Using Obsidian
- Callouts in Obsidian - Obsidian docs
- Date display formats - Moment.js
- EVERY Plugin I’m Using After 2 years in Obsidian - FromSergio - list of recommended community plugins
Hosting Obsidian Vault
- Quartz - deploy Obsidian Vaults as (lightning fast) websites
- See Ishan’s Digital Cafe as an example
Obsidian Sync
- Set up Obsidian Sync in case you need it (should be self-explanatory though)
Alternatives to Obsidian Sync:
- use of Git on mobile via Termux
- installed on Pixel 7
- may require root for accessing file system (outside com.termux app data directory)
- see Termux Wiki Getting Started
- P2P sync agents like Syncthing
- security?
Databases in Obsidian
Aim: Replicate Notion databases inc. speed and UI quality.
Dynamic views (Create dynamic tables using data stored in note properties) is on the Obsidian Roadmap (link) in the section Planned
Obsidian Forum posts:
- It’s time to add Databases now that Tables are fully supported - Time to overthrow Notion!
- Replicate Notion’s ‘databases’, with relation properties?
TLDR: Nothing is as good as of December 2024. See Has anyone found a good way to replicate Notion’s databases in Obsidian, or offline databases with direct file storage like Obsidian?
Obsidian Database Plugin - Łukasz Tomaszkiewicz
Project: https://github.com/tomaszkiewicz/obsidian-database-plugin
Not (obviously) visible as community plugin. Have to install manually 👉 Obsidian - Installing Plugins Manually
- Try this plugin
Dataview (most popular read-only Obsidian DB community plugin)
Very slow e.g. for displaying a database of papers with author and publication date lag is noticeable.
Dataview is a live index and query engine over your personal knowledge base. You can add metadata to your notes and query them with the Dataview Query Language to list, filter, sort or group your data.
General Format of a DQL Query
Every query follows the same structure and consists of
- exactly one Query Type with zero, one or many fields, depending on query type
- zero or one FROM data commands with one to many sources
- zero to many other data commands with one to many expressions and/or other infos depending on the data command
Source: https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/queries/structure/
Query Types
The Query Type determines how the output of your dataview query looks like. It is the first and only mandatory specification you give to a dataview query. There are four available: LIST, TABLE, TASK and CALENDAR.
Source: https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/queries/query-types/