Best advice. Obsidian is nothing but showing hyperlinks graphically. Don't try to force your thinking to get a nice graph. Write your thinking first and then if necessary look at the graph.
@@moomoocowsly I personally think the program benefits my studying with its flexible structure, imposed note taking ideology, and extra features like flashcards. The graph is cool to look at, but in reality, I rarely use it as the main importance lies in the connections themselves.
I've used one note for a long time but this graph view looks really awesome. I'm sure I'll have to do a lot of reformatting, but like you, I've often written the same note many times and this could really help with that. Definitely gonna check this out.
Good luck on your Obsidian adventures ! After using it for almost a year, its become a staple for my note taking and I'm really glad I switched to it :) The graph view is visually pleasing, but I personally don't use it that much other than a reminder of my growth in knowledge.
I just let the my graph Evolve naturally through my daily additions. I don't use any premade formats as I believe it forces you to spend to much time worrying about structuring your knowledge instead of getting it down. This is much easier if you picked up Obsidian and began your note taking career anew.
aww, thank you for the inspiring words and compliments :,) if you're still using obsidian, I have some neat workflows and ideas to make videos about so consider staying tuned in :D
I’m still using Notion for nearly everything, especially as that’s how I earn some income 😅 But the lack of a good iPad app really lets it down. Obsidian is where all my notes are going to start from now on.
Yo! Your comment about modded Minecraft made you so relatable for me. I just got into Obsidian, and I'm also a huge fan of Minecraft tech mods and modpacks.
went back to obsidian after a bit and i really love it! kinda takes some learning curve but i appreciate it more as i missed the times of the old onenote software during the 2010's in winxp was an ex notion user, but i find it hard to focus and keep running into the problem of making my pages pretty rather than focusing on actual writing. it's good, flexible but thinking about it, it's not for me. I prefer using three separate apps for task managment, pkm, and daily to do notes, because at least i got all the features that i needed for its own specialization. the graph view also motivated me to deeply consume knowledge and information, rather than consume and forget about it.
welcome to the purple ore rabbit hole hehe At least there's not much aesthetic changes in Obsidian for you to not be distracted hehe out of curiosity, what do you use for task management and daily todo's? and yeah i agree, seeing how the depth at which I consume content can be used by my future self is very motivating ;)
@@pachi1014 ah icic, hmm I never actually thought of separating projects with to do lists, I usually try to integrate it all into one as I like my project tasks to drip into my to do list. Haven't tried either as well :/
@@itsjohnmavrick Right! I just started making notes and notes without taking the time to check and implement the existing work flows properly. At the end I already had too many notes. It just takes so much energy to organize everything! I'm glad I have more time to experiment now, and your video gave me new ideas
Good idea to use that CSS, makes it hard for us to read what is in your vaults and documents. Thanks for the idea of pulling in my old documents into Obsidian, especially my group projects I did at my undergraduate level
Ehh i made sure to just not include any overly personal footage in my recordings, i didn't have much to hide seeing as it was just the beginning of my vault :p Also yeah, those projects are definitely gonna come in handy for easy access, quick references!
