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Getting Started with Obsidian

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What is Obsidian?

Obsidian is an open-source notes-taking app available for desktop, mobile and web. It has lots of notes-taking features that makes creating simple notes easier, such as allowing to create notes using Markdown, with live preview. It also allows organizing notes in hierarchical directory structure.

This note discusses my initial Obsidian setup and Obsidian notes-creation process on a Windows desktop.

Requirements

  1. Windows 10
  2. Obsidian 1.7.4 (for Windows)
  3. Pre-made templates (Markdown files) Notes template and Daily Notes

Installation

  1. Install Obsidian.
  2. Create the directory in which to store the Obsidian notes at:
    • D:\Angel\Obsidian
  3. Enter the vault name in which to store Obsidian notes within the directory in step #2. Obsidian will create this directory if it does not yet exist. For example, I am going to use the VaultWeaponsforge directory name:
    • D:\Angel\Obsidian\VaultWeaponsforge

Create Templates

Create Templates to initialize creating new Notes.

  1. General Notes Template: Create a "Template" directory inside the main Obsidian files directory from step #3.
    • You may download and use the pre-made Obsidian Notes template files from link
  2. Daily Notes Template: Create a "Daily" directory inside the main Obsidian files directory from step #3.
    • Daily notes will be created in a "YYYY-MM-DD.md" file here after clicking on a Note’s “date” property, and setting up Obsidian’s Daily Notes settings.
    • You may download and use the pre-made Obsidian Daily Notes template files from link

Obsidian Settings

Tweak the Obsidian Settings to work with your desired preferences.

Daily Notes Template

  1. Open the Obsidian Settings - click the gear icon on the lower left.
  2. Select “Core Plugins” in the sidebar.
  3. Search for the “Daily Notes” plugin.
    • Click the gear icon of the “Daily Notes” plugin
  4. Type/key-in the following values:
    • Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
    • New file location: _daily
    • Template file location: _templates/DailyTemplate

Templates

  1. Open the Obsidian Settings - click the gear icon on the lower left.
  2. Select “Core Plugins” in the sidebar.
  3. Search for the “Templates” plugin.
    • Click the gear icon of the “Templates” plugin
  4. Type/key-in the following values:
    • Template folder location: _templates
    • Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
    • Time format: HH:mm:ss A

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