Zettelkasten Smart Notes: Step by Step with Obsidian

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In this video we go to the first principle of setting up a Zettelkasten workflow in Obsidian to manage your Smart Notes. We cover the usage of Fleeting Notes, Literature Notes and Permanent Notes, including a Map of Content (MoC) to expose an overview of our themes in the Slip Box.

Included is a worked example where we take an article on bootstrapping a startup and breaking it down through the Zettelkasten workflow.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Setting up Obsidian
01:58 Smart Note Templates
03:47 Example article: My Product is My Garden
04:24 Fleeting Notes
05:23 Literature Notes
07:46 Map of Content (MoC)
10:52 Permanent Notes
12:37 Graph View
12:59 Writing a Blog Post From Your Notes
14:55 Preview Notes in Blog Drafts
16:10 Smart Notes Conclusion
16:47 Flowtelic

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[Martin_Adams]

My book Atomic Note-Taking: The Ultimate Zettelkasten Guide is out now:

[robertwhite]

This is the best introduction to Zettlekasten on Obsidian. Short, clear, and comprehensive.

[ComsicQuestGG]

Finally someone who actually shows how to create notes using this method thank you!

[pixiegirl]

I know it's a year after you've posted this, but I just had to let you know that your video has really clearly shown me how Zettelkasten works, instead of just "explaining" how it works, and helped me make the first dip into setting up my own Zettelkasten! Thank you so much! It clicks so much more for me now!

[jeanwill]

Best practical demonstration on the web about the Zettelkasten methodology.

[rob-moore]

Most videos I watch at 1.5x or 2x speed. This one I found myself constantly going back and re-watching parts. Great video

[luucas]

This is absolutely the best video on this subject. I spent hours and almost gave up on this method before seeing this.

Thank you so much, and I'll be sure to check out your content.

[iamtrazed]

Out of all the Zettelkasten videos I have seen in the youtube, It never clicked to me to start using a certain method or follow a particular scheme, but this one right here, just nailed it, thank you very much G!

[JadéPhD]

Amazing to finally get asuch a clear and comprehensive video on Obsidian with the zettlekasten method. I will be doing your course for sure. thank you!

[Alex.In_Wonderland]

they said it couldnt be done. an honest to goodness, step, by step for the zettelkasten method! bless you and your family!

[samuelmonteiropinho]

This was one of the best videos of how to use Obisidian. You have covered almost every step of the full learning processo, from taking notes (studying) to writing about what you've learned (teaching).
Congrats for the content 👏👏

[zujev]

I'll join many of the commentators and express my gratitude to the clarity of your video. Read quite a bit about Zettelkasten and only recently started to play with Obsidian, and your explanation helped to clarify the flow. Thanks!

[angelost]

This is a great intro for a Obsidian newbie to follow along. Thanks for taking the time to share.

[JadéPhD]

So great to finally come across a clear and comprehensive explanation - really helped me. will definitely be doing your course. thank you so so much!!!

[stroiman.development]

Great video. I've watched a lot about "Smart Notes", and "Zettelkasten" lately, but virtually everybody else are just academic about it; what the different categories are about. Few have real examples of showing the process; but none of them have been really helpful or inspirational, except this video, and the one before, that have really great concrete examples from source to output.

Your book has definitely been placed on my reading list.

[reclaimer]

I just want to say thank you! Your video was the most relatable way to explain Zettlekasten/obsidian to a beginner like myself. It’s not to talk bad about the other YouTubers who have made their tutorials, but they always seem to “geek” out about the possibilities during their explanations and lose sight of the audience.

[ConstanzeWeber]

Where has this video been all my life??? Fantastic and very methodical walkthrough of an excellent technique!!! Very many thanks.

[CharlesPereira-zs]

Finally I found a great step by step of obsidian. Thanks a lot !!!

[SergioImeri]

Recientemente descubrí el método Zettelkasten y tu video me aclaró de una forma clara y concisa cómo implementarlo en Obsidian, gracias Martin.

I recently discovered the Zettelkasten method and your video clarified in a clear and concise way how to implement it in Obsidian. Thanks, Martin.

[markyoungmaccom]

Brilliant video and the clearest rundown of using obsidian I’ve seen thus far. Well done.