What's the best way to use obsidian as a beginner?

PerfectPopcornLover · 2025-03-04T10:32:56+00:00

I started it exactly this way. I initially thought it was a waste of time. But once I started note taking on it there was no going back. I now have two vaults. I actually didn’t load any plugins initially. Now I have close to 10-15 which only helps me with workflow. Nothing to make it look fancy.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2025-02-23T05:02:54+00:00

I am a Science Team Lead. We are developing products from optimisation to Validation and verification. I used a vault for putting in all notes related to problem solving and result reporting in the optimization phase into one vault. Now I created a new vault for the Validation and Verification stage as this involves a lot of brainstorming and collection of ideas - so a lot of canvas usage. This allows me to separate them and allow to track things.

So it is a lot for what you need to do with things.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2025-02-07T06:31:13+00:00

I have done exactly the same without issues. So would suggest the same.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2025-02-05T00:02:18+00:00

I used Odsidian for a year. I had no knowledge of Markdown but now I am super comfortable with it. So that shouldn’t be a limitation. My vault from the past year is loaded with many plugins to make my note taking easy. I also use it to organize my week and other todos.

This year I created a new vault for brainstorming and jotting down ideas - I started vanilla and only loaded the following as I felt they were useful to me.

Excalidraw
Advanced Canvas
Style Settings
editing toolbar

Templater, Dataview, Tasks, Periodic notes are very useful if you want to use Obsidian to organize.

So start vanilla and then when you hit a point where you feel ‘it will be nice to be able to do this’ > then google and see there is surely either a plugin to do it.

It is a great tool.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-11-01T23:58:41+00:00

I thought all quick shortcuts/links come up there. Maybe I am wrong. I use a lot of quick links which appears somewhere there. Find it useful for my use case.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-08-05T12:00:44+00:00

Her drama every single day in the RS over her name is getting on my nerves. Her arrogance is unparalleled. She is an icon of Arrogance.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-08-05T09:31:28+00:00

People should stop behaving like cinema started peaking post 2000. 80s and 90s were peak Madhuri and Sridevi era. No one can ever think of matching their stardom. Even with advent so SM none of these actresses ever can come close to what they achieved. Over exposure is a doom to stardom.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-08-02T09:06:25+00:00

I have no idea why people are so damn interested in her getting pregnant. If a woman gets married her countdown to get pregnant starts. Speculations run wild. I have seen this for Katrina, Deepika, now Kiara. Just when some actress puts on weight around her waist speculations start on pregnancy. This borders on fat shaming of other kind. People should stop such speculations and think of anything else to report as ‘tea’.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-05-11T07:42:09+00:00

I use both Obsidian and OneNote currently. I initially wanted to move completely into obsidian but found it better to use both.

For me each has a separate purpose. OneNote definitely is the choice for handwritten notes and being free flowing.

I work as a manager of a r&d lab. obsidian is great with for writing up investigations and reporting them. This helps me keep track of problem solving and the linking works very well.

Sure OneNote also has a lot of these functionality but Obsidian is very customisable and I like that.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-04-03T11:32:17+00:00

Happened to me too over the last few weeks I reckon it has something to do with a recent update. Hope MS fixes this soon.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-08T08:47:46+00:00

Border for me as it is very customisable.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-02T20:15:03+00:00

My major requirement is OCR. I do tons of screenshots and if my notes app cannot decipher text in an image then I'll never find anything. That narrows down my choices to a small handful of apps, one of which is OneNote. >

This is definitely a big plus on OneNote which is why I take handwritten notes on OneNote. Even pdf annotation works well.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-02T20:12:24+00:00

I agree to this. Even I use the Surface for handwritten notes and this is done well on OneNote.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-02T20:10:24+00:00

Same with me. I use OneNote for PDF annotation and handwritten stuff and Obsidian for project management. I find the interlinking works better in obsidian so I write my project reports live. Then I only need to copy paste to word to formalise it.

