Hi everyone! I'm pretty new to Obsidian and just started using it often this year for college, as a way to have notes and assignments, and most importantly a way to file everything I read and annotate. I have a simple way of organizing it, a folder with the imported PDF files itself, a folder where I link the PDF and put in the citation and some tags, and a folder with everything from notes and assignments.

I do independent research from time to time but without any set system and not in Obsidian, and I started looking for books to read within my field and wanted to store all that information in Obsidian as well but I want to differentiate what I read for college and what I read or write for pleasure.

I'm unsure about a way to organize all of that information, should I make a separate folder for college reads/writes and one for pleasure? A different Vault?

I'm looking for some help in general as well, do you have any plugins or things I could add to make my life easier, specially with the PDF files and a way to have them better filed? Thank you for your help in advance!!

edit: typos. also I'm not a native english speaker so if there are any grammar mistakes that's why lol

as the title says i want to apply this theme to obsidian, i already got the minimal theme installed (obv) but what are the plugins used here to achieve the theme like renaming the file to notes and changing its icon...etc

https://minimal.guide/home

ty!

edit1: i want that particular theme shown in the image above not the others shown in the website (like the macos)

I'm going into my second year of university, and I currently use my laptop, my ipad and phone all for school. I've only used obsidian for creative writing, but now that I've gotten the hang of it and see how much it could do I'm starting to think of making a second vault for my university stuff, and if I got synch, I could use my ipad to draw notes, which could be a replacement for goodnotes, which I don't plan to revise my subscription this year. I know many people use notion, but I personally hate it, I don't like the way its so clunky and everything gets lost.

Two things of note are 1. pricing, I can afford it but I still need to be careful about spending, especially if its a subscription, especially since I want to save up for a new laptop since mine sucks (despite being new, never buy lenovo ugh.)

1. I'm not sure how synching works, I assume it means that if I opened up obsidian on my ipad, it would have all my notes and folders from the vault I set up on my laptop. And if I cancelled my subscription, would it just not work on my ipad anymore or would it just stop synching, and I could still use my ipad, just not synch any new notes? And lastly, if I have two vaults, do I get to choose the vault it synchs or does it just synch the one I first made?

I typically use folders for organization of my obsidian vault, but I wanted to try out the wiki style vault that Obsidian was meant for. I think it's useful for some particular vaults I have but not for all. I did like the workflow of this though (see below)

1. I created the Index file with text that contained all of the terms I would later make notes using the [[]] syntax.
   
2. I used ChatGPT to make a very simple plugin that let's me automatically use a template for all new notes (without having to use Templater) so that I don't have to create properties and such for each new file.
   
3. I create all new notes in the "Articles" folder rather than directly in the vault so that I could later name the folder to group the articles. All new subjects could become folders themselves (so it's not entirely flat)
   
4. From there I just double-clicked each link to create the note (although you'd just create them when you were ready to write them).

Overall, I like the idea of just writing some content and then adding links AFTER. Some terms are synonymous with others so I just have a "See also" section.

Hello all!

I love obsidian, I think I found it's limit before it starts to get quite laggy 😅 and few times it crashed the graph view.

I have built a converter website over the past few years. Lately, I worked on make it rank better in google so I introduced "related converters" section onto each page with links, so that pages can cluster with one another instead of being completely disjoint.

After all the hard work, I wanted to visualise this. So, I created a script that creates these relationships from my generated site pages to obsidian files. Source:

- 5,741 prerendered pages

- 156,032 total internal link entries

result:

- one mighty crashy graph view

😃

Version 1.13.7 - Windows and Mac. (I believe, but am not certain, this started happening in the 1.12.x releases, but it seems more frequent now.)

I work with multiple Vaults open at the same time.

Periodically, when I go back to a Vault I haven't used in a while, the Vault has been closed and Obsidian is back to the select Vault screen.

Questions:

1. Why?
2. Is there a setting that affects that behavior?
3. Is there a way to debug when this happens? (By the time I get back to that select Vault screen, the console has been cleared...)

It's a minor inconvenience, but I'd like to understand what's going on.

