Zettelkasten Research Work in Obsidian | VOD

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my all right [Music] okay well um maybe it's in your recommendations for note-taking settle costin obsidian something along those lines apparently my chat box overlay is not working it's unfortunate it means nobody on different platforms can see everybody at the same time properties looks like it's only twitch only twitch chat will appear there oh wait there goes sweet um any reason i chose obsidian over rome yeah i have a whole video planned exactly around that purpose of explaining why there's a lot of reasons but the main ones the main particular ones that i chose obsidian over rome was local file system storage and my data is mine price and just the culture um i don't like well it's not that i don't like it's just i really liked the obsidian's culture and the devs and just all the stuff you can do with this yeah the the server issues the hosting and i used linux a lot and i like everything plain text local storage of files yeah that's that was one of the biggest reasons for me um oh it was option p that's why huh excuse me tags content and title linux user dendron interesting um yeah they don't have a way of publishing right now actually they do i think it's just a paid service and it's one of their paid service models i personally don't really care about it this is more of like my um like my private build a second brain type of thing like i'm i'm streaming it but like i don't want to like have it all out there um privately hosting on github that's fine for me but like actually displaying it maybe i'll get there sometime but they're like i'll check out dendron but uh there are plenty of other services you can also just do wikilink structure and then display that what am i doing here dendron hierarchical note-taking tool yeah i really like obsidian's ui and i like how customizable it is i love how much you can just hack on it with css because i got like half my theme file is custom css vsc hmm dang okay cool you know i guess if i could if i can work this in with like github and just remove like my private journal from my like get ignore it or something yeah i'll look into that thanks for the suggestion c so those are the actually the names of files let's actually find lumen niklas lumen i make his page then i go back to save search run it does he appear [Music] oh so it'll just be top level search then if the pages exist i don't even need a regex i can use the regex for the content [Music] okay uh i'm getting really distracted by notifications okay hey gavin i am working on my um settle costume system in obsidian a lot of them wikivids any reason for this switch um i like obsidian and i wanted something a little bit more graphical i like the network graph and i wanted i mean bimwiki could do a lot of what i would like to do in zettlecoston because it still has that same wiki link structure and i think it actually uses like the exact same syntax um just wanted to get out that out of the terminal and i wanted to use obsidian and or rome at the time i was looking at what i wanted to do um but yeah i got a lot of videos on vimwiki mainly because there wasn't a lot of videos on it and then when i did work on it i got a lot of traffic most of my traffic on youtube was actually from vimwiki videos originally and i think brodie robertson and i are both like the among some other people like strangled in were like the top vim wiki videos on youtube so got some good traffic from that but like i i wanted to use a more like gui bite gui like system and obsidian is i mean i just love the network graphs like it's so easy just to get in here go to different files or the local network which i have in here so if i'm in a specific file i can easily just jump to the next thing really useful and i just wanted to use it some of this stuff requires me to read papers which i'm not going to do right now [Music] um oh gavin um the vim wiki to obsidian conversion it doesn't do it automatically in that like you don't really have to do a conversion because you just point obsidian at a directory holding files so you could literally use vimwiki and obsidian at the same time with no issues the only issue was that i did i did my vim wiki with markdown syntax so my links were not the double bracket links like you see in here it was actually the markdown links which meant that i actually had to go in and actually fix a lot of that stuff because you know i wanted to use markdown but really using the native vimwiki syntax would have made the conversion so much easier to be honest okay this is where i was okay that's where i got off track was that that link hmm okay always kind of capturing it outside that would be okay and i did reference that okay so we don't need that yep uh right now i stream to uh facebook twitch and youtube until i can get twitch affiliate in which case i will be streaming exclusively on twitch right on glad you like it i have several videos about obsidian that'll cost in my workflow with this um and all this stuff coming soon it's like they're all scripted i got like eight videos scripted and ready to go and i'll be filming those next week and hopefully trying to move to twice a week videos instead of once a week so that way i can get some of this stuff out and then i have i think an interview lined up for a larger channel and then i'll be talking specifically about how i use obsidian so all that stuff is coming coming down the pipe where's your next action glad to hear it okay however things are not actions you can't finish in one step as a project atomize what the heck was that sound oh i take it that might have been you julia hawana thank you for the follow um publish iso um that's just the publish date iso is a date format that i really like um like it does year month day which means that it's chronologically indexed and it will always be sorted correctly because um it's actually hard for me to verbalize but like it's by the way it always increments upwards the day increments until it resets and the month goes up and then the year goes up and the way that these things increment means that you can sort it just by the name of the file if you prepend the iso