Zotero 101 - Part 1: basics @obsidiancommunitytalks9199

Obsidian Community Talks General information about the Obsidian Community Talks: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:16:07 Citation demos
00:27:43 Why Zotero?
00:29:19 Zotero Q&A
00:32:16 Zotero GUI
00:38:10 Adding new items
00:48:35 Directories
00:51:27 Why do you need plugins?
00:53:15 Installing plugins
00:55:14 Q&A

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Zotero 101 - Part 1: basics

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-05-05 | General information about the Obsidian Community Talks: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:16:07 Citation demos
00:27:43 Why Zotero?
00:29:19 Zotero Q&A
00:32:16 Zotero GUI
00:38:10 Adding new items
00:48:35 Directories
00:51:27 Why do you need plugins?
00:53:15 Installing plugins
00:55:14 Q&A

Plugin testing for developers

Obsidian Community Talks 2022-04-14 | In this video, Clare Macrae shows us why and how Obsidian plugin developers can add automated tests to their plugins, to save time and keep bugs at bay.

You can find more information on testing Obsidian plugins at https://publish.obsidian.md/hub/04+-+Guides%2C+Workflows%2C+%26+Courses/Community+Talks/Plugin+Testing+for+Developers

For more information about the Obsidian Community talks, click here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/
You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:03:39 Structure of the Talk
00:04:10 Note Refactor: Demo
00:09:21 Note Refactor: Summary
00:09:37 Dataview: Demo
00:16:53 Dataview: Summary
00:17:22 Linked Data Helper: Demo
00:24:50 Linked Data Helper: Summary
00:25:16 Tasks: Demo
00:36:20 Mantra: Never trust a test until you have seen it fail
00:38:24 Refactoring code: Demo
00:45:23 Refactoring: Summary - and testing Obsidian-specific code
00:47:26 Tasks: Summary
00:47:31 Overview of automated testing: motivation, frameworks, running tests, failing tests
00:52:00 What next? For you, and for Obsidian plugins?
00:54:49 Q&A

Graph Analysis - Co Citations

Obsidian Community Talks 2022-01-12 | In this video, Emile van Krieken gives a demo of the Co-Citations algorithm in the Graph Analysis plugin for Obsidian. He gives some background, lays out the problems it solves, and shows some neat examples of its use in Obsidian.

Links:

- Emile's Twitter: twitter.com/EmilevanKrieken
- Test Vault used in the video: github.com/LorenzDuremdes/Second-Brain
- Graph Analysis Repo: github.com/SkepticMystic/graph-analysis

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Graph Analysis - The Basics

Obsidian Community Talks 2022-01-04 | In this video, SkepticMystic goes over their and Emile's plugin, Graph Analysis. He covers all the different algorithms, and the options available in the plugin
Note: a separate video will be posted for the Co-Citations algorithm specifically.

Links:

- Test Vault used in the video: github.com/LorenzDuremdes/Second-Brain
- Graph Analysis Repo: github.com/SkepticMystic/graph-analysis

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Breadcrumbs - Everything you need to know

Obsidian Community Talks 2022-01-02 | In this video, SkepticMystic takes you through how to use their plugin Breadcrumbs starting from a fresh install. The video also covers the latest features that weren't shown in the original community talk showcase.

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

TTRPG Obsidian Showcase

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-10-19 | In our largest showcase yet, we have 5 presenters taking us through how they use Obsidian for their TTRPGing.

0:00:00 Intro
0:01:47 Javalent
0:27:57 Apolaine
0:45:20 Nicole
1:01:36 Break (Extra from Javalent)
1:11:10 SlRvb
1:40:46 Leah
2:01:25 Q&A

You can learn more about or support each presenter at the following links:

**Javalent**:
- github.com/valentine195
- buymeacoffee.com/valentine195

**Apolaine**:
- polaine.com
- youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLJHmYS4OnXZIvguaL6rnvkIbimzVqaI

**Nicole**:
- nicolevanderhoeven.com

**SlRvb**:
- ko-fi.com/slrvb
- github.com/SlRvb

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

Find more information on Obsidian here: https://www.obsidian.md/

How to create a plugin for Obsidian

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-10-17 | In this talk, @phibr0 will show how to create an Obsidian Plugin from start to finish. We will go over how to set everything up, how to add functionality starting with the sample plugin and how to publish it in the end.

Blogpost: phibr0.medium.com/how-to-create-your-own-obsidian-plugin-53f2d5d44046

GitHub: github.com/phibr0

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Journaling - Managing multiple journals

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-10-11 | In this talk, SlRvb shows us how to use Obsidian for journaling with different types of journals: bullet journal, code diary, dream journal, workout logs, resonance calendar and condition logs.

