#obsidian notes

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

Another Obsidian Notes user in the wild! Such an underrated platform.

Ohhh yeah. I love this program. Here's my setup!

Plugins I use:

Velocity Theme

Advanced Tables

Animated Cursor

Auto Link Title

Calendar

Callout Manager

Clear Unused Images

Dataview

Dragger

Emoji Toolbar

Force Read Mode (for the home page)

Highlightr

Iconize

Orrery

Simple Banner

Smart Connections

Smart Typography

Style Settings

WordCraft

[unsettlingcreature]

which plugins do you use in Obsidian?

okok this is going to be a long post because I have multiple vaults for multiple projects which use different plugins. soooo answer beneath the cut :3

Core Plugins

Canvas: Good for general planning and arranging scenes when writing

Daily notes: Useful if you want to use Obsidian as a planner. Now, I mostly use it for my game/mod dev to keep track of my progress/to-dos

Graph view: Always using this for my d&d planning vaults, helps me see how/where things are connected and where I could try connecting things more

Outgoing links: i love links :)

Search: yeah, this should be obvious why I like it

Templates: Very useful for planning and worldbuilding. I also used it in conjunction with the daily notes when I had a planner vault.

Community Plugins

Discord Rich Presence: I don't have this on all of my vaults but I like it as a way for my friends to see that I'm busy/what I'm working on. Sometimes they'll get curious and ask me about it too!!

Novel Word Count: This is SOOOO much better than the core word count plugin. Shows you the word count for each note and folder, with options for page count, reading time, % of writing goal and more.

Status Bar Pomodoro Timer: Pomodoro/Animedoro are my go-to way of forcing myself to lock in. I hate having to constantly tab in and out of Obsidian to fiddle with that stuff though so I like having it in the vault itself.

Style Settings: This is more cosmetic than functional for the most part and I didn't see much point in it at first. But depending on the theme you use, you can really make it fit your needs. I almost exclusively use ITS Theme now and I use style settings to change the colour scheme, alignment, workspace size and so much more.

Iconize: Lets you add icons to your folders and notes. I use this a lot in the homebrew settings for my tabletop games since it 1) helps me distinguish what kind of note something is at a glance and 2) looks nice :3

Keep the Rhythm: gives you a heatmap based on how much you've written. I like this to see how much I'm writing and how productive a particular week or month has been.

Task Progress Bar: I looooove using checkboxes to keep track of what needs to be done and having the visual bar of how much I've done/how much I have left to do helps me stay motivated to keep going.

Click Clack: makes little typewriter noises when you type. I like the audible feedback as I write.

Typewriter Scroll: Keeps the view centered in the editor. Also lets you dim the writing outside of your active paragraph for better focus.

TTRPG Statblocks: I create statblocks for both core and homebrew statblocks using this, again because I hate tabbing in and out of Obsidian ESPECIALLY when I'm GMing. I usually have obsidian on one screen and Roll20 on the other so this works fine for me.

[lxcke]

still learning obsidian's vast user adaptivity. wanted to show off my home setup.

what i use:

Velocity Theme (Jet Matte Black) with pure white accents

Animated Cursor by Kotaindah55 <- smooth typing animations

Auto Link Title by Matt Furden <- fetches link titles

Calendar by Liam Cain <- self-explanatory

Callout Manager by eth-p <- allows for customizable callouts

Clear Unused Images by Ozan <- removes uploaded images not being used in files

Dataview by Michael Brenan <- shows recent changes in data table

Emoji Toolbar by olveryh <- emoji access on desktop

Force Read Mode by al3xw <- locks home page editing

Horizontal Blocks by iCodeAlchemy <- weebly-like item blocks

Iconize by Florian Woelki <- add icons to note titles

Simple Banner by Sandro Ducceschi <- image above note

Smart Typography by mgmeyers <- auto-replace ascii with the corresponding symbol (e.g. < - to <-)

Style Settings by mgmeyers <- theme appearance settings menu

WordCraft by Daniel Fernandes <- on-hand dictionary and rhymes

[tvaccaro]

So I'm trying out Obsidian for my writing process, and I kinda love it???

My process has always been sprawling organized chaos, so the fact this giant fucking note app thingy is able to let me have all my notes for characters, locales, random ideas and tidbits, AND entire manuscripts in one place?! Slay.

Very nice considering I no longer trust Google Docs, LibreOffice made me feel like I was trapped in a goddamn cubicle every time I looked at it, and Scrivener scares me.

[autism-pro-max]

got bored and made some stamps. (not sure how to make animated ones sadly)

[logan-supernova]

Yes I am posting it here too because I want you to know how much I am suffering; And yes, I know formatting my script like this isn’t necessary for what I do- but once you experience good formatting you can’t go back 😭

I give you permission to laugh though, it’s okay.

[insert-username-here566]

any of you guys on the obsidian note taking app train bc i am and this shit it a banger

clearly not sponsored lmao but also if you got a pc you should so try it out. idk what else it works on.

i got a 20 plus generation family tree on it for a dnd character and still building it's epic

like look at this

[thisisyesterdaystudy]

Obsidian

i'm so bad at being consistent with obsidian but i try at least in get a pretty graph