date to the beginning of it and it's basically a practice i do on everything well on my windows system at work that's what i do because i like things sorted and doing anything on windows is already a pain in the ass but iso is just a date format so the publish iso is just the published date for me she can't finish in one step um i do this one is not linked because i don't remember when i actually listened to it but i do um again this will all be comprehensively talked about in my videos but like i have my daily note which is my daily journal and then whatever else and i talk about like what i reviewed listened to read and processed in that day link it to the page that page will then be in my inbox which you can see like right here and in that inbox is all the things that i need to then um take my quote unquote literature notes or those the notes i took on that stuff and process those into the actual atomic notes or in this case i will take a note on something and then i'll add it to seedlings and then my seedlings are what would grow into actually being my evergreen notes or my evergreen forest but in the processes i actually need to like you know work on those seedlings and then you know refine them make them nice and in the incubator that's when they start getting linked to different um other notes they actually find their homes they get connected to all the other different things where i might want to stumble upon that seedling and then once it's connected enough and it has a place i will then put them into the actual evergreen forest which is really just the top level single level directory for all of my zettle cost and notes so it's just like a lot of stuff but that's like a brief overview of the system you can't finish in one step the project atomized task manager nice tasks well the fantastic is the need for the use of lemon supply throughout the final structure there are nice components one smaller another critical component to reducing startup cost of willpower is to have a well-established environment so before that um but you can't finish in one step as a project okay yeah so like a task is one but you can't finish in one step as a project yeah it's a baby vault it's it's growing it's growing but it's it's still it's still tiny some of the people in the obsidian discord have like hundreds or like i'm not even hundreds thousands of notes it's actually really impressive okay yes the community in obsidian is awesome i i just i love that that server i'm i'm always on gonna there finished in one separate projects no that was actually good cannot are not atomized and cannot be finished that are not atomized and cannot be finished in this one step a single step or projects most pictures getting started um and then workplace easier context switching tasks okay found a home for this little guy and then you are there okay home for you um the theme i'm using i'm using the grovebox theme but i have a ton of custom css in my file like more than half of my theme file is custom i like settings are bad let me go turn on the light it's getting dark over here um for my class notes it's not a traditional like school so like i'm not in lectures taking notes um some of the content that i will be taking i will likely be putting notes in here yes but right now primarily i'm relying a little bit more on anki for my schoolwork type stuff for the space repetition but um i have an integration with the python script if you've been in the discord server for obsidian i use the um obsidian to anki python script so i can easily just make my cards based on my notes and obsidian and have them all pulled into anki images audio files text close deletion file cards everything all of it um with a single command so um i use that but i will be putting information in into obsidian for some of my classwork eventually i do have more than just my zettocaustin in here i also have like my more technical notes like for instance um i have like a whole bunch of stuff on bash and like this stuff if you can see the little network graph here actually i can just open up that one there so like i have like a web of just my technical information for bash and then i also have one for um python and this stuff is just kind of like it links it all links together but like this is linked in a different other like sphere of things like it doesn't directly connect to a lot of my ideas but it's technical information that is networked so i can see the interaction between different parts of technical information like if a python class implements a method what's a method that method word might link to a note on methods in classes um that type of stuff so i i use this for both technical documentation work knowledge stuff as well as like an actual um zettle costin mixed with a little bit of like andy's evergreen notes kind of style it's kind of like my own spin on it especially my statistics information i plan to really flesh this out but um i have a lot of these things are all linking like for instance my favorite one so far is to say like standard deviation links to um the mean okay cool which mean is related to median and mode go to the mean and then i can you know go back and then also the range and then i can give myself snippets of our code or the actual formulas in statistics to actually use this for reference later but i can see like the web of how different things in statistics all relate to each other and i feel like that would actually really help me understand things a little bit better especially that i can also like when i go over more research papers and start talking about different things i can actually reference statistical methods and then follow that pathway down that rabbit hole so that's actually one of the one of the things i'll be doing as well is so when i process that stuff i can actually reference the statistical methods used and see how these things are put together and just have all that stuff technical as well as traditional zettelcostan all encapsulated in one one system um obsidian is amazing if you're a writer a fiction writer um academic writer if you're a writer obsidian is great it's great um for like timeline storytelling stuff i don't think they're not i'm not sure if