Looking forward to the video on taking notes on the natural sciences. Making that work intiutively with the system has been a problem i've been having for a long time.
Hello Morgan! I just wanna say thank you for all the videos, especially about the Zettelkasten system, you've change my perspective about studying and notetaking, so much so that i'm super motivated to study to get my engineering degree. You've changed my life for the better and I don't think would've applied to college had you not made that initial Zettelkasten video that blew up. Thanks again!
If you're doing this for natural sciences, specifically, for those natural sciences that are highly mathematical or just doing mathematics, I would recommend learning LaTeX and then installing a LaTeX plugin for whatever you're using to take down your notes. If you're going to grad school, and you study anything related to physics or math, you have to learn LaTeX anyway, as virtually everything scholarly written in those fields is required to be in the American Mathematical Society's standard for LaTeX.
@@realchoodle That wasn't the case 4 years ago. I have a latex plugin installed, but god only knows if everything is up to date at this point, so it could be natively supported now, lol
That was great! I am sure lots of people struggle with this, .... Processing the note is KEY. It took me a long time to figure that out. Really looking forward to your next note.
I do something really similar to this, going to my third year of doing it and it's been working wonders, both for studying for exams and for writing essays
For science, or really any research - get a reference manager! I have zotero connected to everything. My workflow is: (1) Find a source; (2) use the zotero browser connector to save a source to my zotero database; (3) Create a new note in obsidian, and use the obsidian zotero plugin to quickly paste in metadata from the zotero entry that I just saved (eg. title, URL, etc); (4) The very first thing I write in the note is **why I saved it**, including links. This summary is usually one line and something like “evidence that [[x]] is correlated with [[y]]”, or “review on [[x topic]]”, or “original source for [[x theory]]”. This step is very important so that I don’t lose it. (5) At this point, I decide whether it’s worth taking more notes now. If so, I do that. If not, I banish it to a folder, and hope that I’ll be able to use the summary links to track it down later if I ever need it.
Oh, I love the idea to document WHY you saved it. Great idea. I also use Zotero, although without the plugin/metadata - I just copy/paste the quotes I've highlighted on the text. Next month I'll have a reference manager video coming out!
It never occurred to me how weird the ownership laws for lectures are. It is obviously not allowed to record a person without their consent, even if it's just an audio recording. However, if I were to write fast enough I would technically be allowed to transcribe an entire lecture. Taking notes in a lecture, I would assume, does not count as copyright infringement. So what is keeping me from learning stenography and writing down every word my professor says? If transcribing is considered copyright infringement the question becomes how fast do you have to write for it to count as stealing? Does it count as stealing if I write down every word or is there a certain percentage I need to reach? Also, isn't it kinda weird that lectures are the property of a professor yet nobody is checking student IDs of the attendants? So, technically university lectures are open to the public yet they are still private property. You are allowed to copy them but the method matters? You could even let an AI listen to a lecture and have it create notes for you. Would that count as illegally recording a person? You are recording but what they are saying is not to your device. I feel like copyright law is a bit out of date XD Anyway, great video as always! I've been wondering about how you organise your lecture notes in obsidian.
Thanks, Morgan. I really appreciate your way of note taking as presented in different videos on RU-vid. However, I am bit confused with the ways you develop the ideas for note taking. How do you choose the ideas you want to add more notes? How do you structure the links between the ideas - pre-planed or concurrently with note taking? Can you give us a workflow on how you develop the ideas in the note taking and how you connect them?
That's awesome! Out of curiosity - if I was to compile all of my zettelkasten teaching into one format, what would you prefer? An ebook, one long youtube video, an online course...?
@@morganeua I like it's important to see what you are talking about. I also prefer smaller videos but in a big playlist than 1 super long youtube video. So, I would prefer a playlist made up of different topics/ideas.
Hi! First of all I want to thank you. I've gotten familiar with the Zettelkasten system about a year ago, but it didn't quite stick for me. I still used Obsidian but not in a way that was any different from a digital notebook. I decided to give it another shot and as an academic, your video with over 1M views made so much sense. So I wanted to thank you for that. I do have a couple questions. 1) why do you use dashes instead of spaces in your note titles? does your OS give you troubles with spaces maybe? 2) do you have a guideline for the name of your titles? Sometimes I have issues, when linking to a note, with conjugation of a verb that wouldn't be grammatically correct, or an unnecessary plural in the middle of the title. I was trying to think of the best way to do that for a clean overall look. But i know i can always just put the link in parentheses or at the bottom of the note.
To answer your questions. 1. Using dashes has no practical significance in the obsidian system itself. But if you later down the line want to export the system, using spaces in the file names of the markdown files can lead to problems. In other words using dashes in the note titles secures that the system is easily exported and processed by various programs. 2. If your problem is that when linking notes in sentences you encounter phrasing issues, you could try using the [[x|y]] formatting. In x's place you simply write down the title of the note you want to link to, and in y's place you write what you want to be displayed.
Hi Morgane! I admire your knowledge work ❤ Have you ever thought of making your zettelkasten public aka turning it (or some parts of it) into a digital garden?
@@morganeua I really really enjoyed this video because it helps me think about how I can shape my own workflows. Please keep doing more of these types. For example, can you take an Ali Abdaal video and just capture how you note make, take, and connect?
