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Posts tagged #workflows
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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 29, 2026· 5 min
Obsidian File Recovery: The Undo Button You Forgot You Had
Obsidian quietly snapshots your notes every few minutes. Here's how File recovery works, how to restore a lost paragraph, and why it still isn't a backup.
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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 18, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian Attachments: Take Control of Where Your Files Actually Go
Obsidian drops pasted images wherever its default setting says, which for most vaults means the root folder. Here is how the attachment location and link format settings interact, and how to clean up the pile you already have.
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obsidianSep 11, 2026· 4 min
Obsidian's Note Composer: Refactor Your Notes Without Copy-Paste
Note composer is a core Obsidian plugin that merges notes and extracts selections into new ones, rewriting your links as it goes. Here's how to actually use it.
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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 14, 2026· 4 min
One Vault or Many? What Splitting an Obsidian Vault Actually Costs You
Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross.
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