How to Set Up Obsidian: Plugins, Daily Notes, and Configuration

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Anthony Herrera

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Obsidian Setup

How Obsidian is set up. This should help me figure out how to configure things for the next time I need to create Obisidan.

Plugins

Important ones:

  • QuickAdd: Allows for quickly adding pages
  • Tag Wrangler: Allow for easy moving tags back and forth
  • Templater: Run template code on files
  • Vimrc Support: Allows jk to be escape

Less Important:

  • Calendar: Shows daily notes on the Calendar
  • Minimal Theme Settings: Edits Minimal Theme
  • Dataview: Useful for doing some query things, but breaks the “only markdown” philosophy

Vimrc Support

Vimrc support is important for the VIM commands to work as I want. Need to create a file call .obsidian.vimrc should contain:

:imap jk <Esc>

That’s it, but it makes a world of difference.

Daily Notes

Basic daily not template:

---
tags:
  - daily_note
date: 2024-07-01 07:24
summary: Note for the day
---

# Invalid date

<< [[Invalid date|Yesterday]] | [[Invalid date|Tomorrow]] >>


# 📝 Notes
- 

---
##### Accomplishments
*

Daily note configuration:

Date format: YYYY/MM-MMM/YYYY-MM-DD-dddd

New file location: Timestamps/Daily_notes

Template File location: templates/notes_daily_template

Pasting Images

Under Settings > Files and Links set the default location for new attachments to be “subfolder under current” and name the subfolder “assets”.