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What I’m trying to do
I’ve officially transitioned from OneNote to Obsidian to take use of the AMAZING functionality and modification of this software. THANK YOU for making this. I appreciate you more than you know.
From a “power” user of OneNote, I’ve discovered a couple of things that I would recommend if at all possible. I’m not a programmer (yet) so what I’m suggesting might be unreasonable; if so, I do apologize.
I do need to have different vaults, like I had different Notebooks in OneNote. From a business use case this is a must.
Here are my recommendations:
- Across vault search - a fuzzy finder to find anything across ALL vaults; not just the one you are in.
- External file directory accessibility. It would be ideal to have one directory that ALL vaults can point to outside the vault itself. A. Templater, B. CSS snippets, C. notes for global consumption (like a global TODO list, Calendar with Full Calendar or Calendar plugin, etc.), D. other things (maybe a DB folder) I’m sure I’ll find more ideas as I get better acquainted with the software.
I know we can copy / paste all the time. But what a potential disaster for syncing and the like. Yes, we could create a script to automate this when closing the last open vault in Obsidian. But wouldn’t it just make sense? No double entry for our DBfolders, calendars, etc. Double entry is an enemy of accuracy under the best of circumstances.
For example: All things Obsidian could be in: c:\Obsidian; All vaults could be c:\Obsidian\VaultA, c:\Obsidian\VaultB, etc. And all vaults COULD continue to have these folders within their independent Vaults if the use case fits, or some (or all of them) could point to c:\Obsidian\0. Templates; c:\Obsidian\0. CSS; c:\Obsidian\0. Global (for TODO, etc); c:\Obsidian\0. DBfolder_Generic_List_A.
Would be nice to be able to click a button and “inherit” either the CSS, folder structure, or plugins of another vault (some or ALL of these). Yes, we could create a generic copy / paste vault to do this but what if I don’t want ALL the things for a new one Vault due to a different use case?
I know all this can be done manually. But this software is just SO AMAZING that I think it deserves this extra touch. Maybe in the core features?
Again, as a VERY novice programmer, I may have just asked you to build a bridge to the moon so we have convenience. If so, I do apologize.
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
I appreciate you.
This might be unreasonable, and again, if so I do apologize.
Things I have tried
I just ran into something called “symlinks (symbolic links)” which I will soon explore. But just wanted to give some (hopefully) useful feedback from a past OneNote user that uses software such as this on the daily for a variety of specific use cases.
Thank you very much for your time during this rather long e-mail. Have a good one.