Hello folks and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel today, we will be checking out an application called obsidian
Now obsidian is a Roam Research competitor and it allows you to build a personal knowledge base inside of the application
It would include some of the features in that Roam house and it's gaining a lot of attention right now in the productivity space
So folks in today's video
We're going to dive into obsidian and give you all the information you need to know before we roll into our obsidian review
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It is a quarantine project which essentially means it was done under quarantine
So here we are on the Obsidian web page. And as you command they're starting to market themselves as a second brain
Just overview some of the details. This is an application
You can download on Mac Windows Linux app image and Linux snap now unlike roam
Obsidian allows you to download the application and use your local folder to utilize plain text markdown files
So this is perfect for offline use and being able to utilize it on the go
Now the first time I actually checked out obsidian was on Matt Lakers channel
And it was a great overview of how it works and I would definitely include it in the link in description
So obsidian is actually created by the folks who developed down the list now
If you don't know Dinah list is an outline application that has some roam like features
However, Erika's ooh, and she did Lee
I hope the pronunciations are right with that actually develop this whilst being in quarantine
Sue is quite interesting to see their expertise being brought over to a new age
Application. So the mission with obsidian is to create a local first and plaintext note-taker with link as the first-class
Citizen and to make it super extendable
So before we dive in let's dive into the pricing now
You can actually download obsidian for free that's for personal use
It doesn't require an account or sign up and even allows you access to the plugins and API now
That's a forever pricing
But if you wanted to go to the catalyst pricing that includes early access for insider builds
special badges in the community and is a
$25 plus one-time payment and that allows you to support the development of the application
There's also a commercial model which means that you can use it in commercial use and you can contact them for volume
discounts that is
$50 per user per year
So whilst obsidian is currently only available
offline and through your local storage on your devices
It actually is planning to add these add-on services called sync and publish
Sync includes end-to-end encryption built in version history and priority email support and that costs you $4
User per month but means you can collect it all online
They'll also plan to have a second add-on called publish, which is a hosted knowledge base
selectively publish notes and team collaboration and that will be at $8 at
And I'll be at $8 with their early bird pricing when they plan to release it
So in essence you can download this for free without any issues now
it's already really interesting to go over to their Twitter and find out all the people that are using and
Utilizing obsidian and many people are taking full advantage it in the same context that Roam is being used
There are these graph abilities where you can actually visualize all of your notes and all of the connections between them
so folks as you can see
This is what appears when you get obsidian and do remember this is a beta version
now when you open up the obsidian application
you can see here that I've got an option to open folders vault create a new vault or
Open help vault in this case. I'm probably going to create a new vault
but if you had a bunch of markdown files that you're already using
Say you're using an application
like bear notes or even an application like Ulysses you could open this folder that has an existing set of
Notes. So in this case, I don't have that. So I'm going to go ahead and create a new vowel
Now you can give it a name. So in this case, I might call it my notes and
I'm gonna pick a location to place the vault
Open up the help page, which allows you to see all of the useful notes that the team have created to help you get started
With your obsidian account now as you can imagine
We're just going to show you some of the basic bank linking and the ability to create some of the pages
However, there is much more detailed that I do want to show you in a more advanced feature
Okay
so here we are inside of obsidian and I'm going ahead and create a brand new note and as you can imagine very
Simple to create a note it's in markdown. So it's fairly easy. If you understand those terms. I'm going to start a
Note on the Kevin Hart podcast and I recently listened to and I'm going to go over and copy
Some of these notes from dinah list which again will copy over in markdown very very easily
now the way I
Almost sort of confirm what everything looks like is I press preview
And as you can see it comes up as a pure note now
Let's touch on how you can start getting those backlinks in and it is really easy to do this
all you have to do is say I wanted to mention that this was
featured on the tenth or at Tim Ferriss podcast
I could say like this and I use these two brackets here. And as you can see Kevin Hart's already a page
so all I'd have to do is type in Tim Ferriss podcast and
Went ahead and clicked it. And as you can see here, it does it fairly easily now
What I'm going to do here is actually press
Command on the Mac and I'm actually just gonna click it and as you can see it enters as its own page
Now if I want to I can open these two pages up at the same time. I can go and press command
Enter and you can see that
Horizontally I can stack these but if I wanted to I could horizontally split them as well
So you're almost creating additional
Notes at the same time making this sort of like panel view, which is very cool
Especially when you've got these connections set up now if I go and close this
You can see that there if I click into the backlinks area
There on the right hand side the backlinks connect up with the Kevin Hart podcast
And I can actually click in and see that at any given time. I can also see unlinked mention as wow
So this is a great way to start building out some of your notes
now if I wanted to later on actually go ahead and
create your brand-new notes for a podcast on essentialism and
I want to do do the same thing
to be featured on
Tim Ferriss podcast and I also want to say
The previous episode was
Kevin Hart
There we go. I have some form of connection there
and if I'm inside of this you won't see any backlinks show, but if I went to the Tim Ferriss podcast
I've got two backlinks related there
And
If I wanted to be able to utilize or demonstrate the unlinked mentions feature
I could say Tim
