Thank you for this video series. Currently studying for my CISSP. Needed to have a more contextual way of organizing notes and adding sketches, diagrams, and other visual representations
I know a ton of other content creators have done videos on this topic but seeing one from you would be great. I'd love to see your thoughts on If you were to start from scratch, how would you create your second brain or Zettelkasten now, Would it be the same workflow you are using now? Would you do something differently? Sorry, just mind vomiting into this comment box. Love the content, thank you for sharing!
Hey Travis! It would be the same as I'm doing now, and as I've outlined in my courses. The reason I've only created these courses now is because I'm at a point of maturity in my note-taking system where it felt appropriate to share it with the world.
Thank you, I appreciate it and I'm glad that my style is resonating with you. I try to balance TH-cam out a bit, there is too much flashy editing and background music
very exciting stuff. i feel that ive been struggling with productivity because my mind is too scattered. i cant remember things etc. I'm going to try this method and see if it improves my productivity and value as an employed software engineer.
Ive seen comments about drawing with your mouse and I was curious if you have considered grabbing a small wacom tablet? You can get older non-screen wacom one smalls for fairly cheap if drawing out your thoughts is beneficial. I think there are alao apps that take pictures and turn them into svg's that you can add to your notes if you want to draw them out on paper first. Just some options if your interested :D
Hi Mischa I just came across your channel and I watched both videos with excitment so far! I'm a junior devops engineer at an ISP. But my actual role operations. Actually I'm an Datacenter Network- / Connectivity Engineer. We have thousands of networks and highlevel architecure. I learn a lot from my senior engineers. We have x services and platform with several tricky and specialised stuff. I get a lot of information everyday, sometime I have drawings from my seniors of highlevel stuff I want to document. I want to link my ever gaining knowledge. Would you suggest me Obsidian ( i came accross this tool few weeks ago). I'm have only little commandline for complex Network troubleshooting :)
What is the advantage of using obsidian over just making a text file for each note placed in the correct location in your zettlekasten? Just the visualization, or is there more? Is it for the multi media aspect? Thanks for the video.
If you want to get better with English it could help to take notes in English. But for long term, you probably want to do every in your native language to build a collection of your personal internal notes to reference in the future
I agree with Eric; If you are better in English, take notes in English. Or if you plan to work with an English-speaking company, having your notes and thoughts in English will be helpful. You can always add a small summary at the end of your notes or in different text colors in your native language. English is my third language but I use it for everything and live in the US so everything is done in English or American as they like to say here.
I don't buy that visualization requirement. It's fancy but vim searching is too good to separate notes into small files. For me a folder hierarchy is good enough. I prefer to have more powerful markup language like asciidoc.
Hey Mischa, great video! I saw in another video that you use Amethyst for window management. Since I updated my macOS, the feature of moving apps to specific spaces is not working anymore. Despite the team trying to fix it, there are still a lot of bugs. Are you still using Amethyst, or have you switched to something else?
Zettelkasten - a note-taking method where you spend more time on the method than you do on the actual note-taking. Use a text file and markdown and a decent editor with search, and that's about all the note-taking you need....
Without having finished the video just yet (enjoying it btw and much of your other content as well), can I just give 1 piece of advice real quick. Get an actual pen and tab to do the writing :-) From the looks of it I think you are still using your mouse for quite a bit of things, get a simple Wacom One or something. No hate btw, just a tip to make it look even better!
Could be great if the guys who develop Obsidian would care about a part of there users. I ran in a simple problem that I found out was 2 years old and still not resolved by them. 1. Installed on macOS and created a folder on my iCloud - So far so good. 2. Installed the iPad version. At startup, you can’t open an existing folder, you must create one - yah, great 🙄 3 Found a thread on this problem on Reddit that was 2 years old - ok, end of the road. At least it didn’t go very far for me. I’ll stick with OneNote, even if it’s Microsoft that I don’t like, OneNote works pretty well for me on macOS, iPadOS, IOS and, yeah, sometimes for work, on my Windows PC.
I use my Obsidian vault synched across my iPhone, iPad and MacBook without any problems. Synched for free using iCloud. There must be a user error somewhere.
