Obsidian (at obsidian.md on the web) is a new, free tool for helping you build a "second brain" - a place for your ideas to arrive, develop, and stay for the long haul.Obsidian is built on open standards that ensures that your second brain will always be your own. It works with familiar files and folders that stay local on your disk, ensuring privacy and longevity.Yes, it's free.This book provides an introduction to Obsidian and walks you through a handful of key concepts to help you master the software. And the book presents several techniques shared by the wonderful Obsidian user community that will help new and experienced users alike to master this powerful software.
It was not as helpful as I hoped. It neither walked you through starting from scratch, nor gave helpful advice for those who had just gotten started, but needed a little more direction. For example, it only suggested one--albeit very vital--change to the settings. The only useful information I found in it was a suggestion that you use a tag that labels work in progress, so that you can easily find your work. I think the most useful part of the book was the list in the back that gives links to Youtube Obsidian vloggers. I'd say dispense with the book, and just go look for the vloggers on Youtube.
Author apparently assumes the reader is familiar with the technical aspects of Obsidian functions and markdown. Some ideas may be useful for those familiar with the Obsidian software, however the author often refers to YouTube videos which the author seems to use in place of doing the real heavy lifting the title of his book appears to promise. This is not an in-depth nor a quick guide to the usefulness of Obsidian for beginners.
I've been interested in Obsidian for some time. However I needed a short tutorial. I just wasn't getting it. This book fit that need. It doesn't dive deeply into syntax and commands. It does talk a out organization and show possibilities.