📱️2024 My Top Applications For ADHD 🧠️

Overview

It's been a while since i've made a "top apps ..." video and i've gotten some new ones in the workflow lately. Thunderbird has been ESPECIALLY helpful to me in dealing with the overwhelm that is modern email.

xTiles has been a very unique and interesting alternative to notion in organization, and consolidation of information.

And morgen is of course a timeless classic

Timestamps

• 0:00:23 App Number 01 Mozilla Thunderbird For Email
• 0:11:46 App Number 02 xTiles
• 0:12:44 I dont care for Notion
• 0:14:02 Hierarchichal Model of Organization
• 0:15:23 Page Types
• 0:19:34 Universal Rollup View of Tasks and Calendars Items
• 0:23:46 Dark mode
• 0:24:05 Plain Text Interoperability
• 0:27:06 App Number 03 Morgen
• 0:30:26 Closing
• 0:30:47 Outro

📜️ Zotero Research Paper Workflow | Full Comprehensive Setup Guide 🛠️

Overview

So I've heard that much of my Zotero workflow was still too complex to fathom or setup by others so I have endeavored yet again to make a comprehensive overview video of the process but this time in a sandbox environment with granular setup instructions where appropriate and hoping that this will really open the door for many where this workflow is concerned :)

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:01:37 Getting Started From Scratch
• 0:02:03 https://obsidian.md/
• 0:02:10 https://www.zotero.org/download/
• 0:02:15 https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases
• 0:02:53 Installing Bibtex In Zotero
• 0:03:55 Setting Up Obsidian
• 0:05:16 The List of Plugins To Install
• 0:07:25 Each of The Obsidian Plugins
• 0:07:31 https://github.com/sponsors/tallguyjenks
• 0:08:11 Templater
• 0:09:02 Dataview
• 0:09:34 Highlightr
• 0:14:08 Callout Manager
• 0:15:56 https://github.com/sponsors/tallguyjenks
• 0:17:41 Obsidian Zotero Integration Plugin
• 0:21:48 Supercharged Links
• 0:22:01 CARD for supercharged links video
• 0:22:49 Style Settings Plugin
• 0:23:17 DB Folder
• 0:24:32 Canvas Core Plugin
• 0:25:07 The Applied Workflow
• 0:25:13 Importing and Annotating A Paper In Zotero
• 0:27:40 Importing Paper Highlights Into Obsidian
• 0:29:01 Reviewing The Import And My Paper Template
• 0:34:53 Paper Template Renaming Code
• 0:41:15 DB Folder
• 0:43:46 https://github.com/sponsors/tallguyjenks
• 0:44:08 Canvas Based Workflow For Paper Notes
• 0:44:10 CARD canvas video
• 0:46:54 Caveat to the Canvas Workflow
• 0:47:05 Closing
• 0:48:22 Outro

🌟️ Supercharge Your [[Links]] In Obsidian | Comprehensive Guide 🔗️

PART 1

Overview

The supercharged links plugin is a super awesome lightweight plugin that can be used to display visual flare or additional information on the links in your vault. This plguin can take a rule like "if a note has this tag" and then apply content in a variety of ways.

After making this video i actually realized that if i turned off the plugin nothing happens, i actually wasnt using the plugin in all 🤣️ so i have to make an update video shortly to cover the topic at more length because it will be the same result but with additional functionality and displays of the metadata.

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:22 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL
• 0:00:56 What Is Supercharged Links And What Does It Do
• 0:01:55 What The Symbols Mean
• 0:02:33 Example Of Metadata Feeding Supercharged Links
• 0:03:03 The Setup
• 0:05:27 The Gotchya Of The Plugin Configuration
• 0:07:50 How I Get Around This Issue With CSS
• 0:09:30 In Summary
• 0:09:57 Optimizing For Search
• 0:12:15 Conclusion
• 0:12:44 Outro

PART 2

Overview

So in the first video it turned out i wasnt using the plugin at all for the effects i thought were attributed to the plugin, rather it was all just CSS the entire time. Now i actually setup the plugin (after this little discovery) and implemented it and fully covered the topic 😅️

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:09 The Problem
• 0:01:01 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL
• 0:01:35 Supercharged Links Plugin
• 0:02:09 The Issue With Duplicate Rules
• 0:03:33 Configuring The Plugin Settings
• 0:06:48 https://github.com/sponsors/tallguyjenks
• 0:06:58 Configuration Data Files
• 0:08:00 The Effects of The Supercharged Links Plugin
• 0:10:38 The Interoperability of Supercharged Links With Other Plugins
• 0:11:32 Supercharging My Non Input Links
• 0:12:33 How My Downstream Workflow Was Affected
• 0:14:40 Closing
• 0:14:56 Outro

🏆️ TOP 10 BEST Obsidian Plugins 🔌️

Overview

There are over 1,000 plugins now in the Obsidian plugin ecosystem, and these are a few of my top favorites and a bit about why they have such a high standing on my list.

