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This week: How do you teach the Command Line to someone who doesn’t even know what it is? Johnny ‘Decimal’ Noble gives it a shot, with me as the test subject. Also, a time-saving Dataview code-generator that can teach you how this Obsidian plugin works.
Mike Schmitz recently shared a link to a tool for generating basic Dataview queries in Obsidian. It will be a welcome layer of abstraction for people who want the power without learning the language, although the tool can also teach you speak Dataview.
Answer a series of questions on this page and the tool will generate the appropriate Dataview code to paste into Obsidian. It’s ideal for someone like me, should I decide to use that plugin later down the track.
This tool reminds me of a couple of others in a similar vein that I use from time to time:
I’ve been a Johnny Decimal fan for years, admiring not only the system for organising digital files , but also Johnny’s skill in presenting complex information in a clear, concise manner.
We’ve rubbed shoulders from time to time on Mastodon — that great interconnected leveller of today and tomorrow’s social web, where there’s no algorithm to divide the nerds from the noobs — which is cool.
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