In this post, you can vote on which Obsidian Community Talks you would like to hear next. Click the link to learn more about the idea/origin of Community Talks, or ask any question you have
Each proposed topic will get its own poll where you can give it an upvote if you’d like to hear that talk. Once a talk is planned to happen at some point in the future, it will get it’s own dedicated forum post for more in-depth discussion and organisation.
If you are interested in giving or requesting a talk, we have created two Google forms:
One you can use to offer to give a talk on a topic, and
One where you can request a topic to be spoken on by someone else.
Please feel free to complete either of the forms if you wish to get involved! The forms don’t collect email addresses, so only the information you decide to share will be captured.
Types of Events
The main two types we envisioned for events are talks and workshops.
Talks are of the flavour “push-one-to-all” in which a single person presents a certain topic.
Workshops are rather “discuss-coordinate-brainstorm” in which like-minded people tackle a (potentially vague) question or problem together.
Of course an event can be of any other shape! In any case, each offer or request should be accompanied with one or two sentences describing its intention.
Types of Polls
There are two types of polls you can vote on: talks that someone has already offered to give (Offered), and talks that have been requested by others (Requested).
For Requested Talks, anyone can volunteer to speak on that topic. If multiple people want to speak on the same topic, they can organise amongst themselves how that will work.
Test Poll
If you haven’t used a forum poll before, here’s a test poll you can try:
Type: Collaborative Hackathon Expected Duration (min): 90 Presenter: @Dextyrio Technical Requirements: Ideally someone would volunteer their Zoom Pro account for use, but this is not necessary.
Longer Description by presenter:
The “rock” stuck in here is a common situation for non-data-mining-scientists who migrated their old-skool PKB (personal knowledge base) to Obsidian: Taking one massive plaintext note of ideas that was imported from elsewhere, and parsing it with Obsidian as a No(or Low)-Code text analytics tool to automate the derivation of contextual meanings.
Agenda:
Part I:
Auto-Headering an Obsidian note’s sections to tokenise them for refactoring
Part II:
Auto-Tagging a header-tokenised Obsidian note’s contents… to pre-process for later built-in graphing or other visualisation with Mindmap/Neo4j.
Attempt to do everything from within Obsidian’s built-in console & plugins alone, else minimal outside desktop toolkits if need be, without resorting to hosted/SAAS web services.
I will give an beginner introduction to using Dataview in your notes. This will include how to add YAML metadata to your notes in a way that Dataview can work with.
This talk will happen on 2021-06-13T16:00:00Z
You can find the post for the talk here, where you can ask any questions or add any comments
Using Pandoc to keep your workflow inside Obsidian
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): 60 Presenter: @SkepticMystic Technical Requirements: Ideally users would have Pandoc installed already, but this isn’t the simplest task. I could put up a tutorial on doing this before the talk so that the audience can have that done before starting. No experience with using Pandoc is necessary.
Longer Description by presenter:
I will give a basic introduction to using Pandoc. This will include converting from Markdown .md notes to various other formats, including Word (.docx), PDF, Powerpoint (.pptx), and Revealjs slideshows.
I will also show how Pandoc can be used with a reference manager to cite sources in your Markdown notes, and have Pandoc build a reference list for you in your chosen reference style. Templates will also be discussed so that you can format your notes as desired.
Lastly, I show an integration with the Snippets plugin, so that you don’t even have to leave Obsidian to export your notes!
Voting Poll & Details
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# Deep Learning on Networks -- Introduction and Use Cases
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In this presentation, I plan to introduce the audience to the basic (and mind-blowing) concepts and capabilities of network analysis, deep learning and what happens on the intersection of both fields. We will derive Neural Networks and Graph Neural Networks from first principles, provide intuition and some examples where these techniques have already been used in research, particularly on Drug Discovery and Drug Repurposing.
Codeless Data Science with KNIME Analytics Platform
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Type: Collaborative Hackathon Expected Duration (min): 40 Presenter: @xnhp Technical Requirements: Yes, Participants should have downloaded and installed the software.
Longer Description by presenter:
KNIME AP is a “software to create and productionize data science using one easy and intuitive environment”. It enables data science practitioners to solve advanced preprocessing, knowledge processing and visualisation tasks with little to no programming knowledge, allowing to focus on the actual task at hand. During this workshop, I will give a very brief introduction into the basics and then we will see together how we can solve our concrete problems.
