How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian

Title:: How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian
Year:: 2022
Author:: Duffney, Joshua
Genre::
Rating:: 4
date finished:: 2023-04-25

Highlights

Literature notes are taken while reading or consuming a piece of literature or other form of content with the purpose to better understand what you’re consuming. — location: 29

Fleeting notes capture ideas. Literature notes solidify understanding. Permanent notes translate understanding to long-term knowledge. And organizing the slip-box through making connections, surfaces insight while anchoring new knowledge to previous knowledge. — location: 60

As you process your fleeting notes, some will become permanent notes, some will become project notes, and others will become tasks for your productivity planner. — location: 70

Permanent notes are the result of your own thinking, which is sparked by a fleeting note and/or a literature note. — location: 91

Most of the notes currently in my zk are probably not permanent notes yet, because they're not the result of my own thinking.

Use note sequences to group notes that support a common idea, argument, or discussion. — location: 158

Keywords are used to populate the index and should be used sparingly. Never link a single keyword to more than four notes. — location: 177

Use keywords instead of tags to locate notes. Use tags to flag notes that still need processing.

Instead, you should assign keywords that assist you, the author. To do that, choose keywords that answer the questions “How would I retrieve this note? What context would I want to remember this in? and If I forgot this knowledge, what would I search for?” — location: 186

In Obsidian, create an index and add keywords. Then place links to related notes next to the keywords. — location: 189

This seems to suggest using keywords in a similar manner to the maps of content I read about in other smart note/second brain things.

Create MOCs with a maximum of four notes in each section.

Attempting to take notes with a topical hierarchy order quickly becomes unwieldy and renders the system useless. At the other end of the spectrum, taking notes with no order at all creates an unnavigable hot mess of chaos. — location: 197

Use structure notes to provide a temporary structure for any given topic. And remember that as your understanding improves, the structure and names used to describe the topic are likely to change. — location: 209

Keywords become structure notes.

Encouraging the usage of browsing vs search is one of the primary reasons for the note’s name to remain a unique ID. — location: 213

note clusters build in areas of interest, providing a starting point for further research and learning. New lines of thought, insight and interests then appear and, eventually, those note clusters become large enough that a topic worth writing about surfaces. — location: 231