Playing with Obsidian (again)

I’m playing around with Obsidian again. I like the idea of having all my notes and content as local text files, following the File Over App philosophy.

Some things I noticed when I booted up Obsidian again with the latest updates:

Web viewer

Web viewer is a new core plugin that lets you browse the web from within Obsidian. So far, I’ve found it useful to bookmark Kagi for internet searches and the Micro.blog uploads page. I can click a bookmark (from within Obsidian), and it opens the Uploads page so I can upload photos for a post I want to write. I can then copy the markdown from those photos and paste it into my post that I’m writing in Obsidian.

Micro.publish

A great plugin that has been around for a while, it lets you easily publish from Obsidian to Micro.blog. The one feature it is still missing is the ability to upload images. This is why I upload the photo first to Micro.blog, copy the markdown, and paste it into my draft post. I don’t use images often, so it’s not a big deal.

Bases

Bases is a new core plugin that lets you create filtered tables and views from your data using the metadata properties you tag to your note. I haven’t used it much yet, but I like the idea of using it to track status of notes, etc. We’ll see how it goes.

Separate Vaults

I’m using separate vaults for Work and Personal because I don’t want to get them mixed in any way. I don’t want any personal notes on my work computer. Originally, I was starting with one vault and excluding my personal folders from syncing to my work machine. That worked, but it was too tedious to maintain since I keep adding and changing folders. I don’t see a good reason to keep them together anyway.