liztai, to random
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

I hated the idea of #Dataview at first. I thought it was going to add complexity to my #Obsidian vault. This impression was worsened by the many Youtubers who were showing me their souped up Obsidian systems. Now I'm glad I took the trouble to learn - Dataview can resurface Notes that I've completely forgotten about and automatically list Notes I've made.

I like Dataview now, but I doubt I'll use it beyond ordering my vault from utter chaos to manageable mess. 😆

liztai, to ADHD
@liztai@hachyderm.io avatar

So happy I took the time to learn . It's going to be revolutionary for my vault. It'll help me create main topic pages to keep track of my notes. I used to manually link every note to a "MOC" but I kept forgetting and found it tedious. This is going to be a "leave it and let grow" thing, and it suits my brain immensely lol.
And how great it is that the
anticipated our annoyance with YAML and come up with the properties feature? Genius.

secupriv,
@secupriv@mastodon.nl avatar

@liztai Your dataviews wil evolve and that might be a challenge when you have dataviews in your templates that you then want to update as well.

My solution to that is to put a snippet in the template that loads the another note (call it a where the actual Dataview lives.

The code to load that other note:

dv.span(await dv.io.load("/full_path_to/note.md"))

Works like a charm and it makes life much easier.

@obsidianmd

ben, to Blog
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk avatar

New : Querying yesterday's to-do list in with the plugin

I've recently developed a need to have todays daily note show what I completed yesterday - the dataview plugin turned out to be particularly helpful for that.

As an added bonus, it's also enabled me to add an automatically "related items" section to my note templates

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/using-the-dataview-plugin-in-obsidian.html

bitprophet, to random
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Last few days I've been realizing I can slather inline syntax all over my notes and it's nearly like a hybrid Markdown text document and spreadsheet 🤩 Number-heavy spitballing no longer requires laborious Calculator.app use!

(You could of course say the same thing about tools such as Jupyter Notebook, but you can't store thousands of interlinked notes in a Jupyter Notebook.)

(I mean, ok. You obviously /could/, but like, yikes. Not exactly an ergonomic UX for that task.)

bitprophet, to random
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Sudden realization: the new Properties feature in may let me do more Airtable-y things (eg, tab/type completion for fields/values) than I currently get by using inline-fields.

Until now I only ever used the properties for aliases, and kept it set to 'Source' view as it's faster to bang them out that way.

But assuming Dataview can query properties as well as it queries its own fields (99% sure), it seems like a no-brainer. Especially as I bet the devs will keep improving.

davidlohner, to ObsidianMD
@davidlohner@bildung.social avatar

Is there some (implicit like file.mday) metadata in @obsidian files, that I can leverage using the Plugin to sort notes in a shared vault () by author?

I'd like to have a dynamic view on what notes were edited last by whom.

That would be huge!
@obsidianmd

bitprophet, to Evernote
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

Applied some colors to my graph to help me visualize the source of my huge imported-orphans halo.

Green (except for the one graph-center, which is my index) is , yellow is , blueish is 's .

bitprophet,
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

Made myself a little (JS) driven progress bit.

leah, to random
@leah@pkm.social avatar

One of the things I track on my daily note is content I consume, including movies. I've done a variation of tracking what I watch in some form since I was a kid (and gosh, I wish I still had my notebooks and lists from back then!)

This mostly gets automated these days with a plugin like Media DB and set up to see trends and details with … but this is one of the things I like the graph view for and seeing how cast and films start to connect.

This is Love, Actually (2003).

dhrystone, to random
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There's a classic Guinness ad from the mid-nineties in Australia that we used to watch often when we were at the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Om15TM7t9g

The man is me.
The glass of Guinness is the plugin.

bitprophet, to javascript
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

Getting reasonably deep in the weeds. Very big “treating flat files as a database” vibes, because that's literally what's going on.

I /kinda/ dig it, since DataView means I’m just arranging inline fields in my prose documents as desired, vs being tightly constrained within a literal database or spreadsheet (or ). In the latter setup I would have to cram all the non-field Markdown content into a "notes" field or whatever.

