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Design Notes You Can Find - Names, Aliases, Types and Metadata in Obsidian
Findability is decided when you write a note. Explicit titles, aliases, a note type, a few properties and separate tag families do more for search than any plugin.
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Why You Can't Find Your Notes - The Science of Re-finding Information
People navigate first and search as a last resort, and they re-find notes through the cues they stored when they wrote them. Here's the research behind that, and the three models I use to design a findable vault.
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The Obsidian Search Handbook Is Out, and Its Ideas Are Free
My new ebook on finding any note in Obsidian is out. All of its text is free on this blog over the next two and a half weeks; the book gives you all of it today, in one book, with a foreword, exercises, a merged FAQ and a cheat sheet appendix. Launch code LAUNCH for €10 off until October 29.
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Design Notes You Can Find - Names, Aliases, Types and Metadata in Obsidian
Findability is decided when you write a note. Explicit titles, aliases, a note type, a few properties and separate tag families do more for search than any plugin.
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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #219 - Six Obsidian Search Tips
Six Obsidian search tips, from the least effort to the most, and the book behind them.
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Why You Can't Find Your Notes - The Science of Re-finding Information
People navigate first and search as a last resort, and they re-find notes through the cues they stored when they wrote them. Here's the research behind that, and the three models I use to design a findable vault.
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The Obsidian Search Handbook Is Out, and Its Ideas Are Free
My new ebook on finding any note in Obsidian is out. All of its text is free on this blog over the next two and a half weeks; the book gives you all of it today, in one book, with a foreword, exercises, a merged FAQ and a cheat sheet appendix. Launch code LAUNCH for €10 off until October 29.
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The Complete Guide to Obsidian Search - Find Any Note When You Need It
Most searches in your vault are re-finding searches; you wrote the note, now you want it back. This overview tells you which tool to reach for, compares them all, and points to the 12 parts that go deep. Based on a 30,000-note vault.
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My 5,000-movie Kanban board in Obsidian now opens in under 3 seconds
My movie board in Obsidian has 4,888 cards and took 9 seconds to open. With the Kanban Action Planner 2.5.0, it opens in under 3, cards stay where I drop them, and every board can have its own covers, shapes, card colors and accents.
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Obsidian now has native Kanban boards and I'm not switching yet
Obsidian 1.14 adds a native Kanban view to Bases. I love it, and it's great news for everyone. But after comparing it feature by feature with the Kanban Action Planner, I'm not moving my system over anytime soon. Here's why.
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Capture Anything to Your Obsidian Daily Note in One Click
Every capture used to cost me the same routine: open the daily note, scroll, find the right heading, write. So I built Quick Actions into the Obsidian Starter Kit v5. One click, type, done. Here's how they work and why removing that friction matters.
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Every movie, show and game I care about now lives in my Obsidian vault
10,000+ movies, TV shows, anime, video games and board games now live as plain Markdown notes in my Obsidian vault. Here's how the Media Management System of the Obsidian Starter Kit works, from the note types to the Bases, the MoCs and the AI skills, and what it lets me do.
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DeveloPassion's Newsletter #218 - Married, and Obsidian Starter Kit v5 Is Out
A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
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Give your AI superpowers with the Obsidian vault I run my whole business from
Obsidian Starter Kit v5: the AI-ready vault I run my whole business from. Your AI knows your context, does the work, and it's ready on day one.
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Design Your Ideal Week in Obsidian
Big Kanban boards get overwhelming. I added a triage mode and an ideal week mode to the Kanban Action Planner plugin for Obsidian. Here's how they work and why an ideal week is worth designing.