How to create things with your notes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- What do you do with all those notes? In this presentation, I talk about how to create things with your notes. I demonstrate my process of going from raw notes to this very presentation and share some of my strategies for creating output with little effort by learning in public and identifying topics to create content about using existing notes.
On May 19th, I did a talk at the Linking Your Thinking Conference about using your notes (or losing them), and about what we can do to make something useful of all our notes. This was my run through!
// RESOURCES
Slides (and live demo of Advanced Slides Plugin): slides.nicolevanderhoeven.com...
My public Obsidian vault: notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com
// TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:29 Things I did with my notes
3:32 Learning in public
8:09 Step 1 - Let curiosity guide your notes
15:37 Step 2 - Identify lightning rods of thought
25:48 Step 3 - Making stuff
35:13 Step 4 - CI/CD and continuous note-taking
If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: courses.nicolevanderhoeven.co...
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THEME used: Spectrum, but this theme is no longer being actively maintained, unfortunately!
The thing that stood out to me the most was 'learn in public'. I'm often rather private, but it really makes sense that sharing what you know can be very helpful for getting feedback on things you may have understood, as well as it forcing you to formulate your knowledge into words, which can further strengthen your understanding of the topics. Thanks.
Nicole, thank you for being here, your message is hopeful. I hope one day to dare to do
Dear Nicole! So nice of you... I've got completely overwhelmed by your rich content, generosity, openness, and your "digital innocence". You define what one should mean by "an OPEN BOOK" publicly. There might be things you need to keep private, but whatever you think can help push somebody even a bit higher, you have shared it very generously. I really appreciate that. I am just a beginner in all these things, but you have led me to the right path. I'll remember you forever on this journey. Keep happy, Keep innocent, Keep benevolent and Keep blissed out!😇
Awesome content. I learned a lot about how useful tags can be just by seeing how you use them to navigate and hone in on specific notes and topics. Thanks for sharing, Nicole!
Oh, great! Yeah, it took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize tags could be nested. There are so many things like that about Obsidian! Glad this helped. :)
Hey I just found about your channel while beginning to use Obsidian and watching what other people do. Your videos are very helpful, thanks!
A great presentation, thanks Nicole, enjoyed it from start to finish. Loved seeing your knowledge management and linking/tagging/lightning-rod process. I've recently discovered Obsidian and you make the best videos on it by far.
Wow, happy to hear that, Lyle-- that you like this presentation and my videos in general. Thanks for the kind words! :)
Fantastic presentation (as always) - thank you for taking the time to produce this! The concept of iterative creativity is extremely important (i.e. loops) -- architects rely on this during the initial design phases all the way through a building's construction -- as do musicians, artists and writers -- my friction point had been a method for quickly and easily capturing ideas and concepts along the way -- Obsidian has helped me accomplish this! Now, after watching your video, I have a better idea of how to continue the 'gardening' process of all my notes. THANK YOU!
Awesome! So glad you found that helpful, Jeff!! Exactly-- the value of building or producing iteratively is in many many fields, so why not PKM too? Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this! I'm reading "Building a second brain..." and I was struggling with how do you get the benefits of compound interest from a knowledge asset. When you mentioned "Learning in Public" the penny dropped - we live in an infinite game, so sharing our knowledge ("cheap," scalable investment with today's platforms) not only refines our understanding, it opens us up to the gift of new ideas and connections that we wouldn't have otherwise had. Gold!
YES! Love this. Learning in public really changed the way I learn and create. I'm happy that resonated with you too!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! This actually helped me a lot. Greetings from Nicaragua. ❤
Learned a ton from this and your other videos on Obsidian. Thank you!
Hi Aaron, thank you so much! I appreciate the support, and I'm very happy to hear you've learned from my videos.
Great channel, very underrated. Unlike other channel just talk about GTD, Notion and Obsidian on the very superficial level, this channel actully gives you something that you can follow.
Thanks! Glad you like my approach! I use Obsidian every day for my full-time day job, so I'm happy to share practical tips instead of theories. :)
Hey Nicole, really like your content. Just started my journey with Obsidian. There is a lack of information about this topic in my country, but you cover most of things which I wish 🙂
Glad to hear it! Welcome to the Obsidian community! :)
Thanks so much for this - if you don't already have one, would love a video about using Readwise/ Readwise plug-in.
Aha, nice. Didnt know I needed the concept of lightning rods but I love it!
The video is really insightful. Thanks : )
That dice rolling plugin is truly amazing, it's baffling how little I know about the PKM community. Thank you so so much for this great presentation! ❤
It's one of my favourites, even outside of gaming! Obsidian's extensibility is such a big draw! There are just so many plugins I didn't know I needed. :D
Excellent motivational content! Thank you so much, Nicole!
Thanks, Alexandre! Happy you felt motivated. :D
Great presentation, love how you can do it all in Obsidian. Love the CI CD reference, now I think of it as Continuous Integration, Continuous Documentation:-)
Haha! That's great! I was thinking continuous note-taking, but yours is way better! :)
Fantastic presentation. I learnt loads. Thank you :)
Hey, glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!
