Is there a way in Obsidian to have a virtual file separator like `---` in yaml documents? For bases to work I need to split my stuff up into tiny documents but I'd prefer to have one big document with separate sections. For example I keep one document `book-recommendations.md` with many small sections for books I'd like to read. I can't search through that with bases unless I split those out into many small files in…
The popular Obsidian Dataview plugin enables that and much more (instead of using Bases)
for those (like me) who didn't understand the feature : a base is a table where each row is a specific file in your vault, and each column is a proprety of this file. Using a base you can manage, sort and filter your files and their propreties (ex add a rating, price, or deadline proprety to your files or only show files from my movie folder where my proprety is set to [this]) The base doesn't DO anything you couldn'…
I found this out today when I went to go use it. To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed. I thought they’d be like tables on steroids.
I think there was (probably still is) a plugin that did something similar to bases that I tried before and didn’t really like conceptually.
Breakage is the best-case scenario. Mass data exfiltration is the bigger concern. The community plugin system is both an unacceptable security risk, and a necessary part of achieving even a baseline level of usability. Imagine the scale of theft that must already have taken place.. the targets may never even know. The fact that Obsidian falsely claims to audit this cesspool is hilarious.
It is an hilarious claim. They don’t have enough resources to implement critical features, much less waste developer time auditing every random Tom, Dick, or Harry plugin contribution.
I can count their staff on one hand. And at any given time, half of them are busy playing D&D. No vision or leadership.
> There's no decent RAG functionality Do you have any examples of what decent RAG functionality might look like? And where the current plugins fall short?
I simply haven't gotten Smart Connections to index my vaults successfully, for whatever reason. So I can't give them a proper review. I'd hope that any inference performed in a given note would take as context not only the full text of the note, but its nearest neighbors—although, frankly, what I really want are the implicit definitions of proper nouns, ie links. I also frequently generate articles based on the subje…
> is indexing notes based not only on the embeddings of their literal text, but on meta-text such as: the questions they might answer; the definitions of their principle subjects; counterfactual statements they falsify.
That would be perfect!
Smart Connections does seem to have improved a lot recently.
for those (like me) who didn't understand the feature : a base is a table where each row is a specific file in your vault, and each column is a proprety of this file. Using a base you can manage, sort and filter your files and their propreties (ex add a rating, price, or deadline proprety to your files or only show files from my movie folder where my proprety is set to [this]) The base doesn't DO anything you couldn'…
> The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database No, horrible job at explaining. What does it mean to turn any set of notes into a powerful database? What does it mean to "turn"? Does it mean that a file will become a database? Or does it mean that a file can be interpreted as a database? And why set of notes? If I have a single note, can I turn that into a da…
> What does it mean to turn any set of notes into a powerful database? You must be fun at parties. Complaining about everything, but not even bother to read the damn manual... It's explained on the third sentence on that site. Ok, to be fair, there is a big picture between those parts, and you have to follow some links for more details. > And why set of notes? Just curious, do you even know Obsidian? Have you ever us…
I use Obsidian every day, though I'm not a "poweruser" - I don't think I've ever installed an extension (presumably there'll be some default ones that are installed). Yes, I know Obsidian.
You can also create a code block in markdown and then write the language type at the top. This also creates highlighting. ‘’’go {your code} ‘’’
Thanks for this tip. I've seen this feature off and on in some online code editors. I didn't know this was a (universal?) Markdown feature. Is it supposed to work universally in all Markdown editors (e.g. VSCode's Markdown view)?
I know it works in Obsidian. I believe it also works in VSCode.
I just started using Obsidian. What is the best way to use Obsidian both on your phone as well as your PC/laptop? I use it within git and google drive. How can I sync it most easily to my phone as well?
By the way, you can also collab on a vault/folder over GDrive. DriveSync will be able to choose a "Shared with me" folder directly, but on Windows, first go to the web version (drive.google.com) and make a link to the shared folder in your "My Drive". Back in Windows, the link will be in your G:\My Drive folder. You can then mark that folder/link as "available offline" for the best experience. If you open the link in Windows, you'll get the full path to the folder and can then open it as a vault in Obsidian. You should end up with something like G:\.shortcut-targets-by-id\1-BkkGbtKp2342jSMgR7_HdfshNOAG3mg\OurCoolVault