Looks amazing, I just wish I had a use for such an in-depth and extensive piece of software. It feels a bit overkill for shopping lists and occasional note-to-selfs
@@itsjohnmavrick yeah.. well I have been a proponent of just Apple notes for years, it’s been absolutely perfect for my kind of use case, and above all it syncs across devices- but recently I switched from Macs to PC, (a Surface and desktop) but still have and actively use an iPhone for notes. So I’m on the hunt for a quality app that I can use across all three. Obsidian looks so attractive but yeah as I said I think it’s excessive for my use case. I have used Evernote in the past, and it is pretty powerful and feature rich, but alas, I kind of just don’t like it… and note taking is such a core feature in the modern life that I really would like an app that I enjoy using. I’m now trialing Notion, which seems really great, a bit of a steep learning curve but it is simplified compared to Obsidian. Good for lists, to-do’s, general notes etc, and it’s pretty great at organising. I’m not completely sold on it yet, like, it took me a good 10 mins to figure out how to create a straight up simple shopping list with tick-boxes. Each time I tried it kept creating these super complex lists of times where adding one item opens up a whole window in which you can add descriptions and notes to the item etc, and each item was split into three stages like to do, doing, completed- something like that… it’s not quick to pick up tbh, but I’m hoping once I get the hang of it, it will become the centre of all my text editing and note taking needs. If you have any advice, or know of any solid, straight forward, no bs note apps- I’d appreciate that dude! Thanks man :)
@@HeyItsKora I think notion would definitely fit you best if you also want an emphasis on task/life management, if you haven't already I would recommend checking out my video to see the different kinds of things I was able to setup in my first 7 days of using it :)
From my experience, obsidian is amazing but I don't agree too much with "accessibility". Sure it is accessible, but in some way from starting to take notes to having a functional organisation that is useful to you, it takes a lot of efforts and research. That's why i've been discouraged more than once, even if I was very motivated to make it work. Videos like yours are helping a lot so thanks! It seems like you could do more with Obsidian than I was able to do in months of experiencing with it!
Yeah, i think i used the wrong adjective for my point, as accessibility would mean it's easy to learn and use. When I started obsidian I just kept learning and experimenting with it, which led me to the workflow I have now :) May I ask what you use obsidian for?
@@itsjohnmavrick I wanted to use it for organizing knowledge I did not want to lose, like when I was reading something interesting from the web or a book. But I also experimented with organizing my lessons (used to be a teacher) and also to make to do lists and use it for personal productivity. I haven't been creating a lot of links yet, I think the IMF framework could help me a bunch to go about organizing and linking what I already have. And now I switched to the app Marvin for managing my tasks and projects (still experimenting) but I'll try using Obsidian for daily and weekly reviews as well, and keeping track of what I do in the long run
Something I struggled a lot with was to create evergreen notes. My notes would always be really long and unusable. It's still a challenge for me to know how to organize the info I get from, say, a long web article with a lot of information that is already property organized. That's my next step!
@@macLoscope Ahh, so just like a general PKM. Yeah, it's probably better to use a separate app for task management, using Obsidian is a bit tedious :p I'm a bit busy right now on vacation, but my next uploads should be about periodic reviews (weekly, monthly, yearly), as well as task/project management, which is quite relevant to your needs haha
@@macLoscope Yeah, writing atomic/evergreen notes is hard to transition into when you're just used to the linear format of traditional note-taking. Maybe when you're writing a header for the note you're on, you could consider whether you can branch it off into a new note?
Everyone is really positive about this app. It seems a bit hard to start on this new system. I really hope this will prevent me from losing my notes as much though.
Dear John, I think your content is great, thank you for all the work you put into making them. One thing I think you could do to improve it is to turn the music down a notch. It's competing with your voice a little, which makes it more difficult to pay attention to you.
I know this is a bit of an older video but Obsidian was recommended by my cyber security teacher as a way to help me make notes that make sense to me because I have adhd and I LOVE Obsidian, its changed my life
Damn, that's quite the praise 👀 If you're interested, I'm planning on uploading some producitivy practices I do in Obsidian! (Taking literature notes, daily notes, weekly reviews)
@@sibaroochi I'm working on the daily note video rn :) A bit busy with other things like moving and preparing for university though so :/ Hopefully it'll be done within a week!
