The article gives instructions for getting started with Obsidian, getting going with Obsidian with a couple different workflows, and an opinionated take on about 100 plugins and how to use them for your workflows.
The post is aimed at a wide audience; if you use Obsidian or would like to, this post aims help you make the most of it.
To get started, clone this repository as a starter template repository for your own uses. The repo contains an .obsidian and .obsidian.vimrc configuration with the settings and plugins I recommend, and the Getting Started with Obsidian post.
If you'd prefer to follow along by manually setting up your vault, I recommend copying the raw markdown of the post into a note in your vault in Reading View. This enables links to open plugin-previews directly, from within your vault.
A note on security: I weakly claim that none of the community plugins I install or recommend are out to pwn your system, but I could be wrong. If you installed Obsidian unsandboxed, your system is more vulnerable to malicious plugin authors. A way to avoid this is to either:
- Audit every plugin and update yourself. Auditing plugins is time-intensive, but is the only way to be absolutely confident in your system security.
- Prefer only plugins with many downloads, in which case, a malicious or compromised plugin maintainer will only pwn you and everyone else.
- Use a sandboxed installation, which prevents Obsidian from poking your system except in very constrained ways, but will prevent plugins like Obsidian Git from being able to poke your system for automated git backups.
- Live with risk. This isn't necessarily bad, just know that you might not want to keep anything too valuable on a machine with a larger attack surface.
Pick your poison!