Hey Nick, really enjoying your video series - Iām amazed and incredibly grateful about how this community has grown over the past few months. Keep up the awesome workš
Hi @nickmilo I was wondering about the following:
I see you start notes often with a h1 (logically Iād say) and after that in many cases you use h3 So I would be interested to know your criteria for using h1, h2, h3, h4 etc. Thanks.
Thank you Nick, Iāve watched many of your videos (and many from others). Iām using Obsidian now to not only organize my thoughts, notes, inspirations, but in fact the primary use case for me was the story Iām writing. After trying every mind mapping app out there over the years and finding no real eureka moments I was very excited to discover Obsidian (I really had no idea of all the PKM software out there).
So, to my point, I love to solve problems visually. Our brains are so adept at actually seeing and intuiting categorizations and linkages, so the graphing function of Obsidian blew my mind. Such possibilities!
However, it seems mostly eye candy as far as usefulness. I have gotten into filtering and coloring and that makes it much better, but I still feel there must be more that can be done to tease out the gems of inspiration. Although sometimes beautiful, merely seeing the size of the hair-ball isnāt enough, seeing all those connections isnāt really helpful and poking around is less than efficient (I can only imagine when I have hundreds or thousands of notes in there, which I do intend to).
Off the top of my head it seems that a more open ended filtering system (perhaps not unlike data view) applied to the graph would allow a user to see his data and connections in unique ways. I can imagine a yaml variable set as a type of importance, for example, and sorted for, and the graph dot sized accordingly. This is perhaps a simplistic example, but I am searching for some way to see those eureka moments.
Obsidian is still pre 1.0 so Iām not being critical. Just the opposite, I think itās amazing and such an open system where anything is possible. Any insights in this direction would be very appreciated.
Thanks for the message. Iād encourage us to think about what weāre trying to accomplish in the graph view. These tools can do a lot, but we are still needed to do most of the thinkingā¦ āWhat notes need developing, how are those notes connected to each other, what notes need more connecting?ā
And thatās just a general scenario.
Often, there will be more intentional prompts, āSince Iām writing about XYZ, what notes do I have that relate to it, how do they relate, what are their relationships showing me?ā
Iāve watched all your stuff (I think) and joined your wait list for your course.
But one thing I just havenāt been able to uncover is how you use the daily note. Peripherally it seems like you do use them, but they are never directly referenced in your videos.
Do use them for scratching/quick notes, tasks, daily plans, initial notes and thoughts for later migration or all of the above? I did notice form another post that you may have several ādaily notesā.
Maybe the topic is too rudimentary but Iād be interested to see how you work out if the daily note if at all.
Iāve been watching your videos and the content is awesome!
I read through the LYT Kit, and I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on when to use Bins and when to use Spaces. Based on your content, Iād think the four main folders would be categorized as:
Bins: all the archived / reference material thatās not from an external source and the evergreen notes you create
Sources: all the info you collect from external sources (books, articles, etc)
Spaces: the active projects you have going on (working on a newsletter, a blog, etc)
Timestamps: every post that is uniquely associated with a date (meeting minutes, daily notes, etc)
Would that be a correct assessment or did I completely miss the mark?
How much is the price for the course? I asked on 12th July the same question, but it seems that the chat from https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/ is a big joke.
Hey Mafsi, itās not cheap, still figuring out the price for the Aug 31st cohort. Among everything that is Life, it sounds like I let your inquiry on the website fall through the cracks. Oh well, hope this helps enough, if not, then oh well, stay tuned for when it will be actually announced.
Also, Iām very careful with not accepting everybody into the workshop to preserve the kind, giving ethos that permeates through both the Obsidian and LYT communitiesā¦
Hey @retgits you basically nailed it. A few extra guidelines I have for myself:
Sources: essentially has zero online articles, but it does have books, movies, plays, songs, poems, and research papers. Online article-saving can quickly get out of hand.
Spaces: Itās a bit broader than just active projectsā¦it could have sub-folders of entire business endeavors you are working onā¦if you have shared vaults, Spaces is a great folder to place a sub-folder that you can confidently share publicly without sharing any other private notesā¦for high level planning or other ambiguous but important āspacesā in life, you might consider putting a sub-folder for it under Spaces.
Of course there are a lot of considerations to all of this but just wanted to add some commentary.
