how to ENJOY taking notes for school (and life) 📝
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- "Human beings naturally continue doing things they like, and they don't continue doing what they don't like... No matter how strong a will a person has, no matter how much he may hate to lose, if it's an activity he doesn't really care for, he won't keep it up for long. Even if he did, it wouldn't be good for him."
- Page 44, Haruki Murakami, "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running"
Thanks for the video idea, Kat!
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✨TIMESTAMPS✨
0:00 - why joy?
2:17 - video summary
4:02 - the right tools for notetaking
7:52 - interests and emotions around knowledge
11:02 - love of meta-learning
12:42 - conclusion
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Unsolicited tip for anyone who might be wondering where to start: make notes about this video!!!! I love making notes about Morgan's videos because she has so many great ideas and they need to be in my zettelkasten. Thanks for the inspo and interest, Morgan!
Aw, thanks :) And yes, use any of the ideas I share in any way that helps you in your life! 😀
One difficult aspect of academic work is the daunting task of sifting through ideas, opinions, facts, and theories that may or may not light a spark in my mind. Once I realized that many other people feel the same way I understood part of the significance of finishing a degree. As for a PhD, I cannot fathom the time involved and the quantity of information that needs to be considered to be counted amongst the most educated in our highly educated society. Neither a bachelor’s, master’s, nor a doctorate are simply pieces of paper needed to progress further in life. When I divested myself of that misconception, my respect for the academy grew. I’m not advocating for a no pain no gain attitude towards learning, but when I saw the actual sacrifice needed to become highly educated, it made the massive amount of work worth the while. All those overwhelming feelings of anxiety, a desire to procrastinate, and the yearning to discover new knowledge are a significant reason why many people do not pursue or never finish their educations.
Yes! I am absolutely learning that. It wasn't until like my 4th year of my PhD that I truly understood why doing a PhD is so hard. It's all about learning how your own mind works and overcoming extreme mental hurdles, while also learning a niche field and developing new knowledge. I have total respect for everyone that has finished a PhD because regardless of your field or topic, it's HARD work, man!
I'm 68 years old and I get so much out of these videos. Still taking notes, still learning. Thank you.
Amazing! Glad to have you here in the comments section!
Your videos are always high quality and thought provoking. I learned zettelkasten from your videos, and that has made a big difference. Thank you for being awesome!
And thank YOU for commenting! I'm glad I could help!
I just want to thank you for every video! I've been bingewatching your channel all weekend! You are a good teacher 😀 Love your honest point of view of how you make something fun, when it's usually challenging or daunting for other people.
I would be interested in a follow-up video on your Zettelkasten note-taking system that you did over a year ago. Are you organizing things any differently? What tweaks and changes have you made? Any Obsidian plugins that you find particularly useful? In Obsidian, do you use multiple vaults for different purposes or use one vault for everything?
this is so nice to watch! thanks!
I love that you say if you don’t enjoy the process it’s significant! I totally agree… great video 👌
I absolutely love your videos, thank you ❤ they’ve been so helpful
Thank you for saying so! 😊
I know I’m commenting again apologies, however, the whole meta process of finding yourself in the organisation and techniques of writing good notes etc is something close to my heart, I do hope that after this final year of my PhD that I will be able to get back to my own UA-cam channel and advocate your videos. In fact collaborating with you and disseminating your videos for me would be disseminating my own passion of the whole process. This channel is invaluable to writers like myself! Thank you Morgan 🎉
That hair look's great on you
Yes... totally.
Personal engagement with the aims, processes and outcomes. Easy, right... : )))))) Nicely done.
Great Video! I use folders to save new notes I create in a certain week. Four weeks later I revisit this folder. This helps me to see the notes pile up in a given week (I am totally there with you), to not worry about creating perfect notes, as I know I will revisit them four weeks later and often will find it very easy to finish the started note than as I often read more on the topic in the meantime, and to ensure that all notes saved in my "permanent note" folder have the quality I like them to have. (I don't have a problem with working a little on the note after four weeks and saving it in the current week to revisit it four weeks later or to delete notes if they don't feel important anymore after four weeks). Also, watching your videos on the Zettelkasten and Obsidian really sparks my joy and translates to me playing around with it more - thank you!
aaaaalwayss helping!! cheerss from Brazil 😁
So cool correlating tedious note-taking X joy X a Murakami quote. I will be looking at my analog ZK box as a source of joy going forward. Thanks for this
Love it!! I heard someone else refer to learning/knowledge as "skill base" and knowing theres no "skill cap" to knowledge...Just a fresh perspective! I use microsoft white board, literally just time stamp yt vids with a brief explanation.Mostly learning different software! Great content👍
I use Obsidian as my writing app of choice. It will very likely become my PK system, but right now, that's in another place. I've moved my data before and I just want to ensure that any change of 'venue' will be long term and something I will be happy to use. There are also need to be some ways to automate or make faster the initial putting things into the system. I have that where I keep my knowledge files at the moment. I'm also in the middle of many projects and moving my files would add too much stress to the mix. But eventually Obsidian is going to be the go. I can see a point in the nearish future where I might bring over one particular topic or aspect - which would likely be my journals. They go back to 2003, so that's 20 years of my rambles on various topics and events. With Obsidian's great search capabilities who knows what treasures or horrors I could unearth? 😄
My Obsidian has a light pink background with some purple highlights. The writing area is a creamy light beige. And my sidebar file folders are rainbow coloured. I absolutely love that I've made it my own! 💜
Hello Morgan: the video of Stress-free productivity helped me so much in how I manage my time. Well, I knew Obsidian because of you videos, it was the tool I was looking for for ages. Thank you for your videos, keep going. BTW: I am using Obsidian to create content so I can make videos like you. Greetings from Colombia.
