Hi, I just installed Obsidian and I’m learning how the program works.
I searched on Google and found this guide:
https://medium.com/@andremonthy/stop-overthinking-obsidian-a-beginners-guide-that-actually-works-c46ae9953ac7
After reading it, I understood that the platform is basically a text editor. So, to better understand how the text is organized, I read the basic and advanced formatting syntax topics on the official website:
https://obsidian.md/help/syntax
Okay, now I understand how text editing works. But I still don’t understand how tags, maps of content, and bases work. To be more precise, I don’t know what they are. I’m doing some research, but my gut guided me to ask here first.
What led me to this was a comment on the first guide I mentioned. The comment asked if the blog author would create a new guide after the release of bases. Do bases replace MOCs? Or can I follow the guide without worrying about missing out on a new feature?
There’s no right or wrong way to use Obsidian. Do what makes sense to you and ignore the rest. If at some point in the future, you’ve done enough research and discover that a feature might be useful to you, then you can look at it. You’re not doing yourself any disservice by not using a feature at the beginning, or even understanding how it works. If you don’t understand tags, then don’t use them. Don’t get bases? Ignore them. Not understanding some of the features should not be a barrier to you getting started.
If, as you say, you understand how text editing works, then you know enough to get started. Everything else will come naturally later.
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It’s fine guide.
MOC - just manual written list of links to sub-notes.
Tags - best for select status #todo #done
Properties - works similar to tags, but you can change they type, so they are better.
Bases - automatic list of notes with filter (by tag, by link, by property, by specific words or time)
You don’t want to insert embedded base link ![[aaa.base]] link in every note.
In my case Instead of MOC I created property (Ctrl+;) named “related” (type list) and insert everything related notes like “[[math]] [[biology]] [[John]]”.
Then I can use single base to find note by sorting by property “related”.
Tip: Write more notes so you will know that you need.
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