聞分館君 Ask BunKanKun

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Ask Bunkankun 聞分館君

Annotated catalog for the Kanseki Repository and beyond

The content of this repository is deployed online at Ask Bunkankun 聞分館君 for convenient reference. However, it can also be fruitfully used locally in any environment that supports Obsidian, a note taking environment that can be used to browse and edit the files here.

If you would like to take advantage of this, you can download a copy to your device and open it in Obsidian. The following steps are necessary:

  1. If you are browsing this on Ask Bunkankun, go to the GitHub repository
  2. Get a local copy. There are several ways to achieve this.
    1. If you would like to contribute to the project, then sign into GitHub and ‘fork’ this repository to your account before you ‘clone’ it to your device. This keeps a connection to the source and also allows updating to future versions of this resource. You will then open the cloned folder in Obsidian for reading and writing.
    2. If this sounds too complicated, just click on the green button above labelled ‘Code’. At the bottom of the dialog that opens, you will find a button labelled ‘Download ZIP’. Click there to download a compressed copy to your computer. This will typically land in a ‘Download’ folder with a name like ‘ask-bkk-master.zip’ On most computers, you can simply doubleclick on this file and it will be unpacked to a folder with the same name.
  3. Download Obsidian. Visit the website Obsidian and download a copy of the software for your computer. This is not open source, but it is distributed free of charge.
  4. When you open Obsidian for the first time, it shows the Add a new vault screen. To open an existing folder as a vault:
    1. Open Obsidian.
    2. On the welcome screen, look for Open folder as vault.
    3. Click Open next to it.
    4. In the file picker, navigate to the folder you want to use.
    5. Select that folder itself, not a file inside it.
    6. Click Open.
    7. Obsidian might ask you if you trust the creator of the vault. Obsidian will then treat that folder as the vault. A vault is just a normal folder containing Markdown notes and subfolders; Obsidian stores its settings in a hidden .obsidian folder inside it. On the other hand, if you are already using Obsidian, use the vault switcher: bottom-left Vault profile icon → Manage Vaults… → Open folder as vault → Open.

Enjoy!

License

This work is licensed as CC by SA.

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