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Make Your Notes Last 📝 A Practical Guide for Students
Students entering a new semester face a familiar overload: dense reading lists, overlapping or conflicting course material, graded assignments, and...
Use AI To Help Build Your Second Brain in Obsidian MD (Dataview Plugin Queries Example)
AI can cut the time spent wrestling with Obsidian’s DataView plugin by turning natural-language requests into working DataView query code—complete...
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...
Taking better notes from books: Shortform
Shortform is positioned as a “Netflix for books” that does more than summarize: it adds fact-checking, research-backed notes, and practice-oriented...
Build Your AI Second Brain with Obsidian + Claude Code (Free Setup)
An AI “second brain” becomes genuinely useful when it’s tied to a personal Obsidian vault—so the system can read, organize, and connect the user’s...
How I'm using the Slipnote method to build better notes in Logseq
Slip notes—small, quickly captured thoughts later assembled into a logically ordered knowledge base—can be implemented in Logseq without the usual...
Use the Feynman Technique, Logseq, and Obsidian for Slow Learning
Slow learning gets a practical workflow: use the Feynman Technique to turn scattered reading into a navigable knowledge base that exposes gaps and...
Obsidian - One Vault or Many?
Keeping tabletop RPG notes straight in Obsidian comes down to a practical rule: use one Obsidian vault per game system, then layer campaign- or...
You need a connection to your notes
Making lecture notes “stick” in coursework-heavy natural sciences comes down to building personal, emotional connections—not just copying facts....
Rethinking PKM Part 4: Gardening in my Obsidian Vault with ExcaliBrain and Dataview
A key shift in personal knowledge management is treating link structure as an explicit “ontology”—a defined set of relationship types—then using...
How do you number notes when you want to insert a new one?
Zettelkasten numbering—often called the “full gazettel”—is a practical way to keep a note network ordered without forcing users to renumber...
What Is A Digital Garden? A Beginner's Guide! 🌿
Digital gardens turn note-taking into an evolving, interconnected knowledge space—designed to grow over time instead of being “finished” and...
How to Design Your Obsidian app as an Integrated Thinking Environment | LYT House Episode 5
A single Obsidian “source of truth” can be turned into a practical integrated thinking environment by wiring your phone or tablet home screen to live...
# 2 - What kind of addresses should you put on your Zettelkasten cards?
Zettelkasten cards benefit from unique identifiers because they turn references into simple, reliable connections—especially when each card holds a...
Take RANDOMIZED zettelkasten notes with me!
Atomic notes plus constant, connection-driven “random note” sessions keep a Zettelkasten system usable long after the original project ends. The core...
The Best Al Note System Looks NOTHING Like ChatGPT (FREE Tool + Demo and Prompt Tips)
Google’s Notebook LM is being positioned as the best no-code way to turn long, messy collections of documents into a reliable “personal RAG”...
How I Save HOURS with This GTD Workflow | Getting Things Done
A reliable task system can replace mental clutter with a “trusted inbox,” turning an endless to-do list into a manageable workflow. The core promise...
Hate Your Life, Change Your Life - Epicly (Obsidian Template)
Scheduling private, uninterrupted time is hard—until a short personal retreat makes it possible. The core takeaway is that a structured “Wheel of...
The Honest Case for AI Note-Taking—From a Skeptic
AI-powered note-taking is poised to fix a long-running productivity drain—people spend roughly a quarter of their working time searching through...
The ULTIMATE Second Brain System Inside Kortex! (With Templates)
Cortex’s value isn’t just that it centralizes notes—it’s that it can run a complete “second brain” workflow for creators, turning scattered reading...
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...
More than just taking notes - Learning exhaust
Learning notes as “learning exhaust” is the through-line: notes aren’t the goal, they’re the byproduct of turning an idea into understanding and then...
Write Book Notes In RemNote With Me (30 min)
The core takeaway is a practical workflow for turning a nonfiction book into a usable, searchable knowledge base—using RemNote to both store notes...
Emergent note taking: what ants can teach us about notes
Emergent note-taking treats a personal knowledge base like a living system: notes start as loosely connected “whatever I’m interested in right now,”...
I quit Obsidian for 1 Year. Here's what happened.
A year-long break from Zettelkasten and Obsidian left Darin Suthapong less happy and feeling mentally dull—an experience that pushed him back to the...
Supercharging Your Learning with AI for Better Notes And Learning with ChatGPT and Obsidian
AI can turn “information overwhelm” into a structured learning pipeline by filtering what’s worth consuming, translating confusing ideas into your...
Snipd: The Best Podcast App for Knowledge Management (Snipd + Readwise Workflow)
Snipd is positioned as a fast “capture-and-convert” system for podcast knowledge: while listening, a single button turns a selected moment into an...
How to Set ✨Achievable✨ Goals in 2025
Achievable goal-setting for 2025 hinges on one practical shift: turn broad ambitions into a structured system that starts with motivation, then moves...