Oh wow, that's awesome! I'd love to check out your videos whenever they're live!
I've watched a few of your videos -- thought not this one -- and I am quite intrigued! I' am (sadly) no longer an academic, but I'm very interested in note-taking and connections for creative writing, particularly novels, and I love the idea of zettelkasten for world-building/story-building and as a way to keep track of random story ideas, characters, settings, etc. For me, I have two primary issues with the zettelkasten system, and I'm curious if you have any thoughts about them. Here they are!
First, notes in academic writing are often what I call 'stationary' -- here is a quote or a thought that is complete on its own, unchanging and definite. It can be connected to new notes, of course, and therefore change in that way, but the note itself never changes. ("In 1914, World War I broke out.") For the kind of creative notes I want to take, this idea of static fact doesn't apply. For instance, I may be working on a novel about a war, and I may say "The Great War started when the leader of Booboobangbang attacked Shimshamshum." And that may be true now... but in a few weeks, the story may evolve so that now Shimshamshum is the first to attack! Do you have any thoughts on how to manage that sort of growth? (If the zettelkasten is a living document that grows and changes and shifts, its notes tend to be static; the zettelkasten I'd like has notes themselves that live and grow and evolve.)
Second, and of less interest to me, is the seeming lack of a "starting point" in a zettel. I toy with the idea of MOCs, which I heard about through Linking Your Thinking, but they still don't feel quite right. When you open your zettel looking for a paper topic, how do you navigate?
Thank you!
My advice would be: make a note about the war as a story beat, because that's unlikely to change in the story. And than make two separate notes that show the feelings and the reaction of the parties involved to the war.
And for the second point, it's quite the same: You start with either a fact about your world (i.e. when was that war, birth of that character,...) and than you connect it what those events mean for different people, how the create other events and so on...
hope that makes sense
i really needed this as i prepare for my first (and busiest) semester using the zk method for my studies. i feel like it has to be combined with more traditional studying methods, but im not sure. i have no idea how it will go... if you have any insight i'd eat up every word!!
also, i've been editing wikipedia for years before using zk. sometimes i create new pages, sometimes i expand on preexisting stub articles, sometimes i just add wikilinks to pages mentioned in other articles. it all depends on the level of focus and will i have that day. i've introduced something similar to my zk. i always make some connections within a note when i create it, but sometimes the connections are to notes that havent been made yet or they need more. i tag those notes with #tointegrate and if i'm hitting a roadblock in my zk i go through that tag and just connect articles. or maybe i'll just expand on older thoughts with a few tweaks. if its all i can do that day, fine! no work in your zk is for nothing. youre right, you have to have self compassion and understanding that every single day is not going to be an amazing multi-hour creative writing spectacular
thanks as always for your insight! :)
Yes, that is exactly what I do, too! Sometimes a work session is just adding new connections to old notes, and that is also super productive! Yeah, I mean, when I just take fleeting notes, I use other note-taking styles. Or when I'm drafting a paper, I might use a mind-map, for instance. So I don't JUST use zettelkasten. That's my consistent base to manage everything, but I combine a lot of stuff to make it work!
Great video Morgan! ❤ I really appreciated the "meta" part of our knowledge storage system! I have been trying to use Obsidian but I always end up on Notion. When I'm taking notes I try to ask myself "where (I mean in which chapter/section of my dissertation) will I most likely use this information?" and then I just copy it in a Notion page dedicated to specific topic. I feel like my current method is better for short time projects, when you know more or less where this note could be useful and so you're already arranging your notes in a "linear logical vertical way". I guess the "horizontal/non hierarchical" way of Obsidian is better for long term knowledge storage and I would like to give it a shot, but I'm afraid is not going to be as efficient... Any thoughts on this? 😅
I agree completely that Obsidian is better for long term, horizontal knowledge development - rather than vertical, short term knowledge transfer. And I would agree that, for me, Notion has been better for project management, where a project is a short term problem I have to make sense of. I love your idea for organizing your dissertation within Notion. I've tried it a couple times, but for some reason it never sticks for me!
I would have actually preferred you showing some of your notes (in the obsidian software), what they look like and what you enjoy about them. I would have liked then to further understand how you re-use them later in a situation, in which you would typically come back to them, maybe while writing a paper. - Your videos are great, but since many of us take notes, I would have liked to see the difference, when using a Zettelkasten.
Aw, that is a great video idea! Highlighting specific notes and why they are useful. I actually will hopefully have a video coming out today that is a legitimate note-taking session in my zettelkasten with commentary. But I don't exactly pause on the individual notes to explain, so maybe I'll make that next... Thank you!
As soon as I saw the picture on this video, my brain reacted with, "More bangs per book". Which is odd because I'm English.
Orange Bubbly is the best Bubbly.
Woah. I strongly disagree 😝