WEBVTT 00:01.000 --> 00:04.640 In this video we're going to take a look at the notation software obsidian. 00:05.080 --> 00:10.840 Now this was a question from a student asking what my thoughts on obsidian were. 00:11.880 --> 00:19.840 And this is a program that I looked at years ago, never really sat down and kind of learned it until 00:19.880 --> 00:20.280 now. 00:20.280 --> 00:23.560 So I do appreciate you reaching out with questions. 00:23.560 --> 00:30.480 So as always, if you have questions, if you're kind of curious about my thoughts on certain programs 00:30.480 --> 00:35.800 or if I tried certain things and let me know, because there's a lot of tools and programs out there 00:35.840 --> 00:37.480 that that haven't used. 00:38.080 --> 00:43.800 And I'd love to, you know, give it a try if I can, and if I think it's something that's going to 00:43.800 --> 00:46.800 benefit other people, then I'd be happy to make a video for it. 00:47.320 --> 00:51.240 So again, in this video we're taking a look at obsidian. 00:51.240 --> 00:52.280 It's actually pretty cool. 00:52.280 --> 00:57.680 I had a chance to sit down for it and kind of play around with it for, I'd say about two weeks, so 00:57.680 --> 01:04.450 I'm not an expert, but, um, I have started making notes in it And this is available for windows, 01:04.450 --> 01:09.570 for Linux, for OSX, iOS and Android. 01:09.570 --> 01:13.290 So it pretty much covers everything and it's basically free. 01:13.290 --> 01:19.250 You can take notes, you could do all sorts of stuff with it for free, and you can find over at obsidian. 01:21.050 --> 01:25.690 Now if you go down to pricing, you could see some pricing here. 01:26.170 --> 01:29.570 So this is if you want to sync your notes across devices. 01:29.610 --> 01:32.330 Say I have it on my computer, I want to sync it to my phone. 01:32.770 --> 01:38.210 Uh, then you're looking at a billing for that either yearly yearly billing. 01:38.210 --> 01:39.330 Monthly billing. 01:39.690 --> 01:42.130 Um, and it depends what you want to do. 01:42.130 --> 01:48.810 So basic is $4 a month, um, monthly billed annually sync across devices and then encryption. 01:48.810 --> 01:50.930 Version history, collaborate and share vaults. 01:50.930 --> 01:53.490 Priority support $8. 01:53.490 --> 01:56.810 You're able to publish to the web and so forth. 01:56.850 --> 01:58.370 And it goes up from there. 01:59.530 --> 02:05.060 Now in terms of install, I'm not going to go through the install process because it's actually really 02:05.060 --> 02:06.260 easy on windows. 02:06.700 --> 02:16.340 For Linux, you want to open up a terminal, do sudo space snap space obsidian to install obsidian. 02:17.020 --> 02:20.380 And once you have it installed let's open it up here. 02:22.340 --> 02:23.580 This is obsidian. 02:23.980 --> 02:28.220 And if you go to this create new canvas, it'll take you to this page here. 02:28.660 --> 02:33.340 And I could show you something that I started working on this Nigerian scam. 02:34.100 --> 02:38.860 One you can kind of see, it breaks out like a Visio if you're familiar with that or a flowchart. 02:39.180 --> 02:42.820 So sidebar here we have the plus. 02:42.820 --> 02:44.620 So I can actually zoom in here. 02:45.660 --> 02:47.660 And you can see I have initial email. 02:47.660 --> 02:51.020 And then I have the email here I have the email address. 02:51.020 --> 02:55.860 And it has these handy little arrows to kind of show you what the flow is. 02:56.100 --> 03:01.420 Initial email which then I show the email the email address. 03:03.180 --> 03:06.420 And then from there run it through a data breach. 03:06.460 --> 03:13.820 Here's the email body, the sales pitch is this, this, this, so on and so forth. 03:13.940 --> 03:22.220 So you can see you can attach things like images, uh, email addresses, links, URLs, PDF files. 03:22.220 --> 03:24.020 You can see that's a PDF there. 03:24.300 --> 03:27.980 So really handy and I can go back to Graph View. 03:27.980 --> 03:29.580 And I can see all the notes I have. 03:29.580 --> 03:36.660 And if they actually kind of link together and if so how I can move the stuff around too. 03:37.100 --> 03:43.540 But let's go back to create a new canvas kind of show you real quick how to how to do this. 03:43.540 --> 03:52.460 So up in here I could change this untitled for to demo for example, or demo two because I have demo 03:53.060 --> 03:55.780 and you could drag and drop, uh, things in here. 03:55.780 --> 03:59.460 So I'm just going to click on this drag to add a card. 03:59.460 --> 04:00.940 I'm going to add a card here. 04:01.220 --> 04:03.860 And we could put down some like client. 04:07.430 --> 04:08.870 And you can highlight this. 04:08.870 --> 04:12.070 You can add external link format it. 04:12.070 --> 04:14.270 I can make this bold for example. 04:15.670 --> 04:18.590 And I can add another card in here. 04:22.350 --> 04:27.310 Say if that's my client and I want to create a workflow, I can take that arrow, hold down the mouse 04:27.310 --> 04:28.190 button, drag it down. 04:28.190 --> 04:30.390 I can see an arrow attached there. 04:30.630 --> 04:36.350 Now if I need to move this around, I can move it around and the arrow will stay there and it'll kind 04:36.350 --> 04:42.390 of figure out how to create that line from there to there. 04:42.710 --> 04:43.270 Jane Doe. 04:43.310 --> 04:50.190 Then I can do something like, uh, another card job. 04:59.910 --> 05:03.270 Investigate X and again, I could go like that. 05:03.430 --> 05:03.870 Oops. 05:05.750 --> 05:09.840 You could do control Z on windows to delete that if you need to. 05:09.880 --> 05:11.080 I can create that. 05:11.080 --> 05:12.760 I can create another arrow here. 05:13.520 --> 05:18.640 And I could add something like well let's see here. 05:19.400 --> 05:30.040 Let me if I want to add that photo there for example, and say that's x, I could take that and attach 05:30.040 --> 05:30.800 an image in there. 05:30.800 --> 05:32.680 Or I attach a PDF in there. 05:32.680 --> 05:39.000 So again a nice um notation system where you can create all sorts of things. 05:39.000 --> 05:40.360 And this is actually a video. 05:40.600 --> 05:41.680 So that's cool. 05:41.680 --> 05:48.840 You could attach PDFs, documents, text files, images, videos etc. into this. 05:49.160 --> 05:52.680 So again great notation program. 05:52.800 --> 05:54.480 I'm using the free one right now. 05:55.080 --> 05:59.080 I'm not sure if I'm going to upgrade to the paid version, but that's going to be up to you whether 05:59.400 --> 06:03.200 uh, how you're going to use this and if you use it and what your needs are going to be. 06:04.200 --> 06:05.320 This was obsidian. 06:05.360 --> 06:08.720 Thank you so much for watching obsidian, MD. 06:08.800 --> 06:09.760 Definitely worth checking out. 06:09.760 --> 06:10.520 Thanks for watching. 06:10.560 --> 06:11.560 I'll see you next video.