Obsidian Tutorial - Setting Up A Vault
I’ve decided to make a collection of mini-tutorials for Obsidian, since I figure those of you finding it from me and then going ‘wait what how do I use this??’ might find them helpful. By mini I mean really small: my goal is to explain one thing in each post, to keep it from being overwhelming. So without further ado, the first tutorial!
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In this mini-tutorial, I’ll explain how to set up an Obsidian vault.
This is the first thing you need to do to get started. What’s a vault? Well, since Obsidian is at it’s core files inside of folders, a vault is just the folder where your notes are stored.
First, download and install obsidian
Next, when you open Obsidian, you’ll see a launcher like this:
[ID: A screenshot of the Obsidian launcher, showing a list of existing vaults and their file paths on the left. In the main section of the launcher are the options to create a new vault, open a folder as a vault, and to sign into the Obsidian Sync service. Below all of these is the drop-down menu to change languages]
Next to ‘create a new vault’ click create.
Choose a name for your vault and enter it under vault name. This could be as simple as ‘My Notes’ or the name of your writing project. I’m extra, so mine’s called Pantheon.
Click on ‘browse’ and select the place you want to save your vault. I suggest your documents folder, but you can choose anywhere.
Click create.
[ID: A screenshot of the Obsidian launcher, showing the options for creating a local vault. There is a box to enter a vault name, a button selector labelled ‘browse’ to select a save location, and a purple ‘create’ button.]
That’s it, you’re done! You now have a shiny new Obsidian vault to go play with. In the next tutorial I’ll go over installing a theme, so you can start making it look pretty which, as we all know, is the most important part of any writing program :p
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