Obsidian for Beginners: Start HERE — How to Use the Obsidian App for Notes
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an approachable start-here demo for people new to Obsidian.
What it is
A 12-minute beginner lesson from Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking series introducing the Obsidian note-taking app and the first steps to start using it.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec MikeCapone · 2021-10 · on “Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files”
This 6-part video series by Nick Milo is a great way for newbies to get introduced to Obsidian and go up the learning curve rapidly: [this video]
Recommends runjake · 2022-05 · on “Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit”
Browsing through Linking Your Thinking's YouTube channel[1] might be a good first-start. Despite appearances here, I am not a notes fetishist, so I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2]. Jamie Rubin's blog series[4] is pretty good, too. I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of the Johnny Decimal System[3]. I store checklists, procedures, howtos, concept summaries, cheatsheets, and a daily log stored in a YYYY-MM.markdown file. I don't have any comment on the blog post in the article, because this system works really well for me . Obsidian is extensible a
Recommends hbn · 2022-10 · on “Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app”
The other replies aren't very helpful imo It's essentially an app for taking notes and jotting down ideas, and you write them in markdown. You can link references to other notes within a note to link up ideas. Here's a 12 minute demo that should give you an idea: [this video] I'm not that quite in-depth with my usage of it. I essentially use it as a scratchpad for a few notes for work. But it does the job