“I use Obsidian, beside the more common ways, to store documents, receipts and important stuff (mainly pdfs, also some scanned jpg). I use only bases, no dataview, just too complex and useless for this kind of work.”
“I've been using this font called Libron it's the font i use everywhere, my OS, browser, code editor, obsidian vault, kindle. [https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/libron/](https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/libron/)”
“No, not currently but you can make a copy of the shortcut and just modify that one, which should persist updates and just use that as your main go to, to open obsidian”
“I really like the network bc of its organic nature and flexibility. I came into obsidian after working on social network analysis and complex systems so I find it easier to work with the networking and organic clusters.”
“I kind of made my own voice transcription journal app (that you can technically sync to a vault) but a plugin purpose built for the mobile version of obsidian would be 👌”
“I've been an Obsidian user for a while and the one thing that always drove me crazy on Android is how many taps it takes to capture a thought. By the time I've unlocked my phone, opened the app, picked a vault, and found the right folder...”
“Notes in Obsidian for school can be very simple and straightforward, since university courses (including med school courses, I assume), tend to have lots of structure built in from the syllabus. You learn information in specific classes, and the information in those classes as distinct units, and so the folder setup is pretty much taken care of for you.”
“There are many ways to use Obsidian, so keep experimenting until you find what works for you and evolve that approach as you go forward. There is no one true way to use Obsidian.”
“I started an MBA last year and set up Obsidian as the prime location for all my notes. Though, I personally just use a few plugins and folder structures, atop a sorta standard templating for each note, including call out boxes for different comments if myself, differentiating "additional info" from "follow up questions" etc.”
“Not sure the current state - it’s been 6 years since I completed my PhD - but if they provide a way to direct link a Mendeley paper you could use that as a reference inside an obsidian note and use obsidian to capture your thoughts and lessons learned from a paper you’ve read.”
“I agree the canvas function in obsidian is not utilized enough by a lot of people that could benefit from it. Everyone focuses on keeping everything in separate notes, which in many situations does not work out the way you think it would.”
“There is a youtube video I don‘t know the exact title but it shows a plugin which works with Olama (basically an AI software where you can use non cloud based AIs) and you just upload an image of your handwritten notes and AI transcribes it to a normal markdown file directly in obsidian”
“obsidian is great for linking ideas but yeah the setup can feel like a whole side project if you let it. i used it for my master's thesis and ended up spending too much time tweaking the vault instead of actually writing”
“I want you guys to share your "Non-Personal" notes or research notes that you made yourself using markdown or Obsidian. It can be related to anything.”
“The fact that the .canvas JSON spec is open source is amazing. For someone with visual OCD, it scratched the exact itch of being able to manually move, segment, and group pieces together on an open plane in a way that intuitively made sense.”
“Finding it again wants metadata, citekeys, tags, and Zotero is genuinely better at that than anything inside Obsidian. Remembering what you thought wants prose in your own words, and that's just a note.”
“the name thing is a real concern tbh obsidian already has massive brand recognition in the note-taking space and people will definitely search for it and land on the wrong thing. also curious if the camouflage mode actually locks down the calculator view completely or if someone poking around in recent apps could still see the vault ui?”
“The main advantages of using this plugin, in my view, is not so much discovery per se, but the graph visualization and that the graph nodes are natively obsidian notes for the papers, so that you can study research topics in a structured manner.”
“I made a personal assistant plugin with Claude integration and it built an obsidian plugin fairly quickly and I’ve been iterating on it to match what I like.”