Trying Obsidian For The First Time 

Obsidian is one of the best tech things ever created lately. Finally nails the note-taking aspect with absurdly huge customization posibilities

I love that as soon as Prime realized the title was the filename he removed the space.

I started using Obsidian a few months ago when I started studying a few different topics in Software Engineering / Computer Science and it has really elevated my education. Never thought I'd enjoy *actually* studying, but Obsidian actually changed that. Really happy to see you using it here.

This video should be named : How to make my life even more complicated than it needs to be.

The Primogen... Love him Obsidian... my favorite I was so exited for this video. It ended up being the most frustrating thing I have ever watched😢

Obsidian really starts to shine once you starting adding and customising community plugins and even creating/editing your own small plugins. For example, in my obsidian, i have keyboard shortcuts to automatically make text different colours, highlighted different colours, formatting, size, etc. Really helps visualise long notes at a glance. Also the in-built Latex/math mode is super good and is easily the best math typing experience for math note taking i have experienced (i use the Latex Suite plugin for maths).

The cool thing about Obsidian is, you can contact the devs, who are very responsive, and request things like no line wrap.

my dude your starting point about "day 1 - perfect" "day 2 - not great" "day 3 - I do not think about it". Obsidian has actually gotten me excited about note taking and also it's helped me to organize a ton of my stuff.

So love obsidian and neovim! I switch between them and utilize harpoon for hopping in my task log and daily logs from current day, yesterday, and etc.

Obsidian is similar to notion, evernote or onenote, but your notes are just markdown files in your computer, and it acts like a database for them. It has great plugins like canvas (arrange notes visually), excalidraw (sketch and save svg), leaflet (custom maps), etc. etc. and it's also free.

I'm using markdown files, incremental backups, folders, and a markdown editor for my note taking. Not having sync sucks, but not depending on someone else's system is nice. Since I'm on Linux, I can use symlinks and all kinds of tricks.

Obsidian is good for intentional structured study, links with anki

finally someone who gets as discracted for several hours doing a trivial task as me

I started using Obsidian after watching the same video too :D It's going well! What I love the most is that when obsidian doesn't offer some text-editing feature I can just use another editor.

Obsidian is one of the best tool i ever used a tool that i can say laterally changed my life and the way , for me i would say obsidian is to notetaking what neovim is to developer productivity, at very start is hard to see the benefits for a tool like this but once you have your knowledge base built there there is nothing better IMO

I'm really wishing you do a follow-up. There was a comment you dismissed add being a patch that was actually good and in line with you. It was a vim-like config file that you can add to your vault and setup mappings like gf etc to obsidian commands.

Finally, Someone that actually shows how to use obsidian, instead of their stupid philosophy for learning, I'm tired of watching half hour long videos of people talking about how THEY like to take notes and how wrong I am for not doing it their way, and like 2 minutes of them actually using obsidian, and notion. Thanks.!!

Same situation here, started using Obsidian after watching the video by No Boilerplate. There's an excellent guide series by the RU-vidr FromSergio, which goes into detail on how to truly master Obsidian.

You have to appreciate how much time he saved with NeoVim!

