“You can just copy your vault folder, it contains your plugin and theme files already. It will likely ask if you trust the author of the vault and want to enable plugin when you first start Obsidian on the new computer.”
“Update for everyone who asked: it's in the community directory now, so no more building it yourself. Settings -> Community plugins -> Browse -> "Vault Graph".”
“I used a Python script. You have to think about how you want to sort your notes first. Then, based on what they have in common, write a small script and run it on your Obsidian vault directory.”
“I just checked in a new vault and it starts with ctrl required for everything but reading view. So if explaining this to someone new to obsidian it would be good to mention that.”
“I also prefer Obsidian but I continue to use Apple Notes for the data detectors tied into iOS and how I rely on them repeatedly throughout the day (the speed is important).”
“im using notion at the start and find out that the service is suck, they loading my database longer when the databasw growing, so i switch to obsidian since then…”
“I was getting frustrated with onenite and googled alternatives I came across several but after watching a few videos of how obsidian can be used I saw the light”
“Some people use the Zotero plugin for Obsidian to export annotations into Obsidian. I personally don’t send any annotations over to Obsidian but I use the plugin to sync metadata and tags between Zotero and my notes for each article in Obsidian.”
“I’m not trying to completely change how my vault works because honestly I really like the folder → note → link setup I have going right now. I just want to start adding things that actually make sense as the world gets bigger.”
“Lo descubrí hace como 6 años, por querer ver videos de Notion y me aparecieron videos de "Notion vs Obsidian", me vi luego unos bideos de Obsidian, pero se me hacía feo y vacío, me tardé como tres años en retomarlo y comenzar a crear bóvedas de verdad bien estructuradas y útiles.”
“I think I was learning what Markdown is, idk how I or why I was looking into it, but I just did, so naturally, some web research (and probably some chatgpt) lead me to obsidian”
“Obsidian is a powerful and configurable... but requires more work to maintain and sharing knowledge with others is more difficult. I want this to be a super easy way for agents to connect to my knowledge, and make it easy for me to share my chunks of knowledge with my teammates and their agents.”
“It’s helped me write dataviewjs queries, it has helped set up the templates that I use, it suggested a backup process (Remotely Save) using an old web server I have on the floor behind me, it helped me migrate from Notion to Obsidian (working on SharePoint) and so on. But no content.”
“I keep PDF's local using ZotMoov and then make a symbolic the local Zotero PDF directory in my vault via a symbolic link so the PDF's are accessible via Obsidian. I can then use PDF++ plugin in obsidian to make annotations.”
“Thats a shame because obsidian is where I want to keep all my readings, especially so I can link them (via pdf++) when I quote them. If there was an app like Gn that edited the file where it is instead of making a copy, then I could use both apps on the same file.”
“I don't use Obsidian for organizing the actual PDFs, but for organizing my reading notes as a big annotated bibliography database. Each article/chapter/etc gets a note with all the metadata as frontmatter including subject-related tags; the body contains all my annotations, quotes, and/or a log line summarizing why I might refer to this in the future.”
“Fundamentally, Obsidian is an extensible Markdown file editor with auto-adjusting Linking capabilities. You can do so much with it, but first, master the basics by starting with these:”
“There is no set up with Obsidian, really. Just use it and figure out what's useful. Don't pay attention to the wanna-be influencers and YouTubers trying to sell you a damn course on the perfect set-up for productivity.”