my brain lit up when you said miind maps - thank you so so much. been using notion and one note notion for the organization, but it feels so stringent, and the blocks are a pain in my .. keyboard hotkeys and I used one note bc it let's me just jump in and capture notes easily, but there's no indexing ... (it's gonna be a trip to transfer) It's so much better than the random 8 notebooks with more subgroups than I can count I feel so relieved you have no idea. I can finally feed my note-taking addiction in a safer, healthier way, lol
no problem glad you found the video helpful! i think there might be onenote to obsidian transfer tools online (maybe even made by the obsidian team themselves), I would look into it. hope you can continue to embark on your second brain journey through my other videos and resources too :)
@@itsjohnmavrick yup. found em. thanks ... brain 2 is coming along well. my only struggle is with the graph it was the biggest selling point for me, but I'm finding it quite hard to deal with the physics & animations are janky and I'm trying to simply make a uniform hierarchial web of linked notes (would be could if I could fix a node in place or even visualise the whole thing in a 3D visualisation)
I know what you mean about rewriting the same idea over and over again on several related topics on my notes. Thanks to block referencing I can just post or reference the specific subheading from a different note to another related topic
As someone with a love for note-taking, this is cool and scary to me. I have been using the notes app for 6-7 years. Its simpleness is a plus, but I am outgrowing it at this point. I have 52 folders lol. I want to learn to use this but it's so complex and it makes me scared.
You can just start using Obsidian like how you currently use apple notes, and slowly add new features and workflows as you need them :) I would give it a shot and try it out, the capabilities are borderline limitless and I've never had an app be integrated in so many parts of my life :p Even if you're not tech savvy, there's lots of online resources to help learn and see its potential, if you want something for your whole life i'd recommend my second brain video to see what I currently use Obsidian for ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--bdE_54UUA4.html
Now that you've been using Obsidian for 4 months, is there anything you wish you did differently/have there been any problems? I'm a newbie and I'm just wondering if there's anything I should look out for as I'm planning on using the same IMF framework you used here
hi! if anything, I would recommend you spend more time in the beginning setting up your system to make sure it's ready for long-term use. stuff like incorporating Evergreen notes, creating links and tags for every note, doing research on templates and plugins that will make things more efficient. you could definitely incorporate these things later on, but in my case if I were to do so, I would have to do a lot of tedious note updating which I don't think I have the time for considering I'm already over 2,000 notes.
Yep, definitely an INFJ vault, compared to other guides :-D I've tested Roam Research for some days now, but luckily tried Obsidian too, which is by far more flexible and even fits the workflow of developers. Thank you for this very well structured guide! This gives me some hope to end up with an useful knowledge graph as well, when working with the same kind of data :-D
Woah, what makes you say my vault is an INFJ's? :o (You are completely right though!) I haven't tried roam research, but I don't think I ever will thanks to Obsidian. I'm glad you also find the app fit for your needs :) It's nice to know that it'll be handy for my future coding endeavours! It's intriguing to have my beginner's journey interpreted as a guide, but it's nice to know my thoughts were of use to your own vault :D If you're interested, I'm working on some videos about my different workflows (daily notes, weekly/periodic reviews, taking literature notes), so you can possibly find some inspiration from those videos. May your second brain continue to grow ;)
@@itsjohnmavrick Well, because I am an INFJ too. You would be fascinated as well, if someone has basically the same kind of self reflecting and psychological driven topics to connect and figure out. You would also check out the note categorization for some ideas, and in this analytical context you would also be sure that an existing INFJ note is not just a random byproduct of general research :-D And now of course the typical INFJ advices no one asked for: You might be interested in "Start with WHY" (Simon Sinek) and "Never Split The Difference" (Chris Voss) in youtube/blinkist/book, they enabled me to connect/confirm many fundamental dots at once. Here some ideas regarding development usage: I just tried to merge a vault with a code project workspace, to reference files. Like for a brainstorming/decision-making during development. The vault md files scream for a GIT repository with all its benefits. Especially alongside with code changes, e.g. for shared projects. - Nesting the workspace into the vault makes no sense, because even if there would be a good way to have relative file references, the constantly changing workspace structure would break any file and note reference anyways. - Nesting the vault into the workspace might be less intrusive and still helpful to keep code changes and the current state of idea in sync. But I think it makes far more sense to have one big standalone vault, where projects can easily share/reference already gathered technologies, snippets, solutions, ideas, and so on, which is the point of a second brain after all. So e.g. a software development vault that could also be shared with others, and a private vault for everything you would not share.
