@autodidact-d
I had never heard of Zettlekast or Obsidian until this morning. Every so often, YT's algorithm nails it. I'm excited to get into all of this. Thanks for being concise and sharing what you've learned. 🙏🏾
@SomeoneSomewhereSomSom
So far people have spoken about this app's uses for book writing and STEM based ideas. Personally, I see this as an AMAZING system for biology! The way the tags and notes work will help you make a note about EVERY species, and connect them by family, class, food source, etc. This is fascinating!
@russellwilliams2898
Thanks! For the no-BS explanation 😊
@clarencelam1765
Thank you for making this. As someone who is into the discipline of network science and trying to migrate from Notion to Obsidian, this is truly a gem!
@mynickisnick8270
I started out by placing this video as a source material and wrote about Obsidian and the things I gathered about it Pretty good starting exercise
@dd-qz2rh
I use obsidian mostly for technical stuff and not for personal essays, but the idea of tags in a form of notes is just brilliant - this is exactly what I tried to do with folders and quickly found out it's unsustainable. If you want to get away with only one most important point from this video, it's this. Everything else will come naturally, the hardest part of obsidian is to not get overwhelmed BUT get some structure at the same time. Thank you
@sam_post
I just learned about Obsidian yesterday, and found your video tutorial. Up to this point, I've been using Chrome Bookmarks to organize my information. I have over 5000 bookmarks in about five hundred different subjects. I'm learning from your video how to take my desire to manage knowledge to the next level, by using the methods you describe so well. For many years I have viewed my computer and the internet as an electronic extension of my biological brain. But I have never seen until this video how to formalize that relationship in the simplest and most productive way. I agree with you that faster is not necessarily better. I often have to remind myself to slow down, and take the time to fully immerse myself in the learning experience. Thank you for doing this work. It's exactly what I need at exactly the right time.
@big-rat-abdallah
I watch tens of videos and learn a lot of complex things, but i really don't need it . Your video is just simple and about the things that are really helpful . Thank you for this Quiet video .
@jefreyestebanosoriomoreno3838
Is the first Obsidian tutorial that actually has helped me to understand the point of Obsidian.
@Rebleeude
Your 'seemless like butter' moment cracked me up. I hadn't giggled like that in a while, thank you!
@redburningice
Dear Odysseas, I was very unhappy with my previous note taking systems. So unhappy, that I completely stopped taking notes, which was a big mistake. Thus, the last 2 years have been pretty bad for me mental health wise. I couldn't retain information anymore. Thanks to you and your video I saw a way out of this misery. Now that I'm fully using the Zettelkasten my life has turned into a much better one. Finally I have confidence over my own knowledge again. I'm happy. Thank you.
@GOO_ST
First of all, Thank you. I have been struggling with taking notes and organizing them for so long, I have tried various methods but none of them actually worked out. I stumbled upon obsidian, and to me it looked like a fairly difficult concept, so I searched " how to use obsidian", click the first video, and didn't click skip one single time. This video really cleared up my mind on how to organize my notes from now on. Thank you.
@BERNERAUS
Firstly, thank you for a well structured, clearly explained video. I am in my 60s and have been reading, writing and teaching all my life. I am what is known asan "early utiluser" of technology. All that taken into consideration, I still find my system of hand-written notes - on sheets of paper, tagged by hand using 3M stickers, stacked in a binder under general headings - the most conducive to learning. Writing by hand slows you down, utilises more than one physical sense, and so focuses attention. For those who have ever seen a biblical concordance, you'll get what I am talking about in terms of system. I also believe that my constant shuffling through my notebooks also produces a kind of serendipity, and I often get unusual or novel ideas from pulling out unrelated stuff in ways that software precludes.
@tohellandbeyond6835
26:20 If you guys struggle with remembering ideas/concepts from a book. Then do the following: Highlight the first keyword with it's full height, then underline each subKeyword. This is good if u want quickly substract the information at once. To remember what you read, solely read through the page without highlighting anything. Then close the page and try to remember some keywords or and ideas, then open the book and reread but this time with highlighting. With this u get instant feedback. You either missed or got something wrong. What do we do? We naturally (usually) correct/adapt. All these are the tagged notes, meaning not the main ones! As he said, keep the non main notes short! How? Well! Remember keyword and subKeyword? Every keyword is a tagged note. Once you got all the information begin a project and transform that information into skills and knowledge. The vault is a living second brain which takes action.
@downgrading
this is the best video on obsidian, i went down the hole where i structured everything through folders as if its a notebook. and i realized i end up not learning anything from it. which is also why i thought the graph view is a simple gimmick. your indexing tip opened my eyes so much
@EcomCarl
The emphasis on simplicity, learning, and connecting ideas is invaluable! 💡
@eriko9011
Thank you! This is the best obsidian tutorial out there. So straight to the point and practical! Please make it into a series of videos so we can see you use your system more and learn it in depth. That would be gold!
@jpeg.banana
one thing that is required, no matter what is the plug in that lets u auto fill words and links. that makes obsidian work like a charm
@alindileep9227
01:00 totally totally relatable. As a matter of fact, your video might be part of my own Frankenstein's monster.
@odysseas__