Turning Obsidian into the Ultimate Writing App

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Obsidian is more than just a note-taking app. It's actually a really powerful creative writing tool - if you know how to use it.
In this video, I walk you through how to add several features from powerful writing apps like Ulysses into Obsidian, including: word counts from text selections, reading time estimation, quickly adding footnotes, eliminating distractions with Focus Mode, fading inactive text to the background, tracking progress towards writing goals, and more.
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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Essential Settings
3:19 - Core Plugins
5:00 - Better Word Count
5:26 - Reading Time
5:54 - Obsidian Footnotes
6:41 - ProZen
7:26 - Writing Goals
8:08 - Typewriter Scroll
8:56 - Conclusion
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
⚙️ Better Word Count plugin: github.com/lukeleppan/better-...
⚙️ Reading Time plugin: github.com/avr/obsidian-readi...
⚙️ Obsidian Footnotes Shortcut plugin: github.com/MichaBrugger/obsid...
⚙️ ProZen plugin: github.com/cmoskvitin/obsidia...
⚙️ Writing Goals plugin: github.com/lynchjames/obsidia...
⚙️ Typewriter Scroll plugin: github.com/deathau/cm-typewri...
⚙️ Stille plugin: github.com/michaellee/stille
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@SoreBrain 7 месяцев назад

I'm usually in my programmers Obsidian bubble, very interesting to see a writers perspective.

@MikeSchmitz 7 месяцев назад

Glad you found it interesting 🙂

@m1LL9981 5 месяцев назад

Great video, loving the type writer. Defiantly needed this.

@MikeSchmitz 5 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it 🙂

@regardingdew 5 месяцев назад

Amazing walk-through - clear and illuminating! I didn't think I could be anymore enthusiastic about Obsidian, but here we are... Thank you!

@MikeSchmitz 5 месяцев назад

Thanks! Glad you found it helpful 😊

@maurolimaok 6 месяцев назад

Finally a REALLY useful list of pluggins for Obsidian. Thanks.

@MikeSchmitz 6 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it 🙂

@CherylHulseapple 2 месяца назад

I had no idea Obsidian could do all this. I'm so glad I decided to download it.

@ProductivePM 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Mike . . . great and informative video. Wishing you the very best!

@MikeSchmitz 8 месяцев назад

Appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

@michaelsoolee 7 месяцев назад

Nice set up! Great video. Thanks for mentioning my plugin, Stille in the video, Mike!

@MikeSchmitz 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great plugin!

@kaisershun 6 месяцев назад

Thanks, it feels like I've been searching for this video for a long time.

@MikeSchmitz 6 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it 😊

@canatesbeats 7 месяцев назад

I really thank you. Your suggestions were great. I've been using obsidian for a long time, but I hadn't discovered these.

@MikeSchmitz 7 месяцев назад

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful 😊

@tomashowlin 8 месяцев назад

Woah! Awesome Mike. Thank you so much 🙌

@MikeSchmitz 8 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it 😊 Thanks for watching!

@RavenCelestia 18 дней назад

Super helpful, thank you for this video!

@MikeSchmitz 16 дней назад

Glad it was helpful 🙂

@_antaro 2 месяца назад

Thank you for this useful information!!

@MikeSchmitz 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful 😊

@user-bw5qj7kv2d 5 месяцев назад

thank you! that boosted my process

@MikeSchmitz 5 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful 😊

@eltomy108 2 месяца назад

Very useful, Thanks!!!

@MikeSchmitz 2 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful 🙂

@GaelyneGasson 5 месяцев назад

Just wanted to add my thanks for your video. New ones for me were Writing Goals and Stille. I use Obsidian in conjunction with 750 Words (the online app) for my daily journal writing. Then I paste it into my obsidian Daily Note as well as the 750 Words app for the day.

@MikeSchmitz 5 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing about 750 Words, I hadn’t seen that before.

