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Collections

Mar 29, 20254 min read

“Collections” are maps whose main purpose is to collect and display notes that link to it using the in property.

# All Collections

These are collections across your ideaverse.

TABLE WITHOUT ID
file.link as "Collections",
rank as Rank,
join(mapState) as State
 
WHERE
contains(in,[[Collections]]) and
!contains(file.name, "Template")
 
SORT rank desc, mapState desc, file.name asc
LIMIT 100

Collections sorted by ACE

Atlas Collections

Maps | Collections | Views

Things | Concepts | People | Entities

Statements | Questions | Quotes

Sources | Books | Movies | Series | Courses

Calendar Collections

Meetings

Efforts Collections

Efforts

Collections are a work in progress because they leverage "Obsidian Properties", which is still under development, with new features still expected. What you see here is very much a test...or as we like to say, a "work in progress".

Installation instructions for special collections

Books

  • Books | Book Template
    • Current Install Instructions (Difficulty Level: 5/10)
      • Hit cmd-p, type book search, select create new book note.
      • Type the book you want, select it from the list, and voila!
      • Of course, make sure the plugin “Book Search” is downloaded and that it knows to look for the Book Template provided with Ideaverse Pro.
    • Personal note: This is the easiest one to develop, but I need to be conscious to preserve the Shadow Mapping work I did.

Movies

  • Movies | Movie Template (QuickAdd) | if needed Movie Template (Backup)
    • Current Instructions Instructions (Difficulty Level: 10/10)
      • Make sure your vault has the the community plugin “Quick Add”.
      • In “Pro”, go to Settings/Community Plugins and click on the ‘open folder’ icon.
      • In the File Browser, find the folder called quickadd. Click and hit copy.
      • In Your Vault, go to Settings/Community Plugins and click on the ‘open folder’ icon.
      • In the File Browser, find the folder called quickadd. Click and hit paste.
      • Now restart Obsidian.
      • To test this, try to hit Cmd-p and type add a movie. Do you see the QuickAdd option? Good. You’re 1/3 of the way there.
      • In “Pro”, find the x/Scripts folder. Right click and “Reveal in Finder”.
      • You will find a file called movie.js. This hidden js file is used by a QuickAdd macro. If you want it to work immediately without changing the QuickAdd settings, put this file in your vault at exactly this folder path: x/Scripts.
      • It won’t show up in Obsidian; you’ll need to move it in Finder on Mac or File Explorer on Windows.
      • Now restart Obsidian.
      • In Your Vault, go to Settings and click Quick Add in the sidebar.
      • Find Movie Template (OuickAdd) and click on its cog wheel.
      • Change the “Template Path” to wherever you keep your templates.
      • Make sure you added the “Pro” templates, especially “Movie Template (QuickAdd)”
      • Delete the file path Atlas/Sources/Shows and add your preferred file path for where you want movies to go.
    • Instructions to Use
      • Hit Cmd-p, type add a movie, hit enter, then type the movie name, select it.
      • Voila, a new note will open with cool information auto-populated.

Series

  • Series | Series Template (QuickAdd) | if needed Series Template (Backup)
    • If you got “movies” to work, then you should be 90% of the way there.
    • To test this, try to hit Cmd-p and type add a series. Do you see the QuickAdd option? Good. All you need to do is change where these notes get saved.
    • In Your Vault, go to Settings and click Quick Add in the sidebar.
    • Find Series Template (OuickAdd) and click on its cog wheel.
    • Change the “Template Path” to wherever you keep your templates.
    • Make sure you added the “Pro” templates, especially “Series Template (QuickAdd)”
    • Delete the file path Atlas/Sources/Shows and add your preferred file path for where you want movies to go.

Works in progress, maybe…

For future releases of Ideaverse Pro, I may add more collections:

If you want to track stuff over the years, here’s a starting list of collections you can create: books, movies, songs, research papers, plays, paintings, quotes, videos, speeches, poems, tweets, articles, and newsletters.

Not included here, but in my personal vault, to honor the old ones, I also keep a Commonplace Book based on tags.

This is a sanitized version of my actual note.

  • Content and links have been removed.

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