I can tell you my plans for now, then perhaps an update down the roadā¦
I do not plan on making your vault my own. Rather, I like using it as a āreferenceā of sorts, to keep my thoughts in check - and to steal some of the structure. 
I journaled on/off again for years, but that grew stale - there was no linkage except date. 'What did I do on this day x years ago? And thatās about it. MOCās (and linking, of course) were my paradigm shift.
Iāll dig into the webinar in the morning - thatās where the real magic is - Thanks again!
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Sounds like a good action plan. I agree itās best to keep it separate as a handy reference.
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Not to mention - they are your notes, not mine. I admit I was a little scared youād be offended, thereās obviously some time invested there. Iāve already begun using it as a resource to write my own notes, though. Your work will not be in vain.
One immediate thought I had in regard to āCompassā - you are using it as a Top Of Mind list, or a place to gather action items. Another of my Aha! moments came when I completely separated todo and Obsidian. Donāt get me wrong, I still use #todo tags on occasion, but infrequently.
Some time ago, I was clued into the idea of a personal Code-of-conduct, or Ethics statement. Along with this comes a Mission Statement and core values list. These are in pursuit of, but completely separate from goals. āCompassā is the perfect place for these. I canāt find all the links in my past journals, but hereās a couple that got me started back in the day: Code of conduct - Code of ethics
Hereās my early draft:
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Nick Milo rocks!
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+1 
Olivier :-{)
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Hi thanks so much for this template! 
Super helped me in starting out.
I was just wondering though, how is the āGraph viewā on the right side enabled? Enabled such that it actually changes the local graph it shows when a different file is selected?
I canāt seem to find a source or a guide on how to do this, and canāt figure it out currently as well haha.
UPDATE: OK nvm found it. In the Hotkeys, thereās this āOpen Local Graphā. I assigned it to cmd + L. Not sure if thereās a button for it or not, but, dragging it tot he right sidebar now enables the same behavior as in the LYT Kit
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Thanks for sharing. I really like what you did with the Compass MOC, and canāt agree enough with the importance of deliberately spending time considering oneās values/principles/codes.
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@nickmilo I donāt know if youāve already answered that question, I couldnāt find it in this thread nor your videos but how do you usually go about managing your sources?
In my notes it already happened to me to use an article from the web as a source, just linking to it, but later I found the article no longer existed.
So Iām wondering if I should have copied the whole article in my library as a source. However that would now be a new problem, I would have big chunks of information not written by me, the library is not supposed to be a database of other peopleās worksā¦
Thatās why Iām curious to know about your usual way of managing sources, whether it be articles from the web, from a newspaper, books etc.
Thank you very much for your LYT kit, it has inspired me a lot to get my notes into order!
I like to save sources using one of the two tools below, which each have their strengths and weaknesses but are both excellent. I save sources into a dedicated āSourcesā folder that is easy to filter in/out of search and graph results, and let me know clearly which are my words versus others. Another possibility is to automatically tag them in the linked tools with something like #source
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Thank you for your input, Iāll check these out!
For books do you have a go-to way? Do you copy some parts of them in your sources folder or just specify the title and page for example?
I do most of my reading in Kindle. The highlighter app above can pull highlights from the Kindle website and format them as bullets. I pull all notes in one go, ar the end, and then may revise my own notes too.
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This is what I am doing too - I am using the Markdown Web Clipper as well (which letās you define where to store the extracted content by default). I do not clip everything that is somehow interesting, but in many cases I just read something where I am quite sure that this information will be helpful for me in the future. So I clip the page in the dedicated folder and when I have some time, I go through it, do some revision and filter out, thereby reformulating a couple of thoughts in my own words.
How do you do that? 
Is there already an option for this in obsidian I havenāt realized yet?
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Only in sources: path:āSourcesā
Ignore sources: -path:āSourcesā
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Sorry, I donāt get it completely - where do you define that?
I mean, for the search this is clear - but where can you define this in the graph view?
You can use the mermaid graph feature on Obsidian to generate diagrams and link the MOCs with Obsidian URI. Works perfectly for me.