3 месяца назад

This is a very helpful video - thanks a lot! :-) I am using scrivener on a Mac so far, but with my tendency to go more linux by the time, it's great to see what Obsidian can do. I am using it for journaling and daily planning and also as a PKM tool and for writing daily emails - but I never got my head around it how to use it for more complex writing! So thanks a lot! :-) I love how you show all the details in the video and explain them!

@MikeSchmitz 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the kind words, glad you found it helpful 😊

@maurolimaok 6 месяцев назад

Man... thnks for the channel. This stuff will be important to me. I have, always had, very poor study habits and results. At 56yo, I'm still strugling with it. This new tools and ways can help a lot.

@MikeSchmitz 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Glad it's helpful to you.

@hansmaus2169 6 месяцев назад

Great video!

@MikeSchmitz 6 месяцев назад

Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊

@Xedualc 8 месяцев назад

I use Obsidian for writing and it was a great and useful video. Thanks. I'll definitively drop Focus Mode for ProZen and give a try to Writing Goals (I already use Word Sprint which is nice too). I'd like to mention Longform which is pretty handy for large projects, although maybe a tad intimidating at first.

@MikeSchmitz 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! I was using Word Sprint, but personally think Writing Goals is better. Not used Longform, but does look useful!

@VaughanVanDyk 3 месяца назад

Fully agreed about Longform, and has writing goals included (target number of words and words per session)

@SergeyHudiev 20 дней назад

Thank you!

@MikeSchmitz 16 дней назад

You're welcome 🙂

@fuzzy-02 8 месяцев назад

I actually wrote my creative writing in vs code with many extensions for a year and half. Now im using Obsidian because its very simple, efficient and customizable like vs code with its community plugins

@MikeSchmitz 8 месяцев назад

Nice! I used Sublime Text back in the day. Plain text editors FTW!

@ManiSaintVictor 7 месяцев назад

Thank You!

@MikeSchmitz 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 🙂

@glensharp5278 7 месяцев назад

Hi Mike, Excellent resource as always. Your video is an extremely helpful time-saver to identify and configure the plugins and settings to build a powerful markdown writing app in Obsidian. Did you also evaluate the Typewriter Mode plugin by Davis Riedel? It seems to have all the Typewriter features covered in its long list of options. I also find many more core markdown features in the Obsidian help each time I refer back to it so I can do more from learning how to use them. I also need to do more experimentation on confirming feature compatibility when using Obsidian publish.

@MikeSchmitz 7 месяцев назад

Thanks! I played briefly with Typewriter Mode, but I once I decide to use something I tend to stick with it since it works. But there are new plugins every day, so I’m sure there are good ones that do similar things - it’s impossible to keep up with all of them 😂

@VaughanVanDyk 3 месяца назад

I was just looking through the comments to mention using Typewriter Mode too instead of Typewriter Scroll because Mode is being regularly maintained. According to the documentation, Typewriter Mode started as a fork of Scroll before it "was turned into a separate plugin because many new features were added, breaking changes were introduced, and the code was completely restructured to make it more extensible." So it should be a fairly seamless switchover

@deenanaidoo2804 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the precise and simple-to-understand walkthrough on setting up Obsidian. Finally, a tutorial that provides the details for writing without the over-technical aspects. I have one request that I believe you can assist me with. Please make a simple and concise workflow, with demonstrations, from literature notes to permanent notes, to convert these notes into an assignment that can be transferred into an MS Word document for my university. Thank you once again.

@MikeSchmitz 4 месяца назад

Glad you found it helpful! I’ll look into your literature notes idea. What do you currently do for the workflow you described (turning literature notes into MS Word documents)?

