Tutorials

www.obsidianttrpgtutorials.com is the home for all my tutorials and templates.

Patreon Vault

This vault is designed as a foundation for people wanting some help on their Obsidian journey.

Design Philosophy: This vault will provide the foundation for you to build on.

Content

This vault does not contain content. It does however contain instructions to obtain the content. Follow the bouncing ball and you will soon be on your way. The notes contained often contain hidden comments. If you open the note in Source mode you will find the comments between the %\% and %%.

Tutorials

www.obsidianttrpgtutorials.com is the home for all my tutorials and templates.

Patreon Vault

This vault is designed as a foundation for people wanting some help on their Obsidian journey. Download the vault from HERE. Extract it onto your PC and within Obsidian.md; create a new Vault from an existing folder and select the folder you downloaded. You will need to enable plugins.

Update the Vault

The Vault is basically time-stamped from the last time it was updated. It is good practice to update your Vault regularly. I generally do this every time I launch Obsidian.

• Settings > General > Check for Updates
• Settings > Appearance > Check for Updates
• Settings > Community Plugins > Check for Updates

Change the Theme

The vault comes with the ITS Theme because it's amazing and designed for TTRPGer's. A number of notes use functionality provided by this theme. You can change the theme if you like but you should install the Callout Adjustments Snippet

To change the style of the Theme.

• Settings > Community Plugins > Style Settings > Options > ITS Theme Settings > Alternate Color Schemes > Pick one you like.

Templates

I use templates for more than just note templates. I create a lot of note component templates. By this I mean templates for things that go in a note. For example I don't know/remember how to make a Callout Box. Instead I press Alt+T and type callout and pick the one I like.

There are two different ways to trigger a Template.

• Insert Default Template - Alt+T - I primarily use these.
• Insert Templater Template - Alt+E - This is used to trigger advanced templates. If you look in the left bar, there is a COG icon at the top with some buttons on that pane. Those buttons are used to Trigger Templater Templates. These are much more advanced and can move the note, rename the note, etc. These templates do not trigger correctly if you use the default template hotkey.

[!NOTE] Note You don't need templates for Callouts anymore. Simply right click in a note and select Ìnsert > Callout. From there you can right click the callout title to change the type of callout.

Default Editing Mode

The default editing mode can be changed.

• Live Preview Mode - This is the default method and what the vault is configured to. Lots of the newer functionality requires Live Preview to work. As such I am using this as my default method these days. This mode lets you both see the rendered note and edit at the same time.
  • Pros: This is the mode that Obsidian is developing for. New improved functionality like Tables and Properties work really well.
  • Cons: Right aligned images and right aligned tables (wiki tables) do not work well or do not work at all.
• Source Mode - This is the mode where you can click a button to switch between Edit Mode (see the text/syntax for a note) and Reading Mode (see the rendered note including images/tables). This is the method used in most of my videos.
  • Pros: Easier to see what you are doing when editing syntax heavy notes. Things like right aligned images and right aligned tables (wiki tables) only work in Reading mode.
  • Cons: Table/Properties do not work in this view.

You can change this to meet your own requirements by: Settings > Editor > Default Editing Mode > [Make Choice]