Wow, this was a great introduction to Obsidian. Very impressed by the clarity of diction & very pleasant & engaging voice. (& incredible high rez audio) The phrase , some serious caffeine inspiration right there!
This is brilliant. I've been using obsidian a bit, but I knew that I was definitely not making the most of it. This presentation has many great ideas in it and I'm looking forward to putting them into practice! Thanks much!
This was an amazingly useful and concise tutorial. I also appreciate that everything is demonstrated live, especially the dataview queries. I just subscribed. Thank you! 🙏🏼
appreciate your efficient explanation of your system! I especially found clarity around how you described your information management systems; project, personal, literature, etc. This helped me better organize my own system, much more to my thinking than simply PARA.
Thanks for your feedback. Great to hear that it helped you 😊 It took me some time to figure out this organization system but now that it's set up, it saves me just so much time and frustration
Ran into your video by accident while looking for something else, but found it to be a good review/introduction to Obsidian. Also, didn't know about Zotero, pretty sure it's gonna help the next time I have to update my .bib file. Take your well deserved like and subscription.
Very good tutorial. It has helped me a lot to introduce me to obsidian. I am a physics student, and I would like you to teach us how to take notes with obsidian for STEM activities. Thank you so much
Thanks a lot for your nice comment. For me Obsidian helped a great deal with my PhD studies (ecology), work and project management. I finally found a system to take notes that actually works for me 😊
Good video! In the matter of practices for effective research. Do you have more recommendations from your own experience, books, articles, other YT channels on how to revise papers, more ideas on making the annotations, and develop research ideas?
Good question. There is a lot of material out there and I feel like a good workflow is is very individual. My main recommendation is: Don't let all the complex workflow videos/articles stop you from just starting to take notes. Start with a simple workflow and don't be afraid to change and adapt it. In the beginning, I tried to build the perfect workflow from scratch which was impossible and stopped me from actually taking useful notes. But some of the resources that I liked and that helped me get a clearer idea for myself are: - Book "How to take smart notes" by Sönke Arendt - This blog post: ilyashabanov.substack.com/p/note-taking-system-for-success-in - YT Videos on Zettelkasten by Artem Kirsanov, e.g. this one: th-cam.com/video/E6ySG7xYgjY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1xd753lz0GcPOO-w But other people feel free to also post your favourite resources as an answer here :)
I use the AnuPpuccin theme that you can install via the Obsidian settings. Then I use a community plugin called "Style settings". In this plugin you can change a lot of settings of the AnuPpuccin theme, including the coloring of the folders. I saw this in a TH-cam video by Nicole van der Hoeven: th-cam.com/video/7-SOwxpZQNI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=676FpBIDsPwWYJIe
Hi, Really appreciate the effort here, an interesting workflow i would say. Some questions regarding zettle kasten even after goinf through notebook_demo: 1. what would be the permanent notes in this workflow? a standalone zettle with some reference to researtch paper? 2. if a new idea originates after taking literature notes (reading multiple research papers), should we make a zettle note for that idea and link all research papers or literature notes to that? 3.based on above question how would be manage projects with ideas? e.g we might read alot of papers for specific project now to make workpackages we can use tasks but to work on some new approaches should we define it in form of zettle ? Thanks, would appreaciate a response
Hi, thanks a lot for your feedback. Very good questions you have there :) I would first of all say that there is no single right way to handle this. Of course there are suggestions for workflows but ultimately, you have to find something that makes sense to you. How I would answer your 3 questions from my workflow: 1. A permanent note for me is a Zettel about one concept/idea/theory/... If the concept is bigger, I split it into separate notes and then have one meta-Zettel combining them together. And in the Zettel, I just put links to my literature notes that I used. In my workflow literature notes can also be about YT-videos, blogs etc. Not necessarily only research papers. 2. Yes, I do it like that. I create a new Zettel and link the research papers. 3. If I collect ideas for a project, I always have a project file that links to individual notes with Ideas for that project. Some ideas go into Zettel (mainly the ones I think are general/relevant for other projects as well), but some I also keep on separate project notes that are also linked in the main project file. This is mainly for ideas/thoughts that I only want to have in the project but not keep forever in my Zettelvault. That said, I can only encourage you to start with the Zettel system of notetaking and adapt it to your own preferences over time. It needs some time to find a workflow that feels good and that is useful for you. If you are interested, I can also recommend this video that gave me a lot of inspiration: th-cam.com/video/E6ySG7xYgjY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/D9ivU_IKO6M/w-d-xo.html Hope that helps :)
@selinabaldauf7529 thanks for taking your time and answer my queries. Especially the advice in the last part. I think I will give it a go and see. Nevertheless superhelpful content 👌
@@fitzg3278 No there is no formal online course for this topic. I give some workshops at my university and at conferences but not in general as a formal online course.
For the checkbox are you entering hyphen space left bracket right bracket? I am doing that and I am just getting those characters in Obsidian, I don't get a checkbox
Best tutorial yet, and I have reviewed more than I would like to admit.
I appreciate your honest unglazed representation.
I've been looking at many videos but leaving me only frustrated. But you actually showed how it's done, the best video I've seen on this yet!
Wow, this was a great introduction to Obsidian.
Very impressed by the clarity of diction & very pleasant & engaging voice. (& incredible high rez audio)
The phrase , some serious caffeine inspiration right there!
Thank you for the simple and straightforward video. Obsidian is an amazing app and I have so much more to learn about it
Finally a channel that shows how to improve your scientific work and organization! Great video!
This is brilliant. I've been using obsidian a bit, but I knew that I was definitely not making the most of it. This presentation has many great ideas in it and I'm looking forward to putting them into practice! Thanks much!