they're going to implement a timeline feature it's been talked about my cat's being cute um they're they're talking about a timeline feature it's been mentioned uh for like you know story timelines because my sister actually writes um fan fiction like like seriously writes fan fiction and takes it very seriously and writes a lot of it uh she uses something called campfire for like i guess timelines of your stories you can keep track of all that stuff temporarily but um for just like what networking all this stuff together and using the the network graph to your advantage yes writing through obsidian and using it for that type of purpose is amazing i use it at work too and at least i will be more as i can like use my technical inflow and relate it to that like i'm doing with um the programming languages and the statistics content all of that relates to each other and i'm going to do that you know also like at work um tracking to do's in obsidian uh explicitly by default no um obsidian is very like oriented towards modular plug-ins even though the plug-in system isn't actually fully supported yet it's kind of like a hack but i mean kind of unofficially officially supported but with um what you can do with to do's is i actually have a regex search um or maybe i don't have that one anymore but uh you can actually track you can do like a regex search to find something but i also just have to do tags like the actual tag system i don't really use it for what a lot of people use it for so like on my index file i have like the tag right here to do if i click that it'll run a search and show me all the all the instances where the to do tag is in the content of a file like this one has two of them and then i can go there and um you know show me some more content right and so i can see where all the instances of that tag occur so in a way sort of this is not what i use for task management this is um just yeah it's not what i use for task management anymore physics notes yeah i mean it supports law tech math so boom i've seen some great workflows um around people who are doing like math and physics stuff with uh law tech formulas and a couple other things but yeah it's awesome light bulb you posted me in general and i posted it in uh off topic well thanks for the cross post um i'm getting distracted again okay um oh i need to get rid of that um okay and then i wanted to try that out again where's there you are where's my term okay okay then i just say what again okay there we go and then right on all the people are at the bottom um chem class yeah do it gavin it's it's awesome i would i would highly recommend using it for academics because you can have the option of doing folder hierarchy structuring with it but you don't have to but if you wanted to you could but the whole point is even if you have things organized in folders everything is treated as top level so you can still link to anything in any directory without having to mess with file paths it has like automatic like i can easily just start typing something and no matter where these notes are in any sort of file you can see the files listed here in several different levels of directories it'll still find it at as if it was top level and do linking that way it's it's great you should definitely check it out and it's in my opinion walking into it after trying a lot of different things it is pretty beginner friendly to just walk in and then get some use out of it and then really get into it and really start learning it in depth over time um do i separate my stats notes with zettles i think you'd say that i do that yeah like each thing i say uh one note is about the mean one note is about the range and then i have one note that is about the standard deviation which references the mean and range notes so i guess yes and i really find that useful um how to write law tech in it you just write law tech you can either do a single line or inline law tech with a dollar sign so i could say you know pi and you know render that and it will show the pi symbol or you could do equations which actually center with double dollars so i could just do let's just say a fraction of [Music] pi over now let's be evil 666 and then it'll actually center that equation in the middle of your um document so you know you have inline and equation latex notation so either way you know you're good as long as you can write latex math which there are plenty of tools to help you do that nowadays do i miss block referencing i never used rome seriously like i played with it enough just because you know just to say like hey i tried it out i played with the interface but i couldn't still just initial reaction i could not get past the cloud storage the sas app which means you have to have internet access to work with it period that alone like kills it for me um i block references it it's a big hot topic i mean you're in the discord you know um right now i don't really care just because like i haven't known it and come and relied upon it to then miss it what i'm really finding useful about this is already able to happen in obsidian as it is now the unlinked mentions the linked mentions you know all the different searches you can do content searches like just search for content like do do a content search and you know in my opinion you're good i could just say you know um if i want to find instead of like block references i could just say hey find all the people um okay there's a zonk aren i can go to there they're in instances where they occur and actually that's just my link thing um but i can go there and i can you know go to that page and then find all the the unlinked mentions the link mentions like it like i haven't come to miss it oh hey twitch spam that's interesting thanks for this this is the life saver now i can write math support awesome yeah yeah i wasn't gonna like i don't like to rag on people or communities especially ones that i have not spent a good amount of time in to then really have an informed opinion but i hear that that's a common theme about rome's um like what would you say community personality as you say yeah i i haven't been around it i don't really know i hear it a lot though i hear sometimes that it's gotten better