The Second Brain Implant: Exploring the Interface Between Artificial and Human Intelligence
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): 60 Presenter: @paubric Technical Requirements: A brief look through past projects from Psionica and MML is recommended (Mentioned below).
Longer Description by presenter:
Just like there are sound frequencies we cannot hear and wavelengths of light we cannot see, there might very well be thoughts we cannot think. However, just like there are advanced sensors that can help us detect sound and light beyond our bodily senses, there are transformative tools that can help us think beyond what was previously thinkable.
We can engineer “spacecraft” for venturing into the depths of conceptual space, exploring what lies beyond the pale blue dot of native human cognition. AI is especially well-positioned to fuel this expansion through its unique ability of manipulating abstract representations.
This talk aims to:
provide an overview of recent trends in cognitive augmentation,
highlight the potential of the second brain architecture as a research platform, and
offer a glimpse into the future development of collaborative, embodied, and enactive tools for thought.
The intended audience for this talk consists of:
people curious about ways of augmenting their knowledge work today,
makers interested in building the tools for thought of tomorrow, and
academics interested in the more abstract dimension of cognitive augmentation.
This talk is based on the recent work of Psionica, an open collective on a mission to augment thought for all, although it will also comment on work done by giants from MIT Media Lab.
Voting Poll & Details
This will be the **2nd** talk! It will take place on [date=2021-04-24 time=16:00:00 timezone="Africa/Johannesburg"] and will be moderated by @nickmilo.
Please feel free to ask any question you might have, or share any input on this talk [dedicated forum post](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zotero-101-obsidian-community-talks/16248).
Zotero 101
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): 50 Presenter: @argentum Technical Requirements: Yes, Zotero and the three plugins of the talk should be installed beforehand.
Longer Description by presenter:
I can give a talk about Zotero, why you might need a reference manager, and how to set up the holy trinity of plugins: BetterBibtex, Zotfile and Mdnotes.
This is for anyone who is new to Obsidian. We will discuss backlinking, settings, search, embedding and many other features. It is a general walkthrough of the program along with some ideas about how to store, connect, and find notes.
Voting Poll & Details
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# Notetaking for university students - Discussing the best practices for studying in Obsidian
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Type: Short Presentation with a focus on Q&A Expected Duration (min): 20-30 Presenter: @Wace#0765 Technical Requirements: None
Longer Description by presenter:
I would love to share my current process of notetaking in obsidian as a university student. Using Obsidian has completely changed the way I take notes and study, it’s the program where I spend most of my days and the core of my entire learning process. I will probably also briefly touch on things outside of Obsidian, like my organization and general study process, in order to give better context to the way I work in Obsidian.
The main goal would be for my presentation to be the introduction to a collaborative analysis where we dicuss what are the best practices to use Obsidian as a tool for learning and studying.
This is a tentative proposal to see if anyone is interested in this topic or would like to collaborate on making it a reality! Please feel free to contact me on the forum or Discord if you’d like to participate.
Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): open Presenter: None yet, feel free to post in this thread if you would be interesting in presenting something about this topic or moderating a discussion/workshop/hands-on Technical Requirements: open
Longer Description by initial requester: Preferably in fiction writing. Fiction marketing is also of interest.
Longer Description by initial requester: Journalling can be done for different purposes. I am interested in hearing about why you keep a journal and how you use Obsidian for it. Moreover, I am interested in particular strategies or prompts to make establishing a journalling habit easier and the journalling itself more effective.
Longer Description by initial requester: none given
Requested
Story/visual art development using Obsidian with other tools
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): open Presenter: open Technical Requirements: none
Longer Description by initial requester: none given
Requested
Obsidian for Consulting
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): open Presenter: open Technical Requirements: none
Longer Description by initial requester: none given
Requested & Offered
alternate title given by @Lithou: “Obsidian CSS 101 - Getting Started” (polls cannot be edited).
The Many CSS tricks of Lithou
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Type: Talk/Presentation Expected Duration (min): 60 mins (20 min presentation w/ 40 min Q&A) Presenter: @Lithou Technical Requirements: Will be held via Discord. If you want to follow along, the hands-on will require computer with Obsidian installed and VSCode or other editor of choice.
Longer Description: This will cover the basics of getting started with CSS in Obsidian including some of the basic concepts of how CSS works and interacts with Obsidian.
I don’t know who requested this one, but did you (or anyone else) have specifics in mind? Did you want specific examples covered? More of a Q&A type workshop? I’m down for whatever is most helpful to others.
