https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iIfGaH1vgLI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCPYBEIoBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLC0zb44ai5WrT6CtchLO97uoHvp7Q Transcript with Timestamps 00:00It's. Good evening, Adam here. I want to do a short video on the most common markdown commands that you need to at least get started with Obsidian. You don't need to do a lot of the more complicated ones until you have enough notes where it makes sense to start interlinking and putting a lot more care into what your notes look like. Once you get more comfortable with the program, then you'll want to learn a bit more. You do need some basic ones just to give your text of character. It's really hard if everything's the same size with no emphasis or headings or anything like that. The first one we're going to do is headings. It's basically just big bold text. The biggest level heading is £1 key and you go up to five. Biggest is one, it's a pound key space. Successfully down third says you can see to get smaller and smaller. 00:59That allows you to have headings inside your documents to give yourself a little more structure inside your pages. The second one I want to cover is bold. So bold is just two stars. If you look where it says bold, it's just two asterisks on each side and the word will turn bold. Bold, well, bond bold. You can see the difference in the text. Next is italic is the same thing, but it's only one asterisk on each side. So normal. And italic next. Let's do, I guess let's do lists. Or how about block quotes? Block quotes are where you have the box around it. Usually people do this to denote that it's somebody talking. If you want to attribute this to, let's just say the command is a greater than symbol. I came, saw, conquered. I can't spell whoever said this. That's what people generally use this for and it's just denoted using a greater than sign. 02:44When you're done, you just do welch line. You just double tap your enter key to end the block quote. Okay, next is ordered lists. So ordered lists are pretty simple. You're literally just going to type the number one period and then you're going to see it shifts the first entry, and then hit enter. Similar to block quotes, you're going to hit enter once if you want to stay within your ordered list. Let's just say you only have two entries, you can hit enter twice and then you'll see it exits, it's no longer part of the list. Under list is the same thing, but instead of one period, it's just going to be hyphen space, one, two, three, hit enter twice and you're done. And then the final one is links. So links are denoted using brackets. You're going to do two brackets to the left and then you close it with two brackets to the right and your link will be in the middle. 03:58Let's just do I'm going to link it back to my blockbook page. I'll type in and it actually has an auto fill. You just click on it or you just type it all the way out block quote. So then that is now a link. If I click on it takes me back to the block quote page. The final thing I want to show up the link. And this is a little more complicated. You don't need to worry about this if you don't want to. Let's just say you want this entire block quote page to show up inside of your link page. You can do basically it's basically a full copy paste. You do your link. Let's click back to block quote and then what you're going to see happen once I hit Enter is that's the whole block quote page and it shows up inside of here. 04:55So let's just say you wanted that. I came, I saw it conquered. To show up on this page and have a reference back then that'll work. You can click here to go back to that page. You want to look at it. This can be useful for if you have recipes or notations or if you just want to embed somebody's phone number, name or phone number within another document. You can use the exclamation mark to allow the information to show up on this page. Generally only used for these shorter kind of pages though, so hopefully that's enough to get you started. There are plenty of other things like tables and strike through and all sorts of fun stuff that you can start to play with. This really covers probably 90% of what you need and honestly the last 10% you don't really need. This will get you can link between your pages and you can format enough to make it look halfway decent. 05:52Oh, you can also embed a PDF, so that's fun. Let's just say I'll link you to my channel how to do attachments. Let's just say you want your PDF to show up here. You can use the name of the PDF, hit Enter and look at that. It's actually embedded inside the document, which is very cool. You can actually show let's just say you wanted this to show up in five or six different places. You can just continuously link to it. It embeds. And here it is. It's just nice and easy to look at. I hope this was helpful. I think probably went a little longer than I expected to. Went pretty quick though. A couple of different things to cover. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Bye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDDWxzjAK0&list=PLg4s9AvbR1mPggZ5heJ4eRYTNPe8hdAi9&index=1 Video Transcript with Timestamps 00:01Good evening Adam here. Today I want to show you how to keep your attachments inside Obsidian nice and organized, so they don't just end up in a giant list along the left hand column. When I, when I'm talking about attachments, I'm usually talking about PDFs, video files, image files, Obsidian. Most people just think about it as a text ed ender, because that's the essential function, is you're going to write text, you're going to hyperlink it to other text, but it actually incorporates other file types quite easily, quite cleanly, and if you're not using it to incorporate attachments, you really should be. I'm just going to use this as an example. Let's say I have a PDF that PDF I want to save in this file. What I'm going to do is I will just take it out of the folder where it is on my computer, which in this case is my downloads folder, and then I'm just going to click it and drag it. 01:06It's that easy. And let go. And then here it is. It actually has a built in PDF viewer. If you check the Markdown language, you'll actually see there's an exclamation point and then the brackets which sends the link to where this file is exclamation point, makes it appear directly in the document. That's different conversation for a different day. You can actually look at the PDF right here. You'll see that now it's in your main folder. You click on it here and that's obviously the full screen version of it. What you're going to want to do if you were to go now into where your Obsidian lives. I keep mine inside of my Dropbox. So here's my Obsidian folder. Personal Obsidian. It's in my Dropbox folder. That way I can use in the multiple machines I'll click on here and you're going to see it's right here. 01:58So that's not terribly organized. What you're going to want to do is don't do it inside the file browser. That actually makes it very confused. You're just going to click it and you're going to make folders. For me, I just have a PDF folder. I have a business card folder as well. You get it as narrow as you want. I don't think you need much more other than a file type and maybe some other categories because you're going to be able to see where it's linked to. Because for me, I'm already using this one somewhere. You're just going to click it and then you're going to drag it. I'll show you already have it in there. You're just going to click it, drag it into the PDF folder. Using another example of one perhaps that I haven't already placed, let's do an image file. For that, let me see what I've got. 02:58Okay, there we are. So I have an image file. It was a 403 error on something I was trying to fix for Media Wiki site. Let's just say I want to show what I had to do to fix this error. I can drag my screenshot in, and then here's my screenshot. That's what I had to send to the support people to get it fixed. Let's just say I want to document that. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to click it, drag it, and then later, if I want to check on it, where it's linked, it's like, why do I have this 403 error file? You'll find the link mentioned is in this example page. You just click on it there, and there it is. Now if I go into my personal Obsidian dropbox folder and I go to attachments jpegs, it's going to be right here as well. 03:51That is how you keep things nice and organized. Really not terribly complicated. I would highly suggest you at least just do it based on file type. Again, I don't think it's terribly necessary to do anymore. I did business cards as well, but honestly, I could have just done those as image files because they're attached to my people. I'm not going to show you who's in there, but it's attached to my people folder, so it's probably unnecessary to organize it like this. I may at some point simplify it down. It's as simple as click on it dragging and dropping. I hope this was useful. I'm probably going to make some more Obsidian videos. I've been getting pretty into using Obsidian recently, along with Monday is my other big program, so I hope you enjoyed. Thanks.
