How to create a sketchnote summary of a book with Excalidraw + Obsidian + Progressive Summarization

🚀 Cohort 4 starts on May 27. 📔 We will be summarizing Decoding Greatness by Ron Friedman into a book-on-a-page

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[anhnguyenlehoang]

Hi, I’ve been using Excalidraw for a week. And I just want to say that I really love it!!

[dhwanitvaghela]

you are creating a great content i dont know why you dont have more views

[haouarino]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. I really like the visual summary because I remember all the interesting ideas much faster. I think it would be very interesting if there was a shared vault where participants could share their book summaries in such an entertaining way.

[NNSokol]

Great practical example on both application usage and book summary creation. ❤
Thanks

[존쌤의언어습득법]

If Luhman is Ip Man then you areBruce Lee. Thanks so much! I love your videos!

[fidelnamisi]

This is brilliant. Thank you for this Zsolt!

[datonernegen]

No, thank you! Wonderful workflow and presentation!

[hansimeier]

Against all convention, critics first: I couldn' t find detailed information on how the templater scripts worked. Saying that, says almost everything. As side products you gave us a whole workflow, ideas about processing kindle highlights, and more, and even more than that. Exactly now, I am working exactly on setting up a workflow for kindle highlights. Thank you very much for the video and Excalidraw. They are very helpful. Please more from this stuff. One question at the end: the clippings file contains information on all highlights from all books. How do you split up the information? Kindle app has the functionality to export the notebook on a certain book as html file. This file contains all highlights and notes of one book, therefore I don't have to split up the file. But the html format is less handy. Finally, I found that generally it is possible to write simple markdown commands like #tag in the kindle notes. When I import this note, it will be 'automatically' tag or do something similar.

[mageprometheus]

This is great. For short books with a simple message, a single page would be ideal. A giant reference could be handled with 2 levels of drawings with links to more explanatory notes if needed. I can also see this method could be used to create visual MOCs or other hubs if that's how you like to work.

[aeciolevy]

Is there any series on you process to make the sketchnotes? Also, is there any way to use an Ipad or something with Obsidian. I usually do a mind map by chapter or sometimes one for a book, but know I usually import that as an image from Concepts to Roam... But it there is anything like that for obsidian would be a game changer! Is there any references you would advice to learn or develop the sketchnotes? Thanks for one more amazing video!

[andypassion]

Thanks a lot for your work on Excalidraw plugin! One question - ability to import images into Excalidraw will be integrated future?

[ucxvjjp]

Good afternoon, the idea is great but I can not understand how to make the template work, could you explain what to do? Or provide materials where it is explained.

[rajaloni]

How u're able to highlight the text in kindle with simple one touch ? mostly I prefer reading blogs, sites & pdf format either android phone or Ubuntu p.c, would u tell how can i generate " clipping text" file other then Kindle (website & pdf).

[kamigero]

how do u use a templater to copy spesific book highlights?