This was an amazingly useful and concise tutorial. I also appreciate that everything is demonstrated live, especially the dataview queries. I just subscribed. Thank you! 🙏🏼
appreciate your efficient explanation of your system! I especially found clarity around how you described your information management systems; project, personal, literature, etc. This helped me better organize my own system, much more to my thinking than simply PARA.
Thanks for your feedback. Great to hear that it helped you 😊 It took me some time to figure out this organization system but now that it's set up, it saves me just so much time and frustration
Thank you so much, it is clear, to the point and easy to follow. You are a great teacher!
Thanks a lot for your nice feedback. Happy note taking!
Excellent tutorial and to the point. Please keep up posting!
I'm glad that youtube recommended your channel, first the efficient R video and now this software, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Thanks for your nice feedback. Happy you liked the videos
Ran into your video by accident while looking for something else, but found it to be a good review/introduction to Obsidian.
Also, didn't know about Zotero, pretty sure it's gonna help the next time I have to update my .bib file. Take your well deserved like and subscription.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Glad to hear you liked it!
Best tutorial ever. Thank you very much 🙏🏻🌹
wow this was very clearly explained, keep doing tutorials because you explain things in a way anyone can understand. 😊
Thanks a lot. Clear and understandable for everyone was the goal 😊
Great video, Selina, thank you for sharing.
Lovely content!
Thank you. That’s a very nice tutorial!
Very good tutorial. Thanks!
Very good tutorial. It has helped me a lot to introduce me to obsidian. I am a physics student, and I would like you to teach us how to take notes with obsidian for STEM activities. Thank you so much
Thanks a lot for your nice comment. For me Obsidian helped a great deal with my PhD studies (ecology), work and project management. I finally found a system to take notes that actually works for me 😊
Very helpful thanks
Awesome tutorial, thanks for this! :)
Thank you very much for your bideo. It was very interesting. Ciao
Good video!
In the matter of practices for effective research.
Do you have more recommendations from your own experience, books, articles, other YT channels on how to revise papers, more ideas on making the annotations, and develop research ideas?
Good question. There is a lot of material out there and I feel like a good workflow is is very individual.
My main recommendation is: Don't let all the complex workflow videos/articles stop you from just starting to take notes. Start with a simple workflow and don't be afraid to change and adapt it. In the beginning, I tried to build the perfect workflow from scratch which was impossible and stopped me from actually taking useful notes.
But some of the resources that I liked and that helped me get a clearer idea for myself are:
- Book "How to take smart notes" by Sönke Arendt
- This blog post: ilyashabanov.substack.com/p/note-taking-system-for-success-in
- YT Videos on Zettelkasten by Artem Kirsanov, e.g. this one: th-cam.com/video/E6ySG7xYgjY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1xd753lz0GcPOO-w
But other people feel free to also post your favourite resources as an answer here :)
How did you coloured your sidebar?
I use the AnuPpuccin theme that you can install via the Obsidian settings. Then I use a community plugin called "Style settings". In this plugin you can change a lot of settings of the AnuPpuccin theme, including the coloring of the folders. I saw this in a TH-cam video by Nicole van der Hoeven: th-cam.com/video/7-SOwxpZQNI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=676FpBIDsPwWYJIe
@@selinabaldauf7529 oh thx
Very interesting video! I am using Obsidian in my TH-cam channel for organizing my notes and it's very cool :D
Hi,
Really appreciate the effort here, an interesting workflow i would say.
Some questions regarding zettle kasten even after goinf through notebook_demo:
1. what would be the permanent notes in this workflow? a standalone zettle with some reference to researtch paper?
2. if a new idea originates after taking literature notes (reading multiple research papers), should we make a zettle note for that idea and link all research papers or literature notes to that?
3.based on above question how would be manage projects with ideas? e.g we might read alot of papers for specific project now to make workpackages we can use tasks but to work on some new approaches should we define it in form of zettle ?
Thanks, would appreaciate a response
Hi,
thanks a lot for your feedback.
Very good questions you have there :) I would first of all say that there is no single right way to handle this. Of course there are suggestions for workflows but ultimately, you have to find something that makes sense to you.
How I would answer your 3 questions from my workflow:
1. A permanent note for me is a Zettel about one concept/idea/theory/... If the concept is bigger, I split it into separate notes and then have one meta-Zettel combining them together. And in the Zettel, I just put links to my literature notes that I used. In my workflow literature notes can also be about YT-videos, blogs etc. Not necessarily only research papers.
2. Yes, I do it like that. I create a new Zettel and link the research papers.
3. If I collect ideas for a project, I always have a project file that links to individual notes with Ideas for that project. Some ideas go into Zettel (mainly the ones I think are general/relevant for other projects as well), but some I also keep on separate project notes that are also linked in the main project file. This is mainly for ideas/thoughts that I only want to have in the project but not keep forever in my Zettelvault.
That said, I can only encourage you to start with the Zettel system of notetaking and adapt it to your own preferences over time. It needs some time to find a workflow that feels good and that is useful for you. If you are interested, I can also recommend this video that gave me a lot of inspiration:
th-cam.com/video/E6ySG7xYgjY/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/D9ivU_IKO6M/w-d-xo.html
Hope that helps :)
@selinabaldauf7529 thanks for taking your time and answer my queries. Especially the advice in the last part.
I think I will give it a go and see.
Nevertheless superhelpful content 👌
Is there an online formal course with Selina Baldauf?
@@fitzg3278 No there is no formal online course for this topic. I give some workshops at my university and at conferences but not in general as a formal online course.
🙏
For the checkbox are you entering hyphen space left bracket right bracket? I am doing that and I am just getting those characters in Obsidian, I don't get a checkbox
I am using "- [ ]"
So it's hyphen, space, left bracket, space, right bracket. Maybe you forgot the space between the brackets?
That was it! Thank you Selina