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I recently published several articles here and elsewhere on using Obsidian’s native database functionality to increase focus and efficiency when working with the information in our vaults. Rather than using Obsidian as a souped-up word processor, we can abandon the file paradigm altogether and use Bookmark and Canvas for accessing, editing, analyzing and organizing our information.

Given the interest that the articles have generated, and the fact that the concepts may be unfamiliar to some, I thought it would be helpful to make a video demonstrating how it works in practice. It ended up being somewhat long, so this is the second part.

If you haven’t read the articles, this may be confusing as I don’t go into depth on the concepts. This isn’t really a how-to video, so it assumes you know your way around Obsidian.

The videos are available at:

My site:

biscotty's Workshop

Substack:

https://briancarey.substack.com/p/obsidian-nosql-workflow-part-1

https://briancarey.substack.com/p/obsidan-nosql-workflow-part-2

Medium:

https://medium.com/@biscotty666/obsidan-nosql-workflow-61b0d108df66

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[–] DrakeRichards@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m getting a 500 internal server error when accessing your site.

[–] biscotty@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It was down briefly a while back. I just clicked on the link and it should be ok.

[–] fung@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting workflow. I agree the idea of doing the managing/adjusting of metadata later versus at the time of note creation makes it easier to follow the story of whatever you're reading. I'm also going to try out the hover edit plugin, that looks cool.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, so, if the videos might be confusing, can you link to the articles?

[–] biscotty@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

They are all posted in this channel.