Mastodawn

I have a number of Markdown files, and recently I have realised that Obsidian is pretty good at viewing them, searching them and even treating them like a database Bases. (I know, I'm late to the party). What other Obsidian features should I be aware of?
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Tyler Sticka 1d ago

@orangeacme I love Daily Notes! And templates in general, even if I only use a few: https://tylersticka.com/journal/obsidian-miscellany/#templates

Obsidian Miscellany – Tyler Sticka

Some notes about my note-taking app: Appearance, settings, tweaks and more.

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I am Jack's Found 404 1d ago

@orangeacme

It does LaTeX (or some variant thereof) for pretty math equations!

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Dave 1d ago

@orangeacme

Obsidian? What's that? 🙃

[For the avoidance of doubt, I was being sarcastic - if I wanted to know, I'd search]

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Stephen Wuebker 1d ago

@orangeacme I use the git extension to automatically backup notes to my gitlab instance. I keep an Obsidian vault to document everything I do to my house. The git extension pushes those notes to @gitlab. This is now outside of Obsidian, but then I run some CI/CD to build the notes into a @zensical site that I can reference or share. All the editing and whatnot happens in Obsidian, though.

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viq 1d ago

@orangeacme sorry, not Obsidian, but along those lines, you may be also interested in #SilverBullet https://silverbullet.md/

SilverBullet

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Meljoann 1d ago

@orangeacme really fond of the tasks plugin as well!

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Ellane 1d ago

@orangeacme I love how you've phrased this. We have Markdown files. We choose to view those files through the lens of different apps, one of which might be Obsidian.

File over app, every time!!

Since you've asked, the only Obsidian features I recommend are for convenience. It doesn't make sense to tie yourself into features that only work in one app.

Eg. hotkeys for shifting lines up and down. Natural Language Dates plugin.