My Obsidian workflow is constantly evolving to suit my needs.
I LOVE seeing other people's workflows, and I am a big fan of 'learning in public'.
With that in mind, this is how I use Obsidian for note-taking and note-making 👇
Obsidian is where I:
• Capture notes and highlights (input).
• Process those capture notes to generate ideas.
• Draft and finalise my own output (e.g. articles).
• Journal.
This tweet thread will focus on note-taking and note-making rather than journalling.
What's new?
I've:
• Merged Working and Permanent Notes together; they are now Atomic Notes (rationale = they're ALWAYS a work in progress).
• Added Project Notes.
• Made everything I capture go to my Inbox folder at the top of the structure so I remember to process it.
Want to know what's in my tech toolkit for academic research and study?
Here's a high-level overview👇🧵
I use:
🟢 @zotero for managing research papers, citations, highlights and annotations.
🟢 @obsdmd for notes.
I also use MS Word for writing assignments - this is not by choice; the university requires it.
🗄 Zotero is a free tool that helps you collect, organise, annotate, highlight and cite research papers. There is an app, too, which suits my workflow well as I tend to read, highlight and annotate papers on my iPad using my Apple Pencil.
I've been tinkering with my Obsidian setup for months now, and it's finally at a stage where I have something that (nearly) works.
In the interest of 'learning in public', it felt like a great time to share.
Here's how I am using Obsidian for note-taking and note-making 👇
Obsidian is where I:
• Capture notes and highlights (input).
• Process those capture notes to generate ideas.
• Draft and finalise my own output (e.g. articles).
• Journal.
This tweet thread will focus on note-taking and note-making rather than journalling.
What's new? I've:
• introduced a home page SOP,
• started using tags consistently,
• focused on input, output and action,
• simplified and flattened my folder structure*.
*read below to find out more about my brief flirtation with Johnny Decimal ❤️