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This is your new vault.

When you're ready, head to [[Obsidian Markdown Basics]]

Learn about linking notes here [[Research Overview]]

Themes

The entire UI of Obsidian can be customised through themes available in the Appearance tab under Settings.

![[Pasted image 20240123201712.png]]

Plugins

Here are some popular plugins installed in this vault with examples of their use Install more plugins through the settings menu at the bottom ![[Pasted image 20240123173425.png]]

Dataview

Dataview (blacksmithgu.github.io)

Dataview allows you to search through notes and generate tables populated with relevant information and metadata. For example, a list with subject home pages from the folder "Subjects"

List
From "Subjects"

A table with semester and exam dates

Table semester as "Semester", exam as "Date of Exam"
from "Subjects"

Maybe you want to know how long until the exam and sort it

Table
exam - date(today) as "Days Until Exam"
from "Subjects"
sort exam - date(today) asc

What if we search for all notes containing the #subject

Table semester as "Semester"
from #subject

Tasks

Introduction - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish Obsidian Tasks turns your vault into a powerful task management platform

  • Here is a simple task
  • Here is a completed task ✅ 2024-01-23

You can make tasks with - [ ] or by Ctrl + P and searching "Task"

  • A task due today 📅 2024-01-24
  • What about tomorrow 📅 2024-01-25
  • What about this Sunday 📅 2024-01-28

You can search for tasks across your whole vault just like dataview!

What about ones due tomorrow?

due tomorrow

What about ones due in the 7 days

not done
due after 2024-01-24
due before in 7 days
short mode
sort by due by

Templater

GitHub - SilentVoid13/Templater: A template plugin for obsidian Obsidian natively supports templates for automating note creation, however this plugin greatly expands templates to automate everything from file names to links

Templates follow a very specific syntax found here Introduction - Templater (silentvoid13.github.io)which is quite complex and daunting for new users

I would recommend following other people's templates online for whatever functionality you need but [[Subject Template|here is an example to get started]]

Ctrl + P to open the command palette and search "Subject Template". This will create a new note in "Subjects" Type the new name of the note when created and hit Enter

You will see your new note in the folder and also (for example) in something like [[Subjects Homepage]]

Advanced Topics

Contact me if you are having trouble implementing these methods

Automatic Daily Task List

Obsidian can be set up to automatically create a note for each day with all tasks you need to complete Instructions can be found here https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-daily-note-template/

An example of what this looks like in practice ![[Pasted image 20240123183419.png]] The template I use for my notes [[Daily Note Template]]

Literature Database

I have set up Obsidian to extract papers and my annotations from my Zotero reference manager An example of what this looks like ![[Pasted image 20240123184024.png]] Install the following plugin - https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-zotero-integration

Follow Section 1 of the following link https://archive.md/IscNA and use the template below

This assumes an understanding of Zotero (including highlighting and annotating within Zotero, managing files and updated bibtex exports)

Here is the [[Literature Note Template]] I use