19 Obsidian Tips Everyone Must Know

Summary

The video shares 19 tips for using Obsidian effectively. It covers keyboard shortcuts to navigate links and access commands quickly, tab and split view functions to view multiple notes at once, backlink display to see connected notes directly, and custom shortcuts for efficiency. Additional tips highlight recent table enhancements; linking to specific text sections; embedding social media; importing highlights; cleaning up files; using aliases; and blending links into text seamlessly. Outlining, callouts, emojis are also discussed for structuring ideas visually and adding flair. The goal is boosting productivity and utility when working deeply with personal knowledge management and note-taking in Obsidian.

Takeaways

• 😃 Use keyboard shortcuts like option/alt + enter to navigate links faster
• ⌨️ Set up custom slash commands for frequent actions in the settings
• 📎 Pin most used commands to the top of the command palette for easy access
• 🖥️ Use stack tabs and split screen to view multiple notes at once
• 🔗 See backlinks inline without opening the side panel
• ⌨️ Customize shortcuts for efficiency
• 📊 Easily create and format tables through command palette
• 🔗 Link to specific sections of notes for context
• 📺 Embed YouTube and Twitter content with ![] syntax
• 📷 Use file cleaner plugin to delete unused images

Q & A

What is the video about?

The video is about 19 obsidian tips that the narrator uses extensively almost every day.

What can you do instead of using a mouse to go into a link?

You can use keyboard shortcuts like Option+Enter or Command/Control+Enter to go into or open a link.

How can you access functions and commands quickly in Obsidian?

You can press Command/Control+P to open the command palette or press / to access slash commands.

How can you browse multiple notes at the same time?

You can use the stack tabs feature or split screen function to open and view multiple notes simultaneously.

How can you link to a specific part of a document?

You can link to a specific block by adding # after the document name and searching for the phrase you want to link to.

How can you embed multimedia content?

You can embed YouTube videos and tweets using the ![]() syntax with the link inside the parentheses.

What does the Readwise integration allow?

The Readwise integration allows you to import highlights and summaries from services like Shortform into your Obsidian notes.

What does the File Cleaner plugin do?

The File Cleaner plugin automatically deletes files that have no links associated with them, cleaning up space.

How can you refer to a note by different names?

You can use aliases to create different names that will link to the same note.

What do full headings and indent allow?

They allow you to quickly outline ideas and structure content by zooming in/out and moving lines around.

Outlines

00:00

😊 19 Obsidian Tips for Daily Use

The first paragraph provides 19 useful Obsidian tips for daily use, such as using keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse, enabling slash commands, using stack tabs and split view for reference, viewing backlinks, setting custom shortcuts, easily creating tables, linking to specific blocks, embedding media, importing highlights, cleaning up unused files, using aliases, transparent in-line links, outlining and nesting notes, adding callouts and emojis.

05:00

😃 Quick Outlining and Structuring of Ideas

The second paragraph highlights the outlining feature in Obsidian to quickly structure ideas by using keyboard shortcuts to move lines up and down, zoom in and out. It also mentions using callouts with collapsible sections to organize notes.

Keywords

💡Obsidian

Obsidian is a note-taking and knowledge management application that allows users to create a personal knowledge base. It is one of the main topics of the video, as Darren talks about different tips and tricks for using Obsidian effectively.

💡Knowledge Management

Knowledge management refers to strategies and processes for identifying, capturing, organizing, and sharing knowledge. This is one of Darren's core topics on his YouTube channel. Using Obsidian for personal knowledge management is the main theme of the video.

💡Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts allow quick access to different Obsidian functions like opening notes, splitting screens etc. Darren emphasizes learning shortcuts to work more efficiently in Obsidian. He shares some of his most used shortcuts in the video.

💡Backlinks

Backlinks show all the links pointing to a note, allowing users to discover connections. Darren shows how to view backlinks without opening the side panel for quicker context.

💡Embed content

Obsidian lets users seamlessly embed content like YouTube videos and tweets using simple syntax. This allows enriching notes with external media.

💡Readwise

Readwise is a service that extracts highlights and insights from books and articles. Darren shows how to integrate Readwise with Obsidian to bring in highlights as notes.

💡Shortform

Shortform offers book summaries that can be imported into Obsidian using Readwise. Darren recommends Shortform for quality summaries that provide useful insights from books.

💡File Cleaner

The File Cleaner plugin deletes unused attachment files no longer linked to notes. This saves hard disk space.

💡Aliases

Aliases allow a note to be referred to by other names. This lets users access the same note from different contexts.

💡Outlining

Outlining allows users to structure notes in a hierarchical manner for clearer thinking and organization. Darren shows settings to enable effective outlining in Obsidian.