i don't know i just happen to really like obsidian i really like obsidian's community so that's what works for me okay i don't need that anymore and i can delete that now as i have run it okay hey first last nice to have you oh excuse me um [Music] okay checking on the messages obsidian is not open source right now um the dev devs had have said blah blah blah can't talk they've said that right now and i've you know i'm a big fan of open source and free and open source software but they said right now and i think this is a perfectly justifiable reason is that they're focused primarily on a quick pace of development and when you have to bring in more people as somebody who works in software software alone by itself and optimally is already difficult bringing in a lot of new people constantly who cycle in and out might not be there for a long time bringing them up to speed providing documentation training enforcing coding conventions and styles and putting all this stuff out there the cognitive load and the amount of work that it would take currently it's not really worth their time and i fully understand that and that's fine i don't care especially because like again it's not like cloud hosted it's a local file system none of the none of your data gets sent anywhere so it's like i'm not really worried about it at this point um it would be nice if they eventually opened up when they're more stable i mean it's still a beta they're still in beta so it's it's understandable that they're not going to open source it immediately that's fine to me if it goes open source um it'll probably just mean that they'll have more help people who want to contribute will be able to contribute and likely a lot of people will make a lot of plugins that are available for people but even then the plugins are going to happen regardless because they're going to have an api that they allow people to use to make officially supported plugins but as for like the actual development work who knows i don't know it does have a free tier that's one thing i like is that it is free i chose to support them to like the highest level like i'm a vip supporter now because i really just love the product so much um yeah i lurk the discord like incessantly in any case i am blabbing on way too much and not doing any work okay i'll define tasks tasks tests that are not atomized cannot be finished in this concept of products i think they still have a binary on the aur i just checked the other day i think on the last stream i had um and this came from the right on yeah it's they're they're the two devs they are so awesome they're so friendly and helpful and just the community in general is just awesome you should definitely if you're up to it when you can supporting them i think it's a good choice it's a great application yeah first last um they i'm pretty sure pretty sure they still have the an aur package out there because i was checking out a curiosity right on trying out obsidian nice job i really want to talk and chat with you but i know you said in your adhd video that you stream to help you get work done don't worry about it believe me i'm i'm fiddling with myself costing off off of stream too so don't worry about it especially like it was also really like it was really difficult to get through my um comptia a plus certification content to like get through the material and then make my flash cards out of it so that's one of the reasons why i was streaming that this is just kind of like it's a it is a just chatting stream so you can talk to me just fine when you finish your writing how do you publish it and does it have good have a good support or solution for image organization um publish uh not really publishing anything out or off of obsidian if you mean like where does my writing if i do any writing go or what do i do with it i might i'm finishing my website or at least i will be attempting to next week in which case i will probably have a blog i have a single medium article up right now so um those are probably two places i'll put anything i'm not like as much as i would love to i am not at a level of skill or competence to write a research paper that is something i ultimately want to work towards and that's one of the reasons why i'm back in school is that i want to actually do legit research and write research papers and contribute to a field right now i'm just exploring all the different interests of mine and building up my zettle costume for those ends just as nicolas lumen did um but where the the product of all of this is like people would ask like okay this is cool where are you going with this where i'm going is you know i'm building my own second brain a comprehensive repository of all of my atomized ideas and interconnected thoughts as well as my daily journal that links to my source literature notes that links to all of my atomized notes which i'll link to each other as well as some of the technical content they might relate to and it's all just gonna sit there and then i can you know go through and navigate through this list of ideas if i want to remember things i can use my integrated workflow with the anki flash cards and there's a million ways this could go but i think i just need to like there are purposes for it i have actually have things i intend to do with this and i do eventually intend to do serious real writing with it um as for like where when i get there that's it's coming it's just not here yet but right now i'm enjoying the process i'm building my my my vault up i'm adding more notes i'm reading more the whole point is i'm also trying to just get through like all these are all the research papers i've already finished reading i need to go through them again and actually apply this process to them and then after that i actually have my raindrop io i have my whole collection inbox of all this other stuff that i want to process and go through and this is all stuff that i want to apply this this stuff to and then after raindrop i o where i keep all my it's like one of my uh captural inboxes i also have my where is it where'd it go i could have sworn it was here there it is um i have my rss reader so i got all my rss feeds to go through as well you know you're