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❓ Help

Links: Obsidian docs Tags: #obsidian Date: 2022-12-17

👋 Introduction

Obsidian is a great note-taking app. However, it does require some knowledge on how to use it. This guide will take you some of the basic concepts and syntax to get started.

🗃 Structure

Use tags and links to easily search or navigate through notes.

#️⃣ Tags

General tags: #tag Nested tags: #tag/nested

🔗 Links

Link to "note X": [[note X]] Link to "heading Y" in "note X": [[note X#heading Y]] Link to a text block within "note X": [[note X^]] Link to a text block within any file: [[^^]]

Formatting

Todo list

  • Item
  • [?] Item
  • Item

Table

First header Second header
Col 1 Col 2

Text style

Raw Preview
**bold** or __bold__ bold
*italic* or _italic_ italic
~~striked-through~~ striked-through

Block quote

"This is a block quote" - Yke

Info block

[!INFO] > Here's an info block.

Python code

import this

Math

$$\begin{vmatrix}a & b\ c & d \end{vmatrix}=ad-bc$$

Images

![[img.jpg|200x100]]

Link display

[[❓ Help|Help]] - links to "❓ Help", but displays "Help"

Colored text

?? select a cool theme, or edit the CSS yourself

Footnote

Add a footnote like this 1.

Query

Using Dataview

list
from #template

Graphs and diagrams

Made with Mermaid

graph TD;
A-->B;
A-->C;
B-->D;
C-->D;
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Short cuts

Some of these are vault-specific.

  • ^ + SHIFT + ENTER - Embed new Excalidraw drawing
  • Cmd + N - New file
  • Cmd + K - Turn selected words into link
  • Cmd + E - Toggle preview/edit mode
  • Cmd + U - Underline
  • Cmd + T - New tab
  • Cmd + Q - Close all other tabs
  • Cmd + 1 - Toggle checkbox
  • Cmd + Shift + F - Search all files
  • Cmd + (Shift) + P - Open command pallet
  • Cmd + ] / [ - Change indentation left or right
  • Cmd + D - Today's daily note
  • Cmd + Shift + D - Next daily note
  • Cmd + Shift + A - Previous daily note
  • Cmd + Shift + I - Insert template
  • Cmd + Shift + S - Insert daily template
  • Option + A - Previous file
  • Cmd + Esc - Delete current file

Tricks

  • Hold Cmd and click several notes to open them side-by-side
  • Drag a note and pin it to the side bar for quick access
  • Create presentation by using --- to separate slides, and start from command palette
  • Add images simply by dragging them into your note
  • Hold Cmd while hovering over link to see preview
  • Hold Cmd and click on link to open in split pane
  • Pin a pane to make sure it never gets replaced
  • Link to obsidian note from other app using "Copy Obsisian URL"
  • Synchronize your notes by putting your fault in an iCloud folder
  • Use .nosync extension to prevent folder from being synced to iCloud

Footnotes

  1. Footnote ↩