Submitted by lucasd on 2024/04/23 21:43

Many thanks, Pierre, for the new Obsidian Sync! Totally awesome.

In a stroke of good timing, a brand-new Obsidian plugin has just been released a few days ago that makes it possible to navigate the IQ item hierarchy from within Obsidian, even on mobile: 

https://github.com/jeetsukumaran/obsidian-bearings

All I had to do was to configure the plugin to use "Parents" as the parent field, and now the plugin displays full IQ hierarchy trees for all items.

Meanwhile, for creating grid-like tables in Obsidian out of synced IQ items, in addition to the foundational Dataview plugin, I've been experimenting with these options:

https://github.com/RafaelGB/obsidian-db-folder

https://github.com/Make-md/makemd

https://github.com/trey-wallis/obsidian-dataloom

https://github.com/marcusolsson/obsidian-projects

They all have strengths and weaknesses. DB Folder seems to be currently the most solid option, although Make.MD is being actively developed and going in interesting directions. (EDIT: Actually I'm finding "Projects" particularly useful at the moment.)

 

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Hi Lucas,

Wow, Bearing is quite the discovery. It works very well indeed. Just in time for the next training session 👌👍

And it even supports multiple parents (or at least, after restarting Obsidian, before it didn't quite work)

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

Hi IQ Users!

Notice how parents are shown in the Bearing plug-in... visually, it seems much more useful than the way this information is shown in IQ's Properties pane:

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Should IQ change to match the one in Obsidian? Comments please

Yes, I like the way the Bearings plugin shows the hierarchy top to bottom, versus the current properties pane that goes "upside down" showing higher levels under the lower ones. The Bearings list is also easier to read by showing that the two parents are siblings. So I would vote in favour of changing it.

I've just tested the Obsidian sync and I am very impressed by how well it works. The Bearings plugin is a great companion to show (part of) a grid. Another Obsidian plugin that works out of the box is Excalibrain, so you can view the item Parents in a mindmap view.

Pierre, yes, that's very cool, and I agree that it would be great to tweak IQ in a similar way (although I haven't fully thought through whether there would any trade-offs).

Cyganet, thanks for mentioning Excalibrain! (If only it were possible to view more levels at once...)

 

Hi all. Have just gotten Obsidian sync to work and installed the Bearings plugin in Obsidian so I can view the children of selected items in Obsidian.

Question 1: Could I somehow put all the items I'm syncing from IQ under a collective parent in Obsidian (e. g. "IQ items") so that if I focused that item in the Bearing plugin's Navigator view, I'd be able to see all items as parents / children at once?

Question 2: Is it conceivable to sync in such a way that the order of items in an IQ grid could be preserved so as to get a 1:1 read-only representation of an IQ grid in Obsidian?

Many thanks.

Hi Left,

  1. I think so, either by using a sync tag named IQItems or manually by drag-drop inside OB
  2. This is more difficult. You could contact the plugin dev. to see if it is possible to implement this. Also, there are other pluging that provides this, such as the Dataview plugin (but it could sort items in the main window, not in the pane AFAIK

Thanks for sharing the outcome of your research

Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer

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