always going to have more inputs than uh processing power so kind of trying to just get through all this right now okay let's see i'm kind of behind on chat um i didn't finish that question image organization the image organization is not that great in that you set a file or a folder like media and all the images and videos and audio files will be placed here the in the most recent insider update which you have to be a paying supporter for there is a new process where you can actually like if i took a screenshot cool that's out on my clipboard i can now paste it and now it says pasted image and then it actually uses a um i think it actually is a full zettle coston prefix so it has like the iso date and time so that way it's a unique one instead of just pasted image one pasted image two so in that case you could also have like time stamp if you leave them all named that way but that's about the extent of the organization it's not great but at the same time you know if this is less about being hyper-organized and you know linear boxes organized on a shelf kind of like mentality more of just like a it all goes to that folder nothing overwrites it increments and it has now this that'll custom prefix so it can be actually chronologically ordered but the whole point is i'm putting stuff in the note and that's what's important so whether that is good whether that works for you eh i don't mind i'm not putting in a lot of images in here to be honest i might do a lot of iframes to put in tweets or videos or web pages or articles or other stuff but i do primarily a lot of that with iframes and not necessarily pasting the actual image itself um nah man or woman you are not bothering me at all someone with adhd and dyslexia nice to hear youtuber talk about how much they are how they approach problem solving thanks i like solving problems and i like solving other people's problems whether that is healthy for me depends on how many problems i try to take upon myself to solve but thanks oh hey silver hello hello thanks for popping in and thanks for all your hard work if you're still here thanks for all your hard work i really love this application you guys do some great work we publish we'll be publishing the live stream so it can be viewed later um on youtube i leave them unlisted because i don't like to clog my main um youtube feed with a lot of live videos so i mean i guess if you copy the url right now you can come back to it later but no they go unlisted and i don't leave them out in the open where are the right these writings stored well if you're talking about my writings um it would be on you know medium or my website or if you're talking about what i put in the the zettocoston it's actually in my icloud so like i have my that will cost in here in my icloud but it's also on my local system i also have it on github privately if i want to do excuse me remote work on this that i don't have my a mac or icloud capability i can just do github excuse me if you're talking about like where uh my literature is stored i don't put pdfs in here or do any of that i have a whole separate workflow with um zotero so like my inbox what i'm gonna read next what i'm currently reading something to separate stuff visually and then my list of stuff that i've finished reading and that's really just as much as that is right now and then i process this stuff and then i have several zotero plugins too so i can actually open up the pdfs annotate them and then have those annotations pulled out into a file and have that file converted to markdown and from that markdown file put that into obsidian for my literature notes and i will be making a video on that workflow as well a lot of the stuff i for that i got from the obsidian forums really great stuff and that'll it's all coming later it's all scripted it's coming um do i still use task warrior and trello trello no i haven't been using trello for a while um i'm just not as productive with it like i'm constantly changing my system based on like what i feel is actually helping me get more work done and trello wasn't doing it task warrior did pretty good it i got a lot done with task warrior but if i'm going to be honest i'm not using it anymore which you know i was really on it for a while but i'm not using any more because i am doing time blocking so like i'm actually surprised at how simple yet efficient of a strategy this is but um because i have all the all the apple things now and my girlfriend and i both have iphones i just use icalendar now so we all we can share our stuff i have multiple calendars and then i just have all of them overlaid but what i'm doing now is instead of having my tasks be a list of tasks i'm having each task be a scheduled slot on a cat on my calendar so instead of like having a list of tasks to like stare at me in the face and be like you need to complete all of us you better do it soon there's a lot of us piling up instead of that and having to face that i just say all right i need to finish this task it's probably take 15 minutes put that on the calendar so now as my go throughout my day i go through each block on my calendar it's like oh hey by the way the next 15 minutes are about this task oh okay that also makes context switching for me easy because then it's like something else it's like something external saying hey go do that thing and so i go do that and it's been surprisingly helpful and productive i've gotten several things done with this that i've been sitting on for months like things that i've wanted to do for months and i'm finally i finally finished them and it's all thanks to time blocking um i can't really show you guys my calendar because i got some personal stuff on there but it's it's it's been a really effective strategy um maybe i might make a video on that later but i mean i got several scripts to film next week and a lot of ideas lined up so we'll get there when we get there i am still just elated and utterly surprised that i'm almost at 2 000 subscribers on youtube that's really really cool like yeah everyone likes to be like yeah youtube you can make a living off of that i kind of like my job i like my line of work i like what i do i'm probably not going to quit my job anytime