Classifying documents in Obsidian using patterns of text. Making file management a breeze. Explanation: https://youtu.be/O_T9DwHW73E
This is an Obsidian vault for the program Obsidian.md download the files extract and open as a folder
- Download Obsidian.md (or use existing installation)
- Download and unzip the file from this Github page
- Click "open another vault" in the bottom left
- Click "open" on "open folder as vault"
- Select the extracted folder which contains a folder called ".obsidian" and click open
This is an Obsidian vault so all Obsidian vault functionality is available
- For the classifications highlight text in any markdown document
- Click the classification button (looks like an open box with an arrow)
- Select "Classify text as new text indicator"
- Follow the prompts to create your classification
- Go to the home note by clicking the home button (looks like a house)
- Click "Classify markdown files in Scraps folder". This will classify all your markdown documents in the Scraps folder with the patterns of text you save in your classifications
- Give it time to classify
- Hit the queries button (looks like "</>")
- Click search classifications
- Enter a link to your classification in the spaces for criteria (using double brackets [[classification name or file path]])
- Hit "manually refresh query" if the below query has not refreshed
- See all the documents that were classified with the criteria you provided
- Realize that you can organize all your files by the contents of your files