How to achieve more while studying less - Obsidian & Conceptual Notes

"You're not here to hoard data. You're here to pursue whatever it is you want to do with your life." Very insightful.

It would be amazing if you made a Obsidian tutorial with a more complete demonstration like do you use map of content how you setup your notes uses of links and tags

This I think is one of the best and most genuine videos on notetaking, PKM etc. as it's about principles that can be implemented according to own needs and not about "the perfect way of notetaking"! Thanks

Our Control Systems professor gave us this lecture about 'power of abstraction' at the start of semester. To try to abstract away the 'application' and focus on the idea / structure, and try to apply / relate it to other courses we are taking. I like to study about behaviour psychological and how it is used in politics and media, so I started relating engineering concepts / topics to psychological techniques and human behaviour in general, and they started to feel more intuitive. It was the turning point in my life, when studying starting to feel fun rather than a burden. My study group buddies often compliment me that I explain topics in very easy to understand way, and also correct me where I am wrong, so it works best if you have 2-3 people to discuss/test your ideas with.

You became beautifully philosophical at min 8:30 where you transmitted the phrase: ~”There are no disciplines, only one universe”, and then explore how the linkage of ideas are there to be connected and get there the 1 million dollar idea. It’s a harmonious application to your video, as it connects a fundamentally important general conception of concepts, to the topic of making connections. Good work, and thanks for sharing.

Really inspiring! I've been using Obsidian for 3 months to take notes as psychology student and wow, that "Wikipedia already exists" hit me hard. The desire of making shiny notes is so strong in me. This video is exactly what I needed to start a little revolution in my vault. I'm really interested to know more about your workflow to create evergreen notes

I've never in my life unironically commented on a YT video -- until now. This video was the missing piece in my knowledge journey that I never knew I always needed. Thank you!!

As a mechanical engineer, I wish I had the technology when I was studying. Your notes are what I have in my head, but oh boy, I'd love to have them out of my head in case I forget them! I did practice active listening, as I struggle to recall things. Everything I know, is because of first principles, and I derive all my working from there every single time (and Roarks). Having had something like this would have helped so much in making the links I needed for my understanding and even highlight new ones! Keep at it, you'll be able to effect change in any industry.

is no one gonna mention how insane this guys' graph view is, it looks beautiful

I started using Obsidian recently, and you basically addressed all the difficulties I had while taking notes in it. I now see that "treating my personal knowledge system as a project in itself" is one of the main reasons why I didn't felt motivated to do it more often. Great video!

"The goal is not to learn, but to do as much as possible" hits home. Thanks for this video! I'd love to see more of this coming, it seems to me that we might learn a lot from you in the PKM field. Let's keep this conversation going 🙌🏻

Felt like I intuitively knew this but needed someone to spell it out for me. So wish I had this during my university but I still love learning so better late than never. Thank you much.

Thank you! This is hands down the clearest and most succinct video on how to make atomic notes. I went down the PKM rabbit hole a few months back and was really struggling to get away from what you call sequential notes. Now it all makes perfect sense. Thanks for the awesome video!

"your focusing on the same connections as everyone else in the world, which is the fastest way to never have an original thought" incredible video, bravo we appreciate that you are selling something as a product of ethos rather than logos. 👍

This is the best explanation of the concepts behind Obsidian and that whole domain of note-taking I've seen so far. Great job and thank you for making this video!

definitely one of my favourite videos i've seen recently even the timing is perfect as i will start my first semester studying physics next week

Thinking and taking notes in terms of concepts is a good approach and one I've done for many years, but there's still many reasons why sequential note taking is popular and one that I still use as well. 1. Lessons often follow a narrative structure. 3Blue1Brown, an amazing teacher on youtube, talks about how great teachers are great storytellers. And the thing about narratives is, they're mostly linear. Lessons are the same way, ideas brought up later in the lecture related to ones brought up earlier. When you start to break up your notes into loose concepts spread out over many pages, you risk losing that context. 2. Organizing notes is not easy, and takes time. Trying to do so while learning concepts in real-time during a lecture is an almost impossible feat. Ideally your classes should be challenging you, and you should be struggling to keep up just trying to understand the concepts in class. If the class were easy enough that you could immediately identify key concepts and structural patterns, then you are probably not learning much from that class anyways. In a difficult class, if you try to organize your notes while still trying to grasp the material, you risk making a big mess out of your notes. It is far easier to just write down as much as you can. And once you do that, you can always go back home and then re-organize it into concepts when you better understand it. The lecture only happens once. At home you have all the time you need.

2 minutes into this video and I already love how well it's made, great job !!

The time lapse feature in Obsidian is the best thing ever. Imagine seeing what you learned in whole middle school for example.

HOW is this content free. WOW dude this is literally how i remember stuff the best but never knew there could be software to help/aid in that, the way you explained everything is amazing. Thanks man!