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A few tips for those new to Obsidian:

- Don't rush to install a bunch of plugins. Start with the defaults, learn Obisidian and add only what you need. It is easy for some to spend more time tweaking Obsidian than actually using it.

- If you're a macOS user, check out the Minimal theme, which will make Obsidian feel more native. -> https://minimal.guide/Home

- When you are ready for plugins, you may want Omnisearch[1] to be one of your first.

I used to organize stuff into folders, now I pretty much just create a note at the vault's root level and use tagging and good semantics and use Omnisearch to pull up notes.

1. https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch

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Great recommendations! I definitely agree with running the app without too many plugins at first, especially if you're new to using wikilinks.

I wrote Minimal theme. BTW, I led the redesign of Obsidian 1.0 so I brought a lot of those ideas into the core app. We've also made a big push around using more native components. I'm still improving Minimal, but hopefully the "out of the box" experience feels a lot more native.

> I led the redesign of Obsidian 1.0

Wow! It’s a shame it’s not highlighted in release notes! Great news, and thank you for your work!

it's in the last paragraph :)

Your redesign is a fantastic improvement in terms of both ergonomics and aesthetics. Thank you for this!

Wow! I just disabled minimal because I found the default theme to be perfect. Amazing work!

If you're also responsible for the improved mobile support with the new redesign, great work! It's a joy to use.

I just installed your theme. Great work! Thank you for this.

Awesome work my friend!

"Start with the defaults, learn _______ and add only what you need."

This should be universal advice for everything.

I wish the minimal theme didn't get rid of switching to the finger cursor when hovering over links.

The cursor is a pointer for links. Do you mean buttons?

Also, you can change the cursor by going to Style Settings > Minimal Advanced Options

I think they mean like the macOS-native functionality where you hover over a URL and macOS changes the cursor from an arrow to a hand with the index finger pointing.

This might be the CSS? (I am not a CSS guy, sorry.)

    cursor: pointer;

https://www.w3docs.com/tools/code-editor/2404

Yeah, that is what I meant. And specifically for the UI buttons (although links as well, I was just mis-remembering what wasn't working how I expected it to).

That’s already how it looks though… I’m confused

Yeah I do mean for buttons. I strongly prefer having the equivalent of `cursor: pointer` for all buttons in the UI. This change is the primary reason that I didn't switch to the minimal theme before. Is there a way to bring back the pointer for buttons in the 1.0 default theme? Or will I need to create my own theme for this now?

Edit: Ah I see. You're suggesting installing the "Style Setting" plugin, installing and changing the theme to "Minimal" and then setting the "Cursor style" to "Pointer".

Definitely file an issue: https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal/issues

Obsidian is great but I haven't had much luck with plugins. They often break after upgrades and most are not maintained. Perhaps that will change after the 1.0 release, at least the breaking problem

> They often break after upgrades

I mean. This is what v1.0 is for.

Yes ideally, we'll see. They jumped from 0.15.9 to 1.0.0 :)

There was a 0.16.x released in Insider channel (the beta channel) which already had this new interface.

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