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

Linking Your Thinking with Nick Milo · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A 12-minute beginner lesson from Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking series introducing the Obsidian note-taking app and the first steps to start using it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “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”

    Great way for newbies to learn Obsidian rapidly.

    MikeCapone, 2021-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files”

  2. “I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2].”

    Approachable start-here video for Obsidian.

    runjake, 2022-05 · Recommendation · in “Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit”

  3. “Here's a 12 minute demo that should give you an idea”

    Short demo explaining what Obsidian is.

    hbn, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: obsidian, note-taking, personal knowledge management, markdown, beginners

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