Obsidian Starter Pack

This is a ready-to-go "Starter Pack" for Obsidian.

It is designed to be a starting point for new users, providing a basic folder structure, pre-installed plugins, and helpful settings enabled.

[!tip] Pick 'n pull All templates can be used independently of the Starter Pack, but some require additional customization if using them outside this preconfigured vault.

Features

• 🔋 "Batteries included" pre-installed plugins
• 🙂 Customizable Emoji icons for anything
• ⌨ Emoji popup window when typing :
• ☑ Helpful settings enabled by default
• 📂 Basic folder structure
• 🛕 Templates and Dataview query examples
• 📓 Periodic notes with pre-configured templates
• 📆 Calendar and Day Planner
• 👷 Project management tools
• 🎥 [[README#YouTube template|Automatic YouTube metadata extraction]]

Quick Start

1. Download or clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/quaternionmedia/obsidian-templates.git
2. Open the folder as a vault in Obsidian
3. (Optional) Check for plugin updates and upgrade to the latest versions

Plugins

• Advanced Tables
• Advanced URI
• Dataview
• Day planner
• Emoji Shortcodes
• Excalidraw
• Iconize
• Meta Bind
• Periodic notes
• Tasks
• Templater
• ... and many more!

Templates

To use a template, copy the contents into a new note in your templates folder, then configure your templating plugin to insert the contents into a new note.

Daily / Weekly / Monthly Templates

These are templates for daily, weekly, and monthly notes. They are designed to work with the Periodic notes plugin. They include:

• Daily note header
• Links to the previous and next periods
• Day planner with task list (integrates with the Tasks and Day planner plugins)
• Daily questions
• A notes section
• Notes created today (Requres the Dataview plugin)
• Notes (last) touched today (Requres the Dataview plugin) See the [[Daily/README|Daily folder README]] for more information

[!tip]+ Daily note shortcut Use ALT + D to open today's daily note, or create it if it doesn't exist!

YouTube template

This is a template to automatically collect metadata (title, description, etc) from a YouTube video.

This template uses the current clipboard contents and fetches information from the YouTube API. It includes:

• Video title becomes the note title
• Note automatically moves to a Media folder
• Metadata, including author and channel link
• Tags for media and video
• Watched date
• Notes section
• Video embed using <iframe> Further details and options are explained in the [[YouTube template]]