#seed

Obsidian §

I use Obsidian because the interface is astonishingly good. This is how I operate, and has some helpful tidbits for anyone else reading.

Essential plugins §

• Templater - Run javascript in templates.
• Dataview - Queries.
• Tasks - Save tasks anywhere in any note by just writing a checkbox.
• Homepage - Self explanatory.
• Image Toolkit - Click to zoom on images. Should already be a core feature.
• QuickAdd - Bind creating new templates to macros/hotkeys/the command palette.
• Folder Note + Waypoint - Create self-updating folder indexes that make the graph view nicer to look at.
• Commander - Interface customisation, especially the left ribbon. I am the kind of person to open a billion tabs and never close any, so it’s very satisfying to have a pinned command to kill all tabs except my current one and have the icon be a skull.

Personal cheatsheet §

Hotkeys §

• ⌘ + P - Command palette - add Person, Meeting, etc
• ⌘ + O - Quick file switcher
• ⌘ + ⇧ + F - Search text
• ⌘ + ↵ - Jump to next cursor location in template (custom)
• ⌘ + ⌥ + I - Open inspector

Templater §

• <% tp.file.cursor(1) %> - Set cursor on apply
• Basic implementation:

  this is a template

CSS Snippets §

Reminder: to set a custom CSS class on a page, use the cssclasses property

Full-width notes §

I want some of my notes, especially those that are navigational or for summaries, to use the full width of the container while preserving the normal width for all others.

.w-full {
    --line-width: 999rem !important;
    --file-line-width: 999rem !important;
    max-width: 99999px !important;
}

Prettier tasks §

The default tasks dataview renderer is ugly as hell. This makes it a big nicer to work with

li.plugin-tasks-list-item span.tasks-backlink .internal-link::after {
  content: "Source";
  font-size: 0.5rem;
  padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
  margin-left: 5px;
  border-radius: 15px;
  background-color: var(--text-faint);
  opacity: 0.6;
  color: var(--text-normal);
}
 
li.plugin-tasks-list-item span.tasks-backlink {
    font-size: 0px;
}
 
li.plugin-tasks-list-item span.tasks-backlink > a {
    font-size: 0px;
}
 
li.plugin-tasks-list-item span.task-due, li.plugin-tasks-list-item span.task-done  {
    font-size: 0.5rem;
    padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
    margin-left: 5px;
    border-radius: 15px;
    background-color: var(--text-faint);
    opacity: 0.6;
}
 
li.plugin-tasks-list-item .task-description {
    font-size: 0.85rem;
}
 
li.plugin-tasks-list-item .tasks-edit {
  mask-size: 65% !important;
  -webkit-mask-size: 65% !important;
  mask-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  -webkit-mask-repeat: no-repeat !important;
  mask-position: center !important;
  -webkit-mask-position: center !important;
  opacity: 0.5 !important;
}

Dashboards §

Add the dashboard class to a page and it will rearrange itself into multiple columns to create a navigational aid.

• Dashboard++ — a simple organization and navigation method for Obsidian Vaults - Medium
• Github Snippet

To create a dashboard, just implement a nested list.

Example

• Heading
  • Link1
  • Link2
• Heading2
  • Link3
  • Link4