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Obsidian Flight School

Obsidian Flight School helps you improve your skills and speed with Obsidian.

Obsidian Flight School 🚀 is an educational product—and starter kit—designed to stretch your limits in using the power of Obsidian. Make notes at the speed of thought. Learn how to harness the full potential of the Obsidian app. Fly around your notes. Earn your wings today.
- Nick Milo

Obsidian is a powerful personal knowledge base using a local folder of plain text Markdown files. This outstanding product, created by Nick Milo at Linking Your Thinking, offers a self-guided approach to learning by doing that makes you faster with Obsidian.

It includes an Obsidian vault, 100+ videos, 100+ lessons and notes, 10+ exercises and simulations, peer community access, and lifetime updates. He announced Obsidian Flight School 2.0 on Product Hunt in Jan 2023; two years earlier, he originally launched version 1.0 in 2021 (and I took part in the early pre-launch).

An updated version 2.5 became available in Mar 2024 with many enhancements.

  • Obsidian properties integrated throughout the entire vault in over 300 notes.
  • Now "up" and "related" properties align Flight School with Ideaverse Pro core principles for consistent navigation.
  • Over 110 custom callouts included for an enhanced appearance and more joy in your notes.
  • Plugin overhaul provides one-liners in all plugin queries, as well as the plugins page.

If you purchased Obsidian Flight School before Nov 23, 2023 you get lifetime updates, so the OFS 2.5 update is free. Also, since OFS is part of 2024 Knowledge Accelerator, members receive all updates free.

It will help you:

  • Work faster: Create & navigate notes, use autocomplete, format & refactor text
  • Get better: Learn & practice core maneuvers with exercises & simulations
  • Customize: Settings, plugins, themes, panels, hotkeys, commands

I recommend you take these steps. All his videos are fantastic, and you will learn so much! You will still benefit from his free video series and the Ideaverse for Obsidian starter kit, even if you decide not to buy Obsidian Flight School.

  • Obsidian app - Download and install the free app for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android.
  • Obsidian for Beginners Guide - Watch the free 6-video series to get familiar with key Obsidian features.
  • Ideaverse for Obsidian - Download and install this free product; it's a starter kit to manage your whole life. Improve your personal knowledge management (PKM) system with an Obsidian note vault (as a zip file). It will help you learn, understand, and enable better digital note-making and "linking your thinking".
  • Watch Why Obsidian Flight School video (2 min)

Summary

Install the Flight School note vault in your Obsidian system; then fly your own LYT ship around your PKM planet as you advance from a cadet to become a master pilot.

Investing in learning Obsidian will improve your note-making and thinking process. Link your thinking at the speed of thought for an enhanced personal knowledge management (PKM) system. This is extremely worthwhile, so help yourself be better and just lean forward…