Aidan Helfant: After This Video You Will Finally Understand The Zettelkasten Method in Obsidian

Notes

• How to Take Smart Notes
  • Unique ID, Content, Footer (related, references)
  • Relate notes through links and references to original sources
  • Ditch the rigid folder based structure
• Top down or Bottom up approach
  • Ask our system what our research is telling us
• 09:21
  • Overview of Workflow
  • Zettelkasten Workflow
    • Capture
      • Tasks, audio memos, calendar, highlights
      • Readwise Reader
      • All get sent to Readwise and sent to Obsidian using the Readwise Official Plugin
    • Organize
      • LYT Kit by Nick Milio using ACCESS structure
      • Create daily/weekly reviews using "Lifestyle Design" (see his video about journaling)
    • Distill
      • Fleeting or Literature
      • Atomic/Zettels
      • Evergreens
      • Maps of Content
    • Express
      • Youtube Channel, Digital Garden, Newsletter, Podcast
• 14:58
  • Types of Notes
    • Fleeting notes (notes off the top)
    • Literature notes(from Readwise)
    • Atomic/Zettels notes (written in own words, reference back to literature notes, single focal point idea with background ideas and evidence)
    • Permanent/🌲(Most important, can exist forever)
    • Maps of Content (MOCs, most useful, can be any of the above)
• 17:39
  • ACCESS folder structure
    • Encounter (Passing and growing ideas, new notes go here)
    • Atlas (MOCs, dashboards, logs, datascopes)
    • Calendar (Time based, reviews, meetings)
    • Cards (Helps build and connect ideas, people, quotes)
    • Extras (Support material
    • Sources (Lit notes, articles, podcasts, papers, videos, tweets)
    • Spaces (Life, schoolwork, content creation, newsletters)
    • Home Note (Highest order MOCs)
• 21:11
  • Capture
  • Capture stuff that resonates with you!
  • Capture what confuses you, surprising
  • Define a capture toolkit (books, articles, pods, conversations, etc.)
  • Define 12 questions to help define you and what to capture
  • Readwise, where is Readwise Reader invite!
  • New Note template, keep it simple
    • up section, whats above this, parent
    • related section, link to related that arent linked in the body
    • resources, using footnotes with little numbers, sometimes link to article, sometimes link to the citation
    • tags for status (seedlings)
    • highlights
    • possibly add back in the boatbox for notes that are super fleeting or quick one offs
• 28:27
  • Distill
  • Take atomic notes and distill into 🌲
  • Efforts over projects
• 29:57
  • Organize
  • Connect using
    • reminds me
    • similar because
    • different because
    • important because
  • Idea compass
    • North - where idea comes from
    • West - link to something similar, reinforce
    • South - something this diea can lead to
    • East - link to something that competes, transforming into something else
  • Backlinks are helpful with this, as are Unlinked mentions
  • Local graph view, show within 2 connections
  • Notes will come back up over and over again
  • Collect notes at the squeeze point and convert to MOC
• 34:29
  • Express
  • This is the goal of the Zettelkasten system
  • Content created is just an assemblage of notes in the system
  • The last step, but sometimes the easiest
• Following through with anything for more than 2 years will change your life and over time everything will start to make sense.

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