The Visual Thinking Framework with Obsidian and Excalidraw: Making Visual Connections between Notes

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I had the honor of presenting at the @linkingyourthinking conference yesterday. As I took notes on the other awesome presentations during the conference I noticed there is a visual linking pattern I repeatedly use. I wanted to quickly capture this in a video so you can all benefit from this approach.

In this video, I explain how I use Obsidian Excalidraw and the “Deconstruct selected elements into a new drawing” script to carve-out parts of an existing drawing and use this image to link my notes and create a visual thinking framework. I show how I connect my notes from Nick Milo’s keynote presentation on the ACE framework and Thiago Forte’s Code framework using Obsidian Excalidraw.

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[linkingyourthinking]

Brilliant work here Zsolt!
I noticed a question on your drawing, "why no distill in ACE"? Because "distilling" is not fundamental to many creative workflows, it encourages note-taking over note-making (creating), and it may imply that information can be reduced to a true essence (which de-enriches ideas). "Distilling" is de-emphasized in ACE to be "one of many" aspects of Connecting. Connecting emphasizes "emergence", which I believe is a truer interpretation of what is happening as ideas are connected and mixed together. Also, Express isn't at the end of a long process few get to, it's half of the process (as you intuitively showed with your Organize/Express dichotomy beneath it).

[denny]

Fabulous masterpiece for non liner visual note taker.❤

[thedeathsidius]

Egyszerűen elképesztő! Így tovább ✌️✌️

[mageprometheus]

Thank you Zsolt. This was a great addition to your marvellous presentation at the LYT conference.

[stefanenzi]

When I use the decompose button, I receive just the code in the new excalidraw-note - at the original place of the excalidraw-note and at the decomposed one. How could I fix this issue?

[quasar]

Help. Is it possible using this plugin to draw notes on the margins of a PDF file like goodnotes does?