I feel sorry for Obsidian's competitors (Notion, Anytype, Capacities, etc). Obsidian will soon be able to emulate all of them with ease. The Placebo effect of "object oriented approach to PKM" will no longer be a reason to leave Obsidian. Thanks for the insight! I'm waiting patiently for the release
It's very slow on mobile if you have loads of images. My vault is just 5gb after I exported from Evernote and on my phone to load the vault took over a minute each time I open the app. I love obsidian but this is very annoying and sadly doesn't seem to have any solutions apart from not syncing the attachments. Sharing functionality is also not as streamlined. It's better in many ways but not all, there's still a way to go before mass adoption
@@Ronttt 12 years of Evernote lol. Worst part is, not everything is necessary but it's 7k notes and they're all mixed up, so it will take me hours and hours to delete useless stuff and keep relevant only. Meaning I can't really get it done quickly so I'm stuck with sync issues
@@Berniz123ever considered running some compression on the images with something like Jpegminipro or an even more aggressive tool? Jpegminipro is perceptually lossless so can make a big difference with no visual impact. More aggressive tools would be smaller but might affect quality
Thank you for showing that we can remove them if we so wish to, as it seems like a really cool feature. I'm just personally not sure if I would like to use it but it's nice to have the option.
For those who are not Catalyst (early access member) how long should we wait for this feature to be public ? And other question, I can't imagine how many notes you have, will you have to manually modify properties in each note, this can be a nightmare ?
Not sure on the release as it depends how many bugs and addiitonal features they will add. I haven't had to change any metadata as it is all the same syntax for me. This is like the live preview update - changes the look but not really the function - apart from those things mentioned.
This looks amazing and can be a huge improvement in usability for non-technical people. I wish the Obsidian developers add the relational database feature. DB Folder plugin has broken since 1 month, the developer has not responded and I am stuck after putting the effort to build relational databases.
This is amazing. One change I would like would be to style the properties different from the content of the actual file, perhaps in a code block like format (or maybe even through custom CSS). This would be game-changing.
Thank you for your explanations. One question: For me, no link icon appears when I select the date type and choose a certain day with the day selector. When I go to the note of the corresponding date, the note in which I selected the date in question is not displayed as a backlink. Any idea why this link does not work?
@@KoenBunders I had a blip with dataview but that is a known bug. No issues yet as it works just like the previous in source mode just with a different viewer for live preview.
1. Does existing frontmatter just get converted to properties of type text? 2. If you turn off live preview, does it look like frontmatter again? 3. If you set a type, then turn off live preview and edit the value of the property, does it reset the type back to text?
seems weird to provide a dropdown of 'collected aliases'. How many times are you going to have non-unique aliases in your vault? It defeats the purpose of using them & would get very confusing
I would appreciate it if anyone has a good suggestion for a video or webpage that describes using properties and how specific metadata can be best be used for specific uses?
@@DannyHatcherTech Could you please recommend the best video to start with? I am always thinking I am not using metadata optimally and examples of uses for which purposes would be great if available. Cheers M
@@MitchellAltschuler best is obviously subjective. My mid year setup shows the most, my library a more specific use case but metadata menu as a plugin adds lots of opportunities.
Any chance on making a video on the comparing properties and metadata menu? I just can’t get my head around which to use or if both should be implemented .
Putting them in the properties would require something like templater or update time on edit. If you are thinking you need it for dataview, then you don't need them written as it is call implicit information (did a video about this recently) 😁
@@DannyHatcherTech thank you! id like to have them shown in properties, but dont know how to auto update them, is there a templater function for these dates?
This is the same as metadata. Status, priority, class, checkbox information. This information gives you the opportunity to search for specific files. I use this all the time.
Something that pisses me off about Obsidian fanatics is that they forget all the hard work they did to get the application to work to a bare useful level. They then post videos which don't relate for new users, because multiple levels of hidden features have to be unlocked before you even get to touch half the features. Classic example just now: You don't get any hint that properties are available at all until you have a note with a property. I don't think they thought this through. If I have a note with no properties, I can never add any. If I somehow obtain a note with a property (via edit source) now I get a nice UI to add a property? What happened to the age-old convention of seeing the properties somewhere in the right pane while viewing a thing?