I think so, but I don't have enough experience with Logseq to make claims about it. I tried it for a while but it did'nt feel right to me at the time, and it was missing some functionality which I can't remember now. Maybe it was syncing across devices, and maybe Logseq has implemented that by now. Maybe I should take a look at it again soon
Obligatory Perl oneliner: $ echo "this is a title that i write" | perl -e "for $c (split(\" \", )) { print ucfirst($c) . \" \"; } print \" \";" Obsidian looks cool, but it doesn't really work when you are doing onsite client integration work in very restricted and audited environments. Also, from what I checked in the documentation, it seems there isn't a way to selectively sync specific vaults to specific devices. I don't want to have my personal notes synced with the company's laptop, just the vaults where I have work-related notes only. Great talks btw!
@@mischavandenburg That‘s not what I meant :D. I wanted to say that I would need to convince my company to buy me an obsidian commercial license to use it :).
@@maid768 Oh, I apologize! I've had several people saying that they aren't willing to pay for software and it grinds my gears. Hopefully you can at least use it for your personal knowledge though!
I have been using org org-roam for a few years and I’m a big fan. However, I’m recently looking into alternatives because of two main reasons: 1. lack of proper mobile support (I often get the best ideas while doing walks or commuting and then I want to be able to look something up or write something down) 2. Don’t want to be bound to emacs. It’s a great editor but I’m increasingly more annoyed by how slow it is and by how un-Unix like it is because it wants to solve every problem in one software.
I suggest keeping it simple. Note taking goes too much into the second brain weirdness. At the end I see them doing mostly keyword stuffing and fancy graph. Not based on use case knowledge. A git repo that store code and markdown can be the most you actually need.
@@notaras1985Also for a programmer who knows vim, emacs or some editor. Being able to load you knowledge base from there is priceless. Eternal note taking tools strips that ability.
It is a pain to watch you write so slowly with a mouse pointer. Could you please prepare your diagrams and just show them? That would also save us 20 minutes.
Please remove your content from TH-cam; it's too much gold to be available for free! Good job, man. I'll definitely adopt some, if not all, of your tools and tricks and give them a try. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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Hi Mischa, how are you writing? Is that an Obsidian Canvas with a drawing tablet on your mbp?
I am watching the series with excitement. I know that building this note taking system will skyrocket my career. Thank you.
We FINALLY have a note taking program worthy of your time! Great series to watch, thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thank you for this video series. Currently studying for my CISSP. Needed to have a more contextual way of organizing notes and adding sketches, diagrams, and other visual representations
I know a ton of other content creators have done videos on this topic but seeing one from you would be great. I'd love to see your thoughts on If you were to start from scratch, how would you create your second brain or Zettelkasten now, Would it be the same workflow you are using now? Would you do something differently?
Sorry, just mind vomiting into this comment box.
Love the content, thank you for sharing!
Hey Travis! It would be the same as I'm doing now, and as I've outlined in my courses. The reason I've only created these courses now is because I'm at a point of maturity in my note-taking system where it felt appropriate to share it with the world.
Loving this series! Thank you for going through this!
Thank you for making this clear and concise content. No frills just logical thinking and execution.
Thank you, I appreciate it and I'm glad that my style is resonating with you. I try to balance TH-cam out a bit, there is too much flashy editing and background music
this came up to me in the most perfect time. i was just about to check my notes to start an MDA
thank you for your videos!
"For command-line people" is a title I want to see so much more of
You're in the right place ^^
Same, I'm building my language around cli/tui tools for that very reason
I love your videos . It's lovely that you're working on us.
Thank you.
thank you, you help me now to update my note taking system from notion to obsidian
this came up to me in the most perfect time. I needed some organization methods. Thank you for your videos!
Staaahp you're filling up my Watch Later playlist
Damn....Never knew obsidian was so cool.
estou no início do vídeo (já vi o primeiro) e quero elogiar uma coisa que chega antes do conteúdo: áudio ótimo.
very exciting stuff. i feel that ive been struggling with productivity because my mind is too scattered. i cant remember things etc. I'm going to try this method and see if it improves my productivity and value as an employed software engineer.
I'm taking notes with Joplin but I'm really a vim guy, it's time to migrate. Thanks for sharing with us your experience!
