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Hello. Good evening. I thought I would put out a quick tutorial on how to use call outs which is a fairly new feature from Obsidian. What call outs are is essentially a built in version of a community plugin that everybody loved. Oops, wrong button. I will show you which one it’s admonition. It’s admonitions but it’s built in admission. You’ll actually notice that this plugin now specifically mentions that there’s support for this. The Avenition plugin now just supports the core call out boxes. Call out boxes are a way in markdown to use a little more flair as I guess the best way to put it. It allows you to do these cool little boxes that add a little more definition and style to the page. Welch, think about the word call out call. It essentially means to bring attention to something. It allows you to bring stuff to the forefront.
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That may not be a heading, but you still want to be embedded inside your text. I think the easiest way to explain it is just to give you an example. Let me show you what you type to do a call out. You’re going to do a greater than symbol. You’re going to do an open bracket and then exclamation mark. This is the key part of it. There’s twelve different built in call outs which I’ll show you what each one looks like. Let’s just do one of the basic ones. Let’s just do note. To just give you an example, here’s the title and then here’s the body and I’ll show you what this looks like. The first line is going to be the title of your call up box. You’ll see it’s multicolored, it really brings things out. Your normal stuff important. Then thing I want to bring.
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You’ll see that if you embed it inside of a nice big wall of text, it’s going to pull it out to the forefront and give you something nice to look at and really draws your attention. You’ll notice that books use these pretty often for quotes. They will bring you’ll see in a little tiny box down on the side or in a corner and it’ll pull a quote out from that page that the author thinks is really important. For example, quote is another one of the ones you can use then say most page author kind of that’s basically it. These aren’t terribly complicated but I think one thing that most of the people don’t have just so you can see it is let me show you what each one of the twelve call outs look like. You’ll see that you change the call out by changing this part of the text.
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Quotes, one notes, one info, you’ll see that they all look different. It’s got this nice little i. Here’s a list of all the call outs. You’ve got note, you’ve got abstract info, tip, success, question, warning, failure, danger, bug, example, and quote, I’d say my favorites are note, info, and quote, I guess these other ones are red and danger, which I guess maybe if you’re an Engineering or Neuroscience or, I don’t know, something more hands on than stuff I do. Maybe you’d want to leave yourself some danger notes or failure notes. That’s sort of what they look like. There’s some color differentiation as well, which is neat. You can also, if you’re feeling real froggy, you can customize these in CSS and change the color on the icon, but that’s beyond the scope of this video. All right? If this was helpful, please let me know.
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If you think I missed anything or have any questions, let me know that as well. Thanks.