/Obsidian-Templates

A repository containing templates and scripts for #Obsidian to support the #Zettelkasten method for note-taking.

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Obsidian-Templates for Zettelkasten

A repository containing templates and scripts for #Obsidian to support the #Zettelkasten method for note-taking.

Obsidian

Obsidian is a note-taking and knowledge management app from Shida Li and Erica Xu. It works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files and lets you turn a collection of plain text files into a rich network of linked thought.

More about: https://obsidian.md

Zettelkasten

Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing created by Niklas Luhmann. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.

More about: https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes

Usage

Copy templates to your Obsidian template folder location to make them available as templates within Obsidian. More about: https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Templates

Or use it as part of the Obsidian-Zettelkasten-Starter-Kit.

Obsidian Plugins needed

  • Banners - Adds banner images to your notes.
  • Better Word Count - When you select text, it will count the selected words instead of the whole document.
  • Book Search - Easily creates book notes from Google Books API.
  • Frontmatter Tag Suggest - Autocompletes tags in the YAML frontmatter.
  • DataView - Provides a query language for filtering, sorting, and extracting data from Markdown pages.
  • Periodic Notes - Expands on the idea of daily notes and introduces weekly and monthly notes.
  • Table-to-CSV-Exporter - Exports table data from reading mode into a CSV file.
  • Update Time on Edit - Saves the metadata of the file with the time it was updated.
  • Wikipedia - Gets the first section of Wikipedia and pastes it into your active note.

Basic Template Structure

List of Templates

You first may have a look at my note examples created from these templates: EXAMPLES.

2_Literature + 3_Permanent Notes

4_Bibliographical Notes

5_Structure Notes

6_Project Notes

Special Notes

Template Snippets

How to Use Links

More about: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-use-links/58831

How to Use Tags


More about: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-use-tags/35320

FAQ

Creative Commons License

Obsidian Templates © 2023 by Edmund Gröpl is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Contact

Please leave feedback here in the GitHub discussions or file a new issue if you found a bug or have a feature request. You can reach me via Mastodon too: https://darmstadt.social/@groepl