Obsidian Vault Integration

Last updated Apr 3, 2023 Edit Source

• Setup

Obsidian is the preferred way to use Quartz. You can either create a new Obsidian Vault or link one that your already have.

If you don’t have an existing Vault, download Obsidian and create a new Vault in the /content folder that you created and cloned during the setup step.

The easiest way to use an existing Vault is to copy all of your files (directory and hierarchies intact) into the /content folder.

Great, now that you have your Obsidian linked to your Quartz, let’s fix some settings so that they play well.

Open Settings > Files & Links and look for these two items:

1. Set the New link format to Absolute Path in vault. If you have a completely flat vault (no folders), this step isn’t necessary.
2. Turn on the Automatically update internal links setting.

Inserting front matter everytime you want to create a new Note gets annoying really quickly. Luckily, Obsidian supports templates which makes inserting new content really easily.

If you decide to overwrite the /content folder completely, don’t remove the /content/templates folder!

Head over to Options > Core Plugins and enable the Templates plugin. Then go to Options > Hotkeys and set a hotkey for ‘Insert Template’ (I recommend [cmd]+T). That way, when you create a new note, you can just press the hotkey for a new template and be ready to go!

👀 Step 4: Preview Quartz Changes

Block math works with two dollar signs $$...$$

$$f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty f\hat(\xi),e^{2 \pi i \xi x} ,d\xi$$

Inline math also works with single dollar signs $...$. For example, Euler’s identity but inline: $e^{i\pi} = -1$

Aligned equations work quite well:

$$ \begin{aligned} a &= b + c \\ &= e + f \\ \end{aligned} $$

And matrices

$$ \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3 \\ a & b & c \end{bmatrix} $$