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Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

One question: you put every new note related to your bib note on your bib note? Or is it enough to connect the bib note just on the new note?

Newly exposed to obsidian and I love it! Thanks for the content and sharing your experience with note taking 😁

You're the MVP for this! Thank you so much!!!!!

cannot relate more! "all the markdown is intimidating" so true😭

My Zettelkasten process is basically a checklist of Morgan’s advice

this idea of letting the system emerge from the chaos of notes is what I used to create "AnarchVault", my new Obsidian vault after I tried to use the PARA method I gotta say: I never had any trouble finding what I wanted, even though I'm keeping all files on the same folder and not making "MOCs" for every topic

Morgan! Your passion is contagious! Even if someone doesn't know what "Zettelkasten" is, after watching your video they want to start doing it. Thank you for everything you do. I'm impressed. 🥰🥰🥰

Very great advice! I will definitely use these ideas to become more mainly in my notes and teaching to interconnect my mind-mapping to notes inside a document that I can create to become not only a better student, but in the long-vast of reward systems - would you say this is a habit to create into n=and become more immersed in? So, that the student can become connected to their words?

Very useful. Your presentations skills are super. Have you played with Google’s NotebookLM? Steven Johnson is helping them and he’s a wonderful researcher and storyteller.

you should really get a floating arm mount for your Yeti mic so we don't hear the keyboard clack so much

The most important thing about the note-taking is grouping and relaring your notes. Bit, u also dont want to spend too much time on this. Things should be done just sufficient for the moment. Bit still allows you to further organize further easily in the future when needed.

Yay!! Climate action is basically the main reason im wanting to digitise all my boxes of notebooks. From studying environmental issues in uni from 1998 to 10 years in government in the area to all the ad hoc lectures and yt videos ..... plus life admin and projects 😅. I want something like notion, but notion needs global tags and some structure. Obsidian takes some more technical help but i love how you can so easily create links/ new metadata

Have you moved from Obsidian to Scrintal? Have you tried Heptabase?

How do you plan for the likely inevitable failure of the digital system? I spent years building one in Evernote before an "upgrade" completely broke my work. Luckily the company built a decent export feature but I've been reluctant to start from scratch again for years now. I think using open source software could help, as well as self-host for privacy or tagging onto other cloud providers for convenience, but I'm not sure of good options for these

I love this vid and that you demonstrate on the app. Gracias!

Morgan! As always this was so helpful. I am actually building an analog ZK for a couple of large writing projects I'm working on -- and what I figured out from this video is that I don't need to worry about structuring it from start. Take notes. Drop the cards in the box. Pull them out and see how they organize later. Here is my question for you: I love Obsidian. Scrintal is an interesting variant. You seem to be using both? I would love details on how you use both of these softwares. It feels like an either/or rather than a both/and situation. I am building an analog system because that's how I used to work on everything (I'm old enough to remember doing all this stuff with pen and paper), but I am still a huge fan of digital tools. Search-ability is such a win. Anyhoo -- I really appreciate your channel.

Thank you for this video!! I love and watch all your videos, even when I don't comment.

I've just dismantled all my Zettlekasten minimal organization systems because I realized they were just not helping me, and I was not really using them. Just the connections are enough, especially after you have a minimal amount of notes, which does not take that long to create. Great video.

You can study overv12 hrs but mostly you are taking breaks every hr longer breaks every two or three hrs you eat without looking at work, you change toic at least every few hrs molectlar, macro, social rotated through the day. Execrise slerp eating and rest inc dayys off are importsnt unless you want yo crash

Usually work in obsidian i have a bibliography which i link diplayin apa citation in the nots themselves. Do you have a bibliography note

Nothing but nothing limits the things you brain can li k things to!

You put notes in then you can link them, for manythings there is no right or wrong you can put in moc s so you can link nots to a topic nots bit one not may link to more than on map of content.

Oh, have a lot of ideas and notes in my journal, but stucked choosing a form of Zettelkasten. That helps me a lot because I looked for ideas connecting the notes. Really great! Thanks

GREAT Examples, ... Thank You

This was fantastic! Thank you for showing this process. I have Scrintal but have been mostly using Obsidian canvases. Might be time to finally just start using Scrintal lol

A question about using boards in scrintal : do you use them specifically to create outputs (articles, videos...) or do you also use them to connect permanent notes ?

I love your Zettelkasten videos, and I have one request and one tip for those watching. Request: Please could you do a video showing the process of diving into your Zettelkasten to find information for a project? For me, that would look like finding content and ideas for undergrad essays, but also would be useful for postgrad research. Tip: I have so many quotes to pull from physical books and find typing them time-consuming. I use my Apple Notes app, click the camera icon then 'scan text' and then you can select the quote you want it to copy, then I copy and paste into my Zettelkasten, which is so much speedier!

