I was counting down the minutes to start playing with #Obsidian Bases, but I knew something as cool as that would mean disrupting so many other projects in progress. Today, I finally started playing with it, and I’m glad I hadn’t done it before. Wow! 😳 The potential is blowing my mind!
🎉 I finally found my GeoCities address!
For a long time, I’ve been going through all these #GeoCities archives, searching for everything I remember having on that first site I ever created. I tried the title of the site, content I remembered, and so on. But because the results never contained the page itself, I kept ignoring them. This time, I don’t know why—maybe out of curiosity—I decided to open some of the pages, and boom! One of them had a link to my page.
Finally finding the address was so exciting, but unfortunately, the oldest archive I could locate is from 1999, which is too new. It’s a more modern version of the website, not the first one I created. But at least I now have something more precise to keep my archaeology interests alive.
[Update] Just found out that the archived site from 1999 has this at the bottom of the page: © Copyright 1997 - Vladimir Campos. Meaning that I believe it is fair to say that my first website was published in 1997. Almost 30 years ago 😳
Careful. This can mess up your Obsidian Vault settings.
What you are about to read is a real story that happened to one of my clients recently.
Let me start with some context. This is a person who was an Evernote user and who recently switched to Obsidian. He contacted me to help him with his company’s workflow and also with his personal life organization.
We started with the personal life part, and as I was showing him how to set up the Timeline System, I was also sharing some Obsidian good practices. There was a lot to do, and that’s why I was gradually introducing him to the system and adding plugins as he needed them. All that to say that it was a bit frustrating for him to see everything going away so easily.
When he shared his screen, the accent color he had already changed was back to the default purple, all the plugins were gone, and there were other small problems here and there. I could clearly see that something had happened to the Obsidian settings folder, but when I asked if he had done something to it, he told me he didn’t even know about it. Just in case, I decided
As I mentioned the other day, migrating to EU services is much harder than I thought. Creating the redirect rules was proving to be more complex than I anticipated, especially since I also have a website in Portuguese, which is now on a separate domain. Anyway, I would rather not waste your time with this massive can of worms. Long story short, I moved the website domain back to .com. At least it’s still hosted on an EU server.
The Global Search and Replace is yet another incredibly useful #Obsidian plugin that lets us find and change specific text in several notes at once. It really helped me with my most recent project, where I had to change a few details in so many notes.
Moving all the online services I use to the EU will definitely be much harder than I anticipated, for many reasons. So, I decided to take the small steps I can already deal with.
The Mastodon instance I regularly post to is already in Europe. As for #Obsidian, I run my own syncing service between my home and office. A few months ago, I moved my Supernote notes to a server in Europe. And because I was already working on the migration of my site back to Micro.blog, I decided to move it to a server in Europe and also switch the domain from .com to .eu.
In case you don’t know…
According to Wikipedia, “The
.comdomain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.”As for
.eu, it is “based on Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 and was launched in December 2005. EURid, a Belgian not-for-profit organisation, manages the.euTLD registry.” Source
I don’t believe small attitudes like this make any difference in the grand scheme of things, but they definitely make me feel better, and this matters a lot.
I finally replaced the small tripod that used to clutter my mini home office desk. Using too much space wasn’t the only problem; it was also a bit wobbly, causing my separate clips to be slightly misaligned. You probably never noticed, but it drove me crazy during editing!
I’ll be talking more about this on the vladcampos Labs channel, but the white tube holding the articulating arm is actually an upside-down table leg! 😁 They’re cheap, come in multiple sizes, and are super easy to screw into any wooden surface. I have a bunch of them all over my studio, and I love them.
P.S. That iPod is not a decoration piece. I actually use it
The Multi Properties plugin was a lifesaver for my recent project (you know, that one 😉). It made adding and removing properties from several #Obsidian notes super easy. If you’ve been looking for a way to do that, I just published a video explaining exactly how to use it.
I finished importing all my #Obsidian #Markdown notes (posts) into Micro dot blog. Of course, there were some glitches and some problems I created myself, but overall it was as easy and simple as something like this gets. I took many notes along the way and had many ideas that I intend to share in a longer post and some videos.
One thing I would love to be able to do on #Obsidian would be to click on a file in the files list and then use the up and down arrows on the keyboard to switch from one file to another on the list. 🤔 Hmm, there’s probably a plugin that can do that.
My entire website was created using Obsidian notes, all written in Markdown. I already knew that Micro.blog supports Markdown, but when I started entertaining the idea of moving my site back there, I found out about the Markdown import feature, which uses the Frontmatter (Properties) for the post title, publication date, URL, and even tags.
After a few hours testing the tool with some of my posts, I was ready to start cleaning all of them, so I copied them to a new Vault. The Multi Properties and Global Search and Replace plugins were so useful that I’ll probably publish videos about them.
There are people who see Obsidian as a tool for developers, but when I find and use plugins like the above to perform complex tasks with a click of a mouse, what I see is a powerful tool making anyone’s life much easier.
PS. The website migration process is still in progress.
I know, I know. I just told you about my idea of using Micro.blog as a Social Hub but, to be fair, I also said it was a test. Anyway, I changed my mind. I’m moving my entire site back to Micro.blog 😳.
Okay, there will be a longer post or a video about this, but the TL;DR is:
- The few posts I’ve published since I started this experiment reminded me how much I felt connected to you guys when I was posting all the time on my blog.
- This was the perfect combination of elements to finally switch my site to an EU server and my domain to
.eu.
More on all the above later. For now, have a lovely weekend.
PS.: While I’m in the process of moving all my content from my .com address to this new .eu home, both sites will be active.
There’s no such thing as an uncomplicated subject in the #EU.
New euro banknotes spark Franco-Polish dispute over Marie Curie’s name
They can definitely use a little cleaning, but now that I found the #Pebble straps I have another excuse to finally start fixing the watch.
The more I share my ideas, the more ideas I get. I just made a small improvement to the Tasks system I created on my #Obsidian Home Page. Video coming up soon. Maybe today! 😉
As a Star Trek fan, I had no choice but to immediately click on that YouTube thumbnail: “Official Trailer | Star Trek: Khan.” It was impossible not to!
When I started watching it felt like a game promotion, which was a bit frustrating since I’m not a gamer. But like any true fan, I didn’t give up.
“George Takei? This is definitely a game,” I thought, yet I kept watching. Then came the big reveal: It’s a podcast! 🤯 Wow, I was not expecting that.
I still need to test sharing YouTube videos and articles from my main site, but I’m enjoying the idea of having a Social Hub so far. Especially for sharing short posts like this one. On the other hand, I’ll need to rethink my content organization strategies for my main site because this new “portal” also doubles as a timeline.
As for my videos, I’m starting the tests now 😊. I’ve set them to automatically be posted on my Social Hub, which will in turn send them to Mastodon and Bluesky. So, just a heads-up: some posts might look a little rough around the edges on my Bluesky and Mastodon as I work out the possible glitches.
Have a great week 😉