How you tried Logseq? If you have, how would you compare it to Obsidian?
how to take note in obsidian using digital pen like you explained in the video ? is there any specific plugin or setup is needed ?
I really like this. I did not realize that Obsidian is compatible with markdown note-taking. I'll give it a try, thanks!
Ive seen comments about drawing with your mouse and I was curious if you have considered grabbing a small wacom tablet? You can get older non-screen wacom one smalls for fairly cheap if drawing out your thoughts is beneficial.
I think there are alao apps that take pictures and turn them into svg's that you can add to your notes if you want to draw them out on paper first.
Just some options if your interested :D
Amazing video! I can’t wait for the next one
Hi Mischa I just came across your channel and I watched both videos with excitment so far! I'm a junior devops engineer at an ISP. But my actual role operations. Actually I'm an Datacenter Network- / Connectivity Engineer. We have thousands of networks and highlevel architecure. I learn a lot from my senior engineers. We have x services and platform with several tricky and specialised stuff. I get a lot of information everyday, sometime I have drawings from my seniors of highlevel stuff I want to document. I want to link my ever gaining knowledge. Would you suggest me Obsidian ( i came accross this tool few weeks ago). I'm have only little commandline for complex Network troubleshooting :)
What is the advantage of using obsidian over just making a text file for each note placed in the correct location in your zettlekasten? Just the visualization, or is there more? Is it for the multi media aspect? Thanks for the video.
Syncing across devices and mobile access is a big one
@@mischavandenburg Ok, cool. Thanks.
Since the courses and work information I'm gathering is in English, should I take notes in English or translate everything in my native language?
If you want to get better with English it could help to take notes in English.
But for long term, you probably want to do every in your native language to build a collection of your personal internal notes to reference in the future
I agree with Eric; If you are better in English, take notes in English. Or if you plan to work with an English-speaking company, having your notes and thoughts in English will be helpful. You can always add a small summary at the end of your notes or in different text colors in your native language. English is my third language but I use it for everything and live in the US so everything is done in English or American as they like to say here.
I don't buy that visualization requirement. It's fancy but vim searching is too good to separate notes into small files. For me a folder hierarchy is good enough.
I prefer to have more powerful markup language like asciidoc.
Hey Mischa, great video!
I saw in another video that you use Amethyst for window management. Since I updated my macOS, the feature of moving apps to specific spaces is not working anymore. Despite the team trying to fix it, there are still a lot of bugs.
Are you still using Amethyst, or have you switched to something else?
Zettelkasten - a note-taking method where you spend more time on the method than you do on the actual note-taking.
Use a text file and markdown and a decent editor with search, and that's about all the note-taking you need....
Hey, I would love to know what 'whiteboarding software' you use in the video and also thanks for the video!
excalidraw
thanks, love your videos.
u read my mind.
Yeah but where is the CLI usage?
Please check logseq too
im new to this kind of note taking, but it can work with vscode or only vim ?
The thumbnail similarity made it difficult for me to tell this was a new video quickly.
Yay! He's back!
The content that I need ❤
Without having finished the video just yet (enjoying it btw and much of your other content as well), can I just give 1 piece of advice real quick. Get an actual pen and tab to do the writing :-) From the looks of it I think you are still using your mouse for quite a bit of things, get a simple Wacom One or something. No hate btw, just a tip to make it look even better!
You will like my next video :)
Could be great if the guys who develop Obsidian would care about a part of there users. I ran in a simple problem that I found out was 2 years old and still not resolved by them.
1. Installed on macOS and created a folder on my iCloud - So far so good.
2. Installed the iPad version. At startup, you can’t open an existing folder, you must create one - yah, great 🙄
3 Found a thread on this problem on Reddit that was 2 years old - ok, end of the road. At least it didn’t go very far for me.
I’ll stick with OneNote, even if it’s Microsoft that I don’t like, OneNote works pretty well for me on macOS, iPadOS, IOS and, yeah, sometimes for work, on my Windows PC.
I use my Obsidian vault synched across my iPhone, iPad and MacBook without any problems. Synched for free using iCloud. There must be a user error somewhere.
