareas en conjunto con scripts. - Ejemplo de generación de contenido, como citas, a través de Excalidraw y scripts. 06:53 🎨 *Personalizaciones Adicionales en Excalidraw en Obsidian* - Adición de fuentes personalizadas y creación de plantillas para nuevos documentos. - Creación y personalización de una paleta de colores adicional. - Modo Markdown para editar texto y enlaces en documentos de Excalidraw. 08:51 🚀 *Hoja de Ruta y Desarrollo Continuo de Excalidraw en Obsidian* - Invitación a apoyar el desarrollo continuo de Excalidraw en Obsidian. - Destacando características futuras, como soporte para Font Awesome y OCR. - Menciona la disponibilidad pública de la hoja de ruta en GitHub para seguimiento del desarrollo. Made with HARPA AI
Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much!!! I have a 2-in-1 laptop with touchscreen and stylus pen... so can I create hand-drawn illustrations / "icons" in my Excalidraw mindmaps, using my stylus?
@@VisualPKM Awesome!!! Thanks. I'm definitely using Obsidian, Excalidraw and some of the other plugins you demonstrated (e.g. Fantasy maps) from now on. If / when some of my projects are eventually successful and I end up getting a good income from them, I will definitely want to donate to support your further developments of Excalidraw and your possible other projects to help improve everyone's productivity, learning, etc. :D In the meantime, please accept my sincere gratitude and moral support, and I hope you can continue working on such projects with whatever financial support you already have. I will definitely recommend Obsidian + Excalidraw to my friends, colleagues, etc.
Do the embedded markdown files render images in excalidraw? Am I doing something wrong or only tables, codeblocks etc render? Anyways, thank you SOO much for your work, plugin devs like you are one of the reasons why I enjoy obsidian so much.🤗
Right now only images that are placed within a drawing. Here's how you can test it: 0) Assume you have an image. Let's call it: picture.png 1) Create an empty Excalidraw document (doc1) and embed picture.png in it 2) Create an empty Markdown document (doc2) and transclude doc1 in it ![[doc1]] 3) Create another empty Excalidraw document (doc3) and embed the markdown document (doc2) in it. and voila, the image in markdown will be visible in Excalidraws embedded markdown. This does not (yet) work with other source of images.
This is crazy awesome power... I'm just trying to comprehend how to even use it! This might be a dumb question, but is there a way to make it as a website? where you set an original drawing as a front page, but you can click through it?
That is the whole idea. You can navigate from drawing to drawing via links, embeds, etc. Explore my channel and you'll see this sort of use case in many of the videos.
Hi - thank you for your constant improvement of this already my most used plugin in Obsidian. I thought I had watched all your videos on Excalidraw (some of them multiple times), but I never know I can embed an object within the same file to another location until I see your introduction above. How to make a location in Excalidraw point to another ? Many thanks
That is actually a new feature that I released just yesterday, which explains why you did not notice it before :). If you watch my video on 1.6.17, I explain there.
@@VisualPKM is it possible to do the same to preview a note or embedded with the images as when you are presenting the books? I think is called presentation mode
@@VisualPKM Yes, and I think that unlocked icon is like view mode and presentation different mode? is it possible to preview as at 1:04 or 1:43 when i click or hover on those modes?
What addons do we need to do the search for "5 custom colors" It doesn't work for me to do the handwriting OCR + search. Or was that "5 custom colors" not handwritten but a text box ?
links between things in Excalidraw are just an image they will not create the same links on the graph. However, both files (assuming you are linking two links to files with a line in Excalidraw) will be linked to the drawing in the graph, so while they will not be directly linked with each other, you will see the indirect link relation via both of them being linked to the drawing.
Hi there, I'm amazed by your work! However, I was wondering why the default setting of 'auto-pair-brackets' is deactivated in excali-draw. I'm missing it a lot! Is there a way to re-activate it? Also: is there a way to add line-breaks for new typed in words? Best
Yes, i mean word wrapping. In regards to the other: if I go to Options-Editor-Behaviour the 3rd point is: "Auto pair brackets Pair brackets and quotes automatically." However, this is not working in excali-draw.@@VisualPKM
Both. I typically work at my desktop PC, however, when I use Excalidraw I tend to have the same document open on my tablet as well, an I add small bits and pieces with the pen to the drawing.
