Why Developers Are OBSESSED With Obsidian

In today's video, we'll talk about one of the most powerful tools I have ever come across.
Obsidian completely changed the way I work, and it is one of my favorite tools of all time.
So let's talk about what obsidian is, how to use it, why it is so powerful, and how it can make your life *way* better.

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00:00. Opening
00:45. Single Obsidian File
02:17. Demoing Plugins
07:00. Step By Step Walkthrough
10:40. Keyboard Shortcuts

[VakkaHUN]

I tried Obsidian. It did not stick, but im planning to give it a few more tries.

Some opinion of mine:

Cons:
- Copying sample code from official documentation into your notes does not make sense. Thats why we have documentation. It does not help you know more. Hands on experience and delayed repetition/knowledge recall does. + as official documentations/APIs are changeing, your notes are getting outdated.
- It can give you a false reassurement, that your knowledge is growing, but deep inside you know that every note of yours could be a really simple google search
- For me it was really time consuming making notes any better than my sources from the Internet.
- Hence I found myself always using google instead using my notes.

Pros:
- In theory linking notes (new knowledge with existing ones ) together is a great way to deepen knowledge.
- Its free

[MrEkwador]

I have searched almost all the comments under your videos, Amichai. No one has asked you a question about how to draw multi-colored lines instead of single-colored lines in ZoomIt. I would appreciate it if you would write back in the comments how to do it.

Btw, this video is great! I have structured my knowledge base in folders and markdown files where I store my code snippets. This will help me a lot to organize the resource!

[marierobinson]

I am absolutely obsessed with Obsidian. I warn everyone that they need to understand it is a huge rabbit hole at first. don't spend too much time automating until you understand how to use obsidian with your existing workflow. but it is so worth the time

[dougbas]

Very powerful tool. Yoou have convinced me this is a tool I need. THANK YOU.

[kennyfully]

Up until now, I never ever had to use this tool. However, I keep hearing about how great it is... So I'm giving it a fair try... Hopefully I'll remember this video and post an update about how I feel after 1 week.

[tar-yyub]

I love obsidian but I really don't see the point of copy pasting things from a search engine into your vault. Sure, you can now access it offline, but you can literally just google it again?
There is a real risk your vault gets full of copy pasted stuff and then it becomes hard to surface your actual notes

[jamesevans]

Great Video! I've tried a number of approaches for organising technical notes, I don't think I have ever invested enough time to make them part of my developer workflow, what I do know is I really struggle with anything that I have to keep organised e.g. folders or different note books. Really enjoyed watching something a little bit different too. Thanks 😊

[mstislavmaslennikov]

Thank you for the nice review and demonstration!

[mardby]

Great video! I would love to know more about your setup for recording video. It all looks so smooth and pro!

[justlc]

I am having an absolutely horrible time pasting code into obsidian, can you please make a video on it

[maflend]

What is this application that allows you to draw arrows on the screen?

[RahulNath]

Love this - Great video Amichai. I've recently started using Obsidian for notes and liking it so far.

[apapun.dipajakin]

What the tools u are using for marking the screen?

[robinmanuelthiel]

Nice video, I still don't understand what Obsidian does better than Notion (besides using lokal files)? Links and Backlinks are also possible in Notion...

[Michael-qpgx]

Wow, great video, thanks! I've also been playing with Capacities io, which is like a mix of Notion and Obsidian. Worth to check it out.

[rodilife]

Great work from the developers working on Obsidian. However, as a developer, I don't like unnecessary complexity.

[mendeleev_HPDsgXuNmphCUEH]

Spoiler: you might easyly forgot what files are existed and may create a duplicate. My favorite approach to obsidian file structuring is to use classical domain / vertical sliced approach

[aathifmahir]

Looks interesting, let me try whether I can integrate this my work flow

[kuldeepbhati]

which tool you are using to draw colourful arrows and boxes while doing presentation ?

[BolteDev]

Nice video, would you be kind enough to let me know what you are using to highlight/annotate on your video?