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Obsidian for Beginners: Start HERE — How to Use the Obsidian App for Notes

Linking Your Thinking with Nick Milo

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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Nick Milo introduces the basics of the Obsidian note-taking app, explaining how to create notes and link ideas using Markdown.

Build your own thinking partner with superpowers - Linking Your AI: linkingyourthinking.com/linking-your-ai?utm_source=youtube&u… This is lesson 1 for beginners. This is the ultimate Obsidian HOW TO. Learn how to supercharge your note-taking and note-making. Learn the power of the Obsidian App in this practical course from Linking Your Thinking. In this video, you'll learn exactly the simple steps on how to get started with the Obsidian app for note-taking as a complete beginner. After you watch the six beginner videos, just start playing in your notes. If you still want to improve at Obsidian, consider Flight School 👇 🔆 NEWSLETTER: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&ut… 🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=yo… 🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medi… 🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit) » start.linkingyourthinking.com/ideaverse-for-obsidian?utm_sou… 📺 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL » youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA?sub_confirmatio… ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ⏳ TIMESTAMPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] - What You'll Learn in This Video [] - Setting Up Your Obsidian App [] - Creating New Notes and Linking Them in Obsidian [] - A Use Case for Linking Notes [] - How to Use Linked Mentions and Graph View in Obsidian [] - The Value of Your Notes Over Time [-] - Why is Linking Your Thinking Important? [] - Final Thoughts [] - The Next Lesson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎬 CONTINUE WATCHING "OBSIDIAN FOR BEGINNERS" 🎬 The 6 Most Important Keys to Typing in Markdown: youtu.be/bBk2kg8Gm_U 🎬 The 8 Settings to Activate: youtu.be/_2z-7D4bQEA 🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo 📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e 🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88 🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: obsidian.md/ 📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com 🏷 TAGS: #Obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as a great introductory tutorial for getting started with Obsidian and understanding personal knowledge management.

MikeCaponeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files”

This 6-part video series by Nick Milo is a great way for newbies to get introduced to Obsidian and go up the learning curve rapidly: link to this video

runjakeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit”

…n the blog post in the article, because this system works really well for me . Obsidian is extensible at hell, but I'm not spending all day looking for new tweaks, I'm just writing notes. Also, since notes are just files stored in directories, I have all sorts of shell/Python-scripted automations and shell aliases to quickly do stuff. 1. link 2. link to this video 3. link 4. link…

hbnon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app”

The other replies aren't very helpful imo It's essentially an app for taking notes and jotting down ideas, and you write them in markdown. You can link references to other notes within a note to link up ideas. Here's a 12 minute demo that should give you an idea: link to this video I'm not that quite in-depth with my usage of it. I essentially use it as a scratchpad for a few notes for work. But it does the job