It means that you can move notes around within your vault and Obsidian will take care of maintaining the links that notes have to other notes automatically. Obsidian controls and monitors the files and folders within that vault folder. A vault is nothing more than a folder on your computer. Obsidian uses the concept of a “vault” to store notes. I’ll have more to say about note titles in Episode 6. The note has title 1, and it has the same file attributes as any file on your file system: create date, modified date, permissions, etc. At its most basic, a note in Obsidian is a file on your file system. The note in the example above is from my “commonplace” notebook, a collection of notes and highlights from my reading. Notes are where the majority of my paperless stuff goes. You can use the slider bar to see how they look different.įigure 1: Comparing a note in edit and preview mode. Here is an example the same note rendered in edit mode and preview mode in Obsidian. They can be viewed in edit mode, where you can see the markup’s that you add to the note and they can be viewed in Preview mode, which renders the notes fully formatted. Notes can be viewed in two ways within Obsidian. A document is something else, like a PDF or an image file. In a plain-text markdown file, for instance, if I want to bold some text, I surround it with a double asterisk **like this**.įor me, notes are distinguished from documents in that a note is a markdown file. This is light markup, not as elaborate as, say HTML. Markdown, for those not familiar, is a plain text file in which special markup can be used to format the note. Notes in ObsidianĪ note is just a markdown file (.md) file in Obsidian. When I think about what I want to be able to capture in digital form, I think of notes in two categories: notes and documents. A note can be anything, text, a document, and image. The first 3 episodes establish some basics, beginning here with how I plan on storing my notes. I am using them as a guidepost for getting me to where I want to be. The first 20 episodes in this series build upon one another. If you are not going to use Obsidian, you can safely skip the first three episodes of this series, as they focus on setting a kind of baseline with the tool for moving forward through subsequent episodes. Evernote still works for much of what I’ll be discussing. Of course, if you are following along, you don’t have to use Obsidian.
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