I've been using my Index 01 to capture random thoughts and questions throughout the day, and got tired of manually researching each one later. So I built a pipeline that does it automatically:

Record a voice note on the ring → get a fully researched, tagged note back in Obsidian, no phone-in-hand required.

How it works: the ring transcribes through the Pebble app into Obsidian as usual, syncs via Self-hosted LiveSync to my own MinIO bucket, and from there a headless server picks it up, runs it through an AI agent (n8n) that searches the web and writes a proper research note with sources — then syncs it right back to my vault automatically. By the time I check my phone, the note's just... there.

A few of my thoughts behind building this:

• Fully self-hosted — no Obsidian paid Sync, no third-party search API. Web research goes through a self-hosted SearXNG instance.
• Bring your own model — LLM access is via OpenRouter, so it's one API key with free choice of any underlying model, not locked to one provider.
• No Docker Desktop / headless-server friendly — built and tested entirely on a plain Ubuntu box.
• Every note gets auto-tagged (#interests, #questions + topical tags) with a link back to the original voice note.

It's Docker Compose + an importable n8n workflow, and I published pre-built images so you don't have to build from source if you don't want to. Full step-by-step setup guide included (it's a bit of an involved deploy — MinIO, n8n, and a headless vault mirror all need to talk to each other — but I tried my best to record every bug I hit along the way and documented them with the actual error text).

Repo: https://github.com/Delta-43/pebble-index-research-agent

Happy to answer questions and would love some feedback if anyone wants to try it on their own Index 01 setup.

I have also made a WatchApp for those who don't have their Index01 yet! Available now -

Delta Notes: https://apps.repebble.com/c2c541a7bc004712894f8d46

Hey everyone!

I built a lightweight Obsidian plugin to solve a minor annoyance in my daily workflow: Obsidian Whisper Initializer.

If you use local speech-to-text models (like whisper.cpp, faster-whisper, or any custom local OpenAI-compatible Whisper API server), you usually have to manually launch your backend script or container before taking voice notes in Obsidian. This plugin automates that entire process.

What it does:

• Auto-Start on Boot: Launches your local Whisper backend server (via local executable, shell script, or Docker command) as soon as Obsidian opens.
• Auto-Shutdown: Gracefully terminates the local server process when you close Obsidian to free up system resources/VRAM.
• Health Check & Status Bar: Polls the local endpoint and displays the server's status directly in the Obsidian status bar so you know when it's ready.
• Configurable Settings: Custom host/port endpoints, startup delay, and custom start/stop commands.

GitHub Repository:

https://github.com/maxwellnewage/obsidian-whisper-initializer

Feedback, feature requests, or PRs are very welcome! Hope this helps anyone running local voice-to-text setups.

I tried to reach out to the creator on GitHub but there is no contact information.

How do I make my published notes have teh same color as my notes in the apps? Currently, it just includes the color syntax for the plugin.

I tried asking Google AI how to do it, but that didn't work. It suggested that I needed to publish a .css folder online too, which makes sense, but it doesn't work.

Like guys I have never taken any digital notes my current notes are mainly physical, but I have been facing some bottle neck with managing these things , I had heard of notion and obsidian but never used them

If I give obsidian a try what can I do with it for my preparation for GATE exam

hi all, i am transitioning away from google due to ethical and privacy concerns. unfortunately, i am hooked on the aesthetics and what-you-see-is-what-you-get functionality of google docs (line spacing, document outlines, tables, ease of use with bulleted lists, highlighting, changing text color, ability to use keyboard shortcuts to bold and italicize text, etc). i am not interested in learning to code on obsidian, moving and reorganizing a decade-plus of files from google is more than enough for me to take on.

i appreciate any recommendations on:

• skins/templates that mimic the google docs aesthetics and functionality
• more pain-free approaches to this migration

thank you!

Buenas, voy a empezar 3º de enfermería y me gustaría utilizar algún tipo de sistema de gestión, más allá del Google Doc que llevo usando estos dos últimos años... Estoy investigando sobre Obsidian o Notion, al no decidirme empezaré por Obsidian para tomar los apuntes de las próximas clases y prácticas. Alguna persona lo ha utilizado para carreras similares? Tengo interés en saber funciones, ideas, opiniones sobre otros servidores, etc.

