This was developed in obsidian.md using the excalidraw plugin that I have developed. I also have a course where I walk through the entire process of creating such summaries using these tools (visual-thinking-workshop.com). You'll find 2 behind the scenes videos about building this book on a page, also on my channel (th-cam.com/users/VisualPKM)
Love how you captured the whole book in a beautiful & meaningful way!!!!! Keep up the great work, appreciate the effort you put in. My new favourite channel! Love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶
I tried to read this book, but the useful content about building a second brain was 15%. Thank you for reading this book and giving us only useful content.
@@VisualPKM Wishing or hoping more than request. But anyway, I am happy. I get something like 2 in 1: Tiagos book summed up and your behind the scenes report. 😁
Amazing!!! Thank you!!! I have experienced a lot of problems keeping my brain free of clutter. Since I started using Obsidian I gained some pieces of control, but I made some mistakes. That took me some time to reorganize my vaults. No problem, I consider it an advantage to understand my own pitfalls and learning how to cope with them. I think your visualisation might bring me to a next, better level of managing my second brain.
Thank you for setting this BASB topic straight for me. I now see it much more clearly and can decide, finally, that it's not for me. You just saved me a whole lot of time. Thanks!!
I super like your work, could you make the letters bigger? I had trouble trying to read the info(I know I use glasses but it will help) :) I insist you work wonderfull
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If you're watching this on the phone, you can pinch-zoom-in to the video and see whichever part he is explaining very clearly. You're welcome! 😊
Thank you. In that case you’ll be interested in parts 2 and 3 that I will publish tomorrow and the day after. I screen recorded the entire process of creating these notes and will provide some explanation of what I am doing.
FANTASTIC detailed review on 1 page, Zsolt! Great job, very nicely done! I look forward to Parts 2 and 3. Have looked at your Excalidraw Brain plugin, but not mastered it yet. (I'm a long-time TheBrain user, like yourself.)
Awesome!! I´m really interested in second Brain but I cant afford buy the book or the curse so I´ve been watched videos about the topic and THIS is the best. I´m extremely thankful whit you!!😄😄
Thank you for sharing this. Really great perspective (not to mention a great demonstration of one way you're using Excalidraw.) I especially liked the comment about "digital hoarding" - an easy trap to fall into. Organizing for action sounds like a good outlook for guarding against the stagnation of hoarding.
You mean how much time it took? This is not a fast process. My approach is to read fewer books, but read them deeper. If you follow the next videos in this series then you can see my process in action. Part 2: th-cam.com/video/KTsw020KFf0/w-d-xo.html Part 3: th-cam.com/video/Mo-o4c2pzYE/w-d-xo.html Bouns: th-cam.com/video/N6EFydv0tug/w-d-xo.html
In my view, the process of learning and internalizing will change. That is not a question, that is a fact. I already experience the change in many ways. However, in the end, unless I am able to digest ideas, I won't have any of my own. A second brain is as much about the process of creating it, the thought that goes into connecting ideas and creating summaries, as using it later to retrieve ideas. I can imagine that retrieval will change drastically, but as mentioned before, unless I struggle through the process of summarization and connection, the idea won't be mine - I'll be just a puppet in other's hand.
Zsolt, this is an awesome video!! And what software did you use to do the video with just your head on the video rather than a rectangle with you in it????
First of all, thank you very much for your sharing. I am greatly benefited. I also bought A high-resolution version of this book on A Page. Nevertheless, I would like to have one of these Excalidraw files for myself. Can you share the Icons of Excalidraw used in the picture below Thanks again for sharing
Top notch as always. I waited to finish Tiago's book before watching this (I'm a spoiler nut ) I'm going to grab that image and create an Excalidraw diagram in my vault with links to my notes out to the book!
Great summary! You've inspired me to go on my own journey of discovering personal knowledge management. Thank you for developing the Obsidian Excalidraw plugin. It's been so useful. Do you have any recommendations for where to start with books on the subject? I've seen you talk about: - Building a Second Brain, and - Visual Tools for Transforming Information Into Knowledge Are there any others you recommend and any particular order? Thanks, Zsolt. Big fan after discovering your work in the last week!
Hi Charlie, take a look at this twitter thread. I recently raised a very similar question, you can see all the answers following this link: twitter.com/zsviczian/status/1547993247804301316?s=21&t=1jxEW-QO262Zf3in5PxWcw Regarding sequence, I think Tiago’s book is a good first one. Then I recommend starting to practice some of Tiago’s advice with some of your own personal notes before reading further… If you are interested in PKM in Obsidian you will find Nick Milo’s content on linkingYourThinking helpful. He has a good LYT starting kit available for free. Also there is plenty of stuff on visual PKM on my channel right here.
