Taking Notes With Obsidian

Last updated Jun 20, 2022 Edit Source

• Obsidian

I use Obsidian to take notes and publish them using GitHub Pages and Quartz(It’s very cool, you should check it out.).

I use plugins to make my note-taking experience much smoother. Here is a list:

• Admonition Adds support for blocks I can use for emphasis or anything
• Checklist Helps me manage the todos I have created in a central location
• Cycle Through Panes Pretty self-explanatory
• Linter Makes sure that my markdown is pretty.
• Vale I am a terrible so something that checks my spelling and wording is a must
• Templater This allows me to insert snippets into notes so that initializing new nodes is as simple as pressing a hotkey
• Meld Encrypt This plugin’s encryption capabilities are priceless when I am taking personal notes
• Obsidian Gnuplot (written by me). This allows me to plot mathematical functions within obsidian.

In order to make quartz work with my setup, I had to make changes but now I can write notes in obsidian without worrying about whether I will be able to publish them. If you ever decide to implement my workflow, I strongly suggest building off-of my note-taking repository instead of using the default quartz one.

When studying, I create notes for each new concept, idea or terminology that I run into and link to that note whenever it is being referred in one of my notes. It is not really a Zettelkasten, but not a wiki either. Maybe a ZettelWiki, or a WikiKasten (name is a WIP).

My edits allows you to draw plots. For instance, the following codeblock:

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```plot
size: 350em
plot cos(x)
```

Generates the following.

You can also create interactive plots where the user can control:

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```plotinteractive
size: 350em
plot sin(x)/x
```

Generates the following.

plot sin(x)/x

You can also insert admonitions like so

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>  Example
>
> This is an admonition

Example

This is an admonition