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Setting up an Obsidian vault and linking notes, from the official help pages
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What this guide covers
For people starting an Obsidian vault for their own production notes. It arranges what the official help pages say about vaults, links, backlinks, templates, daily notes and properties into a checklist. It is a documentary reading and was not tested in the app.
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Guide title
Setting up an Obsidian vault and linking notes, from the official help pages
Coverage
For people starting an Obsidian vault for their own production notes. It arranges what the official help pages say about vaults, links, backlinks, templates, daily notes and properties into a checklist. It is a documentary reading and was not tested in the app.
Useful starting points
- A property name has one type across the whole vault, so decide the type before reusing a name in many notes.
- A template's variables can be overwritten by the Properties in document panel unless the values are quoted; the help page advises editing templates in Source mode.
- Do not open the help repository's root folder as a vault; its README warns links may be updated incorrectly.
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