Hello #PKM people, what do you do to ensure that your notes will be properly processed and isn't just stuff to occupy your folders? Meaning, how do you ensure that you extract value from them?
A question I am pondering as I have hundreds of notes now, and while I have made sure to turn some of them into articles, am not sure about everything else. Am curious to know how you extract value from your notes.
The text based nature of #Obsidian notes concerns me... because the only way I could remember what I studied is through mind maps. I got an A in pre-law by condensing a chapter in 1 page. The challenge of doing this forced me to remember what I studied in a vivid way.
I did it with good old pen and paper, and I doodled and drew. My notes were little works of art 🤣 and it was very easy for me to revise cos all I needed was a couple of pages of notes.
Does anyone know of an app where you can start a timer and have it automatically add the current timer value when you click a button or start typing on a new line?
I could really use something like that for taking notes to movies without having to pause to find the time stamp. If I start the video and the timer in the app, they are more or less aligned.
Perhaps just something to insert the value of a running timer elsewhere into a document.
@ethanschoonover The worst thing about #AppleNotes imo is the lock-in. They make it a PITA to get your notes out in bulk and in a reasonably organized state. I’d never use it for #PKM or serious #notetaking. But it’s convenient for sharing stuff like short-term notes and shopping lists with non-techie Apple-using family members and friends.
A question for anyone using a #zettelkasten or similar #notetaking system - How do you know when to link one Zettel/note to another? And how do you find where the material you want to reference is? Does it not really break the flow of creating notes?
Trying to figure out how to use hashtags productively. Especially when taking notes in Obsidian, I often don’t know whether to link a term to its own note, turn it into a hashtag, or both.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata) reads: “(...) Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, (...) may also be chosen from a controlled vocabulary. (...)”
My idea is to have a central place for all the notetaking stuff, planners, bullet journals, pen recommendations, etc. Even apps that can enhance the experience!
Join in if you want, or boost if you love the idea. Thank you!
Just remembered... I had a dream the other night where I was enthusiastically telling someone about how awesome OneNote was, and how it perfectly suited some task I was doing.
Old OneNote (before they "simplified" the UI and removed half the functionality) was pretty awesome.
I'm using Obsidian.md these days. And my dreams really are that boring most of the time.
Ok this is one use of #ChatGPT I can roll with. I copied my highlights from a book I read to ChatGPT and asked it to a) come up with major points from the text and then group it into categories. It worked, but of course not 100% perfectly. Part of the process to remember & digest what you read is to literally make the notes yourself, but this speed things up. I'll now go through my raw book notes again to see if anything is left out.
It takes a lot of habit to casually slip your daily note in your #ZettelKasten... or fill the #diary at all. You've got to memorize things during the day and flush them before sleep. Don't make a mistake, #NoteTaking is skill in itself.
I called these folders uniformly: 📆 Days, 📝 Perms, 🔗 Refs, and 🎯 Hubs. The point worth stressing is that, if you see anything connect, don't hesitate and type a link right where you're standing.
While it is enticing to build such simple structure for note taking, you need to forget about it and make it a regular routine to fill out your daily summary and permanent notes.
I made my brain react reluctantly to daily #NoteTaking, because I prioritized making connections and transforming daily notes to permanent ones. Well, don't make this to yourself - unchain thought processes upon your very own #ZettelKasten. If there is nothing much to connect, maybe you just don't need to... Mash whatever came to mind, return to it later, make insights.
Why do YOU blog? I've been working on a post about my history writing online myself, which is still forthcoming. @tldr asked the question the other day, and @hl has written a cool little piece about it.
Every year or so, I try using #obsidian for #notetaking and such, but after a day, I always come back to #orgmode . There are just way too many extras you get being in #emacs#evil and org mode.
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