Embed YouTube Video in Obsidian

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool.

The key benefits that I have found to date are,

• Automatic internal linking (wikilinks)
• Powerful search
• Plugin support
• Storage using plain text files

Embedding YouTube Video

Obsidian supports embedded HTML in notes which allows for HTML code to be embedded and rendered in a note. This allows for features link embedding a YouTube video (amongst other content) directly into a note.

This is extremely useful as the referenced material is directly available and can be viewed without leaving the Obsidian application.

The process of obtaining the HTML code to embed from YouTube is extremely simple,

• Click on the ‘Share’ link
• Click on the ‘Embed’ image
• Press a ‘Copy’ link on the popup