How I use Obsidian for work as a software developer advocate

I'm a software developer advocate focusing on performance testing, and in this video, I show you how I use Obsidian for work. Obsidian is a Personal Knowledge Management tool for building a system that will help you keep up with the quickly changing field of technology. Software engineers are great examples of knowledge workers, so it's time to start getting systematic about how we acquire and maintain that knowledge.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:51 What is Obsidian? What makes it different from other tools?
04:12 Obsidian and Readwise for capturing input
05:54 Processing data regularly and consolidating information
07:13 Creating meaningful output about what I've learned

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[nicolevdh]

Obsidian THEMES I used in this video: 3:05 is Moonlight and 5:14 is Gitsidian

[waffleocalypse]

Thank you for your no-nonsense videos on Obsidian. I felt like I was at a pyramid scheme seminar watching videos from other channels.

[CameronFlint]

Amazing, thank you for the inspiration! I’ve been a software engineer for over a decade but I’ve never quite managed to develop a consistent and reliable method for technical note-taking. Seeing your implementation is definitely encouraging that it can be done (and that it’s worth the “overhead.”)

[AlessioVecchioDraelAV]

One of the best video about obsidian out there. It's not obvious how ti stich together all those things and the way you did It Is remarkable. Thanks for the inspiration

[meowmeowmotherpucker]

Big thanks for your videos on Obsidian. I've watched a lot of note taking YouTube videos, but I find that you as a fellow software developer have the most relating way of wanting to store your knowledge. Great help for me right now, thanks!

[shalinjr]

I'm binge-watching your videos. You have such a nioce way to present information and explain!

I'm dabbling in Obsidian, trying to use it to store my notes on learning to code, so that I can have something familiar to quickly refer to, whenever needed (my Personal Knowledge Management System).

Thanks for the lessons and insights! And please keep making content, you rock!

[neobat]

Impressive what you can do with Obsidian
I like your videos easy to follow, clean, and to the point. Also I like the transitions you do and images, etc.

[lnebres]

Nicole… your way of explaining Obsidian — with a very clear explication of your particular use cases — is the most coherent and elegant I’ve seen. Thank you! (And believe me I’ve watched a LOT of these YT vids by all these… ::ahem:: guys. You know what I mean. ;-) I look forward to checking out your other Obsidian-related videos. Mahalo/salamat! :-)

[FunFreakeyy]

Really a great introduction video! I'll share it to show the benefits of Obsidian to my friends.

[belphegor_dev]

Finalky, an Obsidian video that doesn't sound like a paid ad.

[Flipah]

I am going back to Computer Science (software engineer) school this june and I am trying to teach myself how to use Obsidian. I want to make sure I am somehow prepared to what is coming XD but I feel I am going to get slapped in the face by pretty much everything. Hahaha! Thank you for your videos <3 You are pretty amazing! Much Love, Flip.

[miraSugoi]

Youtube just recommended me this video and i'm so glad it did! I just got Obsidian and I'm a developer as well so this is very helpful! I also noticed that you play D&D and use Obsidian for it so I'm definitely going to watch that as well! I'm a DM and I immediately fell in love with the idea of managing a campaign with this system.

[Tennisbull-match-statistics]

I didn't know about the slides feature, very cool.
Sharing your vault between devices using icloud or obsidian sync is another benefit

[pb]

Wow, seems a bit overwhelming at first but I feel it's going to be worth it. Your videos help a ton, thanks!

[hongkonger]

Many thanks again, Nicole. Your videos have helped me tremendously as I learn to use Obsidian for PKM.

[jiangwu]

Thank you for explaining things so simply for us!!!

[thymeparzival]

Thanks for sharing these tips. I immediately implemented the slides into my workflow. The vast array of community plugins are on of my favorite features of Obsidian, but because there are so many of them, sometimes I don't know what to look for until someone recommends them.

[aliciasouzan]

When I tried Obsidian for the first time I was so overwhelmed by it because I didn't knew where to start. I watched some videos and it went like "that's so complicated I'm never gonna use this". But then Notion became my nightmare with sync problems and no offline mode, and then I wanted to give it another try to Obsidian and came to your video. I loved it so much, you explained perfectly and made me look differently at it.

PS: I didn't found your page from Obsidian in the description, can you send me? Thanks! xo

[savi]

Your glasses in 2011 were so sick love that

[ShivanS]

This is a useful video about Obsidian. I'm using Notion at the moment and thinking of a way of bolstering my content creation system. Thanks for the video!!!!