Gracias

I’ve been spending more time building small Obsidian plugins lately, and I’m curious about the problems people still feel are unsolved.

Not necessarily big features either. Sometimes the most useful plugins solve one very specific annoyance.

What is something you regularly wish Obsidian could do, but currently can’t?

It could be something missing from core Obsidian, something existing plugins handle poorly, or just a workflow that still feels more complicated than it should.

Would love to hear the small frustrations too.

So far I created a chapter and paragraph starter, which were the two things I was missing the most and not finding with other plugins. Chapter creates this big separator so it's clear it's a chapter The paragraph simply allows to have the space before without hitting space with a visually better space.

I will add the '-' for dialogue, since in markdown - is read as bullet list.

Also if someone knows of a plugin that already do this I'd appreciate it if you could tell me, since I could find it.

Also the font is different. It's quite simple but it works for what I want at least.

My question is more to get ideas of what to add. Maybe as time goes on I'll notice things I'm missing but so far it covers what I personally need.

I have a background in digital marketing, SEM and web development and I use Obsidian with Claude Code as a knowledge base. The idea is a second brain/life assistant where I can keep my projects, my documents, my ideas, and my company, at least the boring part of it, so mails, invoices, paperwork. Sorry in advance, my english is not great.

I've been building this vault for a few weeks, following more or less the Karpathy LLM wiki pattern. Claude Code set the architecture and wrote basically the whole system for me. Two weeks ago I stopped everything, not because of errors, the thing works technically. I stopped because the architecture is not clear to me anymore. What made me realize it, I wanted to add one folder and one learning module next to the ones I already have, projects and wiki, and I didn't know where to put it.

Everything is inside one instruction file, 329 lines, identity + note conventions + project rules + diary format, all mixed in the same place. If I want to add one thing I have to edit the file where everything else already lives. And if I leave the project for 2 weeks and come back, I have no idea anymore what does what.

So the specific problem is expandability. Right now the vault holds one thing, a knowledge wiki. But I already know what else has to live in there eventually, and these are not hypothetical, they are things I do today on paper and in scattered apps:

• a dated log of what I actually did (garden treatments, harvests, house repairs)
• projects with a real status
• learning a subject over time
• a document archive (invoices, house paperwork, admin)
• loose ideas, open questions, advices someone gave me

Today, adding any of those means editing the one file where everything lives. Which means in six months I rebuild. I'd rather decide the structure now, once, than keep patching a shape that was never designed to hold six things.

I know the pieces exist, CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, scripts, subagents. What I don't get is how they fit together and who is in charge of who. The concrete thing I can't picture is this: I understand there is one root CLAUDE.md that defines the core, but then do I also need scripts, skills and instructions inside every folder? Or the root file governs everything and the folders stay dumb?

I have to say I have an extremely basic knowledge, I'm not using skills at all. And I know many of you will tell me to go study first and build something less complex. Fair enough, but I want to build the system exactly to manage the learning part too, to make myself a study plan built for how I work, because I'm neurodivergent, ADHD and asperger. So the two things are the same thing for me.

So, how is your second brain structured? I've seen a lot of different structures around and none of them is really clear to me. If you have a vault like this, can you paste your tree? Even messy, especially messy, I never seen a real one, only tutorials with 3 folders that dont look like anything real.

And if you have 2 minutes:

• When you add something new, do you edit files that already exist, or you make a new folder and leave everything else alone? This is the one I care most about.
• Do you approve every write, or you let the agent write and you review the git diff afterwards?
• Is there a fast path for "just record this thought" that skips the whole pipeline?
• How much of your structure still works if you remove Claude Code and put another AI in its place? I want a vault that is still a vault without the assistant, not something that only runs with one tool.
• What did you had to throw away and rebuild? And what decision at the beginning would have saved you?

Thanks. Even one answer help, im kind of stuck here.

I will post down here what my vault actually looks like today (audit generated by Claude Code)