@@VisualPKM Ah, brilliant timing! Thanks for the link and recommendations. I'll definitely start with Tiago's book, Nick's LYT content, and (of course!) your channel. 👍 Thank you again!
Again an amazing video. I am gonna buy this book now. Thanks😊 I also have an question about excalidraw, it is not generating right colors in dark mode. I created a drawing in dark mode and when I turn the setting to light mode then all the black colors of drawing also turned into white and all white turned into black. I also raised an issue on github about this problem. Whatever I create on dark mode is not printing as it is in SVG and png export. It exports in light mode version which means it turn all my black colored objects into white and vice versa for white colored objects. I want to work in dark mode but whatever color I set for any object must be as it is in both the mode.
See this is the drawing in the light mode: drive.google.com/file/d/1VKdYxQskjwCftGe-weG_QJnD7PmtAuPt/view?usp=sharing And here is the same drawing in dark mode: drive.google.com/file/d/18ZSO0uUBnDeeJ-Dumdktb-V6LhNVOTKL/view?usp=sharing See how it altered all the colors in dark mode. Is it possible to fix this problem?
Dark mode uses inverted colors. The reason for this is that Excalidraw.com has a collaboration functionality in which some users might prefer dark mode, others light mode. This handling of colors is not likely to change. In settings under “Embed and Export” you will find some switches that control how exports happen, including “Export image with background” and “Export image with theme”. Try to set those. If you open Excalidraw in markdown mode, you can control export on a file level by adding “excalidraw-export-…” switches. If you start to type excalidraw- the rest should come up automatically. Finally, if you always use Excalidraw in dark mode you can do the following: - in your template set the background to dark - create a custom color palette (I have a video on the subject) with light colors - if the light toolbar buttons hurt your eyes, you can also change the style settings with a css snippet (this will require some, though not a lot of work) I hope this helps.
Hi, I think I have some confusion. Let me briefly explain what I understood. First we should capture our note so what is the thing we are capturing here means any concept that we learned from the book or the name of the book or it can be anything? Supposing that it could be anything, so now we are organising that anything in the second step according to PARA method. Now my confusion comes in the third step because here you again started the process of capturing(in my understanding) in progressive summarisation process. Here you started from the original full text then making it's literature notes and highlighting and so on. So here I haven't used my already captured note but I started from the original full text note. This is making me confuse. My question is, in distill step where is the role of already captured and organised notes or should we start things from starting. Or the progressive summarization process is the mixture of capturing and distill step where we first capture and start working on it for packaging it to our future self? Please clear my doubt.
This is how I understand and apply it. Let's say I am reading a book. - In the capture step I record my book highlights and book notes. - In the organize step I store these highlights in a folder. If the book I read relates to a project I am currently working on, then it goes in the Projects folder. If not, then if it relates to an area that is important to me it goes in the Areas folder, etc. - At a later time, when I have the energy or the need to process my book highlights I can use the progressive summarization process to distill the essence of my book notes. In this sense, the bottom part of the pyramid (full text book and literature notes) are already done, I pick up my literature notes and highlight what is important. If I want to go further, I can do a second pass of review and bold the important words, this time only looking at the highlighted text, ... and I can go further if I want, doing the exec summary, or the book on a page. - finally, in the future, when you are creating something, as you prepare for the project you look through your second brain looking for relevant material. This is when you might pick up your highlighted literature notes or exec summary and remix it in your own work. Does this make sense? Does this help?
You are already the second one asking for this. You mean you'd like just the Excalidraw file, or the Excalidraw.md file, together with all the other assets such as the icons and the literature notes? The Excalidraw file alone is simple to share, including all the assets is a bit more difficult. I'll think of a good solution...
@@asfixespana6071 I'll need to educate myself about copyright rules. Maybe if I send my literature notes (i.e. my highlights from the book) that is already in breach of the copyright of the book... Let me do some digging, because on the other hand sharing the excalidraw.md file would be more valuable in case you have Obsidian...
@@VisualPKM yes, I use obsidian. Both would be great. There are a lot of content creators who sell summaries. I guess include only some percentage or if you add something new to the info...