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...
Any Model. Any App. Build Your AI OS to Work Everywhere.
The central idea is to build an “AI OS” that stays yours even when AI tools change—by keeping identity, knowledge structure, and repeatable processes...
How to learn stuff you have no business learning
Learning doesn’t hinge on clever study systems or productivity hacks so much as on motivation—and motivation grows when curiosity is treated like a...
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...
You Are Using ChatGPT The Wrong Way
ChatGPT performs far better when users treat prompts like a brief for a human professional: spell out the goal and audience up front, then narrow the...
#8 Folgezettel - why it's important to create them in your Zettelkasten
“Folgezettel”—German for “sequence of notes”—is valuable in a Zettelkasten because it creates just enough friction to turn scattered reading and...
#9 Zettelkasten: from source card to idea card
Turning a “reminder” on a Zettelkasten source card into a polished idea card is a slow, text-driven process—one designed to preserve accuracy while...
Obsidian Basics: Daily Notes
Daily Notes in Obsidian is positioned as the fastest on-ramp to building a structured personal knowledge base—because it automatically generates...
E-Readers vs Physical Books: Why I Finally Ditched Paper Books 📚 Kindle, Kobo, E-Books
Switching back to an upgraded Kindle is credited with a dramatic turnaround in reading output: four books finished in a month after months of...
Obsidian and Zotero Sync (Make Literature Review Effective)
Linking Zotero and Obsidian can turn scattered research notes into a “second brain” workflow—so annotations made in Zotero become instantly usable...
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...
How I'm writing a book in public
A year after announcing “Obsidian Playbook,” Nicole van der Hoeven is pivoting to a new book built around a single through-line: learning in public....
Building a better thinking environment
A cluttered notes system can quietly sabotage deeper thinking, and Justin Horton’s Obsidian setup is built to prevent that by separating “note...
How To Use Obsidian: The Power Of Linking OUTSIDE Of Your Obsidian Vault
Linking documents and other computer items outside an Obsidian vault without duplicating files is the core payoff: Hookmark creates links that stay...
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,...
What is Lean Forward Learning? Online Education Needs It!
Online learning improves most when it forces learners to “lean forward”—actively practicing the exact skills they want, not passively consuming...
Readwise Reader Review + Tutorial
Readwise Reader turns saved reading into an interactive research workspace by syncing highlights and notes back to Readwise, then layering AI help...
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...
How to Write a Curated Newsletter with Logseq
A curated newsletter workflow in Logseq can be built end-to-end around frictionless capture, query-based retrieval, and clean exporting—turning...
Does EVERY source need a note in your zettelkasten?
A Zettelkasten built around Tle Casten-style notes doesn’t always require a dedicated “source note” for every citation or snippet—sometimes a link...
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...
Use Obsidian & Zettelkasten to summarize a YouTube video
Summarizing YouTube videos becomes reusable knowledge when fleeting notes from watching are systematically transformed into literature notes and then...
LYT Sensemaking Session - Highlights and Q&A
Sensemaking through note making is presented as a practical way to strengthen thinking—turning passive highlight-taking into active “note making”...
10 ways I learn in public
Learning in public works best when it turns uncertainty into usable feedback. Instead of waiting to be fully right, Nicole van der Hoeven argues for...
Use this Writing Technique from a #1 NY Times Best Selling Author
A famous “creativity” quote about goals and systems traces back to older Greek wording—and the real takeaway isn’t who first said it, but how to...
BeautiTab: Create a Beautiful New Tab Page in Obsidian
Obsidian users who want a more attractive, functional replacement for the default new tab now have “Beauty tab,” a plugin that turns the new tab page...
Hack Your ADHD Brain With a Second Brain
ADHD often turns motivation and focus into a constant fight because the brain’s chemistry and attention networks don’t work like they do for...
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...
Design unique icons with AI
AI image generators are already a practical way to create distinctive SVG-style icons for knowledge work—solving a common frustration with stock icon...
Learning in public with Personal Knowledge Management
Personal knowledge management (PKM) becomes more effective when learning is treated like an observable system: make ideas public enough to create...
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,...
how to ENJOY taking notes for school (and life) 📝
Note-taking doesn’t have to feel like a high-pressure chore; it becomes easier and more sustainable when the system is built around joy, personal...
Dump, Lump, Jump: The Ultimate Visual Thinking Tool for Turning Ideas into Action
“Dump, Lump, Jump” is a three-step visual thinking method for turning scattered ideas into clear next actions—especially when inboxes, agendas,...
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...
Robert Greene And Ryan Holidays' note-taking system in Obsidian
A practical note-taking system for long-form writing is only useful if it stays aligned with the writer’s workflow—so the system should help a...
Digest What You Read: Walkthrough of my process for understanding Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A slow, deliberate “rumination” process—turning raw reading into visual models, then into permanent notes—is presented as the antidote to information...
