I'd recommend going into settings/options and having a look at the "Hotkeys" tab. There's a lot of things that aren't currently set, or default hotkeys that might be useful to you, like:
- Toggle pin - (not set by default) I set this to
ctrl + shift + p
which pins the current tab so it can't be replaced with another tab - Close current tab - By default it's set to
ctrl + w
- Command palette - opens the command palette. By default it's set to
ctrl + p
. The command palette is amazing because it shows you everything in the "Hotkeys" tab. So you don't even need a hotkey set to use something. Like you can open the command palette and search for "release notes" and it will show you the current release notes. If you have the emoji plugin installed, you can open the command palette and search for "emoji" and it will open the emoji toolbar. - Quick switcher - search by note title. By default it's set to
ctrl + o
. But I have the Omnisearch plugin installed so I set this hotkey to that instead.
The plugin QuickAdd is really useful here as well, you can create your own hotkeys. I made one so when I press ctrl + n
it creates a new note in a specific folder with today's date and time as the file name, so I can quickly write something down.
I started to use it as a personal journal (with the help of Templater and Periodic Notes). HUGE upgrade from trying to use wordpress as a journal 😭
But now I also use it as my central collection of notes (about programming, video games, recipes I like, really good short stories or blog posts). Pretty much anything I want to remember, find interesting, or want to learn more about later. I used to have my notes littering my desktop and cloud storage accounts but I've since moved everything into Obsidian. Recently I figured out how QuickAdd works, so now when I press ctrl + n
it quickly creates a new note with today's date and time which is a lifesaver.
- Periodic Notes
- Templater (works really well with Periodic Notes)
- QuickAdd
- Dataview
- I made my own plugin to convert all pngs in my vault into slightly compressed jpgs (as long as there's no transparent pixels in the image)
(just tried omnisearch because of this post and it's such a good plugin)