How to Build a REAL Quotebook in Obsidian (and WITHOUT Dataview)

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I've been trying to build a quotebook in Obsidian for years, and I finally figured out how to do it using 1) the Search Core Plugin, 2) a custom CSS snippet (available in my free Starter Vault), and 3) a beta community plugin.
The end result is:
1. A master quotebook with an embedded query that allows me to quickly find a quote when I need it
2. A capture method using QuickAdd that allows me to easily capture new quotes without a source
3. A query that pulls all quotes from an author into a single list of results regardless of the source
In this video, I walk through the exact setup I used to FINALLY create a useful quotebook in Obsidian - and it doesn't even require Dataview.
GET MY FREE STARTER VAULT (INCLUDES QUOTEBOOK EXAMPLE FILES): www.obsidianuniversity.com/vault
0:00 - Intro
1:35 - The Basic Quotebook Query
2:53 - The Query Control Plugin
5:31 - The Custom CSS Snippet
6:30 - How to Handle Random Quotes
7:17 - Capturing Quotes with QuickAdd
8:50 - Quotes from a Specific Person
10:19 - The End Result
11:27 - Conclusion
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
⚙️ Obsidian BRAT plugin - github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian...
⚙️ Query Control plugin - github.com/nothingislost/obsi...
🎥 • Why I Don't Use Readwi...
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@ParadigmYoga 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic walk through of your method Mike, thank you so much for the clear explanation of how to implement!

@MikeSchmitz 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, glad it was helpful 😊

@byronfrohlich9093 5 ай бұрын

Omg thank you so much! Obsidian was my favorite tool but I switched back and forth for the last two years between Obsidian, Notion, Logseq and Nextcloud Collectives. My struggle was always how I'd organize my quotes because no solution besides Notion was how I would like it and I didn't wanted to use Notion because of it being online, unencrypted (or not E2EE) and not based on standard file formats you can read outside of Notion without issues. But this method finally fixed my only struggle with Obsidian and I can now finally use it in peace and organize not only my second brain but also my quotes and books!

@MikeSchmitz 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad you liked it 😊

@menegui 6 ай бұрын

Really cool, thanks for sharing!

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching 😊

@tfthacker 6 ай бұрын

Great solution and I really like the CSS hack for the query control.

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it, and thanks for the BRAT plugin 😉

@Sandalia98 2 ай бұрын

This is amazing Mike, thanks a lot for this epic knowledge! Can’t wait to build my quote book

@MikeSchmitz 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Glad it was helpful 🙂

@brycegardner6171 6 ай бұрын

Nice. I’ve been thinking about this too. Good ideas in there.

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I’ve literally been struggling with this since I switched to Obsidian. Glad to finally have a solution that works 😊

@m1LL9981 6 ай бұрын

Nice work mate, What font are you using in obsidian?

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

I'm actually using a system font for macOS for everything. I like to keep things as vanilla as possible so things don't break in updates. I think it's called San Francisco, but I'm not 100% sure 🤷🏼‍♂️

@bryon1120 4 ай бұрын

Great video but I never quite understood why use this approach instead of Dataview. You still installed plugins so what is the benefit of this approach over dataview?

@MikeSchmitz 4 ай бұрын

The big benefit is it looks a lot nicer IMHO 🙂 I had tried to build this in Dataview but was never happy with the results. This gives me exactly what I want, but Dataview is a fine option too (I use it a few other places in my vault).

@destructard 22 күн бұрын

Will using #quote tags work for quotes which are spread across multple paragraphs/linebreaks? Plz respond

@MikeSchmitz 22 күн бұрын

No. It only shows the line the tag is on.

@destructard 22 күн бұрын

@@MikeSchmitz Awww. I wonder if there could be some way to do that - like using tags to wrap paragraphs with and look them up later.

@OttoVanluchene 6 ай бұрын

Doing the same thing but for my #todo tasks I add to my notes

@OttoVanluchene 6 ай бұрын

Oh and when I complete a task I change it to #done [[2023-12-25]] - To create a completed list

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

I’m starting to do the same thing building out lists for my tasks 😊 Are you using the Obsidian Tasks plugin? That’s what I’m using, it adds those completed dates automatically. But does require another plugin.

@OttoVanluchene 6 ай бұрын

@@MikeSchmitz No plugins just like this with query and line:#todo. I use some nested tags to indicate priority, then I can make separate queries for each nested tag.

@OttoVanluchene 6 ай бұрын

Most of my tasks don't have a hard deadline, but if they have a deadline I mostly use TickTick

@mrespresso9182 6 ай бұрын

Hi, I appreciate your content but it really drives me crazy when you always show the Obsidian screen with the queries only for a second and the immediately sweep back to your face (nothing personal ;)). I’m here for Obsidian, want to follow and understand what you are doing there, don’t need to see your face at all for that, I just need your Obsidian screen for that. It’s like you are doing a product review in which I only see the product for 1% of the time and the presenter 99% of the time. It should be the other way around!

@MikeSchmitz 6 ай бұрын

I do have several courses where I focus only on the screen, but for KZfaq I am going for a slightly different vibe. Maybe I’ll change that up though. Thank you for the constructive feedback 😊