Morgan: "(...) you should approach your Zettelkasten as well treat your Zettelkasten as a work of art" - Morgan is just becoming part of my Obsidian Zettelkasten :). Thank you, Morgan, for the inspiring thoughts on how we can and should look at our scientific work. Your thoughts were particularly important to me, as I often felt that academia inhibits creativity. However, your video is a plea for how we can creatively organize our "daily bread" from the perspective of art and with the help of the Zettelkasten.
1. How would you revise if you needed to study for a test? Or is this system just for essays 2. How would you then turn all these freeform connections into a structured essay or dissertation? This new way of notemaking intrigues me and I'm considering trying it out for my undergrad dissertation, but I can't help but think I'd get overwhelmed by the sheer number of ideas or struggle to distill info down to one singular idea.
Morgan, your videos and explanations are always so lucid and concise. Thank you for helping the rest of us learn more efficiently and find ways to enjoy it as well.
Thank you for this video. I have tried Notion and Obsidian and Evernote over the past few years in search of the best way to create MY commonplace book. I'm so happy I came across your video about Scrintal. I had never heard of it before but I'm certain this is exact tool I've been dreaming of. I signed up using your link!
That's awesome! Scrintal definitely has a lot of functionality that makes it fun and easy to use. And it keeps getting better, too, they're actively making improvements based on user suggestions!
Very inspiring. Brilliant! I am now a note linker, practically daily. I promised in a comment on this channel, and actually followed through! Now I'm feeling challenged again to get more"connected" with these connections. Although already I have found it helps my thinking a lot to take connected notes, even if they're so far staying pretty close to the topics.
Congrats!! I'm glad the interconnection is helping. And sticking close to a niche set of topics is fine, I think - there is so much depth in every area of thought!
I love your videos, Morgan. You just made me so interested and invested in rocks that do not sparkle, with is saying something because I am a lawyer and I know abosolutely nothing about rocks. Great video, thank you!
I definitely will! My main zettelkasten is in Obsidian. But Scrintal supports the channel, which makes it possible for me to make videos, so I end up making a lot of content with them!
hey morgan, i love your videos:) ive been thinking about a concept you mentioned very briefly as an example of how you used the zettlekasten system for your phd studies. it was materialism and materiality. ive been mulling that over that veeery slowly for a few months. i didnt expect to be so taken with the difference between these concepts. i think listening to you mention them and hearing about materiality for the first time made something click in my brain. i cant seem to remember which video of yours it was, and if i found the right one i dont think i skipped to right part of the video. i tried looking up materiality as it pertains to philosophy and it's been frustrating to find anything. if it isnt too much trouble i was hoping you could point me in the direction of an article, paper, philosopher, or book that has more info regarding this. thanks so much!
Wow, this video was awesome! Q: How do you manage creating connections in the moment? I'll be reading something and just want to get my notes down. I'll create ZK permanent notes and connect ideas from the same source to each other as I remember what I just created but find it difficult in the moment to remember what is similar or create connections from outside the primary source. Do you dedicate additional time to that? Or if you do it on the moment, how do you remember what you have? Also, do you make any summary notes of small concepts? If I have a lot of notes like X does Y, X does Z, A affects X and B affects X, do you just leave it like that or make a note that says: What X effects and What affects X. So, if I want to get a quick summary on X I just go to those two notes and not the 4 notes. What do you do or suggest?
Awesome example of how to bring "dry" knowledge alive. Maybe we should make a habit of diving into unfamiliar topics to stretch our thinking muscles so to speak. Granted I'm constantly reprimanded to stay on topic, but you never know what you mind discover …
I'm an environmental science student, and I've been working with a couple of friends from an activist organization on making a presentation about conflict resolution, restorative justice, and our capacity to enact (or lack thereof) those things within leftist spaces. It's been a lot of fun connecting those two seemingly disprate fields.
I feel like learning how to use a digitalised system like this would take me a long time, I'm an 80s kid and still use a good old pen and paper for lecture notes. You make it look like it could be worth the time and effort though, and studying a Masters in my 40s is taxing my memory in a way it wouldn't have when I was younger. How long did it take you to get skilled at using these programmes like Obsidian, and did it slow you down at first?
I'm an 80s kid, and I'm so glad I took the plunge. Start small, maybe even limit yourself to one lecture/paper and explore how it works for you. I've taken several ideas from Morgan's suggestions, and let them morph with my own style and needs. I'm sure it'll keep evolving as my phd-program takes me forward.