Great way of displaying the information contained in a book. Going through your discussion and then looking back at the one page helps me to prepare for reading the book. My initial feeling is that half of the work, CODE, is similar to the GTD steps. Not certain how I would use PARA in my task management system. But the second half of creativity and sharing seems to be an area I will need to settle down with for further enrichment. Thank you for a great visual!
Yes BASB is very similar to GTD… its like a creative persons extension to GTD. I tried using PARA myself in the past, but it fell apart, probably because my PKM is more link based and less file based. However the logic of PARA, organizing for action, is very powerful and helpful,
I love your artistic portrayal of Richard Feynman; it looks just like him
Which software you used to make this
This was developed in obsidian.md using the excalidraw plugin that I have developed.
I also have a course where I walk through the entire process of creating such summaries using these tools (visual-thinking-workshop.com).
You'll find 2 behind the scenes videos about building this book on a page, also on my channel (th-cam.com/users/VisualPKM)
Your videos are much more valuable, than this book. I was very disappointed with this book.
Love how you captured the whole book in a beautiful & meaningful way!!!!! Keep up the great work, appreciate the effort you put in. My new favourite channel! Love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥶
I tried to read this book, but the useful content about building a second brain was 15%. Thank you for reading this book and giving us only useful content.
2 words: thank you! I remember discussing with you about and now this. The weekend is saved. Now I must watch the video. Really excited!
yes, I recall you requesting more videos on the subject. Watch out for tomorrow and Monday. I’ll be publishing the behind the scenes videos then.
@@VisualPKM Wishing or hoping more than request. But anyway, I am happy. I get something like 2 in 1: Tiagos book summed up and your behind the scenes report. 😁
Amazing!!! Thank you!!! I have experienced a lot of problems keeping my brain free of clutter. Since I started using Obsidian I gained some pieces of control, but I made some mistakes. That took me some time to reorganize my vaults. No problem, I consider it an advantage to understand my own pitfalls and learning how to cope with them. I think your visualisation might bring me to a next, better level of managing my second brain.
Visualizations are an essential part of my Obsidian Vault. I find my self thinking much more in images than documents.
Could you kindly inform us which handwritten font was used on this board?
virgil.excalidraw.com/
Can I have this file please
Thank you for setting this BASB topic straight for me. I now see it much more clearly and can decide, finally, that it's not for me. You just saved me a whole lot of time. Thanks!!
I super like your work, could you make the letters bigger? I had trouble trying to read the info(I know I use glasses but it will help) :) I insist you work wonderfull
If you're watching this on the phone, you can pinch-zoom-in to the video and see whichever part he is explaining very clearly. You're welcome! 😊
Amazing mindmap.. really.. i wish i also mastered this type of mapping
Thank you. In that case you’ll be interested in parts 2 and 3 that I will publish tomorrow and the day after. I screen recorded the entire process of creating these notes and will provide some explanation of what I am doing.
Sir...pls do... It will be appreciated... I am new to obsidian..so thanks in advance..
Thank you . very insightfull for both the book summary and how you expressed it in Excalidraw
That was a very information dense video. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Zsolt! Life brings us together from time to time. 😁 Decent presentation and 1pager. Kudos!
FANTASTIC detailed review on 1 page, Zsolt! Great job, very nicely done! I look forward to Parts 2 and 3. Have looked at your Excalidraw Brain plugin, but not mastered it yet. (I'm a long-time TheBrain user, like yourself.)
Great video, very helpful!
Really well done. I am inspired to try this as well (Book on a page)
Awesome!! I´m really interested in second Brain but I cant afford buy the book or the curse so I´ve been watched videos about the topic and THIS is the best. I´m extremely thankful whit you!!😄😄
I am glad you found this helpfull
Thank you Zsolt! Your visual summary has been very inspiring. I'll try to do the same for the books I read from now on
Thank you for sharing this. Really great perspective (not to mention a great demonstration of one way you're using Excalidraw.) I especially liked the comment about "digital hoarding" - an easy trap to fall into. Organizing for action sounds like a good outlook for guarding against the stagnation of hoarding.
Glad it was helpful!
This is an incredible video. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Thanks! Please spread the word :)
Fantastic job. I would like to know how much did you stick on this method to make this video.
You mean how much time it took? This is not a fast process. My approach is to read fewer books, but read them deeper. If you follow the next videos in this series then you can see my process in action.
