CNLV Update #4
Lots of fixes and some nifty new features
Over the last month, the registered customer base for the Cornell Notes Learning Vault (CNLV) has more than tripled. I can hardly believe the interest from the community in learning and using the Cornell Notes note-taking method.
As you can imagine, with that significant increase in users, there has been a lot of feedback that has led to many bug fixes and tweaks to CNLV as an educational tool, along with some of the valuable tools included that many of you are now using in your own Obsidian vaults.
Let me provide you with some information about update #4.
How to update?
As always, simply return to your Lemon Squeezy customer page. You will find your purchase there, where you can always download the most current version of the complete Cornell Notes Learning Vault.
This is available on this page: https://app.lemonsqueezy.com/my-orders
How to get notified of updates
To simplify updating customers of updates to the Cornell Notes Learning Vault, I will no longer send an email from Lemon Squeezy to you directly; instead, I have set up this Substack newsletter.
This way, each customer can choose whether to receive updates about CNLV. Substack has the advantage of giving users more choices on how to stay informed. I will occasionally post user tips and relevant information about Cornell Notes in this newsletter.
If you want these updates, just click the “Subscribe now” button. You can unsubscribe at any time.
This substack will always contain the newest information about CNLV and is free for reading.
What is new in this update?
Style Settings Plugin Support
One of our fellow Cornell Notes note-takers, @stefrausch assembled some code for supporting the Style Settings Plugin in Obsidian. This plugin makes it easy to adjust some of the internal settings used by CNLV. For example, you can adjust various measurements for cues and summaries. I extended this code to include support for adjusting banners.
For those of you who don’t like to fiddle with CSS, this will make customizing CNLV much easier to use.
Hiding footnotes with Tufte-style sidenotes
With update #3 to CNLV, we introduced an experiment that nicely complements the Cornell Notes system: Tufte-style sidenotes. You can read more about this feature here “Tufte-style Sidenotes in Obsidian.”
Many of those testing this feature have asked if the footnotes can be hidden since they are no longer needed when using sidenotes. A new CSS class was added to CNLV to handle this. Add tufte-hide-footnotes to the cssclass property of a page, and the footnotes will not display.
If you are testing the Tufte-style sidenotes feature, you’ll want to update the CSS Snippet and the Templater code since this update has many fixes.
Lots of bug fixes and Extras
Since there were so many fixes, I highly recommend all the CSS Snippets from update #4 into your vault. It is simply a matter of copying the updated snippets and replacing the ones you have in your own vault.
There is a new CSS hack inspired by jkenton on Discord that makes the title area of a callout that is a cue default to standard text formatting.
Also, play with the Style Settings plugin to tailor your Cornell Notes to your liking.
Obsidian Properties
As many of you know, Obsidian is now testing a new feature called properties. This will surely be a hallmark moment in Obsidian’s history when released. The new properties feature is in beta testing and is being rapidly revised.
I am tracking the progress of this beta feature, and update #4 of CNLV includes a number of compatibility fixes. So this is another reason to update to the newest version of CNLV.
Remember that Obsidian Properties is still in testing and can break things. If something stops working, please let me know.
Until next time
Thank you for supporting my research and all the great feedback on CNLV; keep it coming!
After downloading Update #4 of CNLV, make sure to check out the CHANGELOG file for detailed information regarding all the updates, along with some new valuable resources.