@@itsjohnmavrick Yep, Literature notes.. Atm I just have a note for every Book, eBook, RU-vid video or any other Websites in EverNote, where I also sum up the information I need and then reference this prepared information wherever it fits the need. Obsidian makes it far more productive to handle (especially with the linked mentions) and I am happy to get inspired by some new ways to optimize my chaos :-D
@@thomas.leitner Quite the detective work ;) I had it to store a screenshot of my results when taking the 16personalities test, but as of recently I've been reading their premium profile as well and it's truly helped me connect the dots and better understand myself! (It's also helped me discover r/INFJ which has been enlightening to browse) Thank you for the book suggestions! I"m currently reading "The Plateau Effect" as I'm trying to ramp up my productivity and effort optimization, but I don't have any urgent next-read books so I'll check them out :) I still have yet to partake in any long-term projects and build my programming notes, but I'll probably end up doing what you mentioned as well. I'm currently learning JS so I was maybe even thinking of linking Anki with Obsidian to help create flashcards when learning/revisiting syntax and key concepts :p A project-specific vault would be pretty handy as it can somewhat imitate the hierarchical architecture of a program.
@@thomas.leitner Are you planning on creating permanent notes instead of just redirecting to the source of the information? My current workflow has been sufficient with having a main book note and just organizing the information into separate notes/mocs, but there's always room for improvement ;) If you don't know already, you can create links to a certain header of a note using #: ex) [[MBTI Types#INFJ]]
I'm currently in the process of coverting my onenote notes to obsidian. While using one note I realized I just kept adding more & more notes everytime I got new info. & would end up w alot of notes all over the place. Which isn't what I want bc I want to be able to refer back to my notes & have everything clear, concise & connected so its easy to refer back to. I would also categorize my notes by the days of class & moreso put in info that's kind of irrelevant to me now. Now I care mainly about the information. So instead of days of class I would focus more on the progression of the information & how everything connects and relates. It's like I'm going from a school, class "writing what the teacher wrote" note taking process to a more independent, realistic "how can I use this" type of note taking. This shift is what led me to obsidian. Hopefully I can figure out how to get this note taking flow going.
yes, welcome onboard to the zettelkasten and second brain methodology :) i do have some videos on where I show how I take notes live, but they're kind of boring xd hope you manage to find an organizational structure that works best for you :D
Honestly, the moment I saw vivid purple in that theme my mouse went for the dislike button. But damn the vibe of the vid just wouldn't allow it. Like and subscribe, keep up the good work!
Interesting video and tool, it looks like Obsidian allows users to store ideas in a graph structure which presents less impedance mismatch with the way the human mind structures ideas. But as you can notice in the video, the drawback is that as the user progresses in finding new ideas and connecting them with each other, the complexity of the graph increases and therefore the readability decreases. That would be interesting to get another tool that helps the user to extract information on top of this graph, a query language for example, in order to reduce the dimensionality of the collected ideas and to be able to get a synthetic focus of several aspects that could be then memorised easily. Indeed Obsidian is like a second brain (of its own) but I would have preferred it to be an extension of mine.
Finally a suitable alternative to TheBrain - I hope. With a front-end like OneNote or InkSeine with searchability and conversion of handwritten notes to typing would be great (still more or less the USP of OneNote and Evermore).
At the moment there are drawing capabilities using plugins like Excalidraw, but when I was completing math assignments/visuals I did also use OneNote for anything handwritten :p
Looks good as a text based note tool. I'll have a quick try to see if it can do something for ADHD'ers like me. I thought it might be a free version of a tool like TheBrain, but it's not really. I prefer the visual basis of that.
Awesome find. I started using Joplin for my notes not too long ago and felt it was limited in a lot of places. I hope Obsidian fills those gaps. It's a shame that I'm only coming across this now.
