This is best video on notes taking. There are 3 golden rule that I learned. First, create your own system and do not copy from others, second create your own notes, that resonates with in you. Third, create a habit. I have tried many different systems, tools and watched a lot of videos, but now I realized why I am not so productive.Thank you for this video. Please create a video on MOC as well. Thanks a million. 🙏
Hooray! I'm glad it helped! As a follow up to this video, I've got two more for you: - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hD-sSRGynpM.html - Another high-level video on note-taking tips, similar to this one but with entirely new ideas. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v84uSIqqVPQ.html - Daily Note system that includes setting up a MOC. If you watch that first video I linked first, I talk about thinking in systems. I define a system as a Template, an MOC, and a Dataview Table. In the Daily Note video (the second link), I build that out for Daily Notes. Many of my other tutorials (People Notes, Physical Items) are also complete systems that use MOC. Hope that helps!
You mentioned recognizing excitement and use that to start habits. I had this "vision" if you will, of every social interaction (friends, work, church) representing some kind of meeting. I then related that to journaling and how are essentially the same thing. I've decided to make a meetings folder that will record these interactions, one for each event. I can then organize other notes off of these on my own time, but by doing this I form a habit. Going back and reviewing these is going to be the hardest part!
That's certainly an ambitious project! Instead of making these each independant meeting notes, I wonder if it might be better to have a People note for each person, and make notes about each interaction there? But that might get tricky if there is more than one person you're meeting together. And I think you nailed it when you said "going back and reviewing these is going to be the hardest part." Definitely ask yourself *why* you want to do this, and design your system to help with whatever that goal is.
the message you conveyed in the video is accurate. We shouldn't waste time with the tools, but with our notes. It's very easy to get distracted by superfluous things and lose focus on the subject we want to report or describe. Congratulations. Continue on the path to transmit ideas that lead people to write more and, therefore, to reason and evolve like educated people.💯
Thank you! It’s so easy to get distracted by tools…they’re so fun! But being aware of when you’re having fun vs doing work is so important. You nailed it, thanks for the comment.
Thank you for the video! Good point about future self; I DO keep in mind when writing notes/bookmarking something, but the issue is that I'm like "OK, what would the future me think when he tries to find something". And, then, I end up adding every possible tag I can think of from future me .... and then, the future me doesn't even remember what tags I used before!
It can certainly take an adjustment. I remember tagging some early notes with a bunch of (what I thought were helpful) tags. Then wanted to find the note later and couldn't for the life of me find it! It's funny how sometimes our current brain and future brain think so differently.
I am practicing Obsidian to flush what I am doing daily for work or personal tasks. One year ago I moved from Word to Obsidian. The reason was that I wasn't able to find back the information inside the word document. One year after my start, I was looking for a better organisation to retrieve my old notes. I realized that your series of templates you have proposed were very usefull for me. From that step I have started to go deeper inside tools like dataview , Templater, Meta-bind. But I still don't feel easy to invent my own tools. Your rhythm of speech is adapted to my ability to understand (I'm not a native English speaker). (Plus I'm looking for you-tubers who speak good English). I don't need to interrupt the video to follow. Moreover, I like the way you think, ask you questions about the activity of taking notes and reusing them. I enjoyed being able to retrieve your Templates and MOC files from the web. So I could adapt them slightly to my use cases. Thank you very much.
Thank you for such a nice comment! I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying my videos, and that they're helping you with both your vault and also with your English! Happy to hear that you found some of my templates useful. Obsidian is so much more powerful than Word for knowledge management. Glad to have you on our side!
It's so simple but super powerful. And it's helped me so much with my notes, especially tagging. I no longer try to tag things strictly by category or something. But instead, I'll tag it with something I know that future-me will think about when I want to remember this note.
I need to write first, organize later more. I mostly take notes on my own, not in meetings so I tag them and add links right away but I should focus more on the note taking and then review them, even right after I finished writing if I have time
About the mashup point and copying others I also find useful to copy one or two things that can be useful but I'm not really sure. For example add a section in a template without forcing myself to use it just because I added it, but if I do not add it I will forget about and never use it. Then once a month review what I did to see if I actually used those additions, and if I used them, how and how much and try to tailor them to my need and if they are just clutter I remove them. I found that useful starting out because I didn't know what I needed and how to create a system and there was just too much but I found myself keeping what I really used and then decided to try new things one or two at a time. Maybe I watch a video like this one and annotate a couple things that I could use and try them out next month
Yup, I do the same thing. It's sort of making a guess at what you might want to use, and then testing it in the real world-not by forcing yourself to use it, but just seeing if you naturally want to use it. Then use that info to flesh out more, or remove. I do this a lot with plugins.
Hot off the presses. This was my first video edited with Adobe Premiere, too. So I was working on it all last week, learning the new app. Glad you enjoyed!
As a beginner at pkm, I really find it so difficult to get over setting up the right system and start working; this video really reminds me what i am here for and to just start writing before organizing
