Hub Note Explained (The best way to use Obsidian Canvas!)

Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro 
0:23 - Recap Productive Thinking 
1:32 - Hub Note Definition
1:38 - Cooking Analogy
4:02 - How a Hub Note got created
5:17- My Vault 
5:38 - Example 1: Top-Down (Note) 
6:38 - Example 2: Top-Down (Canvas) 
8:07 - Example 3: Bottm-Up (Canvas) 
9:14 - Create from scratch
9:40 - Create a canvas
10:12 - Dumping notes onto the board
10:26 - Removing Backlinks
11:28 - Making sense in the Hub Note
12:15 - Organizing the Hub Note
13:27 - Adding new info to the Hub Note
14:43 - Ending

I've got a lot of questions regarding Hub Notes, so hopefully, this video clears up some confusion by clarifying the concept and showing you plenty of examples. 😊

[utory]

Awesome!! You're always structural, practical, easy to understand, easy to apply!
This is why Obsidian dev team developed canvas feature prior to other hopings.

[YohanGayle]

Wonderful explanation. Thanks for sharing. Your videos have helped me immensely!

[brendtevenden]

THIS is exactly what I needed. You're doing with HUB notes and Canvas what I'm looking to do and your explanation of the process you use was very enlightening. Thank you!

[arifaliwibawamtk]

Thanks Darin. You keep repeating important concepts, and add analogy to it, thats help me to understand more.
Already watched 4 videos from you, now I need to stop and think how to implement it.

[luker]

Really nice content, thank you! I've watched a number of your related videos and I think your system is very good for Obsidian/Zettelkasten beginners (such as myself) as it is very intuitive and easy to implement. Thumbs up 👍

[kowalskifrog]

This is an interesting approach and has a similar set of problems that it solves as I have with my project management. I hadn't considered using Canvas but I did end up with a high level 'hub' or planning note to manage the varied content and approaches I have for project management and being able to pick up and drop things more easily.

[vinodsamala]

I watches this video like for 3days straight. Now I am able to undertstand. This whole obsidian is new to me. lol

[haiketremblay]

I have recently discovered Zetelkasten and Obsidian. Thank you for your clear explanations. I have subscribed!

[igz]

I see you have a note on "Input divided by Output = Productivity" but I wonder, shouldn't it be Output/Input?

[pgoldrup]

My entry into your channel, and an immediate subscribe. This was great!

[Filosofíayletras]

Thaks Darin. I understood that always you can, you will do a sumarize not with canvas plugin?

[mhew]

Your videos are by far the most helpful Obsidian guide that I've seen. Thanks a lot.

Curious, is the 10x managers slides also something that you can share?

[rocketman]

Hi Darin
When we remove the connections from Hub - don't we loose the ablity to search and interpret from the graph view ? - we are essentially removing the connected notes via an Hub Note -- replacing them with a Canvas.


Canvas dont seem to show branched relationship and would not contribute to the Graph view..

Speaking from a knowledge management standpoint - we are achieving the goal, yes

but do we loose any features in the spaced repetition phase ? - by doing this

[ritchiee]

Hi Darin,

May I ask what the name of the theme you are using is?

[joecaz]

8:47 The thing about the productive thinking system is that it's not a Wikipedia; as I review the notes written down, the information in the hub note, it changes how I see the world, it changes how I operate my daily routine. So, that's the point of the productive thinking system, it's that it's not just about thinking or information management, but the process of SHARPENING your thinking helps you perform your actions on daily basis better.

[SWINDISA]

The images (ex. 4:02) are beautiful. Did u make that with excalidraw? If so, do u think u could make a video about it?

[lexsemenenko]

Thank you for the explanation. However, I'm still unclear about the distinction between a reference note and a permanent note. To me, they seem identical. For instance, if I watch a video on a topic and jot down ideas in what I believe is a reference note. But since I want to re-visit it later, would it be a permanent note instead of a reference note? Could someone shed more light on the differences between the two reference and permanent?

[carloslandivar]

Hi Darin, I'm from Brazil, I'm using the translator. One question, is there "Hub Parent" and "Hub Sons"? For example, Hub "Career" and another Hub "How to be promoted". Does the latter necessarily need to be within the first? And when that happens, do you stop using the parent Hub and start using only the child hub? Or do you still link both in a specific note on this topic?

[liyaingermany]

have you tried to use Excalidraw? I have heard the excalidraw is more powerful, Could you compare Canvas and Excalidraw?

[gustube]

I am confused, is hubnote a new folder or how do you create, very simply, a hub note? For absolute beginners like ?