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 05:04 🚀 The RU-vidr is trying Obsidian note-taking software for the first time and exploring its features. 09:01 🛠️ While attempting to use Obsidian's Vim emulation mode, the RU-vidr encounters issues with keybindings and navigation. 16:14 🐍 The RU-vidr discusses their preference for Vim and their hesitation to embrace Lua scripting, while configuring the Obsidian plugin. 19:12 📜 The RU-vidr configures the Obsidian plugin to integrate it with their Neovim setup, aiming to enhance their note-taking workflow. 23:46 🤔 The RU-vidr debates the merits of using Lua for configuration and discusses the simplicity of Lua scripting compared to other languages. 25:47 🛠️ Using Lua scripting to customize Obsidian's behavior for better integration. 26:01 🔄 Adding custom scripts to Obsidian's Lua post-installation for auto-loading. 26:14 🔌 Consideration of using plugins like Notester and Current ER in the future. 27:09 🚀 Setting up and using Obsidian in Neovim, exploring template support. 28:05 📔 Creating and opening daily notes in Obsidian, understanding vault configuration. 29:17 ⚙️ Troubleshooting issues with opening an Obsidian vault and using xdg-open. 30:09 📁 Exploring Obsidian's file and note searching functionalities. 31:18 🧐 Consideration of alternative options like Telescope for file opening. 32:16 🛠️ Debugging and addressing issues related to Obsidian's functionality. 34:30 🌐 Understanding and using Obsidian's graph view to visualize note relationships. 35:29 🧰 Exploring core plugins and their functionalities within Obsidian. 36:30 🔄 Discussing different methods of syncing notes across devices. 38:56 📖 Setting custom hotkeys for various Obsidian commands. 42:10 📅 Using hotkeys to navigate between daily notes efficiently. 45:10 🧭 Exploring options for jumping between notes using hotkeys. 49:44 🕹️ Customizing hotkeys to optimize navigation within Obsidian. 50:11 🏗️ Tabs are causing issues and cortisol stress. 50:58 🧩 Installing community plugins, like "no tab," to enhance Obsidian. 51:34 🔄 Plugin to replace the current tab when creating a new note. 52:38 📢 Compliments and humor about a fellow streamer's voice. 54:57 💡 Organizing notes with templates, shortcuts, and fuzzy finding. 56:11 📝 Notion and other tools discussed, personal preferences shared. 57:50 📱 Phone anxiety and distraction from programming. 01:06:29 🧮 Introduction to Obsidian's Data View plugin for metadata indexing. 01:08:44 🧙‍♂️ Exploring Data View's capabilities for querying and filtering notes. 01:15:11 📋 You can create check boxes and tables in Obsidian. 01:15:40 📊 You can create tasks using "task" instead of "list" syntax. 01:16:19 📝 Use "task" with square brackets to create tasks. 01:17:13 🖱️ Task interaction requires using the mouse; no keyboard shortcuts. 01:17:50 🔍 You can filter tasks using attributes like "checked" or "completed." 01:18:28 ⌨️ You can use Vim mode and Vim-style bindings. 01:19:35 🔀 Using "up" and "down" arrows can switch between Data View and Presentation View. 01:20:21 🚫 In Data View, cursor movement can be limited, making navigation complex. 01:21:08 💬 Live preview editing mode can lead to cursor loss and navigation challenges. 01:21:49 🌐 Data View can't be unchecked; switching between modes and deleting is required. 01:22:24 🔄 Learning GNU Parallel and command-line utilities can expedite tasks. Made with HARPA AI

Tried obsidian. Went back to Emacs org roam mode. While I respect that it’s markdown based, I think the community around org roam is far more future proof.

"if you dont know lua you do. you just dont realize it. you just know lua by accident" confirmed!

Prime, I’ve gone through all your frustrations in this video. And 99% of them can be fixed to be same as vim or at least fast. Obsidian vimrc plugin gets you a long way.

I love how his talking about vim 90% of the video, and the topic is obsidian.

I don't do much that requires writing down as of late, but being able to write down just everything I want to keep track of in one place is so handy, and I assume one my life picks up it'll be a valuable resource. I use it every once in a while when I need it.

I think my mind is too chaotic to be capable of organizing thoughts on a document.

my dumbass clicked on the video after seeing the thumbnail thinking he was gonna eat obsidian

I love Prime calling the Brazilian Real "R dollars" lmao

Obsidian its just a new fancy way to procrastinate real work

I use Joplin. Simple. Does the job.

Imagine shitting on Emacs in every video then pogging over an inferior version of org-mode with no code integration and no programability.

"5...Dollars! A month!" lol that should totally be a sub notification sound...except at a lower volume.

I h*te when I doom scroll RU-vid Shorts. It's like a constant caffeine high. I could feel sleepy before I start watching the first YT Short, but then, I will never feel sleepy after that because I know that if I fall asleep while watching, it will just continue repeating the same video endlessly forever and annoy the crap out of me, so I keep swiping to keep the fresh content coming.

logseq is my jam

the daily note option is incredible

@TheVimagen can we get an update, are you still using it two months later? If so, have you seen the excalidraw plugin? Excalidraw files in obsidian, the best

I know that he probably mean F's in the chat for the guy getting laid off but see chat spam L for a guy being unemployed was hilarious

Im waiting for the first update. I am really curious if you will like it

This was REALLY funny to watch. Loved this.

I too watched that video about obsidian. And after using for a while my vault has nothing to do with gorgeous graphs presented.

Finally a video on the Vim mode in Obsidian.

It feels like I know less about Obsidian than before I watched this video. :D

It is so fun to see u making dumb mistakes that a mere mortal like me do everytime XD

My current note taking program is a piece of paper with a coffee stain.

I am really liking neorg. It is coming along very nicely.

This is a great example of why people hate Vim- so many of the letter-operation associations it uses for commands are at odds with and conflict with everything else on in Linux, macOS, & Windows GUIs, and in every major IDE/editor from Visual Studio (& Code) to Sublime to IntelliJ to Xcode to Eclipse. You either need to rebind the keys for every other app on your computer… or you could just use an editor/IDE that has most key binds the same or similar to other stuff you use. - Longtime macOS user, and still loving how command+key is all the normal macOS binds, while control+key in a text field anywhere in the OS gives you basic the Emacs operations.

If anyone is reading this there is an open source program that is similar to obsidian, is called logseq

Watching this is like watching the crack addicts do nonsensical things on the street lmao

Before jumping into Obsidian just a double check the licensing

Dendron in VS Code feels so much better!