4:15 how do I open documents to the side? When I click the blue link icon in my excalidraw canvas it opens in a new tab. Same if I cmd+click it. If I hold cmd and hover, I see a preview window, but I want it to open notes to the side from excalidraw
You can now configured modifier keys: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kp1K7GRrE6E.html ... and here are the default modifier key settings: github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/blob/master/images/excalidraw-modifiers.png
I m very very new to obsidian, is there any video guide to excalidraw from basics, for the time being I just want to draw basic shapes and embed them as image in the same note with my texts, is it possible?
Try alternative pens. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uZz5MgzWXiM.html However, Excalidraw is no ideal for lots of handwriting. Pens are great if you want to draw a simple illustration, but not if you want to write lots of text and formulas. For long stretches of text, not for formulas unfortunately you can get pretty good results with scribble helper ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BvYkOaly-QM.html
Thank you so much for this awesome plugin!! My original question is answered already - I just missed that I need to click CMD (Windows) while dragging the file in, that's how this sort of embedded files are made (2:15). But I have another question - is it somehow possible to just link one Heading with this? I am using many code blocks and latex blocks, so sadly the transcluded version usually doesn't work for me, even though it's an awesome feature :)
In short, yes. Just alt/option + click the embedded markdown document and follow the format: filename#heading|widthxheight . you can leave out any of the component i.e. you can just write filename#heading or filename#ˆblockref or filename#heading|width or filemane|widthxheight, etc. Otherwise I recommend creating more atomic notes and transclude your different codeblocks in the main document if you wish to see them together. You can enhance the experience with some css. You can see an example of the css to display embeds without scrollbars and borders in my latest video (how excalibrain is transforming how I use obsidian @17:43). I recommend the Note Refactor plugin to help you create more atomic notes.
@@VisualPKM Thank you so much! That was exactly what I was looking for. I am sorry to bother you, for sure you did document this somewhere... Thank you for this great tool, it really feels like a hole powerful application within obsidian!
You’ll find documentation and lots of videos on specific features in the readme in the Excalidraw community plugins page, and some further explanation in the plugin settings (in this case the markdown embeds section of settings). If you will use markdown embeds extensively you may want to explore the css capabilities to format how markdown embeds look like. I have couple of videos on the subject.
The drawing shown here looks like a mindmap-ish diagram with all the coloured connection strokes (instead of the standard arrows) and borders and such. Is this a specific Excalidraw feature or just a result of manually drawing the strokes?
These are manually drawn strokes, plus a bit of a scrip to format the lines. I draw the lines on my tablet with a pen, and use the organic line script to format them the way they look on the drawing. I use my PC and my tablet parallel to draw these maps. On the desktop I type and add images, etc; on the tablet I add the lines. With Obsidian sync I have both open at the same time and see the sync between the two devices quasi real time.
Check the hotkey for "Navigate Back" and "Navigate Forward" in Obsidian settings. If you CTRL+SHIFT click an image it will open in a new pane. If you CTRL+Meta click an image, it will open in a popout window. Finally, I recommend installing the pane relief plugin which improves history navigation significantly.
long touching the canvas should bring up the context menu. alternatively you can install the "Set Grid" script from the Excalidraw script engine store, then you'll have a button for setting the grid with a custom grid size in the Excalidraw Obsidian menu.
Absolutely. CTRL + Drag (SHIFT+Drag on Mac) the file from the Obsidian file explorer or use the Command Palette (Excalidraw: Insert Image command). You might also be interested in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HRtaaD34Zzg.html
Would be great if you could share a screenshot of what you are seeing and tell me what happened leading up to this point. Best to have this discussion on GitHub since it is easier to share screenshots and manage this conversation there: github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issues
@@VisualPKM i already resolved, thank you very much. Post scriptum it had deleted the Excalidraw extension unexpectedly, when I noticed it I simply reloaded the extension and now I see everything as before❤️
