Effective digital notetaking with Obsidian

Scientific workflows: Tools and Tips 🛠️

2023-10-19

What is this lecture series?

Scientific workflows: Tools and Tips 🛠️

📅 Every 3rd Thursday 🕓 4-5 p.m. 📍 Webex

Motivation

Obsidian

Obsidian is

  • free for personal use
  • available for all platforms
  • markdown-based
  • simple at its core
  • highly scalable

Notetaking purposes

  • Project management
    • Keep track of project states, tasks, meetings
  • Personal management
    • Plan your days and weeks, to-do lists, track your time
  • Literature management
    • Connect Obsidian to Zotero
  • Idea/Knowledge management
    • Interconnected notes (Zettelkasten)
  • . . .

In Obsidian you can connect all these purposes

Today

  • Project management
  • Personal management
  • Literature management
  • Idea/Knowledge management
  • Basic overview of Obsidian
  • Implement some basic workflows

Find additional material on the lecture website.

Let’s get started

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Summary

Obsidian makes your notes

  • 🔎 searchable -> digital
  • 📆 sustainable
    • Can we understand our notes in the future?
    • Will the program still work in the future?
    • No proprietary software format
  • 🔗 connected -> linking between notes
  • 😃 easy and fun -> keep motivation to really take notes

Summary

Benefits

  • 🗂️Stay organized
  • 🧠 Second Brain
    • Store knowledge
    • Get stuff out of your first brain
  • 💾 Find information again, also in 20 years

Get started

  • Have a look at the demo notebook
    • Find a video on how to open it here
  • Have a look at the resources linked on the lecture website

Next lecture

Efficient R programming

How to write code efficiently, find bottlenecks in your code and improve the speed of your R programs.


📅 16th November 🕓 4-5 p.m. 📍 Webex

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Questions?

Selina Baldauf // Notetaking with Obsidian