How I use a reference manager in my PhD
A reference manager is portrayed as the missing infrastructure that lets researchers turn note-taking into verifiable, source-grounded...
YouTube Burnout Is Real!
YouTube burnout isn’t just a personal failure—it’s a predictable outcome of how creators split time between “backstage” delivery and “front-stage”...
Obsidian's new "Canvas" feature - oh my!
Obsidian’s new “Canvas” feature turns a note vault into a visual workspace where cards can be arranged, connected, and resized—making it easier to...
내가 생산성 도구를 선택하는 방법
생산성 도구(특히 노트앱)를 고를 때는 “망치냐 드라이버냐”처럼 기능을 단순 비교하기보다, 먼저 자신이 해결하려는 ‘문제’를 정확히 정의한 뒤 그 문제를 가장 잘 푸는 도구를 고르는 게 핵심이다. 노트앱은 겉으로는 글을 쓰고 저장하는 공통점이 있어 보여도, 각 앱은...
How to Remember What You Read | Reading System | Readwise, Instapaper, Memex
A practical “information digestion” workflow can turn scattered reading—books, articles, podcasts, even browser snippets—into daily, targeted recall....
Take Project Notes in Obsidian
Obsidian can handle project management cleanly by introducing a dedicated “project note” layer that acts as an entry point, a curated container for...
Why you need the Smart Notes / Zettelkasten note-taking method
A knowledge management system is only valuable if it turns reading into recall and recall into new output—not if it just stores notes. Martin Adams...
How I Easily Brainstorm 🧠 and Write 📝 using Obsidian MD
Writing doesn’t have to begin on a blank page when a note system turns past ideas into ready-to-use building blocks. The workflow described here...
Are U STILL searching a PERFECT note taking app?
Finding a “perfect” note-taking app isn’t about chasing the most popular tool—it’s about matching the app to a specific purpose, a personal workflow...
Logseq vs Notion | Understanding your 'Building a Second Brain' database
Personal knowledge management works best when notes behave like a database—because retrieval is only as fast as the way information is stored. The...
Obsidian - Sublime Text
Migrating a large knowledge base from RealmWorks into Obsidian often leaves behind thousands of “dead” links—references that point to templates or...
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...
How I Think Visually: My Sketched Mind in Action. Reflections on Exploring Visual PKM with Jerry.
A visual note system can turn reading into a living network of ideas—especially when illustrations and concepts are built from linked components...
What is the best way to organize files? | Build Your Second Brain Series (6/10)
A simple “Johnny Decimal” (JD) system—organizing files into 10 numbered areas and then numbering subcategories—aims to make digital documents...
Diagramming for PKM: The Futures Wheel of Quitting my Job
Quitting a 9-to-5 job can bring immediate relief—especially from toxic office routines—but it also triggers a chain of financial, emotional, and...
10 Note-taking Lessons
Digital note-taking works best when it’s treated as a selective workflow rather than a capture machine. A central lesson from four years of using...
Obsidian - Fantasy Content Generator
A new Obsidian tabletop RPG plug-in, Fantasy Content Generator, is aimed at one practical need: producing quick, usable random content—towns,...
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...
How I Process Fleeting Notes With Roam And Roam42 Smartblocks
Fleeting notes—quick, low-stakes ideas pulled from podcasts, documentaries, and conversations—can be turned into a usable research engine by treating...
Official Obsidian Plugin for Readwise | Full Product Walkthrough
Readwise’s official Obsidian plugin is built to turn highlights from books, articles, and even transcribed podcasts into searchable, linkable notes...
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,...
Obsidian & OneNote - The Perfect Personal / Work Combo?
A practical workflow emerges for people who can’t install their preferred note app on a work laptop: keep personal knowledge in Obsidian, run work...
Why you will STOP building your SECOND BRAIN | LEANER knowledge management workflow
The core problem behind “second brain” systems isn’t collecting information—it’s building a sustainable routine for turning that backlog into usable...
Prendre des notes de vidéos youtube - tuto Obsidian plugins timestamp notes et media extended
Prendre des notes pendant qu’une vidéo tourne dans Obsidian devient nettement plus fluide grâce à un plugin qui insère automatiquement des repères...
NoteBookLM un outil incroyablement puissant
NotebookLM se distingue par une promesse simple et cruciale pour la gestion des connaissances : l’intelligence artificielle ne répond qu’à partir des...
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...
How my second brain works | Build Your Second Brain Series (1/10)
A “second brain” system is built to solve a common frustration: ideas don’t stay in memory, so information needs a place that captures it fast,...
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...
Obsidian - On This Day Query Using Obsidian Bases Feature
Obsidian’s Bases feature can recreate an “On This Day” view for Daily notes—showing the same month/day across multiple years—while also surfacing...
Heptabase vs Logseq - working with PDF highlights
Heptabase’s PDF highlight workflow is presented as faster and more precise than Logseq’s, mainly because its links jump to the exact spot of a...