How can you enhance your note-taking system in Obsidian to better connect thematic concepts and Remez references across different passages of the Text?
I just started using the Bible study tools in obsidian, and the only thing I notice that is really missing that would be helpful is a chapter index for each book of the Bible. If you look at any of the ESV digital Bibles, at the beginning of each book there will be a link to each chapter. And the chapter title of each book is a link back to the book index of chapters. That would make navigating the Bible infinitely easier.
Another similar example of what I mean can be found on my website, where I made a sort of minimal reader KJV. Salvasean.com - One man's thoughts on life and faith I generated all of these pages using a text version of the Bible and running regex commands to and custom tags around the verses and verse numbers and such, and then I was able to manipulate them how I wanted with the resultant HTML code.
So perhaps this would be possible with markdown using similar code to generate an index with links to each markdown file?
I found another approach to make Bible in Obsidian.
Before I want to use the title of the notes as verses of the Bible- the crucial problem was: long text verses of the Bible is not supported not by OS, not by Obsidian app.
- Now the idea is to use property “aliases” as the place for Bible verse.
For example if we want to implement Bible verse for Exodus 1:1
- the title of the note will be: exodus 1⁚1 or shorthanded version. In title you can’t use symbol “:”, so you can use picture of symbol like “⁚”
- in property aliases: Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
So you can find this note in obsidian using link system easily like typing:
- “[[” or using shortcut to make a link
- “exodus”
- “1”
- space
- “1”
- tab
- and if you want the verse not the link on [[exodus 1⁚1]] you can type “|” to use alias for this file.
- tab and voila
In content part of exodus 1:1 you can type the verse one more time and after you can use some cross references to another verses of the Bible
@SotS I’m not sure if you’re still interested in this, but I finally found a spare moment to share how I laid out my Obsidian vault using MT in OT and SBL GNT in NT, for you or whomever else might be interested.
Two part video demo:
- [https://youtu.be/6C4bkwUjvqQ](Part One: Constraints and Features)
- [https://youtu.be/agr9s68aWdw](Part Two: Required Standardizations and Integrations)
** Disclaimer: Unfortunately I only realized after the fact that the software I used to record my screen doesn’t switch to other applications, so you can’t follow along when I switch to my browser or WSL Terminal (for coding). If there’s something there that someone is interested in, I can send a screenshot or more information.
Some features that I demo include:
- Can add text of any verse arbitrarily (
ctrl+shift+p) - Autopopulate notes by script, based on filename
- Auto-tagging script (batch script -
ctrl+alt+t) - Create links to file from highlight (
ctrl+[)- Also creates link to header
- Feature: Refactor note based on section headers (H1s only) (
ctrl+alt+shift+1) - Color in graph based on tagging
- Vim Regex:
- Turn copied in Greek/Hebrew into h2 + bulleted text
- Split at Atnach (can be modified for any arbitrary Hebrew accent)
If anyone has any suggestions on improvements or optimizations I would be interested to hear that as well!
While I’m at it, I thought I would share a screenshot of the color groups.
Graph Groups organized by Book of Bible
Here is the JSON for the graph.json that produces these colors in case anyone’s curious.
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