Effective digital notetaking with Obsidian
Scientific workflows: Tools and Tips 🛠️
2023-10-20
What is this lecture series?
📅 Every 3rd Thursday 🕓 4-5 p.m. 📍 Webex
- One topic from the world of scientific workflows
- Material provided online
- If you don’t want to miss a lecture
- For credit points: Send me a short message (Email or Webex)
Note taking is essential for scientists
- Todo lists
- Project notes
- Meeting notes
- Resource notes (papers, videos, blogposts, …)
- Brainstorming paper ideas (mindmaps etc.)
- Knowledge notes
- …
Good and useful notes are
- 🔎 searchable -> digital
- 📆 sustainable -> no proprietary file formats
- 🔗 connected -> linked notes
- 😃 easy and fun -> keep motivated to actually take notes
Today
- Basic overview of Obsidian
- Implement some basic workflows
Find additional material on the lecture website:
- demo notebook
- Youtube tutorial
- other resources
Obsidian
Obsidian is
- free for personal use
- available for all platforms
- markdown-based
- simple at its core
- highly scalable and customizable
Let’s get started
![Obsidian Logo]()
Summary
Obsidian makes your notes
- 🔎 searchable
- 📆 sustainable
- 🔗 connected
- 😃 easy and fun
Summary
Benefits
- 🧠 Second Brain
- Store knowledge
- Get stuff out of your first brain
- 💾 Find information again, also in 20 years
Get started with note taking & Obsidian
- Perfect is the enemy of good: Just start taking notes
- Start simple and then improve your workflow with time
- Keep only what is useful
Check out the resources linked on the lecture website:
- demo notebook
- Youtube tutorial
- other resources
Thank you for your attention