soon just because i don't mind my working for the government but i mean having extra money is always nice but what i tend to do is when i have a business i just reinvest that money into the business to buy more good stuff like tools or materials um that's how i approach my other working business and then i still i just like making videos about stuff that i like to talk about and talking with people who actually give a and like it it's nice to just have people to like also talk to you about your interests because i try to like talk to people like at work or my people that i know in person about like programming and tech things and settle costing note-taking research papers and all this other stuff and they're just like i'm happy you're happy i'm like okay thanks [Music] but you know can't judge anybody for that hey well awesome thanks for that i'm not sure if you guys can hear the lo-fi music through my computer i'm ultimately gonna set it up like the stream is okay like the stream could be a lot better you know in traditional streaming terms i have a day time blocked for next week to just spend the whole day researching how to make this stream amazing but that'll come in the future all right our projects well-defined tasks negate the need for the use of a limited supply of willpower so that's actually a reference just like an idea a task of using executable unity requires multiple steps bringing to completion there's not a task it is a project to contain several tasks oh and we can relate this to the need for executive dysfunction in adhd so breaking things down into atomic parts or a project into its subcomponents to then execute onto then get momentum where are you okay let's see here ah um okay i think that might be one of them cognitive processes prioritize tasks chunking tasks into smaller modular pieces and then from there i can also say that that i will define tests to get the need for limited views apply power so then i can just do two and that would be well-defined tests that are tested or not tasks that are not atomized components all right and this one is with poor executive function oh hey light bulb did you miss what i talked about for my time blocking that's what that's what i use now for my task management for me specifically now amazing marvin oh so light bulb i use time blocking on a calendar so that way my tasks tasks are not a list of intimidating tasks that i eventually need to complete that is an ever growing pile it's my scheduled day and each block is a single item and it also because it's just annoying and in your face and like hey it's time for that thing it sort of makes it easier for me to context switch into the mode where all right next 15 minutes you're on that task so that's what i'm using now and i'm actually getting a lot of effective work done like that did you miss good stuff i mean i don't know um if you think it's good stuff amazing oh first last uh amazing marvin i think is uh i think that light bulb is uh been referring to somebody in the discord server for obsidian and i think amazing marvin his icon is actually marvin from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy i'm trying to find uh the user oh it's joyful marvin oh amazing marvin is an app oh my bad isn't time blocking kind of constrained what's the difference between it and transitional what time to do what thing method i don't know i all i can say from my personal experience is that it's been extremely helpful to me and really useful and i've gotten more stuff done on it that i put off for a very long time it took me a week to finish like several things that i've been sitting on for months i it works for me uh amazing marvin so let's let's see what this is about every time i do a stream half of it is me just like fiddling with my own stuff and the other half is people suggesting really cool stuff for me to look at gavin is infamous for that gavin has sent me on several rabbit holes of awesomeness task management app interesting shhh huh i mean it's interesting but one thing i'm also trying to minimize how many applications i am using to run my life so like you know there are some people in like the productivity space of youtube that are you know they use like six different note-taking apps for different purposes and just personally if i started having that much stuff going on i wouldn't be able to effectively manage it and get work done because i the whole point is that you need to actually get things done um and for me it would just be too much and that might not be like everyone like you know i have to deal with adhd maybe that's related to that why i can't handle that much maybe not but personally i just i can't have all that stuff going on i try to consolidate as much as possible and it that's what helps me like i'm not going to do my task management in obsidian but i combine my task management with my calendar and you know it works join my discord server awesome i like my discord server i wish more people would join it so we could actually have do more talking in there maybe one day it'll reach critical mass but for anybody who cares discord server coming at you i should look at my discord server okay what'd you post i see you joined hello weekly daily review laying out the plan basket is should be asking yourself what you need to do to get that off your mind is what you should ask yourself about your tasks hmm dendron and marvin well i mean hey if it works for you awesome i am going to look into uh dendron i don't want to spend time on stream doing it but i will look into that to see if it's something that might be useful to me in some respect so thanks for the suggestion i talk about lock time i talked about lock time are you talking about like block b-l-o-k or b-l-o-c-k i can't spell good lord what do you need to do to get that off your mind is what you should ask yourself send it to idea capture that's what i would do for that it's not really too much meat in that one was there i'm not like vs code is it's it's i like when i was using when i was doing actually some a little bit of front-end development for my website which was uh not great because i'm not a front-end developer um vs code was pretty cool like for doing front-end dev