EpiphanicSynchronicity,
@EpiphanicSynchronicity@pkm.social avatar

@bitprophet @obsidianmd The plugin dev is working on a replacement for it called Datacore, and the team is planning to build a Databases feature into the core app, so things are likely to stay interesting on that front.

https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore

https://obsidian.md/roadmap/

secupriv, to Help
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users, can you me with a nested query in or that shows the list of notes in and the date of the most recent updated (back-)linking note towards that note.

In my case, I have a dossier overview that lists all the active dossiers, and I want it to show the last update date of the dossiers' underlying notes.

I came this far trying, knowing that I some how have to put the dv.paragraph content it into a table instead, but I can't figure out how.

@obsidianmd

bitprophet, to random
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A problem I still have with , which I had with other note-taking tools: I'm still way too allergic to creating more, smaller notes, instead defaulting to fewer, larger notes with multiple headings/sections.

Not entirely sure why, it's not like there's significant friction from the tool itself, and in fact it has a lot of features to help you create notes quickly, from snippets of other notes, etc.

Habits die hard?

bitprophet,
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

Eg I’ve been taking notes on oat milks as I research/try them (for cereal, mostly) and trying to read over bullet lists with “120mg sodium, 4g sugar, …” makes my eyes hurt.

Why am I not just leaning into and making each milk its own tiny note with some inline fields? 🤷🏻‍♀️ (I'm probably going to do this, but the issue is, it /feels/ like "overkill”. Why?)

bitprophet, to random
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Chalk up another win for + . Have a nice little page with embedded lists of:

  • actual orphans: pages that exist but have no wikilinks in or out
  • near-orphans: orphans that may have links, but only inwards from daily notes (ie: I made them when I dreamt them up during journaling, but forgot to link them elsewhere in my mind map!)
  • "figments": uncreated pages that are aspirationally linked somewhere (including from journal entries).
bitprophet,
@bitprophet@social.coop avatar

Those queries, FWIW, end up being quite straightforward once you figure out the right syntax. (Eg FLATTEN is my new bestie.)

True orphans

TABLE  
WHERE !file.outlinks AND !file.inlinks

Near orphans

TABLE  
WHERE !file.outlinks AND none(filter(file.inlinks, (x) => x.file.folder != "Journal"))

Figments

TABLE  
FLATTEN file.outlinks as out  
WHERE !out.file AND !meta(out).embed  
GROUP BY out
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msemochkin,
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@EpiphanicSynchronicity @obsidianmd Of course, it's very cool, and I love myself! But still, a lot depends on the structure of the vault. For example, I have a lot of information “between” these very simple plain text files. I'm talking about complex queries using JS.

josschuurmans, to ObsidianMD
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Replacing (most?) Obsidian note tags with internal links and Maps Of Content | josschuurmans.com
https://josschuurmans.com/blog/replacing-most-obsidian-note-tags-with-internal-links-and-maps-of-content/

"(...) In conclusion, for now, I will run both types of metadata side-by-side: hashtags as well as internal links. And I’ll create group views, ie. lists, using Maps Of Content and Dataview. (...)"

@obsidianmd
@obsidian
@obsidianmd
@nickmilo

#Zettelkasten #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #MapsOfContent #MOCs #tagging #Dataview #KnowledgeManagement #productivity

pivic, (edited ) to obsidianmd in Your top 5 plugins?
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Nice to see people so involved with Obsidian here!

OK, these are my favourite five plugins per category. The links lead to a blog post I've written where I detail what each plugin does and from where they can be downloaded, both via GitHub and via Obsidian desktop:

For work

For private use

schmidt_fu, to obsidianmd in Your top 5 plugins?
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@0xSim
Interesting, do you mind sharing how you access external APIs from ?
@JeremyT

jimmylittle, to random
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Apologies for all the blur, but I’m really enjoying using @obsidian’s Canvas to deal with my week and I want to give them a shout out.

Each meeting gets a note, and I make a Canvas every Monday with all my notes for the week, along with a - driven Weeknote that pulls in all the relevant info. It’s super useful.

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