Farriss so you can see there that I featured the Tim Ferriss podcast ask him great questions and I can see that reference there
So you can start to see that the backlinks help you to find useful notes
And it does go a lot further than that
If I were to go to the graph view
which is the magic and the sort of
Relationships that you can build you can see there that Tim Ferriss podcast has connected up all of these
Essentialism and Kevin Hart and that's very helpful
But if I wanted to get rid in real time
And I wanted to go back into the graph view
You can see here that Tim Ferriss podcast pops up and the relationship looks very much different
You can see more branches come out because I haven't connected up the essentialism and the Kevin Hart feature
Now what's really neat is if I was say studying opened up a branch and I wanted to open up say the Kevin Hart feature
and
The essentialism feature at one time I can just hold down command and quickly create that
While still seeing the graph view if I wanted to
So these work is almost like tabs that you would have on the internet
Now you can go ahead and create folders and also change the sorting to A to Z new to old
When you're creating your notes, which is fairly easy to do and there is a markdown importer, too
But there is a real magic inside of the settings area
when you can go over and find the file or the
Plugins and you can see here that you can add a few for example search
Some of the backlinks and you can even add things like the tags that you create
Which will come on to the more advanced feature the page preview' So this is for example, I'll show you this in a moment
You can even see the starred
Frequently used files so that can come up when you're inside. There's very simple staff shortcuts work and even daily notes
So if you wanted open a daily note to create a new one and even the zetas Caston prefix, err
Which is a 12-digit note which can help create new notes using this sort of format
There is also a audio recorder and I do want to show you how you can get started with your or image uploads
So if I want to do any given time bring in a actual image?
Then I can use you can see there that if I dragged it in and I was inside of the preview version
so if I get rid of some of these of this one, you can see that it actually appears as a
Big image in full size so you can actually add images
So when you're inside of the note
That's how the image appears which makes it much easier to start typing the notes away
And you may also notice that the JPEG feature is mentioned here too. So a moment ago. I actually went and created
or went into the plugins area and activated this thing called daily notes now if I
Opened up today's note
you can see a brand new note is created with the did today's date and I can start typing away a
Few things that may be coming up in a day. For example, I could be saying at journal entry for
Today I could be saying listen to
Essentialism, so if I want to I can change the date format as well if I was someone that wanted the day
the month and
The year, which is common in the UK
I can even change the file location of the daily note if I want to have a specific location and
Also wanted a template file. So I used the same template over and over again
So as you can see here
I started making some notes here and I can maybe connect up the podcast to to this one and
If I went over to the graph
You can see here that now the graph has a relationship between these two
So I can see that on this day. I have for example Tim Ferriss podcast and essentialism all ready to go
so if I work for example
Looking to plan or maybe listen to the Tim Ferriss podcast and take some notes as I was going across my day
I could press command and enter and actually start taking some notes on essentialism
But but continue to actually start making a to-do list for the day
So as you can imagine they don't have some of the checklist abilities that you would get assigned at Roam research
But it still provides you with a good way to maybe go and plan your day ahead. You can for example
begin to
Use the markdown to add all of the details that you need but they are probably planning to add a bit more later
so if I ever wanted to switch over to a certain note that I was trying to find I can use the quick of
switcher which allows me to quickly switch between applications and as you can see if I open up the Tim Ferriss podcast now I
Have multiple links created because I've essentially got the ability to see into the Kevin Hart podcast, etc
And in much more detail now earlier
I actually created something called a stand inside of the plugins area
If I go, press start you can see that it was successfully starred
And if I go up to here, it's essentially a way to get those shortcuts that you can get inside of your application
So if I went into open?
So if I went into all the notes that I have created and go ahead and delete this one because it's irrelevant now
but if I went ahead and starred the
most recent note that I've created there I could start working on that here so folks, this is a
Super basic overview of this ideon. I
Really want to dive into much more detail
This is much more of a beginner's opener to those who are looking at the application and definitely my first full
Introduction to the application but in time I'm definitely going to be playing around with this
So that's really neat the way that this is built offline
I think that's one of the most attractive elements of there there
You can actually use it locally through your storage instead of necessarily having to worry with syncing it to the cloud
many weeks ago Roam actually shut down based on this but this is something that
Doesn't have that problem. This is based on your computer's quality and
naturally has tons of
customizable abilities you can actually go ahead and change the theme if you wanted to so I
Definitely will be playing around with this as you can tell I definitely need much more experience inside of an application like this
I'm so totally new to the whole concept of directional links
It's going to take me a bit of time and coming back from paternity leave whilst Roam exploded and now obsidian is here
It's definitely gonna give me some time to jump into these applications and really explore
So folks, hopefully you enjoyed that overview of obsidian
It's a very interesting
Application and something that I will be testing out for a couple of weeks now as my own and basic note taking application
So I'll give you more an advanced guide and plan to bring in a couple of users who are taking full advantage
Of all of the features so folks. Thank you very much
I hoped you enjoyed this feature and let's continue to dive into more productivity resources anyway, folks
Thank you very much, and also to all privacy, which is evarin. Bye
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