Productivity Power Hour (#1): My Workflow for Making Notes in Obsidian and More
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
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For the inaugural stream of Productivity Power Hour, I'll be talking about my workflow for creating notes in Obsidian. We also talk about my impressions
📋 Agenda
• 00:00:00 - Introduction
• 00:01:50 - My Impressions of the AirPods Max
• 00:07:46 - Dynamic Background on macOS
• 00:11:25 - What is my workflow for making notes in Obsidian?
• 00:38:28 - Why did I switch from Notion to Obsidian?
• 00:49:06 - Can you have confidence in your second brain if it's not the SSOT?
• 00:51:58 - Final Thoughts
📚 Resources
• Obsidian.md - obsidian.md/
• Raycast - www.raycast.com/
• AirPods Max - www.apple.com/airpods-max/
• Notion - www.notion.so/
• BenCodeZen Schedule - www.bencodezen.io/schedule/ - Věda a technologie
Great! I love :❤how you create these videos and discover so many stuffs.
TBH I am new here, But I watched so many videos of yours in a day, It's really amazing.
I recently started using obsidian and getting use to it.
Welcome to the community! Glad that the videos have been helpful. If you ever have questions along your journey, don't hesitate to drop a comment and I'll do my best to help!
Great video. I loove it!
I feel really honored that my question was the main theme for the episode :) (@boratsky here)
Hope you don't mind if I ask a few more follow up questions on that matter :D
- Do you utilize the idea of daily notes? - For example, If someone gives you any advice or recommend an article would you rather do a separate note or store it in some kind of inbox in a daily note and revisit them later on.
- Is there a place for atomic & evergreen notes in your workflow?
You're welcome! I'll go ahead and add these to the queue, but for the sake of not making you wait for the next video on this. The TL;DR on this is that:
1. I love daily notes. I think having notes attached to a timestamp is incredibly useful when you want to look at the overarching progression on an idea or when things happen. So I'm a big fan and happy to devote a session talking purely about that.
2. Atomic and evergreen notes absolutely have a place in my workflow, but I would say that I'm not as strict with these types as some other frameworks might prescribe. In my experience, the most important thing has been simply writing it down and learning how my brain works. Over time it becomes easier to scaffold and gather notes together because I've tuned into my intuition rather than a specific framework.
Anyhow, I think these are great questions and I'll probably end up devoting a video to them. So thanks again for the questions and keep them coming!
I see you have found Raycast, too. I haven’t spent a lot of time customizing it yet, but it was really handy to setup a keyboard shortcut to call my Obsidian QuickAdd routines.
Oh nice! Is it a custom script that you wrote? Curious how you're handling that workflow!
At 38’ you explain your temporary templates; I prefer using refactoring the quote as it creates new note with link to source note immediately without creating a temporary template. Moreover when I get back to the source note (with all the highlights) I find all the links to the notes I created while reading
This is a great point! It's always a bit of a trade-off for me when trying to figure out what is worth automating or not. Appreciate you sharing your workflow for how you deal with highlights! 🙇♂️
Really love your videos and I was blown up by the one dataviewjs. And I’d like to propose you a subject: making a block query or block extraction. A practical example: I make daily notes and I add when I have a blog post idea. I finish the idea line by adding a tag #idea/post. Then I’d like to extract the ideas lines in a separate page.
Hen I use a dataview I can filter the daily notes but it returns the full page while I need only one block, the one with the idea. I thought to add a javascript starting from the result of the dataviewjs query but I don’t have your programming skills. What do you think? Thanks
Hey Christian! Sorry for the delay in getting to your comment here.
This sounds fascinating. So if I understand correctly, you'd like a way to query all of your #idea/post block lines into a page like a dashboard?
Hey Ben, I am actually in the same thing about notion and obsidian and I finally decided to go with obsidian after looking at your notes about office hours. But I've got one question left, what exactly are you tracking in notion and why not go with obsidian with that part too? P.S I am a tech content creator too but on medium and just starting to enter into youtube
Hey Vikranth! Thanks for the great question. For me, Notion is awesome when it comes to collaboration or managing data using schema / databases. That said, I try to keep my Notion usage minimal since I prefer the linked thinking of Obsidian most of all.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
The obsidian-git plug-in can be used to share in teams… maybe you can do a video about that.
Thanks for the recommendation! While git is a good way to share the notes, my concern is usually with live editing the same document which gets hairy from what I've seen.
Have you had a better experience with multiple people on a single vault?
@@BenCodeZen That's a fair point. You can set the plug-in options to push and pull every minute automatically (and hence catch merge conflicts quickly), but that's not quite the same thing. I was imagining a small team where people are coordinating what files they're working on.
@@drkarmakid Definitely! A solid solution for that level of coordination for sure. 🙌
Do you limit yourself to a certain level of nesting in tags? For example #topic/agile/jira vs #topic/jira. I'm not sure if there are any negatives to more nested tags.
the tradeoff is at some point you may want to restructure the hierarchy so you end up spending time maintaining it
Not really. The biggest limitation I see with tags is when they start traversing multiple parents.
That said, I think I have an inherent nesting smell of no more than 3 layers deep since I have to ask myself if it's worth the maintenance anymore.
An example I use is: #type/course/lesson
Let me know if you have any other questions!
how did you configure it so that when you create a new note it already has a template attached with the metadata?
Good question! I covered it here in the latest Productivity Power Hour! czcams.com/video/qMoqs1JnRWA/video.html
With which plugin are you auto-updating the h1 header to the file name?
Depends on which situation. If you're referring to normal updating, the trick is to wrap your H1 title with [[ ]] so that it automatically updates when the file changes!
If you're talking about creating a note with automatic file name detection, that plugin is Templater! And I use the trick above as well to have [[]] and you get the best of both worlds!
What theme are you using sir
I'm using the Night Owl theme!
github.com/bencodezen/obsidian-night-owl-theme
How to create "updated" in template. I know how to create "created," but I couldnt find the way to create "updated." Thank in advance.
"Updated" at this time ultimately means "Last Modified." The slightly confusing part is that it only updates once upon initial render. So this means it requires some manual intervention to keep up to date.
There are some plugins which try to address this, but I haven't found one that's as clean as an experience as I'd like. So I resort to manual updating with Template snippets (which isn't as bad as it sounds).
You really do say like a lot.
What a long and needless rant on earphones..! Dude save your ears, don't bring Bluetooth and other radiations so close to the most precious asset ever, YOUR BRAIN.
When will smart folks give the brain the radiation and dopamine free rest it desperately needs...!!
But really want to thank you for sharing your note-taking workflow mate. this is just so metacognitive.
You're welcome! Glad you found it helpful. :)