My Obsidian Setup
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Working with Citations
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A separate page with my instructions on how to insert citations in Obsidian that can then be exported to a Word file. The setup allows you to enter citations in Obsidian with Zotero and continue to edit those citations using the Zotero plugin in Word after export.
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A page for more advanced Customizing Obsidian to Word|customizations when exporting. (Work in progress.)
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Long Form Writing
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These markdown formatted footnotes can be converted to regular footnotes using the same procedure described for exporting your document with citations.
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Not sure if it is necessary but the Tidy Footnotes plugin will re-number your footnotes sequentially if they get out of order due to cut and paste.
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Quickly toggle focus mode to hide distractions
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Keep text in center and fade other paragraphs
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Make in-line notes and comments and track them in the sidebar.
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Track Changes
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NOTE: This is currently broken and the developer hasn't updated it in nearly a year. You can track progress here.
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Supports CriticMarkup syntax, a markdown-based syntax for tracking changes, as well as adding comments and viewing them in the sidebar. Note that this is still in beta - you need to install it with the BRAT plugin below. I wouldn't recommend this unless you know what you are doing, but a neat trick is to ask ChatGPT to use CriticMarkup when making suggestions on your writing. That way you can go through the suggestions one-by-one and accept or reject them individually.
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UPDATE: I've written a blog post about how to use this.
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Styling and UX
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Blog and Newsletter Related
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I keep separate Obsidian vaults for different purposes. One for longform writing, one for my blog, one for my digital garden (this website), and one for my newsletter. This allows me to better customize each one for different workflows. Here are some I use for my blog and newsletter
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Use this for my blog, as it gives one-click export to my Blot folder.
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Makes the first heading match the file name. (I only use this one for my blog, otherwise it isn't needed.)
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I use this for writing my newsletter, which is hosted on Ghost.
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Custom CSS sippets
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Added this to the alternative checkbox css because the iA Writer theme tries to force its own plain text checkboxes.
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/* Custom styles for checkboxes */ body input[type="checkbox"].task-list-item-checkbox { /* Reset default checkbox appearance */ appearance: none; -webkit-appearance: none; -moz-appearance: none; background: transparent; width: 15px; /* Custom width */ height: 15px; /* Custom height */ border: 2px solid var(--checkbox); /* Custom border */ cursor: pointer; /* Hand cursor on hover */ position: relative; /* To position pseudo-elements */ } /* Override the ::after pseudo-element for unchecked tasks */ body input[type="checkbox"].task-list-item-checkbox:not(:checked)::after { content: none; } /* Custom styling for checked state */ body input[type="checkbox"].task-list-item-checkbox:checked { background-color: var(--checkbox-done); /* Example checked color */ /* Add other styles for checked state if needed */ }
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I also like high contrast orange text:
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body, p { color: #f6ad55 !important; /* Bright orange color, with !important to ensure it overrides other styles */ }
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