I came to know about this feature on Discord. This is a template for workflows by @tallguyjenks. You can edit it to make it fit for your own purpose. Hope you find it useful.
```mermaid
graph TD;
A((Incoming Media))
A-->B[raindrop.io]
A-->C[Research Papers]
A-->D[Podcasts]
A-->E[Videos]
A-->F[Digital Books]
A-->G[Physical Books]
F-->L1
B-->M1[Read & file items]
M1-->L6
C-->L1[Gather papers in zotero]
L1-->L2[give good meta data tags]
L2-->L3[read & markup]
L3-->L4[extract with zotfile]
L4-->L5[run md note on extracted notes]
L5-->L6[put lit notes into obsidian using lit note templates]
D-->N0{Listening on the go?}
N0--Y-->NN[grab Airr quotes]
NN-->NN0[Caption them with thoughts]
NN0-->NN1[Export to Markdown with transcript]
NN1-->NN2[Airdrop to computer]
NN2-->NN3{only a single quote?}
NN3--Y-->NNN1[use Airr page template]
NNN1-->L6
NN3--N-->NNN2[put quotes and links into podcast template, no embedd]
NNN2-->L6
N0--N-->N1[put podcast player into obsidian note]
N1-->N2[2 copies of note open listen and noteate]
N2-->L6
E-->O1[watch and notate with Yinote]
O1-->O2[get output from google drive]
O2-->O3[clean output]
O3-->L6
G-->P1[read and hand write notes]
P1-->P2{Lengthy / Complex?}
P2--Y-->Q1[Transcribe each chapter]
Q1-->L6
P2--N-->Q2[Transcribe whole batch]
Q2-->L6
L6-->L7[Lit notes into inbox]
L7-->L8[Review and generate seedlings]
L8-->L9[Incubate seedlings with thought and linking]
L9-->L10>Plant seedlings into Evergreen forest]
```
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In Graph View, open the Filters menu and enter it in the search bar.
Oh - this is an idea so simple I have never tried it outā¦ 
Thanks for pointing me to this!
I also like many of the browser extensions that can grab Markdown sources, but Iām very sympathetic to the view that sources donāt need to be in my Obsidian workspace. To that end, I keep a separate inbox in Devonthink but Iāve also used Evernote and there are lots of alternative and cheaper options. I still cite the source in my notes, but whatās the benefit of those programs for web content? They save a web archive, which if youāre not familiar is the content of the page so it always displays as intended (besides external links) if the site disappears. Devonthink even has an option to do so āclutter freeā which removes all the ads, comment boxes, etc. Just another approach.
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I agree with most of what you said on keeping a separate inbox, but:
- the above tools do provide a clutter free viewing in Obsidian itself - if the content in question is primarily text
- keeping sources in Obsidian allows for linking to them, which may be useful for some workflows
- if you find sources are cluttering your view of notes in Obsidian, the filters above can resolve that easily - essentially splitting a vault on the fly as desired. This requires some deliberation before capturing sources, but once a system is in place should be seamless
- I like cutting down the number of apps Iām using, if no functionality is lost - and find Obsidian very fast to work in compared to others like Evernote (which is a subscription service)
Not trying to convince anyone, just highlighting why I like this approach of Obsidian across the board. The workflow is still being tinkered with, but itās getting better by the day.
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This has been a very illuminating thread, thanks! I read the LYT kit and after some friction, it finally clicked (I think) - MOC are to me like playlists in a music app or collections in Lightroom. This makes much more sense to my brain than the idea of maps, but thatās just me.
To use the structuralism example from above:
MOC - Structuralism would have everything I ever wrote about structuralism, including links to semiotics and, say Saussure.
Compiling a lower level MOC/playlist for āLecture on Structuralismā would look through the top one and link every that I could usefully incorporate into a 50 minute introductory lecture on structuralism plus related samples.
I personally wouldnāt structure them as nested MOCs or folders to avoid decision fatigue (does lecture on structuralism go under ālecturesā, the course itself or āstructuralismā?). I know it doesnāt really matter as I can find it later through the links, but I donāt want to have to maintain links in all sorts of directionsā¦
Really enjoying thinking this stuff through, thanks for all the ideas!
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