@@InspiredThought that's encouraging - and a good idea to start with one paper or lecture. That doesn't seem so overwhelming or like a huge committment - I'll give it a try! It's also encouraging to hear from other Gen Xers doing postgrads. Thanks for your comment
@@suzannawylie8684 And it gives you a chance to dip you toe in without losing hours rewoking your notes and finding you need to futher tweak the system to fit your approach or you perhaps don't like it at all. Babysteps - much moe fun that way too. As fo postgrading (is that even a verb?), I think there are more out there than we know. I've returned avte nearly 20 years after my M.A. But we're all different and have ou unique stories, as it should be.
What are your thoughts on mind mapping from the stand point of creating schemas on an infinite canvas typically revised and painfully created with just pencil instead relying on software nodes.
A pinch of NaCl... nice. Rock salt? : ))))) Geology is a great topic. And great expansion into the question of design decisions... and then ICE. Love it. Just great ideas for ICE and linking. Thank you... off to find more on ICE, without 'Internal Combustion Engines' or just solid water. I have the 'reverse' for creative non-fiction read. For all but mostly for those with less formal science background. Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition" (2010)... a storyteller's wander through the story of much of modern science (at the time of his writing, pub. in 2003)... it is a near linear story that "links" like a zettle on steroids from geology, to biology to astrophysics and back again. Also available as an Audio book, read by Bill...
Dear Morgan, I am also very interested in PKM and research in general and I find your videos enjoyable and insightful. Actually, I would like to know more about PhD opportunities for foreign students in the US. Can we discuss via email?
not related to video, but would love to learn more about your tattoos, if you feel like yapping about it. i have one that is meaningful but ugly cause a friend made it on the fly, been thinking about doing something to it to make it prettier and saw u got some. maybe good instagram aside idk, my best guess is u got something meaningful to say as usual (ur video thumbnails are such great documentation for your hair journey =D)
I love talking about tattoos! And I want to get so many more. I have one like that - the sketch of a hand on my forearm was done by a friend of a friend who was apprenticing. I want to make that one prettier somehow - not cover it up, though. That one is based on a lyric from one of my favourite music artists - George Watsky. The line is "Write til my fingers look like a bouquet of roses." The colourful ice cream on my other forearm is one I got with my brother, just as a sibling bonding tattoo. And then the line drawing of a woman juggling on a unicyle on my tricep was done at an international juggling festival!
I love your videos but this comment is sooo off topic. But something in your video squeaked twice, and before watching this I watched the new answer in progress video about recorders. I had to double check that I didn't have the other video running on an another tab :D
It's interesting how different disciplines ie geology, theatre approach the topic of unknowable knowledge. In math we literally have Gödel's incompleteness theorems which states that there are some things parts of math that are impossible to prove. If you can 'prove' it. It would cause a paradox BREAKING mathematics. Its discovery caused a huge amount of upset in the math community as most mathematicians like to understand the world with hard logic. This theorem cemented that mystery is a fundamental part of the world and not even mathematics can solve it.
Aah, thank you, I agree! I don't know. Usually by the time my hair gets to this length I am sick of it. But I still don't mind the long hair look, so I'll stick with it a bit longer! I might dye it fun colours or something and then when it gets really dried out and broken I'll shave it again :P
The way your mind works is simply phenomenal ! Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us 😊
Legit always releasing the exact type of video I’m looking for. There’s like a 40% chance we end up getting married.
She's a godfairy 😢❤ always right on what we need
Morgan: "(...) you should approach your Zettelkasten as well treat your Zettelkasten as a work of art" - Morgan is just becoming part of my Obsidian Zettelkasten :). Thank you, Morgan, for the inspiring thoughts on how we can and should look at our scientific work. Your thoughts were particularly important to me, as I often felt that academia inhibits creativity. However, your video is a plea for how we can creatively organize our "daily bread" from the perspective of art and with the help of the Zettelkasten.
YES! Glad I could contribute creatively to your note-taking framework!
1. How would you revise if you needed to study for a test? Or is this system just for essays
2. How would you then turn all these freeform connections into a structured essay or dissertation? This new way of notemaking intrigues me and I'm considering trying it out for my undergrad dissertation, but I can't help but think I'd get overwhelmed by the sheer number of ideas or struggle to distill info down to one singular idea.
Morgan, your videos and explanations are always so lucid and concise.
