Awesome!! I agree, professors who encourage active engagement are the best!

Thanks!

I'm starting a PhD program in Philosophy in 1 week and two of my friends recommended the Zettlekasten method (and Obsidian, which Mr. Kirsanov has a video on). I feel Philosophy is a great "humanities" representative, particularly in regard to the interpretation/synthesizing that you mentioned. So I'll let you know how it goes with this method once this semester ends.

@@matthiasjones how did it go? Unless your semester is still happening

@@riglosoeltortuga2597 Yup! I'm finishing my final papers now, so I'll come back and give a report of my experience once they are done and turned in. ^_^

@@matthiasjones thanks so much

@@riglosoeltortuga2597 So, I can say that the Zettlekasten Method (along with using Obsidian, which Artem also has a video on) has helped immensely. I'll use two different classes as examples 1) Time, Tense, And Temporal Perspective and 2) Ethics Of Killing. In the Time Class, which was an overview I read 20-40 page excerpts from 20(!) different philosophers. Once we worked through the first five we had all the "groundwork" covered; each one afterward were like "variations on a theme". So, for example, 14 of them had a view on what A-Theory Time would look like and how it would fail/succeed. Keeping them all separated would have been *incredibly* difficult, but within my Obsidian I set it up so that each "variation" had it's own note. When there was overlap in some specific theme, I created a Map Of Content note that included links to each of the particular Philosopher's views. So my "Flow Or Passage Of Time" note links to a bunch of more specific notes, each commenting on that. This helped me see connections and overlaps that other people in the class missed because I would create inter-links between notes that were related. It ALSO helped me get a better handle on some of the more difficult topics by seeing it from a bunch of different angles WITHOUT having to compare notebooks. For the Ethics of Killing Class we read a 500 page work by a guy named Jeff McMahan. He covered a TON of ground in the book and was INCREDIBLY fond of making up thought experiments. I ended up creating "Theme" notes for him, where I would just write about whatever topic until he moved on from it (making little sub-notes within whenever I felt it warranted). This ALSO was incredibly useful, because by the end of the book he was talking about things he brought up in the first chapter (like the thought experiments) and I could just open the note I had made and get a quick run-down. In both cases I used an add-on so that I could make footnotes within each note and I linked my Obsidian to Zotero (my bibliography manager). I would footnote my own notes with the page and paragraph number of whatever work I made a note about, sometimes even writing the specific sentence. When the other grad students and I would chat about things I could just go to my note on the topic, read what I wrote, and then (if they wanted to see for themselves) tell them exactly where to find it. It made me look a lot more "together" than I actually felt. I could not have done this with a regular notebook or note-taking method. Personally, I can barely remember WHERE I took notes, let alone what I wrote. AND I wouldn't have been able to transition so easily to and fro when reviewing; if I forgot the difference between the Fetus With Cerebral Deficits thought experiment and the Fetus With Chemical Deficiencies (McMahan had a way of naming everything similarly) I ALREADY had a link between the two that I just clicked on to review and then could close. So, while I understand where Jellyfable was coming from, I actually think it's even MORE useful in a "softer" field of study because I could name the concept whatever I wanted so that way *I* could remember it. For example, McMahan made a distinction between "Interests" and "Time-Relative Interests"... and then just referred to the second of the two as "interests" for the rest of the book. But in all my notes I took I labeled them "Traditional Interests" and "TRIs", which helped keep me from getting confused. This actually saved me a lot of time because, by personalizing, it I could recall what *I* came up with *even when* I couldn't quite remember what McMahan said. I used a similar approach to learning German (using Anki flash-cards, whenever I learned a word I chose a random image on the internet that "felt" like what that word meant) and the "personal association" would help trigger remembering what a word meant, and I feel the Zettlekasten Method had the same type of effect. BUT, and this is something Artem emphasizes; it's personal to everyone. My notes are ULTRA minimal, filled to the brim with quotes, have a million citations, and are hella ADHD-all-over-the-place... but that's just how my mind works. Yours can be entirely different, but I 100% think that REGARDLESS of how you set it up or what field you are studying in the Zettlekasten method will be very useful, and I HIGHLY recommend Obsidian to do it. Artem's other video on how to set up Obsidian was SUPER helpful (though it is a bit outdated, they updated it to make it more user friendly, so you won't need a lot of the plugins he mentions).

Wow, that's unbelievable! Thank you so much!! I'd say I'm still really far from having it all worked out, though ;) It is still a work in progress and I'm just sharing stuff I learn along the way

Thanks!! I'm glad you found it helpful ;)

I believe it is the icon for a MacOS note-taking app The Archive ( zettelkasten.de/the-archive/ ) I've never used the app myself, but I agree, the icon is really nice ✨

@@ArtemKirsanov I know. I am the co-author. ;)

how did you figure that out since ?

Hahaha, thanks! It's good to hear that!

Hi! Thanks! It's a tough and a very interesting question. Perhaps, I'll be making a separate video about this, because there is a lot to say ;) But in short, I had a brilliant English teacher in high school, who required us to do lots of speaking and explanations. There is also an amazing course titled "Effortless English" by A.J. Hoge ( effortlessenglishclub.com/effortless-english-learn-speak-english-like-native ) which I found immensely helpful

@@ArtemKirsanov спасибо за совет! Ждем с нетерпением полноценное видео про английский.