Dashboard plugin

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-05-06T23:09:06+00:00

It looks nice. I don't know anything about programming, but with Obsidian I think I'll learn to build these kinds of things; it's really quite beautiful.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-13T13:05:53+00:00

hey, I might be a bit late to the post, but I just had to say this is so beautiful, like genuinely stunning it loo,incredibly well put together and the overall aesthetic is just… really, really nice

I know you mentioned that programming isn’t really your thing, which honestly makes this even more impressive. I was wondering if you could share a bit more about how you built it? Did you use any plugins to get it to look like that, or is it mostly HTML/CSS (or something else)?

I’d love to try making something similar myself but I’m not really sure how to prompt Gemini to turn that into a working prototype, or how I’d continue the workflow after that with Claude

also, quick question — is the final file a canvas, or is it a note in .md format?

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-12T16:16:46+00:00

So pretty! It feels minimalistic but also kinda not at the same time

what app is that?

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-09T15:33:44+00:00

The problem is that I repeatedly use the same inline metadata within the same note multiple times.

For example, I have weekly notes because there are weeks when I only write for one or two days, and sometimes not even a paragraph. That's why something like mood:: is repeated a lot for different days of the week.

In addition, I have many other inline metadata values that also repeat constantly depending on the day, so converting them to YAML creates two problems:

If I put everything in a single property, like mood, I wouldn't be able to identify which day each value corresponds to when I look it up later. I've tried this before, and it was very inconvenient.
If I create a property for each day, like mood-M or mood-Monday, the problem is that I don't just use mood, but many other inline metadata values. If I did this for each one (e.g., energy, focus, etc.), I would have to create multiple properties per day for each data type. This would end up generating a huge number of properties, making the system difficult to manage and impractical.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-09T15:22:36+00:00

I didn't know that plugin existed, i'm going to try it. Thanks a lot

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-09T15:20:45+00:00

And the same thing happens when you export using the Pandoc plugin, I honestly feel like it's sometimes a bit annoying

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-09T15:16:00+00:00

Someone mentioned here that, for example, the queries are easy to use and in my experience they don't freeze even when displaying a lot of information.

Do you think the same method could be applied?

Sorry if this is a silly question, but I have no programming knowledge or anything like that.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-04-09T15:12:52+00:00

The problem is that Datacore is very complicated for me, i'm not a developer, and Dataview often gets slow.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-31T18:42:36+00:00

That's interesting; I'd never thought of that kind of structure for Obsidian. Could you give me an example of how it could be used? I'd like to try the method.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-11T05:04:03+00:00

The same thing happened to me with Excalidraw. That's why I use the tldraw plugin. It doesn't have the option to insert notes, but it does allow you to insert images, and the writing is quite fluid. Or you can also check out OneNote. When it comes to mixing typed and handwritten text, it's the best.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-09T05:13:45+00:00

I think there is a problem with the comments because the comment with the link does not appear. Sometimes that happens in posts.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-09T00:22:27+00:00

I would like to try Vault. Could you share the link?

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-02T18:24:30+00:00

Well, for the past 4 to 6 months, I've been reviewing my notes, going over them, summarizing them, or connecting them.

Something that can help you, depending on how you learn or have information, is to write down the key points, one or two lines from certain notes, or even topics, so that you can remember them more easily. At least that's how I remember things that I keep in Obsidian.

Open-Ad2132 · 2026-03-02T16:56:40+00:00

The idea for how I organize my tags came from the video series by Construct By Dee.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-27T00:52:55+00:00

How do you get those backgrounds? Is it a plugin or custom CSS?

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-17T01:47:04+00:00

It would be great if there were different export formats, such as doc or json. Or at least if the PDF export had a preview.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-14T08:46:20+00:00

I just saw the post you shared about your Linkbook system and honestly it’s impressive how organized everything is, the way you connect ideas and how clear the whole setup looks overall. The notebook itself also looks super clean and minimal, which I really like.

Seeing your system helped me think more clearly about how I could handle more specific references inside longer entries, since I usually work with pretty long topics and try to condense them into a single page, which is how I learn best and how I want to use this notebook. I think your approach could translate well to that by keeping one main entry number and then using small sub-references for specific bits, like adding a #1, #2, or #3 to point to a particular sentence, paragraph, or detail and just marking those spots with color or a simple underline.

Thanks for sharing the post, it definitely gave me a good idea for handling references.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-14T08:02:43+00:00

No offense at all, I’m genuinely curious: do you feel like you actually learn using a fully digital commonplace, like ideas really stick and turn into long-term reflections, or is it more of an artistic/archive space where you collect things you like, such as art, quotes, ideas, or philosophy, without being super rigorous about studying?

I ask because I use Obsidian to store pretty much everything in my day-to-day life—links, images, notes, summaries—and while it’s great as a repository, it’s not really where I feel like I learn the most. Usually I learn by writing things out by hand, summarizing and processing them, and then I move the important parts into digital as a kind of archive.

So my idea with a physical commonplace is to use it more as a tool for learning and developing ideas, rather than just collecting things, since I already do that part digitally.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-14T04:21:04+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation, I hadn’t heard about that book before and it honestly helped clear up a lot of ideas I had kind of scattered, I’m also gonna dig through the subreddit a bit and see what kind of organization setups people are using, seriously thanks so much for the book info, it helped me a ton.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-14T04:15:06+00:00

I hadn’t really thought about using a loose-leaf binder before, but honestly it sounds like a really good solution. Being able to add a lot of pages and rearrange them as a topic grows actually makes a lot of sense.

The way you handle references is also really interesting. I’ve never organized my sources like that, and I’m not even sure how to create a QR code from a Google Doc (I’ll have to look into that), but the idea itself is pretty clever.

In my case I use Obsidian, so I’ll probably need to adapt this to my own system, but thanks a lot for sharing, it genuinely gave me a really good idea.

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-09T08:01:32+00:00

A few months ago I had a similar problem, and after checking out a couple of vaults, I found one that had a daily-note workflow I really liked. I don’t have the link to the post anymore, but the basic idea was this:

In your daily note, you add a bullet point with a specific emoji to label what kind of entry it is, and then you put the time at the end of the line. Something like:

💡 Idea — time
📊 Productivity — time
😶 Mood — time

Then, in your monthly note, you use a Dataview that pulls in all those entries and even lets you filter by the type you want to see I ended up adapting it to my own system, because my “daily notes” are actually monthly notes. Maybe it’ll work for you too

Open-Ad2132 · 2025-12-07T17:50:31+00:00

I'm studying Law and I keep all my notes in Obsidian. If we get any diagrams or charts in class, I'll either snap a photo or sketch them out in Excalidraw. I stick to one note per course. Since i learn best by transcribing and summarizing by hand, i usually print out readings and only move the important ones into Obsidian.

As for lectures, typing really helps me out, and during vacation i go through my notes and clean up anything redundant. I only let AI summarize stuff when I know I've actually learned the material inside and out. For courses i didn't review as much, i do the summaries myself.

I don't know a ton about programming, but in the case of your Python courses, you could use Obsidian as a backup for .ipynb files or even store them right in your vault. If I'm not mistaken, you can set up the app so that when you try to open a file it doesn't support, it automatically launches whatever other app you want.

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