Part 2: th-cam.com/video/KTsw020KFf0/w-d-xo.html
Part 3: th-cam.com/video/Mo-o4c2pzYE/w-d-xo.html
Bouns: th-cam.com/video/N6EFydv0tug/w-d-xo.html
Very detailed information ℹ️ thank you 🙏👏👏👏
Magnificent summary. Thank you very much. Subbed as well 🙂
I stumbled upon your video jlt..and I am so happy for this.
Awesome work so motivating ❤
Thank you
Great Channel. Started to follow today. I enjoined your way of telling this story.
Very insightful and the summary of the book was excellent
But is there any point in investing one’s times in this, now with AI?
In my view, the process of learning and internalizing will change. That is not a question, that is a fact. I already experience the change in many ways. However, in the end, unless I am able to digest ideas, I won't have any of my own. A second brain is as much about the process of creating it, the thought that goes into connecting ideas and creating summaries, as using it later to retrieve ideas. I can imagine that retrieval will change drastically, but as mentioned before, unless I struggle through the process of summarization and connection, the idea won't be mine - I'll be just a puppet in other's hand.
Great info. Thanks for the help. You’ve made my day much better.
I just started reading the book today & I'm almost half-way through it!
Thank you for this video Zsolt! God Bless
Good one, make the concept is easy
What's software you use to draw that ?
The Excalidraw plugin in Obsidian.md
This is A goal. Very importntat.
Excellent! Thank you!
Well done!!! Loved your approach.
Thanks for this video!
Zsolt, this is an awesome video!! And what software did you use to do the video with just your head on the video rather than a rectangle with you in it????
Davinci Resolve 17, 3D Keyer with a green screen
First of all, thank you very much for your sharing. I am greatly benefited. I also bought A high-resolution version of this book on A Page.
Nevertheless, I would like to have one of these Excalidraw files for myself. Can you share the Icons of Excalidraw used in the picture below
Thanks again for sharing
DM me on twitter twitter.com/zsviczian
Great description.
Top notch as always. I waited to finish Tiago's book before watching this (I'm a spoiler nut ) I'm going to grab that image and create an Excalidraw diagram in my vault with links to my notes out to the book!
if you DM me on GitHub I can also send you the Excalidraw file…
Thanks for sharing
Terrific!!! Thanks!
Thank you for this wonderful summary.. would help me innovate and you would be the a part of the reason for it.. 😀
great! I am happy you found this inspirational!
Thank you
i fucking loved this format and quality of video waiting for part 2 and gow can i get it as e book
I bought the e-book on Amazon.
شكرا ❤️
Great summary! You've inspired me to go on my own journey of discovering personal knowledge management. Thank you for developing the Obsidian Excalidraw plugin. It's been so useful.
Do you have any recommendations for where to start with books on the subject?
I've seen you talk about:
- Building a Second Brain, and
- Visual Tools for Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Are there any others you recommend and any particular order?
Thanks, Zsolt. Big fan after discovering your work in the last week!
Hi Charlie, take a look at this twitter thread. I recently raised a very similar question, you can see all the answers following this link: twitter.com/zsviczian/status/1547993247804301316?s=21&t=1jxEW-QO262Zf3in5PxWcw
Regarding sequence, I think Tiago’s book is a good first one. Then I recommend starting to practice some of Tiago’s advice with some of your own personal notes before reading further… If you are interested in PKM in Obsidian you will find Nick Milo’s content on linkingYourThinking helpful. He has a good LYT starting kit available for free. Also there is plenty of stuff on visual PKM on my channel right here.
@@VisualPKM Ah, brilliant timing! Thanks for the link and recommendations. I'll definitely start with Tiago's book, Nick's LYT content, and (of course!) your channel. 👍
Thank you again!
Awesome summary thank you! Quick unrelated question--is there a chance we can have an infinite canvas functionality for Excalidraw?
I am not sure I understand the question - have you tried Excalidraw in Obsidian? It is an infinite canvas.
@@VisualPKM Sorry you're correct! Thank you
Again an amazing video. I am gonna buy this book now. Thanks😊
I also have an question about excalidraw, it is not generating right colors in dark mode. I created a drawing in dark mode and when I turn the setting to light mode then all the black colors of drawing also turned into white and all white turned into black. I also raised an issue on github about this problem. Whatever I create on dark mode is not printing as it is in SVG and png export. It exports in light mode version which means it turn all my black colored objects into white and vice versa for white colored objects. I want to work in dark mode but whatever color I set for any object must be as it is in both the mode.
