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00:00 - My Obsidian in 2026
00:46 The Home Base
01:26 Managing Projects
05:01 Using Workspaces
06:51 Capturing Ideas
10:26 Daily Notes
13:50 Advanced Workspaces
15:33 Obsidian Mobile Setup

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The video walks through Nick Milo’s updated Home Base note in Obsidian and shows how it powers projects, idea capture, daily notes, and mobile use within his ACE system (Atlas–Calendar–Efforts).

1. Framing and core concept

Introduces the home note (“Home Base”) as the central page that turns Obsidian into a home for your mind and the heart of his entire Ideaverse setup.
Explains that from Home Base he can reach projects, ideas, journal entries, and more via the ACE framework: Atlas (things to know), Efforts (things to do), Calendar (time-based notes), Plus (capture), Extras (overflow).

2. Home Base and ACE overview

Shows the Home Base note and explains how each section (Atlas, Efforts, Calendar, Plus, Extras) acts as a portal to part of the Ideaverse.
Emphasizes that everything has a place in ACE, and Home Base makes it easier, faster, and more enjoyable to prioritize work, surface ideas, and see notes in context.

3. Managing projects (Efforts)

Opens the Efforts → Projects view and demonstrates three states: Active, Simmering, and Sleeping projects, using “Linking Your Thinking Workshop 16” and “Ideaverse Pro 2.5 / 3.0” as examples.
Shows how projects are individual notes inside folders (e.g., Efforts/Projects/Active), with a table view that adds rich metadata columns like rank to support prioritization and bandwidth management.

4. Areas of Effort and workspaces

Demonstrates creating a new project via a quick-add command (Command+S → “Add Effort Project”), assigning it a rank, and moving it between Active and Simmering.
Introduces Areas of Effort as higher-level containers that group related projects (e.g., multiple versions of Ideaverse), and then opens a Dynamic EMPs (Efforts and Projects) workspace that shows areas, active projects, and simmering projects in a producer-style dashboard.

5. Capturing ideas and quotes (Plus)

Shows quick idea capture with Command+N / Ctrl+N to create a new note, using a Mike Singletary quote as an example.
From Home Base, uses the Plus section and a “Recents” base to find new notes, then:
- Moves the note into a Quotes folder.
- Inserts a Quote template with a by field and fills it with the author.
- Adds personal context so the quote becomes both part of a collection and a memory anchor.

Explains that Home Base + Recents means there is always a way to rediscover newly added notes by date, even years later (e.g., scanning late November notes).
Shows pinning a base view (Recents) into the sidebar so the most recent notes are always visible, reducing the need for multiple tabs and making the vault feel less “lost”.

7. Daily notes and “On This Day”

Demonstrates creating a Daily Note with Command+D and capturing a mix of journaling and tasks (dream notes, newsletter, recording a video, etc.).
Scrolls down to an embedded “On This Day” base that surfaces all notes from the same calendar day across many years (e.g., 31 notes from 2006 onward), highlighting how it resurfaces old journal entries and experiences.

8. Calendar views and days by month

Returns to Home Base → Calendar to show a base listing all time-based notes: daily notes, meetings, dreams, etc., giving context for what happened around a given day.
Switches to Days by Month to see all notes created in November, October, etc., and adds columns like “links out to” to see key concepts (e.g., Nearness Principle, sensemaking) referenced in daily notes.

9. Advanced dashboards and philosophy

Loads an Inner Guide – Dynamic Days workspace, a more advanced calendar dashboard that presents multiple calendar-related bases at once for reflection and pattern recognition.
Stresses that these dashboards are optional and can be overwhelming at first, but they show what is possible when combining bases, daily notes, and ACE; the goal is to let past notes enrich present and future life.

10. Obsidian mobile: projects and ideas

On mobile, opens Obsidian to a blank screen and then swipes to Home Base to access the same portals (Efforts, Calendar, Plus, Quotes, etc.).
Demonstrates:
- Prioritizing projects on mobile by going Efforts → Projects → Active, adjusting ranks, and watching the sorted list update.
- Adding a new project via an “Add Effort Project” command from the command palette and ranking it so it jumps to the top.

11. Mobile idea capture and templates

Uses the mobile search/magnifying glass to quickly create a new note for a quote (e.g., “out, damned spot”) and then returns to Home Base.
From Plus / Recents on mobile:
- Applies the Quotes template.
- Sets the by field (e.g., Shakespeare).
- Moves the note into the Quotes folder.
- Shows how it can later be found via the Quotes base, ranking, or by visiting the author’s note and seeing backlinks.

12. Mobile daily notes and calendar

On mobile, uses command palette to open Daily Notes, appends new ideas, then closes the note.
Returns to Home Base → Calendar to show that all this calendar context (daily notes, meetings, dreams) is also available on the phone, reinforcing that the same Home Base design works across devices.

13. Closing points and call to action

Recaps the three primary use cases: prioritizing projects, finding valuable captured sparks, and seeing daily notes in the context of other notes, on both desktop and mobile.
Connects these flows to the broader goals of thinking, knowing, and growing better, and invites viewers to check out the latest Ideaverse Pro and a follow-up video on advanced dashboards that combine ACE with the four ways of developing ideas.

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