Unlock Your Research Potential: A Tour of Obsidian for PHD Students
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Published 2023-01-26
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This is a recording of my Zettelkasten Seminar for PHD students given at the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). It was for PHD students researching Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM).
The seminar covers how to use Obsidian for your research and the best way to approach setting up your Obsidian vault.
Part 1 covering the Zettelkasten note-taking method can be found here:
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Obsidian overview
4:17 Lightmode from command palette
5:00 Obsidian Vaults
5:58 Editing in markdown
9:55 Linking
13:40 Attachments location
14:37 Adding a PDF
18:35 Tabs and panes
22:04 Example atomic notes
26:42 Links and backlinks
27:37 Hashtags and tag pane
30:42 Adding web links
31:50 Command palette
32:38 Zoom in and out
32:51 Graph view
38:18 Local graph
38:51 Obsidian canvas
44:22 Front matter metadata
45:13 Metatable plugin
46:36 Community plugins
50:15 Code blocks
52:58 Dataview plugin
57:23 Kanban plugin
58:36 Checklists in Obsidian
59:47 Embed note blocks
1:00:41 Mathjax in Obsidian
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All Comments (16)
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I have literally been searching "Obsidian for PhD research" for the past couple weeks because I am just starting my PhD journey. Perfect timing! Thanks!
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You gave this talk literally where I did my own PhD! This would have been so useful back then hahah
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Astonishing content Martin 🔥🔥🔥
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Exactly what i need! Thank you!!
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I’m a first year PhD student in the U.S.! Thanks for sharing.
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Your content is incredible…
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I completed my PhD in 2019 and would have loved a tool like Obsidian! I’d been saying to my peers for years, ‘wouldn’t it be amazing if we could produce a thesis of networked ideas and arguments, rather than this linear thing?’ It just wasn’t what my brain wanted to do. I got through it in the end but I’m sure it would have felt way more natural if we’d had Obsidian.
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Thnaksssss.
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I jumped on this video so fast when I saw it in my youtube feed! Havent seen a video from you in awhile. Hope you are doing well in your zettlekasten handbook writing.
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I know that this video was released more than 1 years ago, but I hope that you’ve already known that you can use command to toggle between a bullet list and an ordered list. Update them manually is pretty tedious and time-consuming.
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Thank you for that very important content ! But the quality of the sound paired with the absence of reliable subtitles made it pretty difficult to understand everything, also as english isn't my mother language. Will check the ressources you put in the description, but this is more as an advice for your next videos :)
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YouTube offered me this video in response to the search for *writing up a PhD thesis using Obsidian*, but I think the video answers a different question. Doing research for a PhD is no different from doing any other kind of disciplined research, but how to take care of exporting the chapters and the refs in the correct order into a PDF to send to the printers to produce a bound hard copy of the thesis -- that part still isn't clear to me. I don't want to deal with things like RMarkdown or other overloaded options. Perhaps there is an Obsidian plugin I ought to know about that does exactly what I'm after? Please share your experiences and advice. Thank you!
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Which program he used to sync his vault? He said at the beginning he had used Google Drive but then he changed to what?
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Highlight : You can play quake in it
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Good information but the sound quality is bad. Also, don't just upload a seminar that you did with a live audience as the intended target. It's different when we are watching it online. Perhaps you should redo this for online audience with better sound quality and no interruptions from live audience when we can't even hear their questions clearly.