but uh with them was then was the thing there is a vim mode in obsidian there's no like vimrc um functionality as far as i remember but like the motions macros you can do all that okay so i think we got this one um idea should be a single step so oh yeah sorry guys um yes there is a vim mode if you go to uh plugin or maybe it's the editor yeah editor editor at the bottom vim key bindings and so you can actually use uh vim in here so i could easily just you know let's just say command mode percent norm a hello stream uh guess that's not a command oh wait anything i need to do s is it s either way whatever yes there is vim mode okay i got that listed there i'll define test negate so i've heard of orgrum the whole point is like there's so many things you can do with emacs i just right now i just don't have the time to try and learn emacs because that's going to be an undertaking and of itself maybe one day especially for ess so i can do emacs speak statistics for like r programming but i don't know i might i might not i really enjoy our studio it's great tooling wise to do a lot of our development and uh hey next week's video on monday is going to be a complete and comprehensive walk through all the features of our studio or at least all the ones that i actually feel are relevant yeah there's a million pieces of software in the world guys hey if you do obsidian or vim wiki you can use them interchangeably because they both use a directory of markdown files and if you use vmwiki you can just point obsidian right at it and you can do either or exactly the same ess is emacs speaks statistics i've had i've heard other people who do a lot of r development use it if they're going to be emax users stat is dix can't spell ess [Music] what um am i doing sorry i'm distracted our markdown for the win you know that advice that people give to open source like if you really want to sell your product and by selling get people using it and liking it on things like github or like a website put a picture of what it looks like on the front page on the the readme like make it obvious like i just want to see what this looks like yeah i guess you could just go back to google search but like you know make it easy um if you want resources on our markdown boy do i have a playlist for you i have a whole playlist on our markdown that i've made over time let me get that for you our markdown i love our markdown i've done a ton with it and because of ours ecosystem book down page down our markdown itself is there's so many things you can do with it i think this should be the right list all right what does ess look like huh well our studio definitely has a better looking interface that's for sure huh yes chad r markdown especially if you're like outputting the pdf and you don't want to write pure law tech but you still want to have a lot of good looking law tech like documents and you don't need to have it super custom our markdown is a great way to go especially because if you do need something custom in a lot of way you could easily just add in in the yaml front matter a link to a latex preamble so you could define your own custom commands import packages that you are missing in your law tech code and easily put stuff in the preamble there just fine and you can even just use arbitrary law tech in our markdown because it's all running through pandoc so i mean it's really just like you can do whatever you want really in our markdown i've used rstudio but you can also use vim you can use emacs especially because there's like a single function uh i think it's just our markdown render and you give it the file path to your file and maybe some other small options but other than that just our markdown render and it will render your document through pandoc as long as you have pandoc installed but there might be some issues with that honestly i just i just use rstudio but i have used vim and some like bash compiler scripts and stuff but not not complex [Music] the biggest difference between markdown and our markdown um there's a lot there are so many different markdown standards that it's it's kind of like a if you know what a venn diagram is it's kind of like multiple multiple multiple venn diagrams all layered over each other where like the core functionality of a lot of markdown is a cr is present across like all the different standards but a lot of them do a lot of other things weird or differently um our markdown for one that one glaring difference between it and normal markdown is the fenced code blocks you could just do three back ticks the name of the language write your code and then three more backticks to close off the fence our markdown has the name of the coding language in braces because you can also pass in like argument options and other like meta stuff with those fenced code blocks because it can also sort of be treated kind of like a jupiter notebook where you incrementally run chunks of code to see arbitrary output and then iterate over that and fix it and change it and keep running it and whatever and then in your markdown space just write your text or whatever there's there's a lot you can do with our markdown it is a rabbit hole of rabbit holes which is you can tell by my playlist i have dived very far into sometimes so right hey light bulb if you're still here nick milo just posted some videos on uh obsidian in the server i'm gonna go check those out after stream shamelessly i'm responding to him right now he's actually just messaged me [Music] [Music] um i feel like i keep hearing notification sounds but i'm not getting any i must be going crazy okay well define tasks we're done with that one got that one okay let's start closing some stuff tests are not atomized okay so how do i program in python when i have to i know you don't do too much yeah i don't do much um it's i got a lot going on right now if i'm honest i do want to do more with python though i love r but a lot of the stuff i would like to do with python is more of like actually making some like applications uh and how do i do it well right now i don't really do much of anything i've only really written one like really in-depth useful script which was something i did to like um actually i don't think i