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  • learn keyboard shortcuts
    • Ctrl+P – Command Palette
    • Ctrl+O – Open or Create a page
      • Ctrl+Enter in Open dialog to open in new tab
  • Formatting
    • Obsidian uses Markdown for formatting
      • Shows you rendered text in regular edit mode, but when your cursor is inside a section with formatting, the raw format code is displayed so you can edit it.
    • Checkboxes / Toggle Checkbox Status
    • tips / callout
  • Tabs
  • Community Plugins – turn on
    • Don't just go installing every plugin that looks fun.
      • Example: Checkbox 3 states plugin – do you really need this, or maybe you could just add a tag #progress to the checkbox
  • Base plugins
    • Auto Template trigger
      • I like to put created date in every page template
    • Custom Attachment Location
    • Image Converter
    • Copy Document as HTML
  • Journal
    • Activity
    • Charge Code
    • Person
    • Office
    • Doc
    • plugin Quick Links
  • Catalog
    • navigating by backlinks
    • tip: show backlinks at bottom of page
    • plugin Dataview
  • Howto
    • tags
  • People
  • Attachments
  • Organizing attachments, templates, and other auxiliary files into " ` " folder
  • Working around "folders aren't pages"
  • Syncing
    • NextCloud, git, etc.
    • Obsidian Sync – price, etc.
    • Exclude .obsidian/workspace.json from syncing
    • Alternative to mobile sync: use a simple notepad as an inbox on your phone
  • Snapshots
    • enabled by default
    • saves locally in Obsidian's volatile data / cache folder; can't recover versions that were saved on ANOTHER computer
  • Tips
    • Open image in default viewer for larger size