Set Up A Knowledge Base in Obsidian | PKM Basics

00:00 Intro · Back to school!
01:20 The First Knowledge Bases
04:15 The Obsidian Revelation
05:57 On Becoming A Capture Pro
08:00 On Tools For Note-taking / PKM
09:33 On Why I Chose Obsidian
12:03 Obsidian Vault Names And Location
14:00 The Importance Of Having Interests
17:20 Keep Track Of Your Interests
19:00 Finding Your Life Cues
22:00 Conclusion

A knowledge base is a place where information is gathered and organised into what we call knowledge. This lesson is meant to provide some help with the goal of setting up your own personal knowledge base. In practice, this comes down to a mindful approach to note-taking. More on this in the video. Enjoy!

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[gabrielgoldman]

What a great storyteller!! I enojoyed while learning, that's a double win not usually achieved. You remind me of the great James Burke! Congrats!!

[afelandr]

You pronounce perfectly right (native Turkish here)! Im an academician. This video is very helpful. Thanks for the quality of your work. Im gonna check your skillshare course.

[ankyuiyo]

This video is really thought-provoking. I never thought of I should notice whats the source of my thoughts and I exremely like "Every problem can solved as a question"

[XenoKnightAlpha]

Wow! This was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! Auf Wiedersehen!

[Sandalia]

What an incredible video and so well-putted, love the sequence, the story telling, and of course the essence of PKM. Just what I needed. New subscriber right now! (Wanna confessed that I've never take the chance to get to know Obsidian, always thought Notion was "better" but I didn't even knew how different they are... downloading Obsidian right away) Big thanks from Mexico!

[aar]

This was informative and fun. Crafty, really crafty.

[seedublancaster]

Kudos to you for such an interesting and engaging look into this subject. Your production quality is also very polished so I was surprised that you have "only" 17 videos published on the channel. With this quality, I can only assume you will be on a fantastic growth trajectory. Glad to have stumbled on you via YT recommendations. Subscribed and will take a look at your previous videos and look out for more from you. Thanks - keep up the good work!

[mageprometheus]

In your list of example vault names 'The Storage of O' made me laugh. I read the 'Story' book as a teenager in the 70s and it opened my mind to sexuality.
This was an excellent talk about PKM, probably the best I have yet seen. Thank you so much for producing such a wonderful piece.
I have so many notes on paper from 35 years in software development, now retired, but I think from them I will eventually have only 200 notes when distilled. So much is just out-of-date information and not knowledge. Luckily my last 5 years of digital notes were taken in QOwnNotes and stored as linked Markdown and are mostly about music production, my hobby.
I started looking at logseq but the automatic creation of pages from tags always felt wrong to me. I gave it a fair review, even learning more about the programming language Clojure and Datalog queries. When I tried Obsidian it immediately felt right. I love your accent, easy on the ear and adds interest to your words. Take care, Danny, UK.

[ManishSahay]

A paused the video a few times to take some notes on differing topics. :)

[mskmusician]

Omg, I came looking for copper and I found gold! That is much more than just a yet-another-PKB-video

[kakadu_kai]

I find it super hard to take notes continuously - especially during busy times. You always remind me how important it is to keep at it. Thanks for the motivation <3

[yvrphotoderm]

Very nicely produced. It's clear that lots of thought went into this.

[DaveEtchells]

Excellent, well- and deeply-thought presentation. I’m a brand-new Obsidian user with masses of info to organize; this was a very helpful framing I’d the whole issue.

[BenjaminJaksch]

Man, that's fantastic. I could connect with your Lexikon über alles. 😅

[stephanheckmaier]

Hallo David, tolles Video!! Und auch schön gemacht. Die verschiedenen Hintergründe und das perfekte Licht (woher hast Du das nur ;-)) motivieren neben dem Content, dabei zu bleiben. Bravo!! Lieben Gruß!

[clementihammock]

Oh yes, the important of having personal interest to go on, to focus and not drifting away too easily.

[Maisonier]

Great video! Before I move on to the next one, I have a question: do you keep all of your information in a single vault, or do you use separate vaults for different areas of your life? For example, one for school, one for work, one for family/home, one for entertainment, and so on?

[RonakDhakan]

The first 6 minutes could have been actual history of knowledge bases instead of a fan boy type speech about the name obsidian.