@deenanaidoo2804 4 месяца назад

@@MikeSchmitz Thank you for reaching out to me so promptly. I am completely new to Obsidian, having only got going recently (a few months). I understand the process of Fleeting notes / Literature and turning them into Automic Permanent notes. I can also link the notes to other notes (Front links and Backlinks). So, I have a note-taking workflow (folders/tags), which is fundamental for now and, I presume, will evolve with time. My only stumbling block now is as follows. I have all these notes linked with other notes, which look pretty awesome in the graph view, but it would be even more awesome if I could turn them into an assignment for my university. There is no tutorial on the net, as far as I understand. There are tons of videos on setting up Obsidian, core plugins, community plugins etc., etc., but no one has done a tutorial on how to turn all that note-taking into a product (assignment, essay, book) and export it into an MS Word document for handing it to a university, school, or in the case of a book to a publisher. What is the point of learning all the skills of note-taking when it just sits in your vault? Like I said previously, I believe you can assist me and many others who follow you. I would be eternally grateful if you could produce such a step-by-step tutorial with a simple assignment as your demo.

@VaughanVanDyk 3 месяца назад

@aidoo2804 I'm not sure if you eventually sorted this out in the time since your comment but the Longform community plugin should be great for this. It's geared towards novelists and scriptwriters but any longform document such as your assignments. You create a project inside Obsidian and add notes to that as 'scenes', you can rearrange these at any time as well as manage drafts of these. Then you compile them via the plugin into a single manuscript note. You can use a separate plugin like Pandoc to export any note in your Obsidian vault in Word .docx or PDF format.

@MikeSchmitz 3 месяца назад

@@deenanaidoo2804 sorry, been on vacation and this slipped through the cracks. I like the suggestion by @vaughanvandyk455 to use the Longform plugin, but I don't have much experience with it. Sounds like it could be just what you're looking for though!

@lucadjit 4 месяца назад

Hi! How do you combine several pieces of text (like scenes, chapters, sections...) and produce a good document to share with other people? A useful Ulysses function is the production of a document.

@MikeSchmitz 4 месяца назад

I don't actually have a need for that, but if I did I would use this plugin which compiles things from multiple notes: github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-easy-bake

@Mr.C0ffee Месяц назад

Great video! Why does this 2:05 only happens with italics. With bolds I need to add the (** )at the end. With italics it adds it automatically to the beginning and end of the word. Is that normal?

@MikeSchmitz Месяц назад

Hmm, looks like you're right. I get the same behavior. Guess I never really thought about it before! It does auto-add the closing double asterisks if you use the keyboard shortcut to make bold text though (i.e. ⌘-B).

@CaptZenPetabyte 3 месяца назад

The thing that would help my writing the most would be to have Zotero operate in Obsidian the same way it works in LibreOffice; add a citation, and then at the end click to add a bibliography automatically.

@MikeSchmitz 3 месяца назад

Sorry, I don’t have much experience with Zotero. But I know there’s plugins for it, so maybe it can do what you’re describing?

@maurolimaok 6 месяцев назад

OffTopic: What poster is that close to your guitar? Is that a productivity tool?

@MikeSchmitz 6 месяцев назад

That is a custom version of the NeuYear wall calendar I developed for my podcast, Focused (relay.fm/focused). Here's the link to the 2024 version of the calendar: www.neuyear.net/products/focused

@davidrogers3920 4 месяца назад

Hi. Thanks for the video. The Outline setting is really handy for me. I'm fairly new to Obsidian, and I'm wondering how do I type paragraphs that have an indent tab on the first line without the font changing? I.e., I want my paragraphs to look like this: James 1:5-11 (CSB) 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God - who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly - and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord, 8 being double-minded and unstable in all his ways. 9 Let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his exaltation, 10 but let the rich boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field. 11 For the sun rises and, together with the scorching wind, dries up the grass; its flower falls off, and its beautiful appearance perishes. In the same way, the rich person will wither away while pursuing his activities.

@MikeSchmitz 4 месяца назад

Sorry, not quite sure how to do that... that kind of formatting I used all the time in word processors like Pages and Word, but it's a lot harder to do in plain text. I just always put a blank line between paragraphs.