hello everyone today's video is a free lesson from our obsidian made simple course now it is actually
one on how to do a daily plan inside of obsidium you can follow justin's guide on how to do this
this is actually one of the many lessons i believe over 30 to 40 lessons that are inside obsidian
made simple you can find that discounted in the link in description if you want to check it out
anyway over to justin and a big thank you for stopping by today
another plugin that's helpful for capturing and adding information inside of your obsidian vault
is the daily notes plugin when you have the daily notes plugin enabled you can click a button to
create a brand new daily note for every day that you're in here it'll open up the same note if
you already have one created or create a brand new one for you and it's a great place you can
capture information ideas or link to topics or thoughts that you have or more temporary style
notes inside of your obsidian vault to enable the daily notes plugin head on over to settings
under plugin find the daily notes plugin here and turn it on
and you can see on the left hand side we have open today's
note before we actually create a daily note though i want to go back
into settings under plug-in and daily notes to take a look at the settings here
there are a couple of interesting settings you can change the date format to use iso which is
the default or you can use the usdate standard iso is year year dash month month dash day day
or the us which is the month name the date and then the year after a comma there's a reference
here for the format if you're interested in pursuing changing that i like the iso format
because it sorts very nicely by year then by month than my day it's very easy and browsable
to actually see if you use the usdate format then you're sorting by month
then day then year definitely recommend sticking with iso if you want something that's browsable
by the day-to-day over time the other thing that i like to use with the daily notes and
you don't have to do this you can have your daily notes created in your root vault folder
but i like to create all of my daily notes in a daily notes folder which i've already created
this whenever i create a daily note will then open that note and create it in the daily
notes folder in the vault again just like the attachments folder it keeps the vault
free of clutter at this root level but still allows me to link to things as necessary
back into settings something else you can do which will show today in this video is using
a template file this will automatically create a note using a template so if i use the daily
notes template that i have created then when i go out here and create a daily note
it will automatically create the 2020 0828 note with the template that i've created
under the daily notes tim folder here i have the daily note template which looks like this
and then it's just copied that file and renamed it very handy now one of the things that you can
use a daily note for like a template like this is almost a journal template of sorts
you can say okay what am i doing today did i complete my habits for the day now these are
to do's here they don't show up very well on the markdown side of things but if you go into preview
well that didn't function correctly that's because you need to have spaces okay
well yeah to do's are a little bit finicky a little bit in markdown syntax because they
have to be a dash space left bracket space right bracket space then the thing that you want to
write after that it gets a little finicky and then if you put an x in here that marks it as complete
as you can see you can also check and uncheck it from the preview mode just be aware if you're
using to do's inside of markdown they are a little finicky to work with but when you have a template
like this you can capture information about your day in a form format already if you like otherwise
one thing that i like to use daily notes for is say if i'm consuming a piece of content
for that day say i'm watching the obsidian made simple course and the video on backlinks okay
well then i've just linked to that there and i can say
watched this video and then i can control or command click on that to create that node let's
say type literature and then it's a course and then i can you know put a title up here
then i can start taking notes on that video that i am watching
so then i have context of hey i watched this video on august 28 2020
and i can also say you know that that's related to that day that's the time that i was interested
in that topic if i put under here if i'm interested in let's see topics i can do obsidian
personal knowledge management so on and so forth so then if i go over to my graph view
then i have context that on this day i was watching this video on obsidian made simple
which is related to personal knowledge management and obsidian potentially i can see relationships
to those dates say okay i was interested in personal knowledge management at that time
something that i was intrigued on so on and so forth i can start to
make context about things in my life chronologically as well as topically
using the daily notes the other thing you can do too in daily notes which is pretty cool
using backlinks is if you learned something that day i can just say today i learned
obsidian does some cool stuff now this is a more unconventional approach in obsidian
because backlinking isn't as robust as say in rome research but it still
does work what i can do is if i click on the today i learned note and open up the
back links pane here and look for linked mentions then i can see on august 28 2020
today i learned that obsidian does some cool stuff right in the back links pane
you can have these notes like this where there's not necessarily any content
in that note but you can still link to it from your daily notes and get access to it that way
daily notes are a very flexible way to get information into obsidian you can use it as a
journal type format you can use it as a launch pad every single day to start writing stuff
into your note database that's maybe a little bit more unstructured a little bit more free
form a little more temporary maybe not so permanent such as a zettle cast and note
but then also gives you the ability to keep those notes and those thoughts in context
of the rest of your thoughts and notes inside of your vault
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