Somehow this video looks familiar it feels I have watch similar video somewhere. 😉
When are we gonna install Arch, btw?
Watching at 1.25X ❤
Thank you for share!
Logseq ticks them all as well?
I think so, but I don't have enough experience with Logseq to make claims about it. I tried it for a while but it did'nt feel right to me at the time, and it was missing some functionality which I can't remember now. Maybe it was syncing across devices, and maybe Logseq has implemented that by now. Maybe I should take a look at it again soon
@@mischavandenburg The major benefit is that LogSeq is open source, while Obsidian is proprietary
23:02 Grabbing one of the larger nodes is almost unsettling. It's like grabbing part of your brain
Obligatory Perl oneliner:
$ echo "this is a title that i write" | perl -e "for $c (split(\" \", )) { print ucfirst($c) . \" \"; } print \"
\";"
Obsidian looks cool, but it doesn't really work when you are doing onsite client integration work in very restricted and audited environments. Also, from what I checked in the documentation, it seems there isn't a way to selectively sync specific vaults to specific devices. I don't want to have my personal notes synced with the company's laptop, just the vaults where I have work-related notes only. Great talks btw!
The problem I have with osbidian is that I can't use it for commercial use without buying the appropriate license.
What's wrong with paying for quality software? Sheesh
@@mischavandenburg That‘s not what I meant :D. I wanted to say that I would need to convince my company to buy me an obsidian commercial license to use it :).
@@maid768 Oh, I apologize! I've had several people saying that they aren't willing to pay for software and it grinds my gears. Hopefully you can at least use it for your personal knowledge though!
Emacs + Roam = Obsidian killer
I've started using Roam in Emacs 2 weeks ago. Are there any downsides to it? So far, I am enthusiastic and am converting all my notes into it.
Roam is ugly
I have been using org org-roam for a few years and I’m a big fan. However, I’m recently looking into alternatives because of two main reasons: 1. lack of proper mobile support (I often get the best ideas while doing walks or commuting and then I want to be able to look something up or write something down) 2. Don’t want to be bound to emacs. It’s a great editor but I’m increasingly more annoyed by how slow it is and by how un-Unix like it is because it wants to solve every problem in one software.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm an emacs user, not vim. Would you care to elaborate how org-roam is better than Obsidian?
@@Mikkihiiri27 I need to give Obsidian a try before I can compare both. I hope to remember and respond here with more hands-on experience.
How 13:38 looks like I fell in the trap for 13 and a half minutes.
22:35 That's not a second brain, it's a universe os knowledge
I suggest keeping it simple. Note taking goes too much into the second brain weirdness.
At the end I see them doing mostly keyword stuffing and fancy graph. Not based on use case knowledge.
A git repo that store code and markdown can be the most you actually need.
Well it worked for him
@@notaras1985I meant folks who knows how to organise their materials.
@@notaras1985Also for a programmer who knows vim, emacs or some editor. Being able to load you knowledge base from there is priceless.
Eternal note taking tools strips that ability.
Obsidian is not FOSS (free and open source).
@VulcanOnWheels Must it be open-source?
Either never pay for personal use (free) or get a Catalyst license one time and get beta builds.
@@DaMu24 My only saying that's why I choose not to use Obsidian. I'm sorry I was not clear about that.
69th line from me.
It is a pain to watch you write so slowly with a mouse pointer. Could you please prepare your diagrams and just show them? That would also save us 20 minutes.
X1.5 speed :-)
@@julianquezada5050i am at 2x speed 😅
People complaining about a free resource. I actually enjoy the slow pace. It makes me feel calmer.
I dont agree, i like watching him slowly build it up.
@@tuhin1264 at 2.5x speed for me loll
Just use Apple Notes
lolno
Please remove your content from TH-cam; it's too much gold to be available for free!
Good job, man. I'll definitely adopt some, if not all, of your tools and tricks and give them a try.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Haha thank you!
cut your videos short man ! taking to much of time to explain good things !
I am sorry, but this is typical dev(f)op talk.
worst whiteboard this year
It's a blackboard you racist
really great video, subscribed and liked for support
how good is google colab for note taking which is a mix of text and code ?
Thank you for the support! I have no experience with that, might try that out for a future video