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Styled Links: The Most Common Obsidian Question Answered

Published 22 days ago • 1 min read

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Tutorial: Styling Links with Obsidian

Dear Scholar,

The Academic Knowledge Management Webinar 2.0 just concluded with over 200 academics joining. During this and previous webinars, people repeatedly asked me one thing about my Obsidian vault: How do I style the links in different colors, and what do they mean?

Your browser does this, for example, by displaying links in a different color after visiting them. In Obsidian, we can go one step further and display links that link to different content differently. In my system, annotations are yellow, papers are blue, and so on. This helps tremendously with navigating your vault. Here's how to do it:

The system works by first defining classes of note like papers, images, tasks etc with a plugin called "Supercharged Links". Then we can use the "Style Settings" plugin to make links to these notes appear differently from the default. It's simple and as I described in the note-taking course, profoundly useful.

Webinar Recording and New EA Community

If you missed the webinar last week and want to still benefit from it, you can get a recording. The recording is divided into 33 short chapters and can be accessed in the Effortless Academic Community. This allows you to comment and ask questions at any time:

If you want to join the EA community, grab a ticket from the website and follow the instructions for access.

Free SciSpace Webinar on May 30th

I am holding a free webinar (~60mins) on using SciSpace for literature reviews:

  • ​How to frame strong research questions using SciSpace “Topics”
  • ​Explore niche scientific subjects in-depth with “Deep Review”
  • ​Store and organize insights in an AI-enhanced notebook
  • ​Build and grow your literature review paper collection
  • ​Use AI to analyse papers in bulk, quickly and efficiently
  • ​Understand the limitations of AI in literature reviews
  • ​Discuss ethical considerations around writing with AI
  • ​Learn strategies to avoid hallucinations and misinformation

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Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

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Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic​

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