See this is the drawing in the light mode: drive.google.com/file/d/1VKdYxQskjwCftGe-weG_QJnD7PmtAuPt/view?usp=sharing
And here is the same drawing in dark mode: drive.google.com/file/d/18ZSO0uUBnDeeJ-Dumdktb-V6LhNVOTKL/view?usp=sharing
See how it altered all the colors in dark mode. Is it possible to fix this problem?
Dark mode uses inverted colors. The reason for this is that Excalidraw.com has a collaboration functionality in which some users might prefer dark mode, others light mode. This handling of colors is not likely to change.
In settings under “Embed and Export” you will find some switches that control how exports happen, including “Export image with background” and “Export image with theme”. Try to set those. If you open Excalidraw in markdown mode, you can control export on a file level by adding “excalidraw-export-…” switches. If you start to type excalidraw- the rest should come up automatically.
Finally, if you always use Excalidraw in dark mode you can do the following:
- in your template set the background to dark
- create a custom color palette (I have a video on the subject) with light colors
- if the light toolbar buttons hurt your eyes, you can also change the style settings with a css snippet (this will require some, though not a lot of work)
I hope this helps.
@@VisualPKM ok thankuu for the detailed explanation.
Hi, I think I have some confusion. Let me briefly explain what I understood.
First we should capture our note so what is the thing we are capturing here means any concept that we learned from the book or the name of the book or it can be anything?
Supposing that it could be anything, so now we are organising that anything in the second step according to PARA method.
Now my confusion comes in the third step because here you again started the process of capturing(in my understanding) in progressive summarisation process. Here you started from the original full text then making it's literature notes and highlighting and so on. So here I haven't used my already captured note but I started from the original full text note. This is making me confuse.
My question is, in distill step where is the role of already captured and organised notes or should we start things from starting. Or the progressive summarization process is the mixture of capturing and distill step where we first capture and start working on it for packaging it to our future self? Please clear my doubt.
This is how I understand and apply it.
Let's say I am reading a book.
- In the capture step I record my book highlights and book notes.
- In the organize step I store these highlights in a folder. If the book I read relates to a project I am currently working on, then it goes in the Projects folder. If not, then if it relates to an area that is important to me it goes in the Areas folder, etc.
- At a later time, when I have the energy or the need to process my book highlights I can use the progressive summarization process to distill the essence of my book notes. In this sense, the bottom part of the pyramid (full text book and literature notes) are already done, I pick up my literature notes and highlight what is important. If I want to go further, I can do a second pass of review and bold the important words, this time only looking at the highlighted text, ... and I can go further if I want, doing the exec summary, or the book on a page.
- finally, in the future, when you are creating something, as you prepare for the project you look through your second brain looking for relevant material. This is when you might pick up your highlighted literature notes or exec summary and remix it in your own work.
Does this make sense? Does this help?
@@VisualPKM yes I got it. thanks. In the part 2 video, what was all that numbers linking to inside your literature notes.
@@realgouravverma those are location references in the kindle ebook
@@VisualPKM oh OK thanks
Thanks @zsolt, have you considered to share this excalidraw file? I would pay for many of the next ones you can share.
You are already the second one asking for this.
You mean you'd like just the Excalidraw file, or the Excalidraw.md file, together with all the other assets such as the icons and the literature notes? The Excalidraw file alone is simple to share, including all the assets is a bit more difficult.
I'll think of a good solution...
@@VisualPKM The second one would be great, of course.
@@asfixespana6071 I'll need to educate myself about copyright rules. Maybe if I send my literature notes (i.e. my highlights from the book) that is already in breach of the copyright of the book... Let me do some digging, because on the other hand sharing the excalidraw.md file would be more valuable in case you have Obsidian...
@@VisualPKM yes, I use obsidian. Both would be great.
There are a lot of content creators who sell summaries. I guess include only some percentage or if you add something new to the info...
@@VisualPKM Hi, have you advance in the copyright issue to sell the excalidraw file? thank you one more time
Great way of displaying the information contained in a book. Going through your discussion and then looking back at the one page helps me to prepare for reading the book. My initial feeling is that half of the work, CODE, is similar to the GTD steps. Not certain how I would use PARA in my task management system. But the second half of creativity and sharing seems to be an area I will need to settle down with for further enrichment. Thank you for a great visual!
Yes BASB is very similar to GTD… its like a creative persons extension to GTD. I tried using PARA myself in the past, but it fell apart, probably because my PKM is more link based and less file based. However the logic of PARA, organizing for action, is very powerful and helpful,