Created: 2021-12-21 20:42
Outline of a presentation I gave about note-taking and Obsidian on an internal Unconference at Catawiki.
- Note-taking & digital gardens
- The Zettelkazten method
- Obsidian
- Plugins
- How I use Obsidian at work
- The community
- Obsidian for work
- Resources
Note-taking & digital gardens
Interests
- How people learn and “cultivate” knowledge, specially outside of formal education.
- Keep a sort of weekly journal
- Reviewing it every now and then (yearly)
- Lazy to write but rewarding to review xD
- Informal knowledge sharing (of my learning)
The Zettelkazten method
Reference: Taking Smart Notes
Zettelkasten => “slip box” in German
Method => Single-idea notes, linked by topic & indexes
Niklas Luhmann method personal knowledge management
- Extremely prolific with no formal education on his field
- Published ~70 books and ~400 papers/scholar articles
One cannot think without writing
Obsidian
A second brain, for you, forever.
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Plugins
Plugins are the killer feature of Obsidian.
WARNING: the rabbit hole goes deep
Core plugins
- File explorer
- Search
- Graph view
- Templates
- …
- Sync
- Publish
Community plugins
- Calendar
- Periodic notes
- Dataview
- Advanced tables
- Vimrc support
- Excalidraw
Community
Obsidian for work
Notes for all the things !!! \o/
- Weekly journal
- Meeting notes
- Take your own meetings notes as a habit
- Use your brain for thinking not for remembering
- Problem solving notes
- Brag document A.K.A internal resume
- Your own knowledge base (contribute upstream documentation when it makes sense)
Resources
- Digital Gardens
- Note-taking & Zettelkasten
- PKM (Personal Knowledge Management)