@@itsjohnmavrick Joplin's great and has plugin support; which is awesome, but I couldn't help finding myself in situations where I needed to do a particular thing and just couldn't with Joplin. Also I don't always have time to try and sit to create a plugin, so I'd just find alternatives. But I must say, Obsidian's way of linking notes looks really neat and instantly intrigued me. There is a plugin for Joplin to do just that, but again, I felt a bit limited with it's design.
@@bloodclover1279 well hopefully Obsidian's community plugins and support can solve that issue :) as a new user, are there any video ideas or things you would like covered?
Thanks a lot. Is there also a way to recreate "wiki boards" (not sure how to call them) similar to what you can do in Notion? I mean having an overview with different columns, like health, spirituality, relationships, business etc and subtopics underneath each of those pillars that then lead to an overview of all notes in that particular subtopic.
Hey there! Unfortunately, I don't think Obsidian has something like that, but an alternative could be the "Card View" or "Sliding Panes" community plugin. You can have similar columns, but they would instead comprise of different notes, and you wouldn't be able to have headers on top or anything. Does that help?
Hi John, were these updates added to the Starter Vault? I'm a proud and happy owner, as always, your content is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. Thanks for the great video.
I liked obsidian because it has a nice mobile experience! Notion is a crap on mobiles but it is quite nice on a desktop and quite visual but gets overwhelming. I mostly take notes on the go, cuz mobile is always on reach, I can't always go to my desk to note something. There's also good notes, for iOS, but ipad experience is a lot more satisfying. Obsidian offers the good points of notion but some extra stuff plus being extremely easy to use, multi platform too. Excellent choice.
wait, by mobile do you mean phone or ipad? ngl i find the mobile experience too cramped for me to use ;-; cool to see thay you use it for quick notes, I personally just continue using Samsung notes but I guess i could try using obsidian again
@@itsjohnmavrick both, phone and iPad. I thought notion would be better on iPad but sucks too 🤡 as for obsidian, I liked the iPhone version. Haven’t tested on iPad yet
I would love to use this, it's but remembered why I haven't switched over as syncing is non-existent unless paying for the cloud feature, would be nice to have an option like Joplin does, where we can sync to our own cloud storage.
Ayy, welcome :D I upload my repository to github every 15 minutes using the Obsidian Git plugin (it might take a while to setup though), and there's also a plugin for file recovery if you want to get a previous version of a note!
The graph is so intriguing that almost everyone rushes to build it up. That is not the point. After 3 months of trying different methods, I found it hard to produce new ideas or see links between old ideas visually like it was supposed to do with the graph. It's a powerful tool, no doubt, but we have not been using it the right way, I think.
Yeah, I struggle to really utilize my graph for forming ideas, and as of now, I've been using it as more of a decoration or for a visual aid to see how the links of a moc/concept are structured. When you say "we have not been using it the right way", what other alternatives have you been trying :o I'm interested in hearing :o
The graph is good for finding orphan notes or notes with only one connection - a good sign they may need more work. For developing ideas, I find the local graph, centered on your current note and only showing the immediate neighbors, to be more useful.
what's better is community support. i am also surprised this is free. just started using it. the only thing that bothers me is no cloud support but just started using it for small notes only
Yeah the community is amazing, the amount of free themes, plugins, conversations and pretty much anything has been super helpful with fully utilizing the program. You ca have cloud options if you sync with something like onedrive or purchase their obsidian sync, :p also nice val content lmao
@@itsjohnmavrick I’ll have to look into syncing thanks for letting me know and thanks XD ur video is very high quality unlike Mine which are trash haha keep it up
@@itsjohnmavrick Thank you! It's so nice! I'm sure I'll have to swap back to default at times to keep it fresh. But I really like the look of this one. I normally stick to a rather basic dark mode theme in these kinds of programs, but this one is really nicely designed.
