Digital note-taking is broken (5 ways you can fix it)
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Digital note-taking apps amplify our tendency to over-select captures and results in a mess of unprocessed notes. This video covers the tradeoff with using quick captures in digital note-taking apps like Obsidian, Notion and Roam. I provide 5 selection criteria that have helped me kill my Obsidian inbox and write more valuable notes using the zettelkasten system.
Get off the information collection treadmill by generating higher quality outputs with more meaningful inputs. Be a creator, not a collector.
0:00 Intro
1:42 Avoid the personal wikipedia trap
2:56 The problem with fleeting notes
5:12 Handwriting source notes
7:11 Capturing quotes, excerpts and highlights
9:15 Using a reference manager (Zotero)
@JohnDoe-xc5kn 19 күн бұрын
Seriously underrated channel
@TonyRamella 19 күн бұрын
Thank you my friend! Glad you enjoy
@hydronicrocker 7 күн бұрын
This speaks to me on so many levels.. the inundation of information coming at us all the time, and the incessent desire to collect with both arms is consuming me.. on a daily basis.
@artemkravchenko6104 18 күн бұрын
Very happy to have discovered your channel!
@coccoborde 18 күн бұрын
Thank you for your sharing with us your pragmatic approach! I really appreciate it.
@andreribeiro8600 19 күн бұрын
Greatly helpful. Thank you.
@grogotte 13 күн бұрын
I love the idea of capturing fleeting ideas in the daily note and extracting them for review using Dataview. Thanks!
@fabsanh 7 күн бұрын
I totally agree. Great job, Tony!
@terrynewmanphotography 17 күн бұрын
Very informative and insightful video Tony. Subbed, Purposeful and meaningful notes rather than noting everything down. That sort of thing is exacerbated when you’re flitting around tools too. I’ve got an early Zettlekasten underway and enter only things of useful future reference into Roam.
@shuilee2781 13 күн бұрын
in digital note, the space is abundant. I get rid of redundant information by highlighting, listing-and-selection, summarizing, relinking, and renaming the file names. So many filtering points mentioned above stop me from diving unnecessarily deep into learning.
@yohanesliong4818 14 күн бұрын
Very insightful and helpful. Thanks.
@zptwin2 22 сағат бұрын
In regards to ADHD, I have been hyperfocused on organization, planners and note taking for about a week. I would consider myself a technology driven person, constantly on youtube, using my computer for school, work, videos games. I have explored digital note taking apps in the recent past but I have never really got into it. I would eventually love to have a hybrid system like you have but prior to this I have been possibly the most disorganzied and chaotic person I know. I also am getting a analog planner that I am super excited for. I feel like I am going about this in a dramatic way that will result in me giving up on this. For now does this seem like a reasonable plan to start fixing my disorganzied ADHD controlled life? Field note/pocket note book for random ideas, thoughts and notes. A larger planner with monthly, weekly, daily/blank pages. I was going to utilize google calendar in addition to my planner, that leaves me with 3 new organization components that are all new to me.
@TonyRamella 22 сағат бұрын
Yes, if you tried digital and it didn't work for you, absolutely go all in on analog. Give each notebook a unique ID and and make "links" by underlining keyterms and indexing them on note cards with the corresponding ID and page number. That way even if you have a bunch of notebooks all over the place and a centralized system to resurface ideas. You can even use a digital system for indexing. The main component to a hybrid system is going to be an index, that is the entry point into your notes, no matter where they are located. If you do this you can easily transition between digital and analog because everything is indexed anyway. Hope this helps!
@salman_babar 18 күн бұрын
Tony Ramella video on Zotero 😬 not only from the perspective of how Tony Ramella uses Zotero? but what was the opportunity cost? Could Tony Ramella achieve same impact if not using Zotero? What is the Cost to Tony Ramella of NOT using Zotero? much appreciated 🙇♂
@roi2851997 18 күн бұрын
I agree, to store the book we have the book.
@ricardomego7895 18 күн бұрын
Great value! New subscriber here…
@TonyRamella 18 күн бұрын
@@ricardomego7895 thank you! Welcome aboard
@artemkravchenko6104 17 күн бұрын
Could you explain about how to make the same hidden dataveiw there 4:43. A dataview that could close and open?
@TonyRamella 16 күн бұрын
It would take too long to explain in a comment. You can download my free Obsidian vault (link in description) and it comes with the daily notes index and logs template you see in the video
@artemkravchenko6104 16 күн бұрын
@@TonyRamella Thank you so much!!
@Monoclens 14 күн бұрын
Thank you for the Insights!! Although I have to ask in the notion of sharing your notes to other people, Do you consider your personal zettelkasten as your own information storage and a place where you interpret/understand the information (the mechanism/back stage workers) while articles would be the result/shows? Or is it okay to show your zettelkasten to the public but make it so that your notes in the zettels are understood by everybody and not just yourself? (My zettels are only to be understood by me alone and you would see the most weirdest acronyms to make it short and easier to understand in my perspective)
@TonyRamella 14 күн бұрын
@@Monoclens this is a fantastic question. I write my source notes as if I’m talking to myself and my main notes as if I’m teaching to someone. This makes the source notes more simplified and adds my own “voice” to my main notes, making them more valuable when published. If you’re writing notes to publish content, you should write them as if you are talking to your audience.
@Monoclens 14 күн бұрын
@@TonyRamella Ooh! Alright, Thank you for the answer! I wanted to ask the question since I was starting my first year of college next month and was looking forward to share and probably make money on the side through writing using the notes that I have made.
@aldenfalkofficial 19 күн бұрын
great video, also a new #subsrciber on your channel
@TonyRamella 19 күн бұрын
Thanks friend
@the_flushjackson 4 күн бұрын
I’ve consumed a few of these Obsidian videos - supposedly the more raw “just use it” and “smart notes” type stuff. This smacks of just wiki software. Hell I installed MoinMoin or whatever like 15+ years ago and quickly moved away from that because it didn’t really scale, like all of these systems (notebooks, note taking apps, etc). I tried Notion and found it to be pretty much the same, maybe the Kanban stuff would be worth it in the long run for tasks. I’m convinced that there’s value somewhere in here, but between this stuff and spaced repetition you end up with that being the bulk of your work and not the shit you want your brain to noodle on and take deeper. I’m not totally unconvinced, but also laugh at most of the creators just shit-piling their Obsidian stuff with customized nonsense, just like the Notion crowd. Do they ever accomplish anything and show proof?
@blakejones9413 12 күн бұрын
Is it an ADHD thing to want to collect things? I've got soooo many books unread, so many hobbies unfulfilled, so many notes captured... How do I make myself actually DO the thing not just COLLECT the thing?? 😂🤦♂