Obsidian for Beginners: Start HERE — How to Use the Obsidian App for Notes

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an approachable start-here demo for people new to Obsidian.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Linking Your Thinking with Nick Milo

Topic

obsidian note-taking

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• This 6-part video series by Nick Milo is a great way for newbies to get introduced to Obsidian and go up the learning curve rapidly: [VIDEO]

• Browsing through Linking Your Thinking's YouTube channel[1] might be a good first-start. Despite appearances here, I am not a notes fetishist, so I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2]. Jamie Rubin's blog series[4] is pretty good, too. I personally just create …

• The other replies aren't very helpful imo It's essentially an app for taking notes and jotting down ideas, and you write them in markdown. You can link references to other notes within a note to link up ideas. Here's a 12 minute demo that should …