I tried obsidian, but its just way too much effort for me. I also don't like how links dont render correctly. The obisidan style links with double brackets don't work as links if you render the note to pdf. Additionally, I hate how everytime I open the graph view it completely changes. This is annoying b/c I never know where clusters of notes are. For this reason, I jsut switched to notepad++, and abandoned the whole idea of linking notes, tags, and a graph view.
When I restarted my vault I used the ultimate starter vault as a foundation and am building off of it, you can learn more in the video and see it live notes.johnmavrick.com/
It would definitely make finding abstract but relevant notes much easier to find :o There is something kind of out there called mymind? I haven't tried it myself though
@@itsjohnmavrick I’ve just tried it but I can feel that It has no native support for Apple Pencil. The app in general has bad performance on iPad because it’s not a native app, sadly
I feel like I'm still so lost on how to start using obsidian. I've started using it and looked at the templates that you were talking about and I'm trying to figure it out and understand how to use it but I feel like I can't even begin to understand how to use the software or where to start or even how to change them into my own needs.
I mean within those 7 days I learned best just by starting my vault and learning a bit on beginner workflows and practices today, it's a new way to take notes so you can't really do much except bite the bullet and try to accept the additional features that traditional note taking doesn't provide. There's a lot of beginner tutorials on youtube if you need further guidance :)
unless u r some sort of a scientific researcher, those nodes are overkill to an average note taking user. folders, tags and search feature are all you need
average? possibly, but i just wanted to share how i experienced and explored the app- i would consider myself an average person but i find the connectivity very useful for organization and refining my understanding :)
Hey I noticed you answer comments so I hope you don't mind me asking. What plugins would you recommend? Do you use built-in LaTEX formulas ( I noticed that some functionalities of LaTEX don't seem to be working like \usepackage and pretty important stuff like that) or how do you manage to deal with scientific stuff like this? Also I didn't really understand why did you do the managing Index thing with the numbers I'm not a native english speaker so I'd be happy if you could explain :) otherwise massive POGPOG video I'm sorry if you've answered these questions in another video I'll be sure to check them out all later I just can't seem to catch a break nowadays. Thank you
If you're referring to general plugins, there's a lot, but I would recommend learning about dataview, templater, and the rest are just personal preference. I only use basic latex for things like exponents, matrices, and fractions, so I haven't tried out usepackages. If latex doesn't work, I would just draw a diagram or take a screenshot (but then it won't be searchable using ctrl + f). I did the indexing thing because its similar to the "dewey decimal" organizational system, but in reality, I don't use it for anything in my vault lmao. Thank you, no worries as these are all new questions; good luck in growing your vaullt !
Nice content! :) This was inspiring. So much so that I ended up taking some notes and coining a term. But, I don't think these kinds of tools are good: 1. You unwittingly end up consuming energy to increase entropy not to reduce it, which I find poetically ironic. 2. The tool uses you more than you use it. 3. Risky and rigid dependency (even when considering markdown languages and all that jazz). 4. Goes away from my educated guess that in this context you should improve search, not order. 5. You should focus on the substance, not on the container. I think this particular app kind of oversells itself, all that fancy words and characterizations are too much.
