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Thoughts on Obsidian for RPG Prep
Episode 630

Thoughts on Obsidian for RPG Prep

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

March 15, 202454m 36s

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Show Notes

Mike explores using https://obsidian.md/ for tabletop RPG prep.

Episode Contents
  • 00:00 - Show Start
  • 01:18 - Why Obsidian?
  • 02:40 - Choose the Tool You Dig
  • 04:19 - What Is Obsidian
  • 05:11 - Check the Resource Links in the Show Notes
  • 07:17 - The Fun and Dangers of Dorking With Our Systems
  • 11:28 - Why Obsidian Again?
  • 13:10 - On Markdown
  • 20:10 - On Synching Notes
  • 24:30 - Keeping Things Simple
  • 35:18 - Limiting Hyperlinking
  • 36:03 - The Lazy GM Campaign Template for Obsidian
  • 41:38 - The Danger of Plugin Proprietary Notes
  • 45:32 - Espanso for Text Autofilling
  • 49:40 - Printing Notes to PDF with Automator, Shell Scripting, Pandoc, and Latex...
  • 52:32 - Final Thoughts
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