The Best Method For Taking Lecture Notes In Obsidian
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Most students are never taught how to take effective notes that they can use even after the semester is over. In this video, I discuss how I use Obsidian to take lecture notes that stay make my knowledge unique and stay with me over years and years. I explain the dangers of bad notetaking and how to use my notetaking method, conceptual notemaking, before, during and after class.
⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Cookie Cutter Student
01:34 - How Can We Avoid it?
03:58 - Why Conceptual Notemaking is Awesome
05:36 - Before Class
06:07 - During Class
14:43 - After Class
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Also the quality is amazing - subscribed - was super suprised about your subscriber count. Your Obsidian File is absolutely inspiring!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it greatly. I have only been using Obsidian since the beginning of the semester at College so it means a lot. I was a Roam Research user before.
Wonderful Aidan 🙌 Subbed!
So glad you enjoyed the video Nick! Your one of my biggest inspirations. I hope to take your workshop someday but sadly the student life means for the prudent life. See what I did there 😉. Gotta be careful with my money right now.
@@aidanhelfant For sure, just keep cranking!
excellent observations. I agree.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This video has solved a problem I've been having with how to most effectively do Bible Study. Since I'm taking an online course, I can start my MOCs and CLNs here, and as I study the Bible, it will enhance and fill out these studies! THANK YOU!
I'm so happy to hear that.
What was the problem you were facing in bible study?
@@aidanhelfant I've been trying to figure out what type of Bible Study method I want to use; I've settled on a system I've recently found. Some of the topics are quite vast, and I was looking to use some type of zettlekasten method for at least part of my studies. Thanks for asking!
Another Great One, ... I wish I had this when I was in University, ... would have gotten better grades
The best time to start is always today.
Glad your learning it now!
Thanks for making such a helpful video! I noticed a lot of your notetaking strategies are what Justin Sung teaches. If so, do you have any other specific techniques to make Obsidian more conducive to higher-order learning?
I'm going to point you to a video that I think answers this question fantastically!czcams.com/video/MYJsGksojms/video.html
Hi Aidan - loving your videos...quick question... I am a little newer to Obsidian and getting a few of the basics down. When you are doing the up: Tags:: and Related:: - is that a plugin, or are you simple not adding these in manually on every note or above each input. For instance...do you have only ONE up: section per note or are you manually adding multiple up: and Tags:: sections to notes - rather than just using # as a tag? Any resources for those kind of basics would help! Keep up the great videos!
Glad your loving the videos! I use the plug in templater to automatically add metadata to new notes upon creation. It includes the up section and the tags. The reason there are two :: is because while using the dataview plug in it only understands the code if there are two :: after it. In addition the breadcrumbs plug in requires you to have :: as well. I would watch some videos on what those plug ins are if you want to learn more as it would be too complicated to explain in a comment.
@@aidanhelfant Thank you Aidan! Really appreciate the quick response and information. I will continue to watch all your videos and will check out that plug in. Really really do appreciate that you are getting on and saving us all a ton of time in our our work flow and process!
Absolutely amazing. What is your folder structure. I always am afraid of loosing Uni Notes if I save them as singular concepts all together if I don't use folders. But I also don't want all the seperations folders make in my brain. Having to think again about one subject at a time.
PS: I already use the ACCESS Model aswell - I just wanna know how you organise Cards in it's subfolders, aswell as Spaces and it's subfolders.
Generally those subfolders are so confusing and tricky to me and create a lot of stress where to put what.
Totally agree! Generally I try and use folders for organizing the most important things in my PKM system.Things like differentiating between MOCs, Cards, Calendar events, etc. In my spaces folder I separate between academic articles I have written, my newsletter Aidan's Infinite Play, and my writings/videos for my CZcams channel and blog posts. I keep the last two in one folder because often my CZcams videos are recorded from already made blog posts. I just put the video in the top of the blog post after creating it. As for your second question, I don't differentiate between cards with folders. I like to organize mostly with highest order MOCs then smaller MOCs than atomic notes. It varies a lot. If you want a look at my system check out my published vault! publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant
@@aidanhelfant I’m using the same system you have used (from access but modified) do you put the course as an moc and then make the lectures as cards?
