Posts on obsidian

Obsidian's search operators are precise, but they only find notes when you remember the words you used. Here's what local embedding plugins add, where they quietly fail, and why hybrid ranking is the honest answer.

Obsidian ships with a custom URI protocol that lets scripts, browsers, and phone shortcuts read and write your vault without you touching the app. Here's how the core actions work and where the Advanced URI plugin picks up the slack.

Bases handles most vault dashboards now, and Dataview's query language covers the rest. DataviewJS is what you reach for when neither can express the thing you actually want.

Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface area you actually need is tiny.

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 get rid of it.

Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command. Here's how to design layouts worth saving, and the gotcha that trips everyone up.

Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross. Here is what you actually give up, and when it is worth it.

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 replace half the plugins people install to find things.

Whole-note embeds are the easy part. Block references are where transclusion in Obsidian actually pays off, and where one misplaced caret silently breaks everything.