Thank you for helping the rest of us learn more efficiently and find ways to enjoy it as well.
Thank you! And you're welcome - I enjoy doing it! :)
I adore your idea of “creative connections”. Thank you for that!
You're welcome, glad it helps!
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Thank you for this video. I have tried Notion and Obsidian and Evernote over the past few years in search of the best way to create MY commonplace book. I'm so happy I came across your video about Scrintal. I had never heard of it before but I'm certain this is exact tool I've been dreaming of. I signed up using your link!
That's awesome! Scrintal definitely has a lot of functionality that makes it fun and easy to use. And it keeps getting better, too, they're actively making improvements based on user suggestions!
Very inspiring. Brilliant! I am now a note linker, practically daily. I promised in a comment on this channel, and actually followed through! Now I'm feeling challenged again to get more"connected" with these connections. Although already I have found it helps my thinking a lot to take connected notes, even if they're so far staying pretty close to the topics.
Congrats!! I'm glad the interconnection is helping. And sticking close to a niche set of topics is fine, I think - there is so much depth in every area of thought!
I love your videos, Morgan. You just made me so interested and invested in rocks that do not sparkle, with is saying something because I am a lawyer and I know abosolutely nothing about rocks. Great video, thank you!
Haha, I made MYSELF more interested in rocks while making this video! :P
Thanks for your work. Immense value. Hope you return to obsidian examples.
I definitely will! My main zettelkasten is in Obsidian. But Scrintal supports the channel, which makes it possible for me to make videos, so I end up making a lot of content with them!
This video is EXACTLY what I was hoping you'd make a video about sometime. Thank you so much, Morgan!!!
Ah, yay!
hey morgan, i love your videos:) ive been thinking about a concept you mentioned very briefly as an example of how you used the zettlekasten system for your phd studies. it was materialism and materiality. ive been mulling that over that veeery slowly for a few months. i didnt expect to be so taken with the difference between these concepts. i think listening to you mention them and hearing about materiality for the first time made something click in my brain.
i cant seem to remember which video of yours it was, and if i found the right one i dont think i skipped to right part of the video. i tried looking up materiality as it pertains to philosophy and it's been frustrating to find anything. if it isnt too much trouble i was hoping you could point me in the direction of an article, paper, philosopher, or book that has more info regarding this.
thanks so much!
Wow, this video was awesome! Q: How do you manage creating connections in the moment? I'll be reading something and just want to get my notes down. I'll create ZK permanent notes and connect ideas from the same source to each other as I remember what I just created but find it difficult in the moment to remember what is similar or create connections from outside the primary source. Do you dedicate additional time to that? Or if you do it on the moment, how do you remember what you have?
Also, do you make any summary notes of small concepts? If I have a lot of notes like X does Y, X does Z, A affects X and B affects X, do you just leave it like that or make a note that says: What X effects and What affects X. So, if I want to get a quick summary on X I just go to those two notes and not the 4 notes. What do you do or suggest?
Awesome example of how to bring "dry" knowledge alive. Maybe we should make a habit of diving into unfamiliar topics to stretch our thinking muscles so to speak. Granted I'm constantly reprimanded to stay on topic, but you never know what you mind discover …
So inspiring, Morgan! Thanks!
You're welcome!
OMG just what i needed thank you love your content!!!! Love for brazil!!
I feel like I have a lot of Brazilian viewers; it's so awesome to have you here!
I'm an environmental science student, and I've been working with a couple of friends from an activist organization on making a presentation about conflict resolution, restorative justice, and our capacity to enact (or lack thereof) those things within leftist spaces. It's been a lot of fun connecting those two seemingly disprate fields.
Amazing! Thank you for that important work!
Love this channel! It's helping me a lot!
I'm so glad!
I feel like learning how to use a digitalised system like this would take me a long time, I'm an 80s kid and still use a good old pen and paper for lecture notes. You make it look like it could be worth the time and effort though, and studying a Masters in my 40s is taxing my memory in a way it wouldn't have when I was younger. How long did it take you to get skilled at using these programmes like Obsidian, and did it slow you down at first?
I'm an 80s kid, and I'm so glad I took the plunge. Start small, maybe even limit yourself to one lecture/paper and explore how it works for you. I've taken several ideas from Morgan's suggestions, and let them morph with my own style and needs. I'm sure it'll keep evolving as my phd-program takes me forward.
