Obsidian v1.2 Bookmarks and Emergence

I'd already done a preview a few weeks ago of the latest v1.2 version of Obsidian just for you lovely patrons, but next week I'm releasing a longer video about it now that it's been released to Insiders. I've had some time to think about how to incorporate it into my Obsidian workflows, and I thought I'd share that here with you all, a full week before everyone else gets to see it. Enjoy!

Note: This video will be unlisted until Friday, when I have to mark it as private shortly before it is published for everyone to see. If you try to watch it and get a "Private video" error, you've probably caught it in that small window. Wait a few hours and try again-- it will be published shortly.

Videos this week

🔴 Lazy GM note taking with Notion and Obsidian

This week, I had the unique pleasure of interviewing Mike Shea from Sly Flourish. Mike is most well-known in the TTRPG community, but others may not know that he's also developed an interesting system of note-taking for TTRPGs as well-- but he uses another app, Notion. Here are some highlights from the livestream:

• Mike's monster database in Notion
• My monster database in Obsidian, and my solution for organizing PDFs
• How to think about digital notes for in-person games
• How to use the "Lazy GM" session prep templates in Notion and in Obsidian
• My items database, random tables, and statblocks in Obsidian
• Using ChatGPT in Notion for TTRPGs
• Differences in approaches between Notion and Obsidian

Best tools for organizing PDFs

I also released my video on organizing PDFs this week, which patrons got a preview of last week. This video is all about my research regarding some tools for organizing PDFs particularly for my non-academic use case, including:

• DevonThink
• Readwise
• macOS + Skim
• Zotero

I chose Zotero... for now, at least!

Project updates

• nvdh-vault: Added Lightning rods of thought and updated default new note template for an upcoming video on emergent note-taking.

To access this and other vaults, check out this list of Patreon perks-- they'll always have the most updated links and passwords for the vaults.

What I'm working on

I've been working on a presentation linking the concept of emergence to load testing, and posting my progress on Mastodon and on my Obsidian Publish site. I'll be presenting it at KubeCon EU in Amsterdam next Wednesday-- tickets are already sold out for that conference, but if you're already going, come and say hi!

The latest build of v1.2 includes bookmarking blocks-- something which didn't make it into the video, unfortunately. More on this as soon as I've tested it a bit more!

Have a great weekend, everyone! I appreciate you.