Nicole van der Hoeven/Obsidian for Everyone

  • €150

Obsidian for Everyone

  • Course
  • 43 Lessons

Learn about how to use Obsidian from scratch in this no-nonsense, self-paced video course. You'll use Markdown to write notes and make meaningful connections between ideas... without enabling third-party plugins.

I'm Nicole van der Hoeven, a developer advocate who relies on Obsidian for work and play. If you like the way I explain things on YouTube, you'll like this course.

What you'll get

  • 3.5 hours of video material, with captions
  • A sample vault so you can follow along
  • An Obsidian Publish site with all lessons
  • Access to my Discord server
  • A PDF handbook of the course
  • No methodologies. Just practical tutorials.

Contents

Introduction

An overview of Obsidian
About the course

First steps with Obsidian

Section introduction
Installing Obsidian
Downloading the sample vault
The Obsidian UI + settings
Writing a daily note
Using the right side panel and links

Making notes in Obsidian

Headings and themes
Views in Obsidian
Formatting text using Markdown
Attaching images to Obsidian
Markdown Cheat Sheet

Linking and Organizing

Links
Folders
Tags
Frontmatter
Comments
Maps of Content + which is best?

Customizing Obsidian

Working with tabs, tab groups, and windows
A note on CSS and appearance
Assigning custom hotkeys
Audio recorder plugin
Backlinks plugin
Canvas plugin
Command pane, daily notes, file recovery, files plugins
Format converter, graph view plugins
Note composer plugin
Outgoing links, outline, quick switcher, random note plugins
Search plugin
Slash commands, slides, starred, tags plugins
Templates plugin
Unique note creator, word count, workspaces plugins

Common workflows in Obsidian

Creating templates for goal-setting and regular reviews
Organizing the vault

Saving, syncing, and sharing your notes

Saving notes
Working with multiple vaults
Obsidian Sync
Other syncing options
Obsidian Publish
Collaborating on notes

Best practices

Best practices for using Obsidian
What's next?