SlRvb's journaling setup: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/slrvbs-journaling-setup/22346

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Fiction Project Management

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-10-11 | @Eleanor Konik discusses a comprehensive project management workflow for fiction writing: using folders, dataview, and tags. From ideation to completion, submitting to markets, tracking market preferences, branding work, and ancillary avenues for outreach like newsletters and tweets.

To read more about Eleanor's work, check newsletter.eleanorkonik.com

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

ITS Theme: Image Adjustment Snippets - Obsidian Community Showcase

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-07-29 | In this video @SlRvb shows us how to use the Image Adjustment snippets from the ITS Obsidian Theme.

- Image Adjustment snippets:
- Documentation: slrvb.github.io/Site/3_Nebula/ITS-Theme/ITST_Image-Positions

- Readme: github.com/SlRvb/Obsidian--ITS-Theme#image-positions

- ITS Theme: github.com/SlRvb/Obsidian--ITS-Theme

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Breadcrumbs Plugin - Obsidian Community Showcase

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-07-29 | In this video, SkepticMystic shows us what the Breadcrumbs plugin for Obsidian can do.

- GitHub: github.com/SkepticMystic/breadcrumbs

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

and more Obsidian plugins here: https://obsidian.md/plugins

For more information about the Obsidian Community talks, click here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

Knowledge Organization in Obsidian

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-07-23 | Bri Watson (@brimwats) gives a history of library organization, a detour into cataloging vs classification, and the lowdown on foldering in PKMs. Also includes hot takes on the use of tags.

- Bri's Twitter: twitter.com/brimwats

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Spaced Repetition - An Introduction

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-07-05 | In this video, we have James and Zander discussing the spaced repetition, including some ways you can integrate it with Obsidian.

Find James' channel over here, where he makes videos going further in-depth into spaced repetition: youtube.com/channel/UCIaS9XDdQkvIjASBfgim1Uw

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-voting-post-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/15705

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

What Your Vault Knows — Talks & Discussion

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-06-28 | Let's brainstorm how we can discover hidden knowledge in our Vaults using computational methods. The fields of Natural Language Processing, AI, and Network Analysis provide numerous exciting ideas. We kick off this workshop with threeshort presentations by @Emile, @phnx and @paulbricman, followed by a quick demo of Dual, a teachable virtual assistant for knowledge work. Afterwards, there's a Q&A and open discussion.

You can find all slides here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S4CY-PhBs6Av_mT7H9tfRfi_nQky8Kea?usp=sharing

For more information on some of the presenters, also see:
- paulbricman.com
- emilevankrieken.com

Using Pandoc to write PDFs, Word documents, and slideshows in Markdown - Obsidian Community Talk

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-06-16 | In this video, SkepticMystic discusses pandoc and how it can be used to keep more of your workflow inside Obsidian. We cover the following:

0:00 Introduction
0:51 Command Line Basics
06:55 Pandoc Basic
09:17 Markdown to Docx
13:40 Markdown to PDF
15:18 Citations
23:42 Templates (Reference docs)
30:08 Snippets plugin
37:42 Templater
42:06 Revealjs slideshows
48:38 Q&A

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/16686

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Zotero 101 - Part 2: Plugins

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-05-05 | General information about the Obsidian Community Talks: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/meta-community-talks/

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

Timestamps:
00:00 Zotfile
00:16:52 Zotfile Q&A
00:23:31 Better BibTeX
00:36:31 Better BibTeX Q&A
00:40:31 Mdnotes
01:02:12 Q&A

Notetaking for University Students

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-05-05 | In this workshop, we talk about how to best employ Obsidian and notetaking techniques in general as a university student. We start with a brief impulse talk and then go into open discussion.

The slides of the presentation and the chat transcript can be found here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZqeQpRw918k2H_y7vSLB-J8f-_GQLrSE?usp=sharing

You can request topics, or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/

An Introduction to Dataview - Part 2

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-04-14 | This is Part 2 of the recording from the live session on An Introduction to Dataview. In this video, we cover more advanced functionality of dataview, and discuss some in-depth examples.
You can find Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=sEgzrRNkgsE

You can request topics, or even offer to host a community talk or workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: https://www.obsidian.md

An Introduction to Dataview - Part 1

Obsidian Community Talks 2021-04-12 | This is an introduction to the Dataview plugin for Obsidian. We go over the basics of using YAML frontmatters for providing explicit metadata in your Obsidian notes; introduce the basic components of Dataview queries and show some advanced use cases. Finally, we construct and debug some queries live.

This was the first live event with hopefully many more to come. You can request topics or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/

You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/
You can install the Dataview plugin through the Obsidian settings. To get involved in development or report feature requests or issues, check out the GitHub repo at github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview.

Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
4:05 Overview of the talk
7:00 Metadata
20:25 `List`
21:22 `From`
28:39 `Task`
35:20 `Where`
42:46 `Table`
46:34 `Sort`
48:15 `Flatten`
49:17 `Group By`
52:05 Neat Examples
56:03 Q&A
1:16:06 Info on Community Talks