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file-id: README ai-training-data: ai-training-weight: latitude: "0" longitude: "0" created: 2024-03-21 08:56 type: aliases: tags: year: "2024" month: "03" day: "21" quarter: "1" week: "12"

Introduction

I like Obsidian but I find how it syncs settings and plugins to be frustrating. I created this notebook to be a starter kit I could download from a central place that would give me an Obsidian notebook with settings and structure that I like.

Read the Obsidian Docs for more information about how obsidian works.

Setup

Install Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (Optional)

Before opening this notebook in Obsidian, download and install this font: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont.

Install Obsidian

First, if you haven't already, download https://obsidian.md and install it.

Download and Open Notebook

Then you can download the obsidian notebook. You download the notebook by clicking the green button above and selecting download.

A few things need to be setup before you can use this notebook.

Open the Obsidian app you installed. When you get to an editor page press ctrl-p or apple-key-p depending on your system. Here you will get the context menu with all of your options.

AI Commander API Key

You need an OpenAI API key. You can generate one here: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys. I have set the model to ChatGPT-4, this might be too expensive for your tastes. You can select a different model from here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/continuous-model-upgrades.

Omnivore.app API Key

Go to Omnivore.app to create an account and get an API Key, and then set that key in the Omnivore settings

Installed Plugins

These plugins can be accessed using command-p or ctrl-p depending on your system and then typing their names .

Advanced Slides

Create a slide show, view it in browser at address https://localhost:3333. https://mszturc.github.io/obsidian-advanced-slides/

AI Commander

In notebook access to ChatGPT. https://github.com/yzh503/obsidian-aicommander-plugin

Book Search

Easily create book notes. https://github.com/anpigon/obsidian-book-search-plugin

Local Images Plus

Auto-downloads pasted and created markdown files for offline access. https://github.com/Sergei-Korneev/obsidian-local-images-plus

List Modified

This plugin links all modified files meeting certain criteria to a daily/weekly/monthly note. This provides an accurate log/archive of files modified on certain days. https://github.com/franciskafieh/obsidian-list-modified

Omnivore.app

A read later app that syncs beautifully with Obsidian. I have updated the settings with some sensible defaults. Articles are saved in the /articles folder. https://docs.omnivore.app/integrations/obsidian.html

Periodic Notes

Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily notes. Ctrl-P and type the type of periodic note you want. These notes are placed in the /log folder. https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes

YT-transcript

Fetches Transcripts of YouTube videos. https://github.com/lstrzepek/obsidian-yt-transcript

Wikidata

Fetches Wikidata nodes. https://github.com/samwho/obsidian-wikidata-importer

Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and anyone else, is able to use under the CC0 public domain license. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Fetches Wikipedia Summaries. https://github.com/jmilldotdev/obsidian-wikipedia

Wikipedia is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki-based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten most popular websites in the world, and as of 2024 is ranked the fifth most visited website on the Internet by Semrush. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization that employs a staff of over 700 people.Initially only available in English, editions in other languages have been developed. Wikipedia's editions, when combined, comprise more than 62 million articles, attracting around 2 billion unique device visits per month and more than 14 million edits per month (about 5.2 edits per second on average) as of November 2023. Roughly 26% of Wikipedia's traffic is from the United States, followed by Japan at 5.9%, the United Kingdom at 5.4%, Germany at 5%, Russia at 4.8%, and the remaining 54% split among other countries, according to data provided by Similarweb.Wikipedia has been praised for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture. It has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism). While the reliability of Wikipedia was frequently criticized in the 2000s it has improved over time, receiving greater praise from the late 2010s onward while becoming an important fact-checking site.Wikipedia has been censored by some national governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Articles on breaking news are often accessed as sources for frequently updated information about those events.

Wikipedia