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Posts tagged #productivity
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obsidianOct 2, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bases Kanban: A Board That Is Just Your Notes
Obsidian 1.14 adds a native kanban layout to Bases. Here's how to build a board where dragging a card rewrites a property, where it beats the Kanban plugin, and where it still falls short.
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obsidianSep 25, 2026· 4 min
The Obsidian CLI: Script Your Vault From the Terminal
Obsidian 1.12 ships an official command line interface. Here's how to use it to capture notes, query tasks and Bases, and run vault health checks from shell scripts.
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obsidianSep 22, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Bookmarks: The Core Plugin That Replaces Your Dashboard Note
Bookmarks is a core plugin most people use to pin three notes and forget about. It can pin saved searches, headings, blocks, and whole tab groups, which makes the hand-maintained dashboard note redundant.
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obsidianSep 1, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian URI: Your Vault Has an API You're Not Using
Obsidian ships with a custom URI protocol that lets scripts, browsers, and phone shortcuts read and write your vault without you touching the app.
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obsidianAug 21, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Hotkeys and the Command Palette: Building a Keyboard-First Vault
Most Obsidian friction is the round trip from keyboard to mouse and back. Here is how the command palette, a short list of hotkeys, and a little usage data…
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obsidianAug 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Workspaces: Stop Rebuilding Your Layout Every Time You Switch Tasks
Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command.
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obsidianAug 11, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian Search Operators: Find Anything Without a Plugin
Obsidian's core Search has a real query language hiding behind the search box. Here's how file, path, line, block, section, task, and property operators…
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obsidianJul 28, 2026· 3 min
Obsidian QuickAdd: Capture, Templates, and Macros Without Leaving Your Keyboard
QuickAdd turns Obsidian into a keyboard-driven capture machine. Here is how its Captures, Templates, and Macros actually work, with copy-paste examples.
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obsidianJul 24, 2026· 3 min
Building an Obsidian Theme: A Practical Guide to CSS Variables
You do not need to fight cascade specificity to restyle Obsidian. Override a handful of CSS variables and you have a real theme that respects light and dark…
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obsidianJun 16, 2026· 3 min
Daily Notes in Obsidian: Build a Workflow That Actually Sticks
How to set up a daily notes workflow in Obsidian that you will actually use, from the core plugin to Templater templates and Dataview queries.
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