Obsidian stuff

Useful commands

• new note ^new-note-tag
  • Ctrl + N
• change note name
  • F2
• command palette
  • Ctrl + P
  • use the command palette more often!
    • ex) deleting: ctrl + p + type delete
• quick switcher
  • find notes easily
  • Ctrl + O
• stack tabs
  • click the down arrow beside your tabs
  • useful if you want to reference all open tabs (to ur left) simultaneously

Basic Markdown

• Noting things that I don’t normally use in case I’ll forget
• highlighting text
  • ==<text>==
• mermaid diagram
  • ```mermaid
  • you can learn the mermaid syntax

sequenceDiagram
	A->>B: Give me one Cola.
	B->>A: Here is your Cola.

• Fold/unfold all headings and lists
  • use the command palette lol
• ---
  • must have blank space above, or it will treat the thing above as a title
  • enables you to make slides (Ctrl + P > Slides)
• Different Modes
  • Can toggle different views with command palette or use Ctrl + E
  • Live preview
    • default
    • can edit, but after editing it’s alr formatted
  • Source mode
    • click the ... at the right
    • can check all markdown
  • Reading view
    • can’t edit
• Changed default folder for image attachments
  • Settings > OPTIONS > Files and links > Default locations for new attachments
• Link
  • Pdfs: ![[pdf file name#page4|page=4]]
    • page=4 can be used to choose default shown page
  • External link
    • ![]()
    • [] just holds alt text, () holds the URL
• Tags📌
  • Add #Tag_name to your note
  • Hierarchy: #food/korean
  • (I should prob look into tagging notes more seriously)
• Linking blocks
  • So far we’ve linked headings, but what about blocks? You need a unique Id
  • Manually make an Id
    • Put an Id next to whatever you want to reference, with a space before ^
      • This is a test. ^test-id
    • Syntax to call
      • {text block}#^block-id, ex: hello#^hello-id
      • ^new-note-tag
  • Or just create it automatically, just use ^ and search
    • ^be161a
• Search
  • the search icon, or Ctrl + Shift + F
  • Search with path, tags, etc (many options)
  • Wrap exact wording in ""
  • either
    • word1 OR word2
  • exclude a word
    • word -word2
  • Regex
    • start with specific letters - ^
      • /^My/
• Graphs
  • Can color into groups
  • Can open local groups
    • Ctrl P + Graph view: Open local graph
• Callouts
  • https://help.obsidian.md/callouts
  • (I didn’t know they were called callouts lol)
  • Add + (open) or - (close) for automatic opening/folding!!! 📌

This is a tip callout

Hello world!

• footnote
  • Add word^[test]
  • only shows in preview mode
• Metadata
  • Add --- in first line of post or use
  • Types
    • Can change property type after adding banner
    • aliases
      • Alias for your notes (they will be searchable with different name)
      • useful for eng/kor memorization, shortened versions, etc
    • cssclasses
      • choose which css class you want to apply (choose among activated css snippets)
    • tags
      • Add tags and Enter
  • Settings> Editor > Properties in document
    • change visibility settings

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• Ideas
  • Custom theme
  • MCP type of thing with Obsidian
  • Community plugin