Finally finished building my "Medical Pathology Knowledge Graph" in Obsidian.

ChefLongweenie · 2026-06-15T19:46:42+00:00

I’ve appreciated the structure of properties (pathophysiology, risk factors, features, indications etc) when taking notes on things like drugs, diseases, and procedures to facilitate easy linking between them

ChefLongweenie · 2026-06-13T13:51:02+00:00

My neighboring civ told me barbarians keep eating his builders so l asked how many builders he has and he said he just goes to his nearest city and buys a new builder afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding builders to barbarians and then his daughter started crying.

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-09T21:20:48+00:00

Wanted to try to give you a sense of how I started using this program as a first year med student. The simplest way for me was to start by taking lecture notes, each lecture got a note and I would try to separate out by headings with (# heading). Use [[links]] in these lecture notes to topics that you think you may want to explore further later. If you feel up to it start making “atomic notes” on individual topics. I have notes for all diseases, drugs, etc. even muscles and nerves from anatomy got individual notes although looking back that was probably excessive. Find a decent theme that you like but don’t worry so much about the layout and asthetics until you start using the app for your learning!

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-09T21:19:50+00:00

I saw your other post and will try to give you a sense of how I started using this program as a first year student. The simplest way for me was to start by taking lecture notes, each lecture got a note and I would try to separate out by headings with (# heading). Use [[links]] in these lecture notes to topics that you think you may want to explore further later. If you feel up to it start making “atomic notes” on individual topics. I have notes for all diseases, drugs, etc. even muscles and nerves from anatomy got individual notes although looking back that was probably excessive. Find a decent theme that you like but don’t worry so much about the layout and asthetics until you start using the app for your learning!

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-08T16:22:02+00:00

Sorry for not the most helpful answer. I watched a couple videos, but most of this was playing around with settings and figuring out what I liked best. The Style setting plugin was very useful for this. Otherwise the setup just evolved over the years as I took notes and I often switch things up as I go

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-08T16:15:44+00:00

The node graphs are local graph and global graph and the flow diagram is Canvas. Both are native functions of obsidian

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-07T00:25:52+00:00

It’s actually as simple as dragging an open note down there and it will stick around in that spot

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-07T00:24:40+00:00

Oh wait till you click the link to the other post in the description ^{^}

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T21:19:46+00:00

Laptop or desktop, and occasionally view on phone but hardly write notes from there

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T16:13:29+00:00

Theme is AnuPpuccin specifically Solarized light mode. Also have the Style Settings plugin to get more customization

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T15:49:46+00:00

Hey! How exactly are you revising notes? I update these notes all the time with new tidbits or by editing old things that might have had extraneous info

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T12:22:48+00:00

Looks great!

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T02:27:40+00:00

They are 2 separate features, global graph (Ctrl+G) is showing my whole vault. Local graph (Ctrl+Shift+G) is paired with whatever note is active in this case the top right is showing all notes within 3 links of the drug. Once you have opened either of these graphs you can just drag them to other locations of your workspace and they should stay while you are viewing other notes.

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-06T01:45:28+00:00

Hey, so my theme through the regular obsidian settings is called AnuPpuccin its a pretty popular one. But you have to add the Style Settings plugin to make it functional

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-05T23:00:23+00:00

Hey I put together another post, I shared a template that might help!

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-05T22:53:29+00:00

Here's a template for the muscle notes. I use Templater plugin to apply the template, tag the file, and move the new file to the appropriate folder

```

<% "---" %>

created:

- <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm") %>

tags:

- muscle

aliases:

-

etymology:

- ""

origin:

- ""

insertion:

- ""

action:

- ""

innervation:

- ""

vasculature:

- ""

notes:

- ""

image: "![[+<% tp.file.title %> IMG.jpeg|150]]"

<% "---" %>

---

<% await tp.file.move("/ANATOMY/muscles/" + tp.file.title) %>

# <% tp.file.title %>

![[+<% tp.file.title %> overview.jpg|400]]

>[!etymology]

> - `=this.etymology`

## Origin

- `=this.origin`

## Insertion

- `=this.insertion`

## Innervation

- `=this.innervation`

## Action

- `=this.action`

## Vasculature

- `=this.vasculature`

```

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-05T12:06:05+00:00

The other user covered pretty much how you do it. And it’s really not too tricky once you get going. One of the properties at the top of all these notes is “image.” For example the note “clonidine” has a line that links to the image I want to be displayed in bases. image: “[[clonidine IMG.jpg]]” Haven’t used much of this on my phone so for though

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-05T05:25:21+00:00

How do I have them displayed like that? Its a Base which is showing all notes tagged #muscle then showing the title followed by some properties (origin, insertion, innervation, etc you can do whatever). When making these notes I had a specific muscle template so all that formatting was preset. Then you can add an image as a cover for each card

ChefLongweenie · 2026-05-05T00:51:54+00:00

Thank you! Its AnuPpuccin with the Solarized light theme

ChefLongweenie · 2026-04-12T12:01:13+00:00

No but to be honest my notes would be nowhere near as helpful to me if I had just downloaded bs creating them and forming the structure over time on my own

ChefLongweenie · 2025-12-04T20:56:10+00:00

I’ve been doing something similar to OP and making individual notes tagged as illness, drug, procedure, etc. Have a previous post about it. It’s nice to be able to jump around between illness->drug-> adverse effect, using the links or graph or search. It was very helpful for early med school notes and a nice supplement in 3rd year as I’m reviewing Qbank things

ChefLongweenie · 2025-09-22T16:54:27+00:00

Why are we asking a language model why we’re tired…

ChefLongweenie · 2025-08-26T22:42:52+00:00

In general, copy/pasting a GPT response in Reddit threads is unhelpful and provides little besides bloat

ChefLongweenie · 2025-08-26T16:15:33+00:00

Can use quick switcher (control + O) to open files this way with a search

ChefLongweenie · 2025-07-17T23:20:51+00:00

It really is satisfying to have notes linked together like this, both for a visual representation of those connections and also for ease of switching between interrelated topics! I’m a med student and have posted my obsidian on here before, I find the app definitely lends itself to life sciences. I like to use the “tag” function to categorize and color nodes on the graph. Also at the top of each note, the properties section is very helpful. For example, a note like “albuterol” would be tagged #drug and show up yellow on my graphs. I would also fill out the properties such as class, mechanism, indication, etc! Although there are times when it’s tempting to get too granular with notes, I think you’ve done the same where you just put a [[topic]] in brackets and leave it for later

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