I am just gwttong started worh ZK and I do kinda organize my ZK notes and qonser what others do. Im in the process of getting a neuroscience PhD. When I read papers, I organixe my notes by the rype od note they are. Is it a note referring to a method? Primary findings? Future research the authors postulate? I use tags and those notes get moved into those folders and the link becomes colored so I can tell what kind of note it is immediately. But anything can be in those folders as they are not organized by topic. And notes mat graudate or move ad I read other papers that others referenced and stuff like that

I'm a fan of your approach of spending more time "getting stuff in there", and less time "fiddling around with stuff". I have an approach which is helping me a lot right now. I'm taking two coursework subjects this term (on top of a day-job), and my zettelkasten was getting behind, making me sad. So I gave up and started using ChatGPT to help! I have a paid version, which keeps a long-term "memory" of my preferences ("I am a grad student", "Keep responses to 150 words without intro or outtro", "Use short sentences, and dot points", "three paragraph structure"). Here's a process which is working OK so far: I take a lecture transcript, or book section, or "thing to read", and do the following: 1 - "Please read the following/attached text, and select any technical terms, or terms that lend themself to more definition. 10 to 15 total". Then for each: 2- "Please create a permanent note for my zettelkasten for [term] (bearing in mind who I am and what I do), short one sentence definition, 150 word summary, up to three tags, any technical terms (that could be other entries) as dot-points. Format it as a code block so I can copy/paste into Obsidian" I'll then massage the output "make it shorter", "more dot points", "I do not understand, pretend I'm a highschooler", "I am very stupid today and I still don't understand, pretend I'm five years old". Sometimes I'll re-write the whole thing by hand. Usually I'll give it a quick edit, then save. The next step, which I don't quite have working yet is to generate images that I can use for flash cards. Not quite there yet. I'm a visual learner and it's great for terms such as "linear algebra", "least squares regression", "variance", "p-value". Thank you so much for the video! Always look forward to them, and they give me so many useful ideas.

Maybe you've done this already, but I would be really interested in an honest comparison of Scrintal and Obsidian! Pros and cons of both.

scrintal to me looks best out of all visual note taking apps I've seen, but please tell them to offer a free tier some people can test the app for a longer period of time. :( I'm not going to pay money to test an app

I'd love to see more videos with Obsidian.

how tall are u?

How is she doing on her zettelkasten? any updates?

I have filed everything under miscellaneous for years

Questions: Have you every heard of PARA? I used system when I first started creating my zettelkasten( Second Brain). It helped me have a starting point for figure out what I wanted to start taking notes on. - Do you still use Obsidian? - Have you tried using Scrintal or the zettelkasten format within a team format? How well did it do? - Have you convinced anyone in your personal life to start a zettelkasten( I got my sister looking into it)

Bless you, You have liberated me

you're majestic

Great Video Morgan! I have had a Zettelkasten for at least 2 and a half years. I agree creating bunch of empty folders is a BAD idea. I did this when I first started and I STILL have some of the old folders just hanging around! I thing that have helped me is using MOC to help group related notes. I will also try and go back over my notes and Progressive Summarize( reread the Highlighted sections , bold and distill the main parts ) the key points for those notes.

I needed to hear that. Thank you! I was struggling to find a folder organization for my notes.

Have you read The Good Ancestor or Jenny ODell’s work? They seem right up your alley! Another one I’m reading right now that you could find useful (focused more on climate change and the humanities) is The Activist Humanist. (From someone also interested in temporality).

I have been trying to implement Zettlekasten for almost a year (yikes), and nothing has worked. Would you be willing to help?

I’m not sure how to handle ideas I don’t agree with, in my Zettelkasten. What is the best way to record this type of note? Would it be considered a permanent note or a source note if it is just one lone quote. I can understand making another note linked to it that says why I don’t agree with it. But I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on this 😊

My folders are: fleeting notes, literature notes, meeting notes, and permanent notes. So I basically do it like you plus meeting notes. Meeting notes are kind of like literature notes: they contain links to a bunch of notes that I made based on a meeting about my work. Because I frequently have longer meetings about specific parts of my work, this is a useful category for me to have. This helps me remember the context in which it was discussed (so I can piece together a lot of details and connections between the different points discussed) but it also makes it easier to find back notes. I think the most important part is that you don't want to organize your Zettelkasten by content. To make finding stuff back easier one can have notes that collect all the notes made in that specific context (for example: a literature note contains all notes made about a certain book, a meeting note all notes made during a certain meeting, a class note all notes made during a certain class) but the individual notes will still just be fleeting notes or permanent notes (with a backlink to that meeting note).

So listen, i may not organize my zettelkasten but i will be organizing my Taco Bell order. 2 Bean Burritos, 2 chicken Chalupas, 3 soft tacos, fire sauce and extra napkins. You've helped my food skill organizing immensely. Thanks Morganeua 😂

I've been skeptical of zettelkasten for some time now, but your video has given me something to think about. Excellent video.

Wow, this came at a time when I am trying to digitize all my class notes.

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Oh yeah, that's totally me 😅 and guess what else? My "task initiation" executive skill is not that strong at all.. I hope to find help in your video since I'm making a Ph.D., too. Mine is in literature and intercultural discourse