Reminder: Eleanor Konik's Feed Has Moved I'm over on Substack now! ⌘ Read more

🏄‍♀️ State of the Eleanor 03 I had a baby. The Obsidian ecosystem has evolved. Find out what that means for the Obsidian Iceberg 👀 ⌘ Read more

📚 Reading Roundup: Chill Fiction Edition Mini reviews of books that don't mess with my postpartum emotions. Think overpowered protagonists, slice of life stories, & underpants jokes. ⌘ Read more

Writing Long Form Content With Obsidian An evaluation of the viability of using Obsidian for long form content as opposed to tools like MS Word, Google Docs, & Scrivener. ⌘ Read more

🌠On Hiatus Due To Impending Baby Some resources for staying up to date while I'm out on maternity leave. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Tasks & Projects updates, TTRPG tips, & Reddit Alternatives Insights into productivity & society, tools for academic compiling, and new password protection options. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Pretty Callouts & Developer-oriented plugins Featuring guides for verifying encryption, using Obsidian for TTRPGs, link to tab, and Zotero Citation Picker. ⌘ Read more

🌠 New Branding, LLM vs PKM, & improved keyboard control Buttons needs a new maintainer, there's a new TTRPG community vault, & Tasks continues with fast-paced updates. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Recipe importing & Linting improvements New themes, productivity Shortcuts for mac, and systems for pairing digital & analogue. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Conference Videos, Dendron support, & Improved Reference Counting Showcasing teachers, authors, medical students, people impacted by LLMs, gardeners, and mathematicians. ⌘ Read more

🌠 PDF improvements & More AI Options Check out some great guides on how to create folder and tag systems, and how to use the Strange New Worlds & bookmarks plugin! ⌘ Read more

📰 The Intricacies of Ivory Explore elephant, narwhal, hippo, walrus ivory's captivating history & uses in jewelry, tools, games, & trade. ⌘ Read more

🌠 GPT Tips & Tools, Atomic Notes Advice, & Graph Filter Saving New dev docs & a hub for medium articles, rapid logging tips, & a guide for ensuring productivity goals don't stress you out. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Huge Publish Improvements, a Telegram integration, & more LLM options New plugins for scientists & storytellers. Guides for knowledge management & new features. Plus, a review of a year in Obsidian. ⌘ Read more

🌠New Integrations with Confluence, Github, GPT, &etc Set goals, reward yourself for codewriting, search tasks, protect your privacy, and make Obsidian (even more) beautiful. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Joke plugins, hands-free notes, & table improvements Tasks styling, a plugin for day trading, multi-column embeds & callouts, and a method for taking notes about people. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Better Bookmarks, Word Counts, & Borders Natural language syntax highlighting, improved reviews and habit trackers, and a nifty way to leverage Google for searching your vault. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Improved Community Updates & Task Searching New folder plugins, LLM powered plugins, plugin APIs, improved audio notes support, and some neat new public vaults. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Plugins for writers & 7 new LLM-based additions. The Digital Garden plugin now supports style settings and RSS (!), Canvas continues to be a hit, and there's improved collaboration tools for Git. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Bookkeeping, Eisenhower Matrixes, & Pretty Canvas Cards An interview with Obsidian's new CEO, workflow tips, and a personal note about the Silicon Valley bank run (I'm fine; I hope you are too). ⌘ Read more

🌠 New APIs, + Curated Lists for Vim Users & Interoperability Fans Digital Decluttering, GitHub Auto Scans, Obsidian on e-ink devices, & a handy autohotkey script for folks who want to control youtube in the background. ⌘ Read more

💚 Updated notes, Discord server, & an anthology Access an RSS feed of interesting (and occasionally annotated) articles, check out some of my very short stories, and more benefits for financial supporters. ⌘ Read more

💰 Some stuff I'm surprisingly happy I bought A bunch of stuff nobody is paying me to tell you I liked. ⌘ Read more

🌠Gems of the Year & RSS still isn't dead Auto-close on Mac, generate TTRPG content, & improve your audio notes transcription ⌘ Read more

🌠 Publish updates & highlights syncing Canvas updates, zen mode, improved podcast handling, & the ability to mass delete tags. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Natural Language Search & a New CEO Improved flashcards in spaced repetition, guides and tools for spacial thinking, and different perspectives on note taking and naming. ⌘ Read more

🌲Building a habit of checking in with the bigger picture On the importance of knowing when to sit down and dive deep into your notes... so you don't get overwhelmed always keeping them neat. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Git plugins & OCR improvements Improved inbox experiences, more better backlinks, gems of the year voting, & a new scifi theme based on Cyberpunk 2077. ⌘ Read more

📰 On Famines: why and how they happen. To who? Agrarian societies experience famine for a variety of reasons, including poor governance, war, and weather. ⌘ Read more

🎓 Recordkeeping Cloth records, syllabic scripts, and bone calendars. ⌘ Read more

🏄‍♀️ State of the Eleanor 02 Complementary subscriptions, a new chronic condition, & upcoming research updates. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Plugin graphs & academic tools Tasks now supports custom statuses, table experiences are enhanced, & there are new tricks for emacs users. ⌘ Read more