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:15 INTO THE AM
• 0:01:45 The Top 10 Plugins
• 0:01:55 01 Templater and 02 Dataview
• 0:03:42 03 Update Time On Edit
• 0:05:47 04 Obsidian Zotero Integration
• 0:06:52 05 DB Folder
• 0:08:27 06 Projects
• 0:09:26 07 Commander
• 0:10:55 08 Daily Notes
• 0:11:54 09 Calendar and Periodic Notes
• 0:12:53 10 Supercharged Links and Editor Note Count
• 0:15:14 Closing
• 0:15:37 Outro

📅️ My Fully Automated Daily Note Review System In Obsidian 🤖️

Overview

I have had a fairly robust daily notes system since the early days of my usage of Obsidian. Over time of course this process gets refined and improved. The system i have now is probably the most intentional i've ever been about journaling and reviewing the words of my past self.

I hope there will be some useful nuggets of insight in this video that will help you shape and improve your own system :)

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:21 Why The Change
• 0:01:24 INTO THE AM
• 0:02:18 My Actual Daily Notes
• 0:03:22 Dataview Queries
• 0:05:31 My Highlights Tag
• 0:06:39 Weekly Note Example
• 0:07:29 Monthly Note Example
• 0:07:52 Aliases Query
• 0:09:43 The Yearly Note Example
• 0:11:14 Why Are You Doing All Of This
• 0:11:59 Closing
• 0:12:17 Outro

Making A Personal Knowledge Management Dashboard In Obsidian Canvas 🎨️

Overview

I'm still really enjoying canvas a lot even with how simple it is compared to other diagramming tools it really does add an additional edge to the workflow for organizing thoughts and ideas visually as if they were actual note cards spread out on a physical desktop.

That "spread out" and visible all at once nature of canvas is the thing that really makes it appeal to me and is the real value add. So with that element in mind, lets see how a dashboard would look like/function when based in Obsidian Canvas

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:40 CARD obsidian canvas video
• 0:00:53 What This Video Is About
• 0:01:16 Into The AM
• 0:02:07 Diving Into The Dashboard
• 0:02:32 Top of Mind and Tasks
• 0:04:17 The Working Section Of The Dashboard
• 0:09:37 Summaries and Overviews
• 0:12:53 The Only Problem I Have With A Dashboard In Osidian Canvas
• 0:15:49 Closing
• 0:16:01 Outro

How I'm Organizing My Autism Research With Obsidian Canvas

This Video

This video was a fun one to make as i've been falling into more effective ways to doing more research type work and as you well know in the doing of the thing, the truth of the act presents itself. It's one thing to say "this is an effective way of using this tool" and another to actually be doing real work with the tool and actually experience pain points and find better optimizations and strategies.

In this video I aim to show you some of the ways i'm actually performing some of my research information consolidation and analysis using Obsidian Canvas and a variety of other tools that i already talk about ad naseum on my channel. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts in the YouTube comments!

Timestamps

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:27 Visually Oriented
• 0:00:56 https://amzn.to/3s8jGbP
• 0:01:42 I Think I May Have Highlighted A Little Much
• 0:03:39 The Start Of This Workflow
• 0:04:42 Centralizing And Standardizing The Data Input
• 0:04:56 Unmasking Autism Book Input
• 0:06:19 CARD Latest Zotero Workflow Video
• 0:06:43 Other Autism Related Books With Fewer Highlights
• 0:08:05 Research Paper Inputs
• 0:08:54 Why I Like The Canvas Approach
• 0:09:55 The Autism Research Canvas
• 0:10:52 Color Key
• 0:13:11 Highlight Transclusion
• 0:16:25 Topic Bookmarks
• 0:17:08 Closing
• 0:18:08 Outro

Obsidian Zotero Integration Plugin | Streamline Your Research Paper Workflow 📝️

Using the Obsidian Zotero integration plugin, i've updated my workflow to use this new plugin and drastically improve the quality of my zotero workflow.