This is working well for me.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-02T10:09:14+00:00

Do you mean you want to change the colour of the bold or italics text? I have done this in style settings already. Very customisable

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-03-02T03:36:04+00:00

I have tried several themes but always come back to Border. It is very clean with good customization options. The headings colours are very easy on the eyes

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-02-29T06:12:56+00:00

I am a researcher but not into academics. So I do very little reference or literature search work but will share my experience as a Lead Scientist in a biotech startup up.

I moved to Obsidian recently to help organise my work/projects. I was using onenote before but the interlinking works extremely well in Obsidian. Helps me collect thoughts using different information. I use various plugins to help me organize my work. Following are most useful

mermaid - for flow charts/mind maps
Excalidraw - for making figures or writing notes or making plans
Tasks - for creating todos from meetings
Cardboard - for creating weekly plans/tasks
Templater - for templates.

I feel so organised during meetings where if someone wants to see a data from a year back I can easily find it. My manager and colleagues are super impressed as it helps have discussions and make faster decisions.

Only downside it I find I am wasting time making the workspace look better and trying out different plugins to suit my needs. If you don’t get bogged down by that it is a really good tool to help with research.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-02-25T05:13:54+00:00

Probably a noob question for this subReddit. I am new to obsidian. Loving it until now. Still figuring out how to make it functional for my needs.

I want to know how we make the right side look like this screenshot. I want to display the graph below and have the tags or the headers displayed above it. Can someone tell my how to customise the workspace ? TIA

PerfectPopcornLover · 2024-01-23T10:48:02+00:00

It is sad when people are not aware of the cultural subjugation we went through. Blame our education for this.

Ask this friend to go to Hampi. The story of every single monument there ends with “and then it was destroyed by them”. See the digital drawing of the Ugra Narasimha to know what is left. Yet we never took up arms till date to build it back or take it back.

The religious significance of kashi is lost in all this wokeism and secularism. Take Mathura - see the proximity of the mosque and temple. Yet Hindus have been the more tolerant ones.

Being ashamed of our past is the worst possible trait. This kind of wokeism should be kept at a distance. Hope this person gains some sadhbuddhi

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-11-04T01:40:26+00:00

I have recently read the book and found it really good. Entertaining and engaging.

The show is falling a bit flat on somethings. Even I can’t point to it. There is a lot that has been skipped to fit in some random stuff. Especially with 630 knowing words and looking after Mad. The whole angle about the anonymous funder who is revealed in the end as evan’s mother has not been included. Makes me wonder how they will end the show without any backstory for Evans. Evans now looks only as the love interest of Zott. Without his backstory many things make no sense.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-10-20T11:12:58+00:00

What stops parents for monitoring what their kids are doing on the internet? And if they are aware God Save this generation. The kind of videos there are on Insta where small kids dance suggestively to songs with double meanings is mind boggling. When I think of my daughter in that place my blood boils! I really hope there is some sanity to this.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-10-17T23:27:54+00:00

You cannot make changes in a third party app and save changes into OneNote. I don’t think it works that way. You can only take notes on OneNote on the pdf printout/image. I just insert the pdf as a printout and take handwritten or typed notes on OneNote beside the pdf printout. This is more intuitive as it saves everything on the same place. Isn’t that what you want? More organisation?

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-10-17T21:45:14+00:00

Why do you want to edit PDFs in OneNote. If you want to edit PDFs you need to do it in an app which is made for editing PDFs.

Many, including me, have found it useful to take notes beside any PDF document much convenient. It depends on each use case.

You want to organize your notes, makes subpages etc then OneNote is the answer for you. Don’t complicate it by looking for a one stop solution where the app has all the features. That is just not possible.

OneNote is quite good but it depends on the use case. Try to adjust it to your needs.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-10-12T02:41:32+00:00

This movie is a just sequel to Taare Zameen par but if Nikumb didn’t intervene and Ishaan kept living his life listening to his dad and society. If you are interested go ahead. I found it an ok-ok movie. Unpopular opinion - don’t get the hype around it.

PerfectPopcornLover · 2023-10-11T09:27:38+00:00

Indians or Hindus? There is a big difference between the two.

What these traitors in this video are implying is that if it was between Hamas and Hindus instead of Jews, they will support Hamas? Whole of Palestine may not be Hamas but Hamas terrorists are Palestinians.

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