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The how of knowledge management: choosing tools, setting up Obsidian, and applying proven structures like PARA, Zettelkasten, and atomic notes so your system captures everything without becoming a second job.
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Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
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The must-have Obsidian plugins for 2026 - Dataview, Dataview Serializer, Templater, QuickAdd, TaskNotes, Tasks, Omnisearch, and Excalidraw, plus 75+ more I use daily.
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Obsidian Starter Kit v3 is here, and it's HUGE
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Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
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I built a plugin that turns any Obsidian Base into a Kanban board, a calendar, and a triage queue, with every change written straight back to your notes. Here's how I plan my whole vault with it.
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Book Exporter turns a structured Obsidian note tree into a real book; one manifest note, one command, EPUB and PDF out the other side via Pandoc.
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An Obsidian plugin that imports everything from your reMarkable tablet
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I just published a new YouTube video showing how I manage ALL my tasks inside Obsidian using the TaskNotes plugin. No separate app. No context switching. Everything connected.
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Obsidian has a built-in File Recovery plugin, but it's pretty basic. I built the Time Machine plugin to fix that. Here's what it does and why you'll want it.
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Stop wasting time organizing notes when you should be capturing ideas. Here's how I use daily notes in Obsidian as my primary capture system, and why it changed everything.
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The must-have Obsidian plugins for 2026 - Dataview, Dataview Serializer, Templater, QuickAdd, TaskNotes, Tasks, Omnisearch, and Excalidraw, plus 75+ more I use daily.
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Dataview Serializer 2.0 turns your dynamic queries into real Markdown: visible in the Graph, working on Publish, and portable to any tool.
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The tag system that finally worked combined structured type tags for reliability with liberal topic tagging for discovery. Emergence beats planning for knowledge work.
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Capturing and leveraging the data that matters shouldn't be that hard! Introducting the Life Tracker plugin for Obsidian
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Most people build knowledge systems for today. Smart people build them for decades. Here's why that choice matters more than you think, and how to make the right decisions
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