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A guide to Obsidian for people who like Outliners
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 28, 2023 at 10:04 AM
Thanks for the tip, Franz!
Posted by Amontillado
Jul 29, 2023 at 01:39 AM
I see Obsidian has just come out with a new properties feature. I think it’s just a convenience for editing YAML front matter, but I’m not sure.
@MadAboutDana - have you seen this?
Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 29, 2023 at 11:59 AM
The Properties feature introduced in Obsidian 1.4.x provides a panel, similar to Notion and other apps, that serves as an overlay for the YAML front matter in a document, and also enforces data type. The raw YAML is still visible in the native .md files, and in “Source mode” in the Obsidian editor. Looking at comments on Obsidian’s forum, it seems the implementation of Properties was to help people who don’t understand YAML metadata, and it also was a bit rocky. There is also an option to display the Properties panel in the sidebar of an Obsidian note, and to add new properties, delete properties, and change the type of a property. The properties inspector also supports clickable backlinks, and raw web links (but not custom URIs), something that native YAML doesn’t do. Data inserted into properties is visible in the editor in source mode.
Amontillado wrote:
I see Obsidian has just come out with a new properties feature. I think
>it’s just a convenience for editing YAML front matter, but I’m not sure.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 5, 2023 at 08:13 AM
Hi @Amontillado – yes, I’ve just seen it and am intrigued. At first, I couldn’t get much of a handle on the true value of Properties, but The Sweet Setup has a rather useful article on it here: https://thesweetsetup.com/obsidian-is-adding-properties/
I must say, Obsidian’s steady progress is very impressive and rather inspiring. The outliner functions in particular have gradually been optimised, and although I don’t think hoisting is an option yet, the basic functions are extremely quick and easy to use.
Amontillado wrote:
I see Obsidian has just come out with a new properties feature. I think
>it’s just a convenience for editing YAML front matter, but I’m not sure.
>
>@MadAboutDana - have you seen this?
Posted by Lucas
Mar 11, 2024 at 04:02 PM
Two things of note to outliners who use Obsidian:
1) There is a new plugin that implements a “Scrivenings”-like mode where you can combine files in a vertical flow. Unlike embeds, the files are editable in the vertical view:
https://github.com/gasparschott/obsidian-continuous-mode
2) Pierre is working on 2-way sync between InfoQube and Obsidian:
https://infoqubeim.com/drupal5/node/5883