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A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.

Obsidian on Mobile: Stop Fighting the Toolbar thumbnail
obsidianJul 17, 2026· 5 min
Obsidian on Mobile: Stop Fighting the Toolbar
Most people give up on Obsidian mobile because the defaults don't match how they actually capture notes. The fix isn't plugins — it's ten minutes in the Mobile settings.
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Obsidian Sync vs. Git vs. iCloud: Choosing a Vault Sync Strategy thumbnail
obsidianJul 14, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Sync vs. Git vs. iCloud: Choosing a Vault Sync Strategy
Your vault is just a folder of Markdown, which makes syncing it feel like a solved problem. It isn't. Here's how Obsidian Sync, Git, and iCloud actually behave once mobile and plugins enter the picture.
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Obsidian CSS Snippets: Customize Your Vault Without a Theme thumbnail
obsidianJul 10, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian CSS Snippets: Customize Your Vault Without a Theme
Community themes are all-or-nothing. CSS snippets let you change one thing at a time, and Obsidian's built-in variables make it easier than you'd expect.
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Obsidian Publish: Turn Your Vault Into a Website Without a Static Site Generator thumbnail
obsidianJul 7, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Publish: Turn Your Vault Into a Website Without a Static Site Generator
How Obsidian Publish turns selected notes into a live, searchable website with backlinks and graph view intact, and when it beats rolling your own digital garden.
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Obsidian Bases: Native Database Views Without Dataview thumbnail
obsidianJul 3, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bases: Native Database Views Without Dataview
Bases is Obsidian's built-in core plugin for turning notes and their properties into live tables and cards. Here's how the syntax works and when to reach for it instead of Dataview.
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Obsidian for Developers: Make Your Vault Work Like Your Codebase thumbnail
obsidianJun 30, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian for Developers: Make Your Vault Work Like Your Codebase
Obsidian is plain-text markdown all the way down, which means the same tools you use on code work on your notes. Here's how to version your vault with Git, get real syntax highlighting, and run JavaScript inside your notes.
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Linking Your Thinking in Obsidian: How MOCs Replace Folders thumbnail
obsidianJun 26, 2026· 4 min
Linking Your Thinking in Obsidian: How MOCs Replace Folders
Maps of Content (MOCs) are the organizing idea at the heart of the LYT framework — and once you understand them, you may never file a note into a folder again.
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Obsidian Callouts: Make Your Notes Scannable at a Glance thumbnail
obsidianJun 23, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Callouts: Make Your Notes Scannable at a Glance
Obsidian's callout feature turns plain blockquotes into visual highlights — warnings, tips, collapsible sections, and custom types — using nothing but Markdown.
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Zettelkasten in Obsidian: A Practical Guide to Atomic Thinking thumbnail
obsidianJun 19, 2026· 5 min
Zettelkasten in Obsidian: A Practical Guide to Atomic Thinking
Most people use Obsidian as a fancy folder system. The Zettelkasten method changes that — here's how to set one up without overcomplicating it.
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