PDF and video libraries in obsidian

[tal1]

What I’m trying to do

HI,
I’m new to obsidian, so i have a lot to learn.
I want to create 2 libraries - i have a lot of books in pdf format, that i want to create a library for, that shows the cover image, name, author, a short description and a link to the pdf on my hard drive.
the other library is for a big video tutorials collection, that needs to be more or less like the pdf library.
any ideas how I can do that?

Things I have tried

[blue_emperor]

For images see this previous thread

Working with images in obsidian

First, search the help docs and this forum. Maybe your question has been answered! The debugging steps can help, too. Still stuck? Delete this line and proceed. What I’m trying to do So basically if you have ever used anything that actually is designed for the management of images, you know that they don’t really have any features for taking notes, or at least not very long notes and definitely not with markdown or something like that. Essentially I was wondering if any plug-ins exist for thi…

 

Essentially you can associate videos as images as well. Local pdf files can use internal link syntax [[⋯]] or file links [link title](file:///⋯). Create file links using drag and drop.

This is screencapture from Tagged Gallery plugin:

If I understand correctly, right clicking an image in this gallery view should show context menu where you can choose “Open meta file”. This meta file can contain anything like a video link or a file link. You could post a feature request to the plugin repo if you want left click to open meta file.

Similar plugins can be found in this link https://github.com/lucaorio/obsidian-image-gallery/forks.

[tal1]

thank you
i’ll check it out

[Jopp]

To organize your PDF books effortlessly as well as to highlight and export your notes to Obsidian, I’d suggest Zotero.

If you prefer to do everything in Obsidian, check out these community plugins: PDF++ and Dataview.