What's your approach to long lectures and subsequentially big long notes?
Do you keep your long notes and copy individual sections of them to new, shorter, and more targeted notes?
With this, you have duplicate content in your vault which could become a problem but I'm not really sure.
Would be interesting to read how you handle that scenario. Great channel.
Great question!
I generally split up the long lecture note into smaller concept notes with links back to the lecture note. There is no duplicate content as I add the information from the lecture note into the smaller concept note.
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Question, if you are waiting seconds to write in your own words, what happens with all the missed info progression as you shift away from the conversation?
You only write down things that are not USE, Useless, Self-explanatory, or Easy enough to understand.
THis means you usually won't be taking notes but rather listening. Once you do write you have thought of what you want to write giving you the attentional faculties to keep listneing while writing.
Zeer informatief, Aidan!
Tank U!
How do you organize your notes like that? In terms of the graph where they are so symmetrical and organized? I just got into obsidian and need some help lol, i saw your conversation with Anthony mitiever i was very impressed! I look forward to learning from you. Btw im using obsidian on mobile is that okay? Do you have any insight on how to use it properly on mobile?
These are all great questions!
I'm glad you liked my convo with Anthony! He is a great inspiration for my content.
I recommend you take my free email course 3 Days to Lecture notetaking Mastery to answer that question: course.aidanhelfant.com/3daystolecturenotetakingmastery
You can use Obsidian on Mobile. However, I would recommend having it on a computer device as well and syncing between the two using Obsidian Sync. A lot of the plug ins and functionablity of obsidian is difficult on mobile. Especially opening multiple tabs at once.
@aidanhelfant I appreciate that Aidan I will definitely take that lecture and I look forward to learning from you!
yes but if you take a picture in class and link it like in 9:37, where do you lay it down inside of your vault? bc this random material tends to grow over the head and if i put it in a collective folder, it becomes pretty messy. The best solution would be creating an extra source material folder of every course, BUT: If youre facing big files like mp4s, the vault itself can gain mass fast and wont fit with a cloudspace.. so eventually you gotta go inside the vault some day and outsource the big files each out of every single course source material folder. Did you solve this?
I put images in a special folder called Extras and I use the IMGUR plug in to make it so files I upload into Obsidian get uploaded into Imgur instead of my cloud storage. Than a special Imgur link is put in Obsidian. This way the image is uploaded into the cloud instead of stored on my local hard drive taking up space.
But do you leave your notes like this for studying? I often Google things to understand topics better but I'm wary of putting it into my notes directly cause I feel like I'd forget that it wasn't a part of my lecture
Great question.
If you want to make sure you study only material relevant to the lecture I would add tags to your notes with the lecture content. When you sit down to study, you could pull all of the related notes with a dataview query.
As for unrelated content inside of the note itself, I'm willing to sacrifice time studying things not directly relevant to the course to have more insightful information in the note. My goal in going to school isn't to get the best grades, it's to learn and dive into my interests.
It depends on your goals.
What different "states" do you have for your note?
I have it listed right here: publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Cards/Tag+Taxonomy
@@aidanhelfant thanks!
Aidan I just don’t understand something. I barely have time write down what the professor is saying how do you have time to pause and process the information. I’m a minute my professor has already moved on to a completely different point he’s trying make.
The mindset shift comes with realizing you don't have to write down everything the professor is saying. Much of it is USE, Unimportant, Self Explanatory, or Easy enough to memorize on the spot. In the case where everything is genuinely important, you shouldn't be writing down that much anyways because it would take away from your mental bandwidth for actually understanding the material. In that case I would recommend taking less notes during class and really understanding it. Then go back after class and take notes if you think it's that important.
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Love it!
Great summarization of the ideas.
Your eye movement from reading is distracting.
That was my aim 😉