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How I Track My Tasks in Obsidian

Two extensions that turn Obsidian into a task management powerhouse — I’ve been using Obsidian to take all sorts of notes for work daily. I’ve been using it for a few months now. In creating a solid system for myself, I’ve created an excellent process for handling all my tasks for work. First, What is Obsidian? Obsidian is a lightweight note-taking app that markets itself…

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How I Track My Tasks in Obsidian
How I Track My Tasks in Obsidian
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5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams

VSCode Extensions that, as a lead front-end developer and architect, I can’t live without. — I work with multiple Front End Development teams on multiple projects. To work with my teams in the most efficient way possible, there are a few VSCode extensions I have come to rely on to streamline my day. It amazes me how far VSCode has come in the last few…

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5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams
5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams
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First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin

A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise — Readwise has released an official plugin to import your Readwise data into Obsidian. If you’re not using Readwise yet, it’s worth a look. Readwise is one of my favorite iOS apps to come out in a long time. I use it every day. So the possibility of automating the importing…

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First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin
First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin
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Apr 29, 2022

How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today’s Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day’s weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note. I used the Templater plugin and a terminal program to get the day’s weather and add it to my note in my original Daily Note Template. It has worked rather well, and…

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How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today’s Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today’s Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
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Mar 21, 2022

Automating My Obsidian Daily Note

How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note. — Up until now, I have been manually creating my daily note in Obsidian every morning. I start many days in the early AM with offshore meetings. So I don’t always get to sit down and plan my day before I get started. Often, I am neck-deep in a conversation when…

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Automating My Obsidian Daily Note
Automating My Obsidian Daily Note
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Nov 2, 2021

Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad

A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen. — I’ve been looking forward to the day I can work from my iPad in a beach chair at the beach. Pull down code, run tests, look at local builds. Well, we’re still a long way from that. …

Programming

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Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad
Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad
Programming

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Oct 18, 2021

How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note

Automatically adding live weather data to my daily note template in Obsidian. — Note: I am now using iOS Shortcuts to accomplish this. You can still add the weather using these steps, but if you are looking for a simple Apple-only solution, check out: How I Add Today’s Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note With iOS Shortcuts Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day’s weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.benenewton.medium.com

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How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
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Oct 8, 2021

How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note

How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note’s meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events. — One of the things I did not like about my original Obsidian Daily Note Template was manually adding all my meetings each day. There are days where I would add the first meeting, then never add another. Then, when I get to the end of my day, I would end…

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How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note
How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note
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Aug 12, 2021

How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note

I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily. — it's been a great week for the Readwise/Obsidian community. Readwise released its official plugin for Obsidian just a couple of days ago, and it has had a great response from users. I have been thinking about ways I can integrate all this newly available data in my vault into my…

Technology

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How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note
How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note
Technology

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Jul 28, 2021

My Obsidian Daily Note Template

How I use Obsidian to track my day-to-day. — I’ve spent the last few weeks using Obsidian as my daily note-taking app. With the addition of a mobile app this month, I am now all in on Obsidian. My work notes have centered around my daily notes. They are the home base of each day, and from there, I…

Productivity

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My Obsidian Daily Note Template
My Obsidian Daily Note Template
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Ben Newton

Ben Newton

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Consultant, Full Stack Developer with 25+ years of experience. https://BenENewton.com

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