Thanks! Started my Obsidian journey and was not clear how to make the connections. Now that I do, I'd likely add my backlink at the end of the paragraph so I know what I'm referencing back to in the original document.
Hi Liam, I love the way you make these conceptual notes and have personally adapted some of the strategies. One issue I’ve encountered however is when a note consist of information from many sources, it can get challenging to differentiate where exactly the information came from when they are just living in the “Reference” section of the note. I’m trying to add citations along the way by adding aliases to the sources such as “mills et al. 2018” and insert them as I go. It works, but can look a little messy 😂
Hello. Thanks for your video. Thanks to the examples, it is when you really internalize the concepts in many cases better. I assume you know the zettelkasten system well. It seems that what you define as the context phase could be what in zettelkasten are the literary notes (or source notes) and the links that you generate with content for the long term would be the permanent notes (which another system improves with the possibility that always grow, evergreen notes) Greetings and I hope you continue with your videos since I am interested in techniques and workflows that help the adherence of knowledge in the long term.
Hi, thank you very much for your video it is valuable to see how Obsidian works on a real job. One question do you take these notes directly in class or is it part of your home study work?
Best video Ive seen yet, with practical examples and not some crazy innaplicable concept. Coincidentally im starting to use obsidian for the exact same course from andrew ng and your approach seems great. My only worry is taking too long actually creating the notes because that could make the studying process a lot slower and maybe boring Also, would you say its better to put concept notes from a lecture lecture outside that lecture's folder? Just like you did with gradient descent not being inside week 1 but just referenced. Idk if that would add too much clutter to the main page in the future Lastly, since the video is 2 years old, are there any changes to your approach showed here?
Hey Liam, thank you for making this video as I found it very informative. I do have a question, what is the difference between the way you back-link under a references header as opposed to using yaml data to tag?
Hey @user-ce2cx8xi8m - this is such a shame the link is broken and the blog it was on no longer exists. The best I can find is the user posted a link (now broken) on the Obsidian Forum: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-students-a-two-phase-process/9786 So if you really care to see it, maybe you could DM the user there. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
yo! thanks for the video🐧, it will contribute to my learning. want to try to study data analysis using obsidian. as far as I know, many who started with sql in analysis go further into machine learning. Is this true?
Everyone will have their own system and workflows, but for me personally I take notes in class straight into Obsidian. Then I perform the second phase of 'refinement' later on.
Bro, i started using RemNote after following your videos. After seing this video i am confused. How is Obsidian different than RemNote ? . Did you stop using RemNote ? & started using Obsidian . Please let me know. Trying to understand which one is better.
Hi Ramesh, I used RemNote a lot but found it to be a bit slow to load pages and a few bugs, so recently I’ve switched to trying out Obsidian. I still love RemNote for the added benefit of inline flashcards, but I am tentatively waiting for more updates that improve the speed and bugs existent in RemNote. Regardless of the above, if you are happy in RemNote, I don’t urge you to switch. As I say in this video, this ‘workflow’ can be used in any ‘connected notetaking’ app, such as RemNote or Roam Research or others.
@@LiamGower Thanks a lot Liam for your reply and explaining it in detail. Believe or not, i too faced the same what you said on RemNote and now i am frustrated using RemNote as it is hanging up and too slow to work with . I thought it is only me who faced this, but i think its a problem in remnote . If possible, please make more videos on Obsidian , looks very good they way you explained. Does this app come paid ? Or free ? .
Hey no problem, that's interesting to hear you have the same issues. I think it is definitely a problem with RemNote itself. I hope they work on it and provide updates to improve it, but in the meantime I'm going to use Obsidian for the foreseeable future. Obsidian is completely free to use: obsidian.md/ They also have an amazing mobile app: obsidian.md/mobile, which I guess is another advantage over RemNote. I will look to do more videos on Obsidian for sure!
@@LiamGower Awesomeeee & Great to know its free 👌. Thanks so much for sharing 😊. I am going to try obsidian now. Between- Love all your videos ❤️👌. You explain so well. Have a good day 😊
Great video - can you tell me why you type in a back link rather than relying on the built-in function that obsidian provides? I’m in two minds about it in my workflow. I think your way is cleaner but why repeat? Thanks l!
Don't know what's his reason for it. but my reason for that is because clicking at the right pane and looking for the right link kills some time, and viewing the right pane's links isn't visually pleasing for me. Just adding the links directly in the note is just much better for me.
