Excalidraw — Brand Summaries
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How to use the ExcaliBrain Obsidian plugin
ExcaliBrain turns plain Obsidian notes into an interactive, relationship-driven visual map—helping users keep notes useful by placing them in the...
Obsidian Canvas core plugin (new in v1.1.0)
Obsidian’s new Canvas core plugin (arriving publicly after insider/alpha testing) turns note-taking from a strictly file-and-tab workflow into a...
How to make your notes visual in Obsidian
Visual note-taking in Obsidian isn’t about matching “visual learners” with pictures. The more practical takeaway is that memory improves when notes...
My time management setup in Obsidian (2023)
Time management, in this Obsidian workflow, is treated less like squeezing more hours out of the day and more like managing priorities across a full...
ExcaliBrain is transforming how I use Obsidian.md
Excalibrain is an interactive mind-map layer for Obsidian that turns a vault’s structure—folders, links, tags, and YAML front matter—into a navigable...
Making notes actually useful in Obsidian
Notes only matter if they get used—and in Obsidian, that usefulness depends on a two-stage workflow: capture first, then process. The capture phase...
How I study using Obsidian
Spending more than €7,000 in online learning over a year didn’t just buy courses—it forced a system question: how do you turn short-lived lessons...
How to take notes from a book with Obsidian // The Culture Map
A practical workflow for turning book highlights into usable, connected notes in Obsidian—without forcing a rigid system on every read—anchors the...
Before You Write: Frame Your Thoughts with Concept Modeling
Concept modeling—using concept maps (also called concept diagrams or concept models)—is presented as a practical way to organize understanding before...
Connecting visual notes with Obsidian Excalidraw
Connected-note systems like Zettel-Kasten and Second Brain typically assume links point to text. The practical gap shows up when notes are...
Block reference parts of images just like text with Obsidian Excalidraw
Linking a zoomed-in “piece” of an image to the exact place it came from has long been a pain in Obsidian-style note systems: copying a big image and...
ExcaliAI - New AI Capabilities Have Arrived to Obsidian Excalidraw
Excalidraw’s new ExcalAI script turns hand-drawn notes and wireframes into AI-generated outputs inside Obsidian—mind maps, diagrams, and even...
Turn any YouTube Channel into your AI Mentor - Obsidian is the ultimate automation workbench for PKM
A practical way to turn any YouTube channel into an “AI mentor” for Obsidian is taking shape: feed Google’s Notebook LM with condensed, timestamped...
Visual Zettelkasten
“Visual Zettelkasten” reframes Zettelkasten-style permanent notes by treating the visual sketch itself as the permanent note—so the illustration and...
How to create a sketchnote summary of a book with Excalidraw + Obsidian + Progressive Summarization
A layered “progressive summarization” workflow turns raw book notes into a one-page sketchnote that stays searchable and context-rich years later....
Learn Systems Thinking with Object-Process Modeling in PKM
Object-Process Methodology (OPM)—with its ISO-standard modeling tools OPD and OPL—turns messy systems thinking into a disciplined way to describe...
ExcaliAI Enhanced: More Visual Thinking Power
ExcalAI Enhanced turns Obsidian’s Excalidraw workflow into a visual “thinking” engine by chaining OpenAI vision, prompt generation, and image or...
My Year in PKM: 2024 in numbers
A year of personal knowledge management (PKM) for Nicole van der Hoeven produced a striking mix of output and upkeep: 1,613 new Obsidian notes, 3,616...
From Information Overload to Clarity: How Visual Thinking Can Help You Organize Your Thoughts
Visual thinking turns information overload into clarity by forcing the mind to externalize ideas as simple concept maps and drawings—making complex...
Markdown Embeds with Excalidraw Obsidian - MVP release (1.4.13)
A new Markdown embed workflow in Excalidraw inside Obsidian lets users drag a Markdown file onto the canvas and instantly generate a transcluded,...
Part 1: Circle Map - Thinking Maps with Excalidraw in Obsidian
Circle maps are presented as a practical way to define concepts and build a clear frame of reference—starting with an essential question and then...
TheBrain-like graph-based navigation in Obsidian.md with Excalidraw and Breadcrumb - LATCH Hierarchy
A graph-style navigation system for Obsidian vaults is built to mimic the “brain” interface by using hierarchy as the organizing principle—then...
Deconstructing Visual Ideas with Obsidian Excalidraw using Excalidraw Scripts
A new Excalidraw script, “decompose selected elements into new drawing,” automates a core workflow in visual knowledge management: breaking a page...
Unlock Your Creativity with Visualization: The Power of Spatial Thinking
Spatial thinking—backed by how humans evolved to navigate physical environments—can make ideas easier to understand, connect, and manage. The core...
Colorful Second Brain - Part 3: Simple rules for beautiful and reusable sketches
Reusable sketches depend less on artistic talent than on a small set of repeatable rules—especially around color and typography. When icons,...
How to Build Visual Roadmaps - A Case Study developing the Obsidian-Excalidraw Roadmap
A structured visual roadmap turns a messy backlog of requests into a clear, communicable plan—using Excalidraw mind maps to organize the...