Boy!!!! I'm so glad I found your channel!!!
Yay! I'm happy you found it too. :) Glad to help!
Epic content as Always, I Will try to implement some techniques in my vault
Thank you Paulo! Appreciate the support :)
Thanks for doing this!
Glad you liked it, Jean-Louis! :)
Hello, Nicole. Your content is wonderful, I am very happy to know you through your videos, you do a great job sharing your knowledge, it has helped me a lot to take my first steps with Obsidian and connect it with other things to squeeze its capabilities little by little.
Pd: I'm using a translator, my native language is Spanish. Regards
Hola Juan, quizás no sabes... hablo español. :) Entonces no es necesario usar Google Translate. Bienvenido y gracias. <3
I would say we’re at a point now that just about anything you ever want to learn there is a complete expert teaching it somewhere on TH-cam.
I took ss of ur graph and made my wallpaper. That's pretty awesome
Wow, that's cool! Glad you like it!
Very very nice video. Very useful lesson. Thanks!
Thank you, Andrea! :)
Danke!
Bedankt!! Handige video 😊
Goed om te horen! <3
Thx for this top content. You make hight quality videos. Smart random notes i use from now. One part i take from you video ;-)
Oh, glad you got something out of it! Smart Random Notes is great!
Not sure about the archive functionality in obsidian, but it seems most of those notes should be archived as it looks like sensory overload. It would be like another vault, but not disconnected. I don't know, what are your thoughts?
I'm new to all of this. What does Nicole use to make the slide presentation recording? It looks really fresh
Do you mean the app I used to create and display the slide presentation? It's Obsidian. I show how to do that later on in the video too. :)
So many helpful lessons in this presentation, Nicole! Thank you! Do you share any of your note templates publicly?
Hey Colin! Hmmm, I'm trying to remember what note templates I might have shown in this video. Were there any that you were particularly looking for?
@@nicolevdh yeah I think most interesting to see would be your Readwise and daily note templates
Amazing presentation! Full of good ideas to reflect on for days but also great obsidian tips. I have just taken notes on everything and now I need to digest on all this. But if you have a minute, three small technical doubts:
- Which plugin/css you use to show in uppercase the note name? because I see that the note itself is not in uppercase
- When you create a new note from a kanban card, it goes automatically into TASKS/NEW NOTE. How?
- Any link to your thoughts on folder vs tags? I don't use folder now but I like how you navigate the vault searching with the panel
Hey Pablo, really happy you liked it! :) I can help you with those questions:
- I was using the theme Sanctum! Uppercase links are part of its CSS.
- In the Kanban plugin settings, you can specify the folder that cards are created in.
- Yeah, I prefer to use links instead of either folders or tags to organise notes. I mainly use folders to create different "namespaces"-- for example, I might have two notes called "Book Title", but since I put one in Book/ and the other in Readwise/ then both notes can exist and have separate contents. I tend to use tags for system-related things, like marking when something needs to be processed or if I want to record feedback I've been given.
Hope that helps! :)
@@nicolevdh Definitively helps! I will test them and kanban today. I'm already implementing your content calendar system to try it, so this is very helpful. Also, I didn't knew you can have two notes with the same name in different folders. I just tested and it works! (mind blow). This is perfect to have my cooking recipe in a note AND the note for publication with the same name. Clever! I'm learning so much with your videos. Thank you for taking the time to answer :D
Exactly! :) Happy that worked for you and that it was useful. Thanks for being patient with me replying I do really like answering comments and try to reply to them all, but I don't always succeed, heh.
What theme are you using in this?
Hi.. what’s your opinion about the language in which we should take our notes? English is not my native language, but as a game developer I read many articles and docs in english. In that situation, would you keep all your notes in english , only those technical subjects in english or just the technical terms in english?
I hear 1/3 and will write the comment, I have pkm vault since 3 years, but I not publish it yet, will have plan to pick notes to publishing
Haha, thanks for the comment! Wow, you must have lots of notes! Obsidian Publish makes it easy to choose what to publish... It's just a value in frontmatter. It's one of the reasons I pay for it -- it does make publishing easy!
Which theme is that?
It was a theme called Spectrum, but it's no longer being actively maintained, unfortunately, so it looks rather different these days.
13:15 - but if he can point precisely enough, and then you ask him again 10m from the first spot .... then you know where it is exactly...
Yep, and in the series, they do work out a lot of things that way. But some things he's pointing to are so far away that it would take a long time to keep stopping and asking him. :)
Another "Reason Not To Make Stuff" - or in this case, publish our notes and "Learn In Public" - age. The "I'm too old" self-doubt.
You are so very young, and it seems ALL of the PKM gurus here on TH-cam are barely 30 and below.
Carrie, that's a good one! Btw, thanks for the compliment, but I'm 37!
I know that may still be young, but I definitely don't think age matters when it comes to learning in public. Learning is learning! I'd encourage you to start small and share small things you've learned. I think you might be surprised that nobody notices your age until you point it out. :)