@@InspiredThought that's encouraging - and a good idea to start with one paper or lecture. That doesn't seem so overwhelming or like a huge committment - I'll give it a try! It's also encouraging to hear from other Gen Xers doing postgrads. Thanks for your comment
@@suzannawylie8684 And it gives you a chance to dip you toe in without losing hours rewoking your notes and finding you need to futher tweak the system to fit your approach or you perhaps don't like it at all. Babysteps - much moe fun that way too. As fo postgrading (is that even a verb?), I think there are more out there than we know. I've returned avte nearly 20 years after my M.A. But we're all different and have ou unique stories, as it should be.
Unrelated but I like this brown + red shirt combo on you, cute!
Aw, thanks. I'm not a huge pink and brown combo person, but I do love each shirt on it's own :P
Is Scrintal an alternative to Obsidian?
This is magic!
Wow! High praise! 🤩
What are your thoughts on mind mapping from the stand point of creating schemas on an infinite canvas typically revised and painfully created with just pencil instead relying on software nodes.
You can look up Justin sung mind mapping for more context
A pinch of NaCl... nice. Rock salt? : )))))
Geology is a great topic. And great expansion into the question of design decisions... and then ICE. Love it.
Just great ideas for ICE and linking. Thank you... off to find more on ICE, without 'Internal Combustion Engines' or just solid water. I have the 'reverse' for creative non-fiction read. For all but mostly for those with less formal science background. Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition" (2010)... a storyteller's wander through the story of much of modern science (at the time of his writing, pub. in 2003)... it is a near linear story that "links" like a zettle on steroids from geology, to biology to astrophysics and back again. Also available as an Audio book, read by Bill...
Hahaha, a pinch of salt, awesome. I'm not very punny, so I didn't even realize!
Dear Morgan, I am also very interested in PKM and research in general and I find your videos enjoyable and insightful.
Actually, I would like to know more about PhD opportunities for foreign students in the US. Can we discuss via email?
My PhD is in Canada and I don't know much about admissions, so I don't know how much help I'd be!
not related to video, but would love to learn more about your tattoos, if you feel like yapping about it. i have one that is meaningful but ugly cause a friend made it on the fly, been thinking about doing something to it to make it prettier and saw u got some. maybe good instagram aside idk, my best guess is u got something meaningful to say as usual
(ur video thumbnails are such great documentation for your hair journey =D)
I love talking about tattoos! And I want to get so many more. I have one like that - the sketch of a hand on my forearm was done by a friend of a friend who was apprenticing. I want to make that one prettier somehow - not cover it up, though. That one is based on a lyric from one of my favourite music artists - George Watsky. The line is "Write til my fingers look like a bouquet of roses." The colourful ice cream on my other forearm is one I got with my brother, just as a sibling bonding tattoo. And then the line drawing of a woman juggling on a unicyle on my tricep was done at an international juggling festival!
Good point
I love your videos but this comment is sooo off topic. But something in your video squeaked twice, and before watching this I watched the new answer in progress video about recorders. I had to double check that I didn't have the other video running on an another tab :D
Hahaha, I think it's my chair? That's hilarious though, I haven't watched that video yet, but I've saved it for later!
I didn't know about ICE, so ta for that. 🙂
You're welcome! It's such a minimalistic learning taxonomy to have in your back pocket!
@@morganeua sounds it. I do like discovering these new methods... to seeing which ones work best for me!
It's interesting how different disciplines ie geology, theatre approach the topic of unknowable knowledge. In math we literally have Gödel's incompleteness theorems which states that there are some things parts of math that are impossible to prove. If you can 'prove' it. It would cause a paradox BREAKING mathematics. Its discovery caused a huge amount of upset in the math community as most mathematicians like to understand the world with hard logic. This theorem cemented that mystery is a fundamental part of the world and not even mathematics can solve it.
I love that!
PhD in Theatre. Truly incredible
Greetings from México!!
I look forward to this comment every time I upload!
Morgan, when do you plan to shave your head again? That was a stunning, beautiful look!
Aah, thank you, I agree! I don't know. Usually by the time my hair gets to this length I am sick of it. But I still don't mind the long hair look, so I'll stick with it a bit longer! I might dye it fun colours or something and then when it gets really dried out and broken I'll shave it again :P
Wait, what? "I am a PhD?" When did that happen? Congratulations!
letsssss goooo woooooo
Let's David Goggins these notes!!!