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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.

  • harrharr
    edited February 25

    @jemscott said:
    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?

    Obsidian doesn't recognize .txt files as notes. It evaluates only files ending with .md.

    If your notes' filenames end with .txt, you have to rename them to .md.

    You might have to update your settings in The Archive. Default Note Extension should be .md. Plain Text File Extensions should include md.

    @jemscott said:
    However, I really would like a way of ‘visualizing’ clusters of notes as part of project planning, and Obsidian promises the possibility of this.

    Don't be disappointed, if the visualization doesn't work as expected, even when you can see all your files. Obsidian is a powerful tool. But it requires a lot of training and practice to make it work for you.

  • ctietzectietze

    @jemscott You may enjoy external visualization tools as well that could work without much tweaking (but require different kind of prowesses)

    zkviz https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/3606

    my own Ruby script https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/699/graphviz-ruby-script-to-visualize-zettel-network-starting-at-a-particular-note

    Author at Zettelkasten.de • https://christiantietze.de/

  • jemscottjemscott

    Fantastically helpful as always, folks. Thank you. I’ll have a look at these suggestions and report back.

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