Obsidian tidbits

Contents

• Add word variants as alias properties
• Two-sided notes with Excalidraw
• Single-page presentations using Excalidraw

This page describes how I currently use Obsidian. Hope you find this useful 🐱 The page is published using the excellent Enveloppe plugin.

Add word variants as alias properties

You can use the note’s alias property to add singular or plural forms of note titles. For example,

Two-sided notes with Excalidraw

To do. I find this especially useful for source notes. Setup checklist:

• Saving > Files: use .md for Excalidraw
• Add these properties to your note template: todo
• Add a shortcut to be able to switch between the two sides of the page
• Auto-export settings: Keep filenames in sync. Enable autoexport.
• Misc: Fade out Excalidraw markup

To create the drawing page for a note, use the Convert markdown to Excalidraw drawing. This will add these two properties to your note:

excalidraw-plugin: parsed
excalidraw-open-md: true

You can transclude the svg version of the Excalidraw page as usual:

![[pagename.svg]]

See Nicole van der Hoeven’s lovely video: Visual note templates with Obsidian Excalidraw - YouTube

The only disadvantage I’ve found is the extra svg files in the vault.

Single-page presentations using Excalidraw

To do.

For details, see Zsolt Viczian’s A detailed walkthrough of the Excalidraw-Obsidian Slideshow 3.0 script - YouTube