Just a bit more Thor love, he also inspired one of the best scenes in mr. Robot, source: I read over his code which was referenced i nthe show, and have watched mr robot 20+ times because its my favorite

"This is a lot of work to not use a mouse" Counterpoint: It's a lot of work to use a mouse. A lot of work one time, or a lot of work everytime I use the program.

Ehh, surely you can have links to jump between ordinary md files in your text editor of choice. And a little program that crawls that md dir and makes a graph of the links?

My wife really enjoyed the three body problem. Mostly weeding the in the garden!

Nobody gets out of Vim alive.

1:01:46 "Stop it. Stop reading. Stop." ~ @TheVimeagon 2023

Hello. The first thing you need to do is get vim out of your head before working with obsidian. Obsidian is a very good note taking app. It jumps with the links. It has back links. There are options and plugins like crazy. Obsidian creates a vault. All notes are in the vault and is accessible from the system file manager. There are different markdown versions. I don't think vim handles links as obsidian does. You can have a title which is the note name, but you can create your own title. I would have looked at obsidian before doing this video! You video's are pretty good, but this one makes me chat with you to tell you all you need to know, very quickly. In one day you know it back and forth. Very powerful note taking app. The next thing i like is its not on the cloud. I don't do "the cloud" if i can. cheers and good luck! Patrick

To me, Obsidian is an overkill because I don't want to waste my time switching to my "second brain" when I can literally improve my "first brain".

For vim: Marksman LSP, it works like a charm

I use it to keep notes at work, it's pretty good

expert at vim, and now can't use any text apps

Was there ever a follow up?

I was once like this. No shade, let the man have fun

Would be nice if their website functioned without locking up your browser...

ZZ and ZQ is all that is wrong with vim, it is that for Kids to be able to vim, because it is too hard to hit :

I approve of this video. The name, is obsidian

if you are on mac os, icloud sync works great!

thank you for being as confused as i was

I use the Dendron plugin in VS Code. It's fantastic - changed my note taking life.

i don't know whats happening but i hear keyboard noises so i assume hes doing stuff

Vim mode in Obsidian is great

i really love how obsidian is fluid, snappy and fast i used org roam, remnote, notion and logseq and nobody got even close notion and remnote are the most flexible but now it's a cuckjob to get stuff out of there

Hey obsidian users, I started journaling all me learning as I do independent studies. I learned the basics for custom Neovim, but will I be able to capitalize my time on obsidian with or without using nvim?

Pencil or pen and paper. That is what I always come back to using.

Small joke about helix moved me to try it, and i'm should say that it is the first time i get the idea of vim motions.

You may be interested in an open-souce, neovim native (in beta) plugin called neorg

Obsidian is great, it’s a pretty plaintext editor, with huge customization options, user addons, responsive devs, easy migration, and you can just ignore whatever the hell that weird graph thing is

I don't even have one Brian, why would I want a second one?

i clicked through on this vid, with an ad blocker enabled, just to tell you that the thumbnail is goofy af

Ctrl + Click (on link) or Ctrl + Enter (on link) creates new tab Click (on link) or Alt + Enter (on link) changes content of current tab Also, I prefer vertical tabs. They're more like vertical splits.

Testing to see if the person knows how to exit vim is so based. That is exactly what I failed to do the first time I haphazardly opened vim.

Trying Obsidian OF VIM For The First Time

Watching this has been painful.

Are you still using Obsidian btw?

Everytime I watch a primagen video I have to do a double take to see if my monitor is broken due to the microphone

obsidian part 2

Not sure if you ever figure it out but there is a / mode in the settings let's you type any command in the software with /commandname

If I put on an audio book or podcast while I code I will get distracted from the code, or I will just ignore what I'm hearing. So I only code in silence or to music. usualy to music with no voices.

Seems like a lot of work when Emacs org mode is right there :D

13:05 lol "so much stuff" and then he does literally what the comment said

I’m finding Obsidian insanely frustrating to organize. All I want is a Daily Canvas with one note for journal entry, one for tasks, one for workouts, etc.. Organized by date. Worked well for the first month but folders are organized alphabetically and you can’t use the same file name. So now you need some numerical naming system. I’m likely overthinking the file system, but that’s the problem. Look at their blog and suggestions. It insanely complicated. Ffs, I just want to take notes.

does any one know is he still using obsidian?

If only my mind isn't a mess

Best way to use Obsidian is the disable the stupid visual editor and go back to the code editor. Visual editor was a mistake.

32:49 the Keshav link

heard of logseq?

did you liked it at the end, i couldn't get it xD

Phones are evil. 1:00:25

so.. it's like using microsoft frontpage for your writing projects. full circle!

Primeagen here is the exact mirror to normies on vim on their first time.