I was wondering too. Doesn't make sense to me. It means you have to manually link every time - you might've once made a link, that you thought wasn't significant and wouldn't put in the "references" and now it's lost on you because you don't rely on and so never use the built in feature. The great thing about this technology is "stumbling upon relevant connections", if you mindfully connect everything you're missing out on all the fun i think lol. Eventually when your references list becomes crowded enough, you also spend tons of time micromanaging this.
Hello, it's crazy that I'm taking the same machine learning specialization course independent of watching any of your videos. I was wondering what your experience was after finishing it. Did you use it to find a job or start a project, was it actionable and valuable to you?
How exactly did you create the 3rd layer in the folders on the left. The (example: Folder > Subfolder >Subsubfolder) so the third layer drop down. Hopefully you understand what I mean lol I could never figure that out I can only make a folder then sub folder, never the third layer.
This reminds me of what Elon Musk refers to as building ones "semantic tree", that is, learning concepts by starting with first principles and branching out. At the ground level it seems like what you are doing is just shuffling text and images around in a fancy version of notepad, but I think you're right that as you start trying to learn more advanced subjects where the textbooks are chock full of jargon, having the prerequisite concepts linked out like this in your own words will help. Seems like it would take some practice to do this with minimal friction.
The most useful video of obsidian for a student... Kudos man
Thanks 🙏🏻 all the best with your studies!
Thanks! Started my Obsidian journey and was not clear how to make the connections. Now that I do, I'd likely add my backlink at the end of the paragraph so I know what I'm referencing back to in the original document.
Thank you for this video! This really helped me understand how to use linking especially with more traditional linear note taking for classes.
Exactly what I needed, this is exactly how my brain needs things to be organised. How could I better incorporate tags?
Hi Liam, I love the way you make these conceptual notes and have personally adapted some of the strategies. One issue I’ve encountered however is when a note consist of information from many sources, it can get challenging to differentiate where exactly the information came from when they are just living in the “Reference” section of the note. I’m trying to add citations along the way by adding aliases to the sources such as “mills et al. 2018” and insert them as I go. It works, but can look a little messy 😂
Yeah this is the video that I need
Thank you so much, cheers
You’re welcome! ☺️
I needed this so much, thank u !
I'm so glad!
You brilliant, brilliant individual! Thank you so much!
You are welcome Diego!
Muy buen video amigo mío! Lo pondré en practica 😎
Hello. Thanks for your video.
Thanks to the examples, it is when you really internalize the concepts in many cases better.
I assume you know the zettelkasten system well. It seems that what you define as the context phase could be what in zettelkasten are the literary notes (or source notes) and the links that you generate with content for the long term would be the permanent notes (which another system improves with the possibility that always grow, evergreen notes)
Greetings and I hope you continue with your videos since I am interested in techniques and workflows that help the adherence of knowledge in the long term.
Hi, thank you very much for your video it is valuable to see how Obsidian works on a real job. One question do you take these notes directly in class or is it part of your home study work?
No problem! I take these notes whilst studying online/at home. I have a full-time job, this is basically for a course I'm doing in my spare time.
Best video Ive seen yet, with practical examples and not some crazy innaplicable concept. Coincidentally im starting to use obsidian for the exact same course from andrew ng and your approach seems great.
My only worry is taking too long actually creating the notes because that could make the studying process a lot slower and maybe boring
Also, would you say its better to put concept notes from a lecture lecture outside that lecture's folder? Just like you did with gradient descent not being inside week 1 but just referenced. Idk if that would add too much clutter to the main page in the future
Lastly, since the video is 2 years old, are there any changes to your approach showed here?
No way, I have the exact same class right now, thanks dude !
Awesome, it is a great course but it's slow progress alongside a full time job and life commitments haha! Keep up the good work @astralyd9099 !
I also have the same class haha!!! Machine learning is killing me but at least these videos help me 😭🙏
@@SSAENS-yj3jw best of luck to you, I dropped out of college in the meantime haha
Hey Liam, thank you for making this video as I found it very informative. I do have a question, what is the difference between the way you back-link under a references header as opposed to using yaml data to tag?
Hi, the two phase workflow you linked and mentioned can't be accessed. Is there an updated link?
Hey @user-ce2cx8xi8m - this is such a shame the link is broken and the blog it was on no longer exists.