Highlights

Use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse to navigate links

Access functions quickly with command/control + P or slash

Pin most used commands to the top of the command palette

Use stack tabs and split view to see multiple notes at once

See backlinks inline without opening the side panel

Set custom keyboard shortcuts for frequently used commands

Easily create and manage tables through the command palette

Link to specific text sections by adding a caret

Embed YouTube videos and tweets with exclamation syntax

Import highlights from services like Readwise

Clean up unused image files with the File Cleaner plugin

Resize large images by adding pixel values after the pipe

Create aliases for notes using properties

Blend links into text smoothly with the pipe syntax

Quickly outline and restructure notes with heading shortcuts

Transcripts

last week I got covid-19 for the first

time and I had been quarantined in the

YouTube studio for 5 days but luckily

I'm fine now so in celebration of my

covid-19 recovery let's take a look at

19 obsidian tips that I use extensively

almost every single day if you are new

here my name is Darren and in this

channel we talk about personal Knowledge

Management and self-development if you

are interested in these topics please

consider subscribe instead of using a

mouse to go into a link use a shortcut

instead when the cursor is at the back

of the link press option or alternate

enter to go into a link or command or

control enter to open a link in another

tab when you want to access a function

in obsidian you can press command or

control P or simply pressing slash to

set up the slash command go into

settings by pressing command or control

comma then core plugins turn on/ command

you can make the most used commands show

up at the top by in settings go to the

the command pallet section and select

the most used command the next time when

you open the command palet with through

a shortcut or pressing slash those

commands will be pinned to the Top If

you want to browse many notes at the

same time use the stack tab feature turn

on stack tab option and when you want to

open a new note press command or control

T to open a new tab and then open a new

document using command or control o you

can also use split window function to

open another node as a reference you can

split down or split right depending on

your preferences I always split right

because I think splitting down is kind

of strange speaking of referencing you

might want to see back links when

viewing a document you can turn on the

ability to see back Link in the document

without having to open the site panel

all the commands I mentioned so far

whether it is stack tab split window

view back links in documents as well as

other commands can be set with shortcuts

you can freely go into settings and set

the shortcut you want here are some of

the short Cuts I use extensively all the

time in the past inserting and managing

table in obsidian is cumbersome but now

you can simply create a table through

the command pallet I love doing this

through the SL command add rows using

enter delete rows with backspace and add

column using a button you can also drag

and move the columns and rows around

when you want to augment the content of

a note besides linking to the whole

document you can also link to a block in

the document by typing the name of the

note and add a carrot sign or shift 6

then search for the phrase that you're

looking for this way when you hover or

click the link you will only see the

most relevant part of the document if

you want to embed a YouTube video or a

Twitter post simply type an exclamation

mark bracket right arrow parentheses and

then paste the link to embed the content

some YouTube videos might not be

available due to the content restriction

for embedding tweets you need to change

X to Twitter in order for this to work

you can import highlights from your book

summary services like short form using

readwise integration you need to

subscribe to readwise and install the

plug-in I'll leave the link down below

for the detailed instructions I've tried

using short form for a couple of weeks

now and I absolutely love it compared to

other services CH form offers the

highest quality of the summaries I've

seen so far with detail and insides I

use short form to get a gist of the

useful insights from the books I'm

interested but don't want to read right

now short form also helps me better

summarize the books I've already read

it's like having a friend reading the

same book and you learn from his

perspectives about the book If you

decide to give short form a try you can

use the link down below to get 20% off

and also support this channel one of the

drawbacks of using obsidian is that when

you import an image and then you later

delete the link to that image the file

is still there eating up your hard drive

space I recently found a plug-in called

file cleaner that solves this problem

when you run this plug-in it will

automatically delete all the files that

have no links in your Vault when the

image in your obsidian vault is too big

you can adjust the size by adding a pipe

with the number of pixels to make the

image smaller try 300 first and then

going up and down from there sometimes

you might want to refer to a permanent

note or a hub note by many different

names you can use Alias to solve this

problem insert a property and name the

alias in the future whether you search

for the name of the notes or the alias

the note will show up sometimes you want

to link to a note but you want it to

blend in seamlessly with the content on

the page you can simply add a pipe after

the notes name and add the text you want

to appear on the page this way the link

is there and blends in beautifully with

the content on the page outlining is one

of the most powerful features in

obsidian go to settings editor turn on

full heading and full indent this should

already be turned on automatically and

then set shortcuts for taco F on the

current line move line up and move line

down this way you can quickly outline

ideas zoom in and out and structure

ideas very quickly call out is also one

of the most powerful enhancements in

obsidian press slash to trigger the

command pallet and insert a call out add

the minus sign after the icon to make

the call out collapsible you can also

change the icon see the link down in the

description for references of different

settings that you can do with the call

outs emojis can add some fun to your

notes you can use these shortcuts to

quickly add Emoji anywhere you want I

hope today you got some useful tips and

let me know down in the comment section

which one is your most favorite thank

you so much for watching and I'll see

you in the next

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