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Starting out with The Archive and Obsidian

jemscottjemscott
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Hi, all
I’m just trying to integrate my methods of working using the above tools. I’ve been using The Archive since its inception and am delighted with it. However, I really would like a way of ‘visualizing’ clusters of notes as part of project planning, and Obsidian promises the possibility of this. But (and its’s a big ‘but’) - I have no idea how to get started with this. I open my zettelkasten as a vault from DropBox, but only a fraction of it appears. Is there a step-by-step guide, introduction or ‘how to’ out there for idiots like me? I’ve done some searches and watched a few videos but am really none the wiser.

Very grateful for any advice.

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  • SaschaSascha

    I can't give you the step by step. But it might have something to do with the file endings. At least, this was it for me, when I tried Obsidian to open my Zettelkasten.

    I am a Zettler

  • jemscottjemscott

    Thanks, Sascha. I’ll investigate that avenue.

  • wjenkins81wjenkins81

    Obsidian works with .md files by default (markdown). You can enable the option to show other filetypes in your vault view using:

    Settings - Files and links - Links - Show all file types

    This will show every kind of file in the vault file list. Obsidian can link to them all, but not necessarily open them, that just depends on the file type. I know from my own experience that Obsidian can open PDF's, various image formats, and embed and play MP3's and MP4's.

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