My FULL Obsidian Zettelkasten Workflow in 10 minutes

Such a concise and insightful breakdown with the mix of conceptual teaching and showcasing your own personal practices to help others get started with their own zettelkasten notes. I'm going to add it to my email course until I document my own workflow 😅

Hi, non english native speaker:

1. What means takeaway as a concept? I tried to relate with reading and get nothing.

Saying that highlighting takes "no effort" is too extreme of a view. Yes it's significantly less effort and return, but consider the alternative of not highlighting anything, or not even reading, that is "no effort". I feel like the use of extremes here is divisive and could be instead frame as a positive to encourage people to take the next step in their note taking efforts.

I recommend putting Zettelkasten method into the title, because I searched for it on the other day, but did not find your video, however you clearly describe the method in fact in a good way. I stumbled upon your video by chance days after I searched for the topic :) Otherwise, great video!

Could you tell me which fonts you're using??

Are you able to make a video on the process you use to create “reference notes”. I like the concept but I’m not sure on how to go about applying it myself.

I am struggling a lot to get all the Settings for DailyNotes, Zotero Integration,YALM etc. going. I just stumble from error to error. Is there any chance to copy a fully working obsidian / zotero setting and never change any settings for good? :D

If you do the 60 day trial with Readwise, do you still get lifetime access to the $7.99 price?

I just wanted to say thanks Sergio - I've just discovered Obsidian as well as the Zettelkasten method, and it's what I've been looking for all this time. This video in particular has helped me to apply practically. One question: What's the best way to (1) surface / connect multiple permanent notes and (2) establish some form of hierarchy when you have information with varying granularity? (eg. A broad concept / philosophy vs its practical applications vs context-specific implications)

Great video! is there any way you can share the template you use for your literature notes?

What is the free alternative to Readwise that Sergio mentions?

The video is great, tho I have a question. What are the guidelines that you follow in order to include/not include reference notes in your vault? I am asking this from a noise/clutter management perspective. For example: I use readwise (and readwise reader) but if I were to include all of the highlights from everything I read within my vault my own notes would be overwhelmed by a huge number of reference notes that have little value to my thought.
what is your take on this? You do just import everything you highlight or have some selection criteria (only books or something like that).

Keep up the great content!

What a valuable content in 10 mins! However I have a question though. If I read and highlight it on a physical book, do I have to rewrite the highlighted content and then summarize? Or what would be your suggestion? Thanks 😊

Hey just discovered your channel! Just wondering, do you do this full time?

Do you give each permanent note its own code, like Luhman did?

Thanku, this is a great system. Is there a way to write hand written notes in readwise reader while i'm highlighting that will sync in obsidian?

Working through your Mastering Obsidian videos and it's been incredibly useful so far! Thanks for making it easier to jump into my PKM journey.

I tried finding the template that you provided in your video on Automating folders but the site is not working. Is there a different page I should be looking at?

Obsidian is not for every user! First, you need to learn MARKDOWN and THE THING that I hated the most was the SEARCH feature, it is case sensitive, meaning you need to search the word exactly as you typed it. I never could find anything using the SEARCH feature. You should be able to find anything no matter the case, and to tell you the truth Obsidian is UGLY! In the end, after almost 2 years, I moved to NOTION. 😉

That is a good explanation, I think. I did an zettelkasten system for academic research with Zotero-Obsidian. Posted on the Obsidian forum: "Academic Note Taking and Making System [with The Zettelkasten Method - Obsidian - Zotero]"

hi, you pronounce Mihály like saying the words "me" and "hi"
Csíkszentmihályi is kinda like "cheek sent me hi e"

Thank you, I really appreciate your work. I have been using the same approach for literature notes in emacs' org-mode and when I switched to Obsidian I found one thing that made it a bit better (for me) - instead a link to block of text with quote I use collapsed callout with embedded block of text. That helps me to lookup the original without leaving literature note.

Such a high quality and helpful video. Thank you!

Imo your best video to date!

Thank you for this helpful video. What plugin are you using to make your YAML metadata have a notion-like appearance?

Great video as always.

You mentioned that you want your permanent notes to be short and have one idea, which what I have been trying to do myself but can not seem to make it work.

For example I am learning about deep learning right now, so I have a deep learning note which I find impossible to shorten, since it explains what deep learning is and expands on it by mentioning concepts, algorithms and else.

How would you go about making shorter and more concise notes?

I literally finish your "Mastering Obsidian" series yesterday after one week of intensive use. The natural step for me was to search for Zettelkasten books and references. I couldn't believe when I saw the notification of this video being uploaded exactly when needed.

As a teacher myself, I can confidently share that you are an excellent disseminator. Thank you for the smart & hard work.

Really valuable again - thanks a lot! :-) I tend to use "literatur notes" also for a starting point to make meaning for me - like not only making a permanent note of the concept, but also making me think like: "How can I apply this to my life?" - "What does that remind me of?" - "How do I feel about this and why?" - "Is this in alignement or in contradiction with what I already know and how?" - stuff like that. So that I can get meaning out of what I consumed - and then created.

I have so much to say I don't know where should I start..

First of all, as someone who's seen every video on your channel and many of them, multiple times, this one stands out significantly in terms of production and quality. Your energy was GREAT, I felt a lot of confidence in your words and its clear you know what you're talking about. Great work!!!

Regarding your point here - I had neglected my previous 3 years PKM system (I also started with Obsidian 3 years ago) and your previous video (regarding Reader/Readwise) was the final piece I needed to reconstruct my PKM system. I also use Todoist (and now also mymind) to quick capture, mymind for "bookmarking the world", Todoist for making ideas into actionable items DURING capturing (I also have a sophisticated scheme there that helps with that), and now with all of my highlights synced YESTERDAY I have decided to move forward and attempt create content online and have started thinking about publishing content I make using EXACTLY the method you mention, having the idea built step by step naturally over time so when I get to content-making, I already have many pieces of the work ready and linked for me to focus on.

You made my day.

P.S Beeper is a game changer 🤯

The bottom line is having any note system which has bi-directional linking.
I moved from obsidian to CRAFT app (paid app) 6 months back as it had better bi-directional linking and very fast sync between different apple devices and also we can work offline. No headaches of installing so many plugins and all comes in built and easy to use.

Hi Sergio! Excellent video as always. Keep up the great work!

Good stuff Been doing a lot of Obsidian research lately.