Hi, thanks for the kind response :) 1. I feel like in the long term it helps as long as you're selective with that pieces of information you're willing to spend time organizing and processing. If I were to be methodical for every note in my vault, then yes, it would be quite the time waster. 2. I'm not really sure on what you mean by this, I feel like I'm in control of my setup 3. Yes the plugins is a dependency, but its more like an enhanced editor like notepad. 4. Why not both? Creating good notes helps with searching :D 5. I personally prefer having set systems and structures to make the substances easily fit into the container It is a lot, but that's what i love about it :)
@John Mavrick Valid points!! I apologize in advance for how long this comment will be XD. It's an interesting topic to me. I just believe that maximizing search and not expending much on order and structure is the most efficient way to achieve these goals. Look at how you use the internet, do you structure and store everything that is or may be useful to you in the future or those things that you might need later? mostly not, you use whatever residual, low-cost, and imprecise info you have and you use Google, Spotlight, or your friendly search bar, and you’re done (most times). Regarding the tool comment, well... that's my point, some times we don't realize it, but when you are controlling the tool, the tools tacitly command you: go read this section in the doc, watch this video, learn such and such, configure this or that... this happens a lot with the so-called "frameworks" in software. You can visualize my general idea contemplating the Rube Goldberg Machine. Finally, when designing a system like a personal knowledge base, you have a limited amount of resources to invest on it, energy and time in this case, you can't have it all, so how you assign those is the key. Maybe the term a I coined can assist me in making my point a little better: Entropy demon: when for ordering and preservation purposes (entropy reduction), you start to create complexity (designing/using complex tools, processes, or methods), and unwittingly, you end up adding to the same entropy you are attempting to reduce. Thus, you risk entering the infinite loop of taking one step forward and moving the goal post two. Or, at best, you make a walk to the park an expedition to the Babylon gardens. Controlling or managing Entropy takes energy. Energy can not be applied instantly. This implies a cost, like time, opportunity, physical and/or mental effort, etc. But, if you can be good and efficient at searching, you don’t quite need to fight entropy. And we know it’s possible because our brain does it. Machine learning and the current DB system are examples of the trend toward this paradigm, e.g. SQL-based BDs are losing market share, and NoSQL BDs are becoming more prominent. So, in my view, the result or goal, which is meaningfully using information, is the same but with less cost.
@@1morelight Yes, search ultimately is the key way of retrieving your notes, and is largely sufficient most of the time. However, what happens if our previous self didn't record the idea using the search terms we're using? Word-for-word search can go so far and will not lead to the abstract connections from notes directly irrelevant that can provide unique insights from all the other content and knowledge you've consumed. It's not just for organization purposes, it's a facilitator of intertwining all the knowledge you consume. In my case I do take the lazy man's approach, but I do still spend the time to categorize each note I write since I find differentiating between input notes, thoughts, and concpetual notes helpful for future searching. Maybe you can watch my upcoming video and see if it matches your applied intention of knowledge? I've definitely experienced this first-hand, I used to read a book a week on top of my studies and had no time or energy to convert all the information I was consuming into the set structure I had for my vault. Instead of simply neglecting organization though, I feel like it's still important to make your notes and knowledge a bit more convenient to navigate in the future IF you find yourself frequently visiting them, which is where the more robust systems can come into play. But yeah, for the most part, simply dumping them into my vault and making a few connections is enough for me, and I usually don't think about the holistic view of it all when adding a single note. If we're talking about Obsidian on it's own, then it's completely possible for you to just use it as an enhanced note taking app without the need for all these recommended organization methods like PARA, MOCs, etc. Is there something wrong with being commanded in this way, if it's something that's also beneficial for your own needs? I see it similar to a how-to-guide that solves a problem I want fixed. Sure they're influencing the way I think with a subjective solution, but it works and I'm content with the outcome. Yeah I do agree with the comparison of SQL vs No-SQL, but there is still a form of abstract organization (albeit not super connected and structured with defined tables and columns), which is similar to the methodologies in Obsidian. For the average person who doesn't do deep dives into certain topics this is fine, but if you're trying to synthesize different information into outputs like papers or videos then the structure help a lot with seeing potential ideas to share or in some cases already-finished paragraphs due to each note already being a fleshed out idea. Out of curiosity, what lead you to these conclusions? Do you already have experience with trying out all these different PKM strategies/Obsidian?
Yes I can, I was trying to setup a hosted online website for my vault but it was too big so I'll consider just making blog posts or uploading them somewhere :p
the tool i was looking for! i hate my fragmented digital information live. this looks fantastic. the pricing is also reasonable. going to check this out. could this be extended for project management?
Hope you've found it useful so far; I have a video showcasing my task/project management workflow with uploaded templates on my github repository if you are interested!
