Obsidian

Info

• Obsidian ← sync through Obsidian Sync
• Settings
  • UI: Minimal with Minimal Theme Settings (Flexoki & Dracula)
    • or: Default theme or Encore
  • Font: Default
  • Quick access to files: add the files/ folder in the quick access of file explorer
• Tips
  • Format your notes
  • MathJax ← basic tutorial
  • Pamela Wang ← YT channel
• Obsidian Roundup ← Obsidian news

Plugins

• Advanced Tables
• Calendar ← in options, change the “start week on” to Monday
• Collapse All ← not needed after Obsidian 1.0 (it only adds expand option on individual folder levels)
• Copy Block Link
• Emoji Shortcodes ← use it when “Toggle icons while editing notes” is turned off in Iconize settings (info)
• Execute Code ← execute code in a note
• Filename Heading Sync
• Find orphaned files and broken links ← find unlinked files (as attachments are not deleted when removing a page)
• Iconize
• Importer ← import notes from other apps
• Latex Suite
• Linter
• Natural Language Dates ← set up the plugin not to insert as links [[]]
• Obsidian x Todoist ← 2-way integration with Todoist
• Quick Switcher++ ← disable [CMD]+[O] for Quick Switcher and set it for “Quick Switcher++ Standard Mode”. Also, remove Open quick switcher from “Appearance” > “Ribbon menu configuration” settings. On mobile, change New tab and mobile launcher options to Standard
• Recent Files
• Smart Typography
• Style Settings ← useful for modifying headings of the Minimal theme (info), etc.
• Table of Contents ← useful to create ToC, e.g. before exporting a PDF
• Templater
• Text Snippets ← replaced with Espanso

Hotkeys

Ideally, don’t sync hotkeys between Windows and macOS devices, because Obsidian’s way of mapping Windows to macOS keys doesn’t always match my preference.

• file operations
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [J] ← open today’s daily note
  • templates
    • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [H] ← templater: insert templater/event_filename.md
    • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [M] ← templater: insert templater/sprint_filename.md
    • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [,] ← templates: insert template
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [DELETE] ← delete current file (however, maybe do not set it)
• text edit
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [Q] ← toggle code
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [B] ← toggle highlight
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [U/I] ← toggle blockquote
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [Y/U] ← toggle strikethrough
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [.] ← toggle bullet list
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [.] ← toggle numbered list
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [L] ← linter: lint the current file
• table
  • [CTRL] + [ENTER] ← table: add row after (you will need to disable hotkey for “Open link under cursor in new tab”)
  • [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + [ENTER] ← table: add column after
  • [CTRL] + [BACKSPACE] ← table: delete row
  • [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + [BACKSPACE] ← table: delete column
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [;] ← advanced tables: format all tables in this file
  • [ALT/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [ENTER] ← advanced tables: insert row before current
• navigation
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [ALT/OPT] + [↑] ← move line up
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [ALT/OPT] + [↓] ← move line down
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [ALT/OPT] + [Z] ← fold all headings and lists
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [ALT] + [SHIFT] + [Z] ← unfold all headings and lists
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [ALT/OPT] + [`] ← toggle fold on the current line
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [O] ← Quick Switcher++: Open in Standard mode
• view
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [E] ← toggle reading view (default Obsidian hotkey)
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [E] ← toggle live preview/source mode
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [P] ← toggle right sidebar
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT] + [9] ← toggle light/dark mode
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [0] ← reset zoom
  • [CTRL/CMD] + [SHIFT/OPT] + [I] ← developer tools

Mobile app setup

Increase font size

Set Font size to 14.

Hide pictures from the mobile gallery app

1. Add .nomedia file in the vault folder
2. Restart the gallery app
   1. If it didn’t help, restart the phone

Two vaults on mobile

For some reason, two vaults may appear in the Obsidian mobile app - one auto-created with a capitalised name. Ideally, use the original lowercase one. Entering the auto-created one may trigger unnecessary file indexing.

Other operations

Changing vault sync region

You can check your sync region in Settings > Sync > Copy debug info, and then check the list.

To switch to a different region (e.g. from US to Europe), you will only lose the sync history (source):

1. Rename the existing vault (e.g. to obsidian-vault-old) via Open another vault > (three dots) > Rename vault
2. Create a new remote vault with the original name
3. Open another vault > Open vault from Obsidian Sync > connect and choose the original location > enter encryption password > hit X (not to start syncing yet)
4. Copy the content from the old vault folder to the new one
5. Open Settings > Community plugins > enable. Also, open Settings > Sync > turn on all options apart from Hotkeys (useful when using multiple OSes; on mobile, consider disabling audio & video sync to save space) > close the window
6. Reopen the vault > Settings > Sync > Resume to start syncing
7. Set up hotkeys if needed
8. Optionally, reorder the icon layout in properties view: outline, calendar, all properties, tags, backlinks, outgoing links
9. Repeat on other devices:
   1. Rename the previously existing vault (you may need to create a temporary vault as you cannot rename an opened one)
   2. Open vault from Obsidian Sync > choose the vault, configure sync settings, restart Obsidian and resume syncing
   3. Set up hotkeys again if needed
   4. Delete the old vault (folder and remote vault)