The best I can find is the user posted a link (now broken) on the Obsidian Forum: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-for-students-a-two-phase-process/9786
So if you really care to see it, maybe you could DM the user there. Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
Super useful video, thanks
yo! thanks for the video🐧, it will contribute to my learning.
want to try to study data analysis using obsidian.
as far as I know, many who started with sql in analysis go further into machine learning.
Is this true?
Thanx For the videos man was great.
Do you take notes physically and reform them digitally, or do you write in obsidian while on class?
Everyone will have their own system and workflows, but for me personally I take notes in class straight into Obsidian. Then I perform the second phase of 'refinement' later on.
how do you take it directly in to obsidian, do you just use one page or do you go in and out of multiple? @@LiamGower
Bro, i started using RemNote after following your videos.
After seing this video i am confused. How is Obsidian different than RemNote ? . Did you stop using RemNote ? & started using Obsidian . Please let me know. Trying to understand which one is better.
Hi Ramesh, I used RemNote a lot but found it to be a bit slow to load pages and a few bugs, so recently I’ve switched to trying out Obsidian.
I still love RemNote for the added benefit of inline flashcards, but I am tentatively waiting for more updates that improve the speed and bugs existent in RemNote.
Regardless of the above, if you are happy in RemNote, I don’t urge you to switch. As I say in this video, this ‘workflow’ can be used in any ‘connected notetaking’ app, such as RemNote or Roam Research or others.
@@LiamGower Thanks a lot Liam for your reply and explaining it in detail. Believe or not, i too faced the same what you said on RemNote and now i am frustrated using RemNote as it is hanging up and too slow to work with . I thought it is only me who faced this, but i think its a problem in remnote . If possible, please make more videos on Obsidian , looks very good they way you explained. Does this app come paid ? Or free ? .
Hey no problem, that's interesting to hear you have the same issues. I think it is definitely a problem with RemNote itself. I hope they work on it and provide updates to improve it, but in the meantime I'm going to use Obsidian for the foreseeable future.
Obsidian is completely free to use: obsidian.md/
They also have an amazing mobile app: obsidian.md/mobile, which I guess is another advantage over RemNote.
I will look to do more videos on Obsidian for sure!
@@LiamGower Awesomeeee & Great to know its free 👌. Thanks so much for sharing 😊. I am going to try obsidian now. Between- Love all your videos ❤️👌. You explain so well. Have a good day 😊
Obsidian is better for taking class notes like this. It's also better for conducting research.
Great video - can you tell me why you type in a back link rather than relying on the built-in function that obsidian provides? I’m in two minds about it in my workflow. I think your way is cleaner but why repeat? Thanks l!
Don't know what's his reason for it. but my reason for that is because clicking at the right pane and looking for the right link kills some time, and viewing the right pane's links isn't visually pleasing for me. Just adding the links directly in the note is just much better for me.
I was wondering too. Doesn't make sense to me. It means you have to manually link every time - you might've once made a link, that you thought wasn't significant and wouldn't put in the "references" and now it's lost on you because you don't rely on and so never use the built in feature. The great thing about this technology is "stumbling upon relevant connections", if you mindfully connect everything you're missing out on all the fun i think lol. Eventually when your references list becomes crowded enough, you also spend tons of time micromanaging this.
@@JustanamebroDK What do you mean? Are you referring to him manually writing the "References" and that it's not necessary to do that?
Hello, it's crazy that I'm taking the same machine learning specialization course independent of watching any of your videos. I was wondering what your experience was after finishing it. Did you use it to find a job or start a project, was it actionable and valuable to you?
How can LaTex documents be integrated (include ...)?
wow great video!
How exactly did you create the 3rd layer in the folders on the left. The (example: Folder > Subfolder >Subsubfolder) so the third layer drop down. Hopefully you understand what I mean lol I could never figure that out I can only make a folder then sub folder, never the third layer.
Just make a folder and drag it into another one
What is the purpose of rewriting "your own wiki" when all this information you can find in textbooks or wiki with just one click?
The purpose is learning.
@@Jake-Thunder Is it learning when you just copy information? Remembering does not equal understanding
@@polar_sloth Rewriting isn't copying.
Link isn’t working for me. Can anyone help?
This reminds me of what Elon Musk refers to as building ones "semantic tree", that is, learning concepts by starting with first principles and branching out. At the ground level it seems like what you are doing is just shuffling text and images around in a fancy version of notepad, but I think you're right that as you start trying to learn more advanced subjects where the textbooks are chock full of jargon, having the prerequisite concepts linked out like this in your own words will help. Seems like it would take some practice to do this with minimal friction.
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