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Tim Miller retweeted
@obsdmd definitely is the one app I couldn't live without. I use it to think, plan, explore and learn.
Right now I am experimenting with "Obsidian Depot", a small plugin (inspired by Obsidian S3 Uploader) that aims to allow uploading+reading from private S3 compatible buckets.
Hey @kepano! I'm building a plugin that stores private attachments in S3 and references them in notes as myprofile://path/photo.jpg. Reading View and Live Preview work, but Bases/Canvas card covers stay empty, so I'm patching them through the DOM for now. Is there a better way to do this, or is it something you'd consider supporting?
Tim Miller retweeted
Before you clip anything with the Obsidian Web Clipper, ask yourself a simple question:
What's the big idea I want to keep?
If you have an answer to that question, go ahead and clip it, but write the big idea in your own words.
If you can't do that, though, don't clip it!
Tim Miller retweeted
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax.
- 100-500× faster than mermaid.js
- 6× smaller bundle
- No dependencies
- Easy to theme
- Responsive to device width
In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now.
Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
Tim Miller retweeted
Obsidian 1.14 is now available with five major improvements:
1. Edit Markdown files outside your vault
2. Preview files using macOS Quick Look when the app is closed
3. Instantly add notes with Quick Capture on iOS
4. Kanban and new grouping options in Bases
5. Highlight colors
Tim Miller retweeted
Obsidian 1.14.1 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.
- iOS: New Quick Capture widget instantly launches a capture with configurable location and template.
- Accessibility: Mobile app now scales with your system's preferred text size.
Tim Miller retweeted
Obsidian 1.13.6 is now available to all for desktop and mobile.
Highlights
- Mobile: Added swipe-to-close to close tabs in the tab switcher.
- Improved "Undo close tab" behavior. Tabs now reopen in the correct tab group, and if the currently active tab is the "New tab" page, it will no longer be reused.
- The settings window now closes when pressing `Escape`, and more improvements to keyboard navigation.
- When Obsidian is fullscreen, the settings window now opens on top of the app window instead of creating an additional fullscreen window.
- Range sliders in settings now use the accent color.
- The installer has been updated to use Electron 43.3.0. To upgrade, visit the download page and reinstall Obsidian.
Bug fixes
- The app now waits for configuration files to finish saving when quitting to avoid the file getting corrupted.
- iOS: Fixed editor sometimes selecting entire paragraph after double-tapping on text or dragging cursor.
- Fixed a few issues with link suggestions in the property editor. For example, typing `#` in a link would cause the link to get overridden.
- Fixed dragging links out of an embedded Base (e.g. `![[file.base]]`) linking to the Base file and not the file you're dragging.
- Live Preview: Fixed memory leak caused by reordering rows or columns in a Markdown table.
- Live Preview: Restored old behavior of embedded YouTube and Twitter links; they no longer have a selection state or an overlayed edit button.
- Fixed zoom level getting reset after reloading the window and vaults on network drives not working with the latest installer.
Tim Miller retweeted
Good news, everyone! We made it easy and free to convert your entire Airtable workspace to durable Markdown files that you own and can use offline.
Obsidian Bases supports all your views, filters, and formulas. Your data is yours, take ownership of it.
Tim Miller retweeted
Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?". A tool doesn't accomplish anything on its own. A tool is a means to an end.
A few days ago, someone jokingly asked if Henry Ford had a personal knowledge base in Obsidian. Well, sort of! He had something he called "jot books", where he journaled, kept notes, grocery lists, etc... Not dissimilar to how people use Obsidian. The Henry Ford Museum has fifty of these notebooks.
How should we quantify the impact of Henry Ford's notebooks? How should we quantify the impact of spreadsheets?
Most people who accomplish anything take notes in some form, because writing is a way of thinking. We love to mythologize the tools and methods of accomplished people because we hope it will let us absorb a bit of their genius. But a good camera doesn't make a good photographer. Taking lots of photos helps.
Should you take notes? Probably. Does it matter what your method is? Probably not. Whatever works for you. Obsidian (or any other form of notetaking) is successful if it disappears and lets you accomplish your work.
Tim Miller retweeted
Obsidian 1.13.2 (early access) is now available to Catalyst members for desktop and mobile.
Adds image zoom on desktop and resolves bugs:
- Fixed "Copy" button on large code blocks
- Fixed scroll stuttering in long files on iOS
- Fixed "select all" in long files on Android
Tim Miller retweeted
I wrote up everything I know about Obsidian Bases: your first Base in 2 minutes, the one-Base-many-views model, formulas, when to pick Bases over Dataview, custom plugin views, and letting AI build them for you. Full guide:
dsebastien.net/how-i-turned-…
Tim Miller retweeted
Canceled Evernote.
They DOUBLED their prices.
3 clicks with Claude and full export to Apple Notes.
People are getting SaaS wrong.
It's not that Software is dying, it's that subscriptions or charging for things have to be worth it.
Tim Miller retweeted
Educating yourself is a force multiplier.
It improves your life.
It improves your family.
It improves your city.
It improves the world.
Want to change the world? It's simple: educate yourself.
Tim Miller retweeted
You need to stick with it. It’s a philosophy of an app. It is about markdown and capabilities. I agree that the learning curve can be higher, but if you stick with it, it’ll pay off.
Tim Miller retweeted
Great idea for Obsidian
Tim Miller retweeted
Discovered an obsidian plugin that turns my footnotes into side notes automatically. ♥️
Pic with my novel
Not available on the community plugin store, install it with BRAT
github.com/cparsell/sidenote…