can really show it because it has some sensitive info but it was really just something to aggregate my excuse me investment portfolio so it would like you know i think was using yahoo finance that like the yahoo finance module and it was fetching the current stock price or close price for each individual like mutual fund or stock and then you know i gave it a an array or a list or a set i forget the term now i need to just restudy back up this but uh basically it would spit out like the total amount of money i had invested in each item its current like price per unit and then the aggregated total of my entire portfolio and that's it was just like a report i would run for myself and then i you know i have that spit to standard output in the terminal i'd redirect that to a text file and append it and that way i can just grab like grand total and i can see like my grand total of my investments over time i mean i get that stuff in the mail it was just kind of like a hey that'd be fun to make oh how do i how do i do it um i'm pretty sure i was just using vim at the time yeah i tried using kite in vim and in vs code and it was like meh um but pink gloves boxing thanks for subscribing on youtube um but yeah i was using vim i think vs code it was yeah i think i actually would prefer vs code vim right now i still have um actually you know what i still have i think i have it set up from when i was on arch but if i did cody yeah so this is um a neovim buffer but running cody in here i can actually type you know print it's giving me oh that's because i did something weird oh that's because i was in uh normal mode haha okay insert mode print and then hello world and then we'll actually show the output basically like you know going full hacker um simple set it's basically like uh a constantly editable repel that is telling you the output of each line as you iteratively go through it which is really cool and useful i think you can do the same thing in vs code i wouldn't be surprised but like this is something i still have but i don't really use this too much right on light bulb glad you enjoy it um dh uh obsidian is an amazing application that can do a lot of things it depends what are your use cases yeah linking your thoughts linking your notes making a zettle costume and then um like for instance i have like a large network graph well large large for me where it links by through bi-directional linking your different files together and you can easily you know see how different things are connected go in there see your you know linked references your local network graph references link dimensions you know you can do searches all kinds of things it's an amazing tool i got so much to go through it honestly that i got several videos to make i'm honestly really excited to film those and post them so that was probably gonna be like the one some of the first that i post in the next few weeks because i'm really excited for them [Music] do i use google calendar no um i'm already on mac apple iphone so with my girlfriend so it's like we're already on here it all integrates well if you're on the ecosystem so that's why i just use that obsidian is also free and you can pretty much do everything i'm doing for free which is one of the reasons why i prefer it over rome even though it does not have block level referencing yet it's being discussed but there are lots of other things and stuff around it that i vastly prefer it to roam i use duckduckgo indeed indeed okay that one's actually got its links so i can actually just put that right into the forest and then getting things done my literature notes are done back and go the forest all right if i remember correctly this paper wasn't very long so okay let's see here leveraging citation networks [Music] did i even have that in here yes i did okay one of ten i've used our markdown for a lot of things um my cv is written in our markdown i've written a technical manual at work like an entire book using the book down package which uses just a bunch of our markdown files i've made my website or a website it's not mine anymore i don't use it but i've made a website with our markdown using the blog down package that utilizes hugo you can do a lot of stuff with our markdown oh since i use obsidian what do i use our markdown for um my stats analysis if i'm going to do like an iterative r analysis and run code i'm going to be using our markdown obsidian is more for like actually notes to me anyways can you write academic papers with our markdown yes absolutely there are um two great packages i'd like to mention in that respect there is the articles haha they like to include r in the name of everything but articles is actually law tech templates that you use with our markdown that actually output pdfs using law tech but in the style the styles the requested styles for different academic journals and then there's also thesis down for certain institutions their law tech templates to write your own thesis if you're in our market and you could actually use arbitrary law tech it's it's harder but i mean if you're already comfortable with law tech and you're getting everything you've done that you need to with it and you don't really have a reason to switch just stick with latex because i mean the whole point is that law tech is like the de facto standard our markdown just makes it easier for those without a lot of latex experience to just get good-looking latex-like output or be able to use arbitrary pieces of law tech in their document but i mean if you're already on that de facto standard using law tech by itself which personally i think i have a pretty good template myself for just getting some stuff done you know if it works then it works and you're good actually let me pull up some of this stuff since i'm already here talking about it so like i got um let's see it's my cv and then i think it's my templates repo templates arbitrary means like um you don't have to have a latex document to have it compiled and output what looks like latex like if you do the itemize command to do your bullet list you could just put that the whole itemize space and all the item tags all that stuff in the r markdown document in the markdown space like you're ju