# How to read these vault notes Created On: 08-23-2022 22:29 Up:: [[My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: [[Second Brain]] Related:: --- ## Viewing in Obsidian The best way to view this content will be by using Obsidian, which is the editor that I've used to write all of these notes over the years. Doing so will provide the fundamental linking functionality that enhances the reading and discovery expense, which is what makes this web of content so powerful. ## Viewing Raw (without Obsidian) The great thing about Obsidian is that it is simply a layer over top of basic markdown files. Markdown is intended to be extremely human readable, so the value of this vault is not lost without Obsidian out of the picture or even needing to convert it to presentation mode. For example, if Obsidian ceases to exist over the next several decades, these notes will still have value and can be furthered and even written without it. As described above, the primary item you'll miss out on without utilizing Obsidian will be the relationships/links between files. This can be done by manually tracing the relationships/links by their file names as well, but this is certainly more manual. Additionally, there are several plugins that will format non-traditional markdown markup in a unique way, but these are purely aesthetic and shouldn't affect the legibility much. Admonition is one that I can think of from the top of my head: it simply enables quotes to standout and look a bit more visually appealing. At the end of the day, a [simple markdown converter](https://dillinger.io/) (converting raw to presentation) will more than suffice. --- ## References 1. Obsidian [website](https://obsidian.md/) and [download](https://obsidian.md/download) 2. Markdown 1. Markdown [guide](https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/) 4. Markdown [cheat sheet](https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/) 5. Example online [converter](https://dillinger.io/) 2. Wikipedia [article](<A remote version of the script can be found in this Github [gist](https://gist.github.com/masonfox/5b53e1cebcb67428c1bb4e890792f6e0).>) on Markdown 3. Original daring fireball [article](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) 3. If notes are missing/the vault is incomplete, see the [[PKM backup strategy]]