@prem-iz2jv
Came here from Anna Howard's video "Creating a Digital Garden" and am so excited to use your tips to grow my own. Thank you!!!
@MrBitsy
my google docs are flooded with random ideas, my phone's notes app is flooded with random ideas, my notepad, my sketchbooks, my physical notebooks, back of any book that i was reading... good god, thank you for this man. i feel like an ancient scribe trying to collect all my scattered notes in a single place
@danyukhin
ATTENTION: DON'T FOOL YOURSELF INTO THINKING YOU'RE BEING PRODUCTIVE WHEN YOU'RE TWEAKING YOUR PKM TO NO END
@Shwetakhari070
now this video is like a genuine helping hand in the swarm of deceiving ones ... -No bs -No exaggeration -No irritating aestheticism just pure minimalism and pragmatism. Also i really appreciate how you pulled off such a technical task with such simplicity. I am not a native english speaker but i can understand each and every bit of it ...keep it up dude.
@Esch-a-ton3
the potential for this is really mind-blowing. research papers and other papers could be completed in hours rather than days with a highly sourced vault
@maria2
Man.. I'm AuDHD recovering from a long overdue burnout and currently struggling to finally get through my abandoned master's thesis... I feel like you just saved my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you
@Timy_tim
Quick tips for creating concept notes from books. To avoid doing it “manually” I use the Note Refactor plugin. In a large Obsidian “name of book” note, I write down all the insights I had while reading. At the very end, I go over it again and give a title (e.g. H3) to each “concept” in the book. So that they become independent notes I launch Note Refactor which will automatically separate my concepts into different notes. The advantage is that each note is automatically linked to my large book note.
@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. 🙏🏾
@pkd1911
I am only 8 minutes in but I am in love with the framework of this video. You start with a problem, give the solution, explain the solution, and argue why the solution works (by stating a claim, providing a strong real-life example, and convincingly linking the example back to the claim). So clear. Beautiful!
@shriyanpoovanna3160
I don't know how I ended up here but it feels like fate. I'm starting my phd prep from tomorrow and I can't think of anything other than obsidian. Thank you my man.
@nixi7688
I love this software. As someone with ADHD, thoughts are pinging around in different directions and it makes it so hard to keep a chain going to map out what you want to do. It's like mental minestrone, chunks of ideas emerge then slip away before you can identify what it was. This just results in constantly jellyfishing through life. It really lets me lay out a problem and think about solutions but keep writing and just create a link whenever I have something I want to come back to and research more without disrupting the flow of the thought.
@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!
@devongiguere3721
I literally got this yesterday after watching your video on mini-essays , so this is actually perfect for me. I'm an anthropology and philosophy undergrad with a personal research project on archiving my local city's working class culture and history. I've been archiving, taking photos of places, and reaching out to my community to make it a collaborative process.
@SeanThomasCross
I've been using obsidian for 2 years on and off. I say "on and off" because of these common hangups I continued to get annoyed by. I go through phases of switching between MS word, notion and obsidian over and over never feeling fully comfortable in any them. After watching this it's time to go again into Obsidian, but fresh. This is by far the best Obsidian video I've seen because it is simple and exactly how to use it PRACTICALLY. You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels on all of youtube and just joined the newsletter. THANK YOU.
@Mr.Cosmo1
Its been around two weeks and I have finally made my setup! I will watch a couple of videos on obsidian before I finally start taking notes. I gotta say though I got a new idea while doing this. I made a folder called objectives where I will list my goals maybe work goals, school goals, etc. For example: "getting $100k per year" "Getting engineering degree" etc. And then I will connect that with other relevant notes and extract ideas to make these goals detailed and precise to reach my goals easily. This way I am not only putting things I learned to work but also achieving my goals while knowing the details of it and it will also help me find anyways I can make the process faster that I might not have noticed, for example: I want a engineering degree but I learned from this one book that I can do a placement test on a class that I might have taken in high school so i can easily get the credit then taking the class all over again.
@GabrielCarusetta
One of the YouTube videos you just HAVE to watch all the way through, trust me. Incredible job with this video. THIS is what I go on YouTube for. You sir, are a gentleman, and a scholar
@BryantEvans
I have to say this is the best Obsidian tutorial I have found. Odysseas is concise and to the point. The amount of detail he covers would take hours if done by some others. I've used Obsidian for about 8 or 9 months and these suggestions are going to help me rework and refocus my note taking. Thank you!
@carlosbrown6208
This has been almost exactly my experience with Obsidian. The low barrier to entry, the ability to expand tools within the ecosystem, and most of all, a structured way for your knowledge to accrete and combine is so powerful.
@paulovitch-95
I just finished reading "How to Take Smart Notes" and I'm returning to your video a few weeks after seeing it first to set up Obsidian. Thank you tremendously for sharing your setup. Eager to see my notes turn into a beautiful neural network!
@odysseas__