Obsidian is a powerful personal knowledge management system, while Microsoft Loop is a collaborative workspace designed for teams. Using them together allows for enhanced personal productivity and seamless collaboration, bridging the gap between private note-taking and team collaboration.
Unfortunately, as of the date of this blog post, integrating with Microsoft Loop is not a straightforward task, making it challenging to find a seamless workflow combining both tools.
Obsidian
Obsidian excels with its local-first approach, powerful linking capabilities, customizable interface, and suitability for deep thinking and personal knowledge management.
Microsoft Loop
Microsoft Loop focuses on real-time collaboration, shared workspaces, and dynamic content creation, featuring components like pages, workspaces, and connected components.
The Synergy
The combination allows you to leverage Obsidian for personal thought and Loop for team projects and discussions.
Integrate Loop into Obsidian using the “Custom Frames” plugin (or similar embedding solution). Here’s how to embed a Loop component or page into an Obsidian note:
```custom-frames
frame: Loop
style: height: 1000px;
urlSuffix: <insert everything after ...sharepoint.com/>
To find the urlSuffix, look for the part after sharepoint.com/ in your Loop component’s URL. And just like that, you can view Loop notes inside an Obsidian note.
You can find the Plugin here or in the Community Plugin section of Obsidian.
Personally, I use this kind of integration for preparing my meetings. Every (important) meeting gets its own meeting note in Obsidian. Parallely, I embed a Loop Note inside and can write in parallel: One in my personal knowledge space, and one for the shared meeting minutes!