README

This is a template vault that you may like to borrow inspiration from as you set up your own vault.

The Getting Started configuration guide gives instructions for:

• getting started with Obsidian, and a couple useful settings
• getting going with a couple different workflows
• 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. In particular, I discuss how to use Obsidian for:

• journaling
• note taking
• project and task management
• self-organization
• general writing

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 use, 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.

An aside on the security of installing plugins

Plugins are great, and I will recommend many of them. They're also a security risk. I weakly claim that none of the community plugins I install or recommend are out to pwn your system, but I could be wrong. To my knowledge, the Obsidian developers do audit community plugins for security concerns, but they could miss something. Consider being cautious of newer plugins with fewer installs.

Changelog

Roughly bi-annual updates to this vault since end of 2022.

• 2023-12-22 - tweet got some attention so did one more light editing pass and cleaned up vimrc + preamble.sty. Then cleaned up part 3.
• 2023-12-21 - rewrote a good portion of parts 1 and 2, reduced cruft, made workflow descriptions clearer, update vimrc
• 2023-05-31 - how was I this bad at writing...added a few plugins, gcal, hotkey helper, latex preamble
• 2022-11-17 - first draft finished

Todo:

• future: didn't touch the part 3 sections from graph tools and onwards
• future: eventually figuring out how to use Dataview better

amend the sections on these plugins:

• db folder
• projects
• dataview
• linter
• leader hotkeys
• extended mathjax
• tikzjax
• quick latex
• Math booster?
• quickadd
• zotero integration