🎓 Feces Antiseptic poop, agricultural poop, & the surprising value of eating poop. ⌘ Read more

🌠 More LLM Integrations & Sample Notes for Cooking, Workouts, etc. Obsidian's nominated for a Golden Kitty in Productivity, there's a new RGB theme. Plus, fancy new dataview & templater scripts for day planning & YouTube metadata. ⌘ Read more

🌲 My favorite productivity app that isn't a productivity app Old, simple tools are often still useful, especially when paired with a practice of frequent check-ins with your goals and mental state. ⌘ Read more

🎓 Cleaning Quick facts about historical cleaning methods from around the world, from lotus leaves to bronze knives; the secrets of urine, rice water, & sulfur. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Use Cases for Canvas & New Courses and Sample Vaults Mobile has Canvas now, you can render 3D model files, and there's a new Clockify integration. ⌘ Read more

📚 Food as Currency On the origins of agriculture, money, & currency ⌘ Read more

🎓 Sleep Ancient science, modern discoveries, & animals that sleep with one eye open ⌘ Read more

🌠 AI, Canvas, Terminal & Tasks plugins Improvements to academic workflows, an upcoming successor to Dataview, and the return of AnuPpuccin. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Obsidian October Winners & AI Integrations A guide for using Readwise with Obsidian, a demo vault for computer engineering students, & the first Canvas plugins. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Whiteboard Canvas for Mindmaps, & a personal note Canvas showcases and a holiday hiatus. ⌘ Read more

🌠 An academic vault tour & weekly review templates Media workflow diagrams, film project dashboards, daily journaling discussions, python libraries for batch-changing metadata, and more! ⌘ Read more

🌠 Weekly Reviews, Zen Mode, & Aggregation System commands & tips for making notes useful. ⌘ Read more

🌲Using Obsidian for Teaching? For the most part, my teaching notes are very simple and low-tech. But Obsidian was helpful when I was allowed to use it. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Doom! & Scrollable Daily Notes A request for python devs to help out with the community hub vault, a new comprehensive tutorial for beginners, & discussion of YAML APIs. ⌘ Read more

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🌠 Stable Diffusion, Clean Dashboards and 2022 Workflows A new social media instance for personal knowledge management & a theme to bring back old-style Obsidian. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Email Fetching, Fancy Templating & Improved Longform Writing Fields for tags, academic workflows, & a great method for using Obsidian to improve onboarding at a new job. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Supercharged tags & a new Zotero integration Lots of new color schemes are proliferating. Plus, inspiring stories about quitting marijuana and putting visual studio code inside of an Obsidian window. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Improved note relationship sensing & Catppuccinos! Kepano shared some thoughts about the AI-assisted text generation plugins, there's a new plugin for RTL/LTR language detection, plus: improved OCR ⌘ Read more

🌠 Obsidian Out of Beta, Obsidian October Extended Table generators, advanced project management options, & a guide to Charles Darwin's note taking method. ⌘ Read more

🌲The Konik Method for Making Useful Notes How to make notes for reference, not self-improvement: A practical guide to messy notes meant to be used, not admired. ⌘ Read more

🌠 PDF Indexing & Live Preview Table Edits Tips on time blocking, a dashboard for dataview queries, & management tools for Magic: The Gathering. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Pandoc, Happiness, & Dataview Tricks Weekly notes, Eisenhower matrixes, and my new job with Readwise. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Community Contest & Spaced Repetition Improvements There's a new interactive medical terminology dictionary, & a step-by-step guide to setting up a second brain in minutes per day. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Dataview Example Vault, Book Club, & Ecosystem Stats Memes about minimalism, bullet backlinks plugin, timeshifting, a book club, and an upcoming mystery event. ⌘ Read more

🌲 Using RSS to curate opportunities I divide my RSS feed according to how I can interact with the articles, how far along I am with processing the information, and how I think I can use them later. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Bulk Rename, Cleanup Routines & Mobile git There's an upcoming discussion of daily logs, a new jira integration, and a job opportunity from the folks at Readwise right as Obsidian's team expanded too :) ⌘ Read more

🌠 Tabs and a new Default Theme Dataview has its own channel and I can’t access Discord until next week. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Visual Notetaking Guides & Demo Vaults for Managers You can now push notes to Readwise's Reader app for improved spaced repetition review. You can also comment on the Roundup! ⌘ Read more

🌠 Mobile Git Backups & a Hotkey Keyboard Map A new tool for diffing PDFs, a new method for managing RPG campaigns, and guides for using Obsidian with Devonthink or Dendron. ⌘ Read more

🌲 Don't Minimize Difficulty Easy in the eye of the beholder. But also, sometimes things really are easier than we think, if we just give them a chance. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Dataview to Mermaid & PDF conversions Sync highlights and annotations from Raindrop & execute codeblocks interactively, a la Jupyter. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Quick Share & a new Minimalist Theme Group snippets for one-click activation, compare tags and folders, & improve your inline metadata. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Obsidian Shirts, Grouped Tasks & 1-min Guides New ways to group tasks, customizable spaced repetition buttons, & default theme discussions. ⌘ Read more

🌠 Boolean Task Queries & Improved Sidebar Controls Plugin settings design tips & productivity book recommendations. ⌘ Read more