• 0:00:00 Welcome
• 0:00:27 https://youtu.be/CGGeMrtyjBI
• 0:00:44 Getting Setup
• 0:01:31 https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases
• 0:02:01 Configuring the Obsidian Zotero Inegration Plugin Settings
• 0:06:22 Thor decideds to help with video production
• 0:08:25 https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/
• 0:08:43 Wrapping up the Setup Process
• 0:09:00 What does my markdown template look like
• 0:12:19 Thor decideds to help with video production
• 0:14:22 https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/
• 0:14:39 Wrapping up the Setup Process
• 0:14:57 What does my markdown template look like
• 0:16:19 The workflow that is using the template
• 0:20:24 Related paper linkages
• 0:20:51 Inserting citation using the plugin
• 0:22:16 The workflow that is using the template
• 0:22:48 Linking citations using Obsidian Hard Links
• 0:23:46 Random Tangent about dataview metadata and linking to future papers automatically
• 0:29:43 End random tangent
• 0:33:14 Wrapping Up
• 0:35:32 Sticky Flags - https://amzn.to/3WnSQY2
• 0:35:34 Highlighters - https://amzn.to/41Z8laj
• 0:36:28 https://discord.gg/MxCVshN
• 0:36:34 Outro

Obsidian Media Extended: The Best Way To Take Notes On Videos 🎥️

Media Extended is the best approach to note taking on video files that ive seen yet. It makes it super easy to get what ive always wanted from video notes:

• Timestamps that jump to that point in the video
• Timestamps without effort
• Easy markdown notes generated live while watching a video

I started with YiNote early in 2020 and moved to the browser extension memex when that offered a better experience and now finally this extension already in the Obsidian eco system adds so much value with such simple functionality.

There are 3~ main points of criticism i have about the plugin that could be worked on, but by and large its an essential at this point.

Main critique:

• The cursor end point after timestamp insertion being on the left v.s. the right
• The cursor focus after opening the plugin's modal
• The cursor focus after using the plugin's modal
• The ability to just hit enter and have the modal open the media after pasting is missing

Check out the plugin and let me know what you think!

🌱️ Dendron: A Unique Approach To Knowledge Management 🌱️

Dendron is one of my favorite ways to taking notes on technical content now.

It takes advantage of a lot of the great work that has already gone into the VSCode IDE but also the existing extension eco-system.

Where dendron can't do something, there is likely an awesome extension that can.

This is now my go-to way of taking notes of structured and factual content unlike my Zettelkasten that is more of my personal take, ideas, and conjecture on topics.

Dendron makes the organization of notes via the schemas and dot hierarchies an absolute dream and the ease of refactoring a hierarchy makes the management of a lot of this information infinitely easier. I have hundreds of notes now and its just an absolute pleasure to work with Dendron with that content.

0:00:00 Welcome
0:00:36 What we are talking about today www.dendron.so
0:01:16 Into
0:01:26 My experience with Dendron
0:03:49 How and why dendron might fit into your workflow
0:12:37 Getting Started With Dendron and VSCode
0:16:41 Panes and Interfaces in Dendron
0:30:49 The dendron command palette
0:38:17 Languages Used in Dendron
0:39:23 Ways to use Markdown and extended features in dendron
0:41:15 Schemas and heirarchies
0:43:02 The Dendron Graph
0:46:09 Robust Linking
0:48:08 How to organize all your notes when there are too many
0:51:34 Refactoring hierarchies
0:52:20 Create schema from note
1:03:38 My personal schemas
1:03:48 daily note schema
1:06:00 Task schema
1:06:26 My software notes schema
1:08:53 YAML in Dendron
1:11:00 Templates and Code Snippets
1:17:46 Dynamic Variables Inside of Templates
1:19:43 Tags and Links in Dendron
1:23:19 Tasks and Task Management in Dendron
1:28:21 Dendrons global configuration file
1:30:29 Task schema
1:35:03 Dendron Pods
1:40:49 Configuring the pod
1:45:00 Leveraging VSCode as a platform
1:47:51 Dendron Publishing
1:48:33 https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/FnK2ws6w1uaS1YzBUY3BR/
1:50:23 My Dendron Workflow
2:06:02 Closing
2:07:06 Outro