Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Build your own thinking partner with superpowers - Linking Your AI: linkingyourthinking.com/linking-your-ai?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=videolibrary&utm_content=description
This full episode of Linking Your Thinking explains why you'd want to use the Obsidian plugins. Learn Nick Milo's favorite plugins, hotkeys, and use cases from the features in the Obsidian 0.9.10 update.
🔆 Free Weekly Creative Productivity Insights: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit): linkingyourthinking.com/join/ideaverse-lite?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
📚 MASTER READING: linkingyourthinking.com/how-to-work-a-book?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
📺 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL » youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA?sub_confirmation=1
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - What are plugins?
01:46 - An important hotkey you need to know
02:20 - How do we get into these plugins?
02:28 - Safety concerns
03:35 - How to access the plugins
03:42 - Concerns about privacy
04:10 - Quick honorable mention
05:18 - My favorite plugin
05:28 - Origins of Sliding Panes
06:02 - What Sliding Panes can do
06:20 - Benefits of using Sliding Panes
06:56 - Nick Milo's Obsidian theme’s sliding pane vs the sliding pane plugin
07:09 - My second favorite plugin: Hotkeys ++
07:14 - What Hotkeys ++ can do
08:40 - Twitter use case for better word count
09:31 - How to activate Hotkey ++ plugin
10:43 - How to activate better word count plugin
11:05 - The plugins that are nice to have when needed
11:15 - Smart random note by Eric Hall
11:18 - Why is smart random note so cool
11:57 - On being more deliberate with your randomness
13:07 - Three different options for using smart random note
13:41 - Advanced tables by Toby Grosinger
14:50 - The benefit in using a markdown table
16:07 - Features that you can control in the settings
16:34 - Paste URL into selection
17:24 - Where to find the settings for Paste URL into selection
18:19 - Calendar by Liam Cain
20:11 - How to customize your calendar settings
20:24 - Natural language dates from Argentina Ortega Sainz
20:50 - What can natural language dates do?
21:48 - Ryan’s review plugin
23:24 - James Lynch’s Note Refactor
24:37 - Demo on using Note Refactor: Extract selection to new note - first line as file name
28:48 - A reminder on something amazing
🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo
📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88
🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: https://obsidian.md/
📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com
🏷 TAGS: #Obsidian #obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking
🔊 SPECIAL MENTION
🔊 Big thanks to Jonathan and Jason of counterpart.work for the logo design.
Build your own thinking partner with superpowers - Linking Your AI: linkingyourthinking.com/linking-your-ai?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=videolibrary&utm_content=description
This full episode of Linking Your Thinking explains why you'd want to use the Obsidian plugins. Learn Nick Milo's favorite plugins, hotkeys, and use cases from the features in the Obsidian 0.9.10 update.
🔆 Free Weekly Creative Productivity Insights: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit): linkingyourthinking.com/join/ideaverse-lite?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
📚 MASTER READING: linkingyourthinking.com/how-to-work-a-book?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=my_top_plugins_obsidian
📺 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL » youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA?sub_confirmation=1
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - What are plugins?
01:46 - An important hotkey you need to know
02:20 - How do we get into these plugins?
02:28 - Safety concerns
03:35 - How to access the plugins
03:42 - Concerns about privacy
04:10 - Quick honorable mention
05:18 - My favorite plugin
05:28 - Origins of Sliding Panes
06:02 - What Sliding Panes can do
06:20 - Benefits of using Sliding Panes
06:56 - Nick Milo's Obsidian theme’s sliding pane vs the sliding pane plugin
07:09 - My second favorite plugin: Hotkeys ++
07:14 - What Hotkeys ++ can do
08:40 - Twitter use case for better word count
09:31 - How to activate Hotkey ++ plugin
10:43 - How to activate better word count plugin
11:05 - The plugins that are nice to have when needed
11:15 - Smart random note by Eric Hall
11:18 - Why is smart random note so cool
11:57 - On being more deliberate with your randomness
13:07 - Three different options for using smart random note
13:41 - Advanced tables by Toby Grosinger
14:50 - The benefit in using a markdown table
16:07 - Features that you can control in the settings
16:34 - Paste URL into selection
17:24 - Where to find the settings for Paste URL into selection
18:19 - Calendar by Liam Cain
20:11 - How to customize your calendar settings
20:24 - Natural language dates from Argentina Ortega Sainz
20:50 - What can natural language dates do?
21:48 - Ryan’s review plugin
23:24 - James Lynch’s Note Refactor
24:37 - Demo on using Note Refactor: Extract selection to new note - first line as file name
28:48 - A reminder on something amazing
🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo
📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88
🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: https://obsidian.md/
📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com
🏷 TAGS: #Obsidian #obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking
🔊 SPECIAL MENTION
🔊 Big thanks to Jonathan and Jason of counterpart.work for the logo design.
