I have been experimenting with a simple method to organize better and navigate my ever-growing vault of notes. I call my method Dashboard++ (yes plus, plus). It is a dashboard designed to be an easy-to-maintain index into the notes of my vault. I had some goals when starting this experiment: …

Obsidian is fast. This is one of the things it is known for; even when running on older or less powerful devices, it is speedy! However, there is one tiny aspect of Obsidian that I have found to be slow, and that is the application's startup time if you are…

Note: This article is a small update to a blog post I did in 2021. I am also relocating that post here to medium. Also this is a fairly technical article, so prepare to enter Nerdsville. The Readwise service allows you to export your highlights to various tools like Obsidian…

Who doesn’t love themes! We can’t get enough of them. I believe that most new Obsidian users spend a lot of time trying out each theme in Obsidian’s Theme Manager. Whether it is Blue Topaz, or Yin and Yang, there is a theme for everyone. One of the most popular…

Obsidian has become one of the most popular tools in the exciting and growing category of note-taking tools called “Tools for Thought.” In this article, I want to lay out the core principles behind the design of this tool. This article is not about Obsidian features. It is about the…

I have become very fond of iOS widgets both on my iPad and iPhone. On the iPad, it functions as a dashboard into all my important apps and activities. As an Obsidian user I have been wanting for some time to have an iOS Widget to show information from my…

In this article I show a simple method to increase connectivity of Readwise highlights exported to your Obsidian vault. Resurfacing knowledge with backlinks One of the promises of the new generation of note taking tools, or Tools for Thought is the ability to resurface related information we captured in the past in our notes…