Notes, people, and meetings

Obsibrain uses Markdown notes and native properties for context. Supported types include note, area, resource, person, and meeting, alongside projects and goals.

Capture a note

Run New Fleeting Note for a quick capture. Enter its title and choose a folder. The command creates an empty note for your text.

Ordinary untyped Markdown resolves as a plain note, except inside the reserved reviews and templates folders. You can also set type: note explicitly.

Use New Area for an ongoing responsibility and New Resource for reference material. These commands read the Area and Resource templates in templates/obsibrain/.

Create a person

Run New People, enter the person’s name, and choose a folder. The supplied Person template uses type: person.

Connect that person to meetings, projects, and notes with ordinary [[note links]]. Person relationships come from links rather than a required custom folder or tag hierarchy.

Create a meeting

Run New Meeting. Enter a title and schedule, then choose its folder. The Meeting template writes these properties:

type: meeting
scheduled: 2026-09-18 14:00
attendees:
location:

Fill in attendees and location when useful. Add the agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks in the body. Link follow-up tasks to a project when that project owns the outcome.

Scheduled meetings appear in matching planning views. Notifications can remind you about scheduled notes while Obsidian is open. This does not connect the meeting to an external calendar.

Edit the user-owned templates to change what future creation commands produce.