4D Thinking in Obsidian: Exploring Ali Abdaal's Feel-Good Productivity
A personal knowledge management system built in Obsidian turns a “periodic table of productivity” into a navigable network of ideas—so concepts don’t...
The Visual Thinking Framework with Obsidian and Excalidraw: Making Visual Connections between Notes
A practical workflow for building “visual thinking” links inside Obsidian: embed key visual frameworks from one set of notes into another, then reuse...
Excalidraw 1.9.13: Active image-embeds and Templater support
Excalidraw 1.9.13 adds interactive, “active” embeds inside Obsidian notes—plus a way to run templates/scripts from embedded markdown—and introduces...
Dave Gray's Visual Frameworks: A Companion to Sketch Your Mind
Visual frameworks—sketch-based metaphors that act as “anchors” for structuring thought—are presented as a practical way to turn raw ideas into...
Colorful Second Brain - Part 2: Excalidraw Color Palette Loader
A custom color palette workflow for Excalidraw is the centerpiece here: build palettes elsewhere, save them in an Obsidian vault, then use the...
Get More Out of What You Read with the Idea Integration Board, and the Obsidian Excalidraw Plugin
A new “idea integration board” workflow aims to turn book reading into a structured, visual knowledge map—linking primary ideas to secondary and...
Excalidraw-Obsidian 2.0.5 - Quality of Life Improvements - Drag & Drop, Configurable Modifier Keys
Excalidraw 2.0.5 adds quality-of-life upgrades aimed at making Excalidraw work more smoothly inside Obsidian—especially around importing media,...
Beyond Words: The Future of PKM - Exploring 5 Cards from The MindSET Visual Thinking Framework
Visual personal knowledge management hinges on a simple shift: knowledge becomes easier to retrieve and understand when notes stop behaving like...
A Real Zettelkasten Workflow in Obsidian
A Zettelkasten workflow built around Obsidian hinges on one practical idea: write single-idea notes, then make meaning by linking them in a...
The Golden Ratio: Design Stunning Illustrations in your PKM with Excalidraw and Obsidian
The golden ratio—often labeled φ (phi), the Fibonacci ratio, or the golden mean—is presented as a design and composition rule that keeps showing up...
Merging Old Notes into One: Illustrations & Insights Combined
A single Obsidian Excalidraw card can now hold both a diagram and its supporting notes—without splitting the content into separate files—by using...
Build a sketch-note slideshow with Obsidian, Excalidraw and QuickAdd
Sketch-note presentations in Excalidraw can be turned into a slide deck inside Obsidian by using QuickAdd macros plus a small set of JavaScript...
Diagramming for PKM: The Sun Ray Transformation Map for preparing to quit your 9-to-5 job
Quitting a 9-to-5 job becomes far more manageable when the “future self” is translated into a structured transformation map: clear time horizons,...
Launching the Visual Thinking Workshop Self-Paced Course
A self-paced Visual Thinking Workshop course is being launched as a structured path from reading a book to producing “book on a page” summaries and...
A step-by-step guide for crafting your 2022-On-A-Page with Midjourney, Excalidraw, and Obsidian
A year-end comic strip built from AI art becomes a practical blueprint for turning daily journaling into a consistent, publishable “one-page” visual...
Convert Obsidian into a Workbench for Strategic Planning with Wardley Maps and Excalidraw
Wardley mapping is presented as a practical workbench for strategic planning: it turns a messy business landscape into a shared, visual blueprint of...
Welcome to Sketch Your Mind - Session 1 at the Sketch Your Mind Conference, 2025
Sketch Your Mind’s Session 1 makes a central case for “4D PKM”: personal knowledge management that treats text and visuals as equal partners, then...
From Simple Marketing for Smart People To Book-on-a-Page and Article with Excalidraw Writing Machine
Marketing for smart people is framed as a form of teaching: businesses should educate prospects about the beliefs they must hold to buy, then guide...
Tuto Obsidian en français plugin Ozan image in editor - rendre le mode édition plus WYSIWYG
Obsidian manque souvent d’un rendu “WYSIWYG” pendant la rédaction : les images, vidéos et PDF ne s’affichent qu’au moment de la prévisualisation. Le...
Independent Thinking in the Age of AI | PKM Summit 2026
AI’s biggest threat to thoughtful people isn’t job loss—it’s the erosion of personal agency: the risk that machines do the thinking while individuals...
The Emergence of "Idea Emergence" with Nick Milo - Sketch Your Mind Conference, 2025
Nick Milo’s “idea emergence” model reframes personal knowledge management as a natural process: ideas don’t just get stored—they grow from raw...
One Year Later with Nicole van der Hoeven - Session 2 at the Sketch Your Mind Conference, 2025
Nicole van der Hoeven’s year-long shift in personal knowledge management centers on one practical decision: make every new note a “hybrid” by...
What did you learn at Cohort 12 of Visual Thinking Workshop? Interview with Iwan Hoogendoorn
Cohort 12 participant Iwan Hoogendoorn built a tightly integrated workflow in Obsidian and Excalidraw to turn dense reading—especially “The Lessons...