Obsidian Fundamentals
Learn how the Obsidian notes app works.
Simple. Quick. Easy.
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Welcome to Obsidian Fundamentals, an ever-growing course for learning how to use Obsidian.
Here you can start from 0. Learning about vaults, files, blocks, panes, plugins, and more.
By the end, you’ll be able to confidently use Obsidian, ready to explore it’s endless possibilities.
I’m Danny Hatcher, and I’m Obsidian obsessed. I manage and organize my entire life with Obsidian. I use it as a full-time researcher for a 1.6-million-subscriber YouTube channel, and have been using the tool for 2+ years.
This course is my attempt to create the best beginner’s guide to Obsidian on the internet.
My philosophy is to make free, super-high-quality content on the basics, and only charge for more advanced stuff like my Obsidian Onboarding course.
Below, you’ll find links to all the course resources, along with the lessons. Each lesson includes written explanations with, screenshots, GIFs, and more.
The limitless customization in Obsidian means help can be hard to find. Check on the roadmap or help requests for future lessons.
Browse through every single lesson that is available on this website for FREE.
There are so many community resources out there. This is a list of the top resources I am aware of for you to get going.
Obsidian is like a smart folder structure. You start with a main folder, a ‘vault’, and add files and folders underneath. Each vault totally unique.
Think of files as blocks of text. Each paragraph can be moved. Each word dragged around. Each file can have blocks dropped on.
Each fresh file in Obsidian is created on your device. Stored in your vault. Ready for you to type in. Follow these steps to create.
The beauty of Obsidian is the endless linking opportunities. Organizing files inside files… inside files. Here I will show you how to create and navigate.
Want to see multiple files at once? Rearrange your layout to suit you. Open Obsidian everywhere. This is how you can do that.
You can find anything in your vault with a search. Looking for words, sentences, paragraphs or pages. They can all be found easily. This is how.
Turn on the features you want. Turn off features you don’t. Customize your experience with core plugins.
Sharing locally stored private files can be done. Use the Obsidian sync paid addon. Or use a cloud service. Find out more in this article.
Leave your mouse behind. Quickly navigate, create, and trigger commands in Obsidian. Create and customize your hotkeys.
Spread the knowledge. Use your phone on the go, tablet while remote, or PC at home. All devices are available.
Upgrade your experience or support the team. Community-supported development is the core of the Obsidian team.
Migrating from other applications, other text formats, or just looking to bring data in. Obsidian has you covered.
The vault switcher can get unwieldy without these Vault management settings.
Turning on and off features lets you make Obsidian as simple or as complex as you want.
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Find anything in your Vault by filtering and be specific with your search.
Light mode or dark mode is just the beginning. You can change anything and everything you want.
A Vault is a place for storage, but a workspace is what you see when you are working.
The option of multiple devices is great, but it comes with some differences in layout.
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Everyone can read text, but Markdown is a little different. Symbols are actually useful.
Starting from scratch is never fun. Using templates speeds up the starting process.
A text editor has settings that change the way you see the text you are working with.
Working with local files means you are in total control of what is on your devices.
Seeing files and connections can be done in multiple ways, the graph view being the most visual.
Linking out to an idea or a source can create backlinks from projects and concepts.
Mindmapping on an open canvas gives different viewing options while maintaining text editing options.
Collaborating with others through private or public options can be tricky with local files.
Using Artificial intelligence with Obsidian can be done with a variety of community plugins.
More Obsidian Tutorials
Obsidian is almost endless with possibilities when using community plugins.
Obsidian Onboarding shows you how I set up and use Obsidian.
