he's saying that u dont need to memorize informations that are high avaliable in the internet, because if u need to know something like the year of the birth of a president you can just google/search it and find that information very easily

it better than memorize because you will not use that information so often, and you will have more time to learn whats is really important to know

Thinking and reflecting about it, just look at the concepts and how they connect to each other (obviously u can use other methods, but this is a great start)

Yes, I only have one vault, though sometimes I use multiple themes (as evident from the previous frame in the video). I don't use inline title - just #h1 since Obsidian didn't have inline title when I started using it, so I've just carried through this habit.

@@Peepnbrick thanks!

Glad you liked it! This is a common question I get. Simply put, I don't have an interest in memorizing facts - I'm more interested in understanding the concepts that underlie them, which requires much less rote memorization. Given that you engaged with this video, I'd imagine you're the same way. Fortunately, in the field of engineering, while I could make individual notes on all the concepts, I never really had to "go back and study my vault" - none of my tests required me to recite facts, but to solve engineering design problems. To prepare for these, I'd just do practice problems/homework with Obsidian open, thus drilling the "understanding" into my mind, and incidentally remembering quick facts that speed up my design abilities. The same thing happens now that I work full time as an engineer. I'm not advocating avoiding memorizing things - on the contrary - I think having the quickest access to the most information possible is optimal - I just never had to do this for a formal exam (or just didn't care about doing well on the test when I did...). If I were in your position, I would just keep it simple and have a single note that encompasses a chapter of a course and lists all the related concepts so you can use this as a reference for what to study for tests. Of course, you'll eventually develop the system that works best for you, but I can't really offer a lot of practical advice on this since the information demands of my life seem fundamentally different than yours. As a general guide, though, I'd avoid overthinking it and try as much as you can to focus on *understanding* and *concepts*, and spend as little effort organizing your notes in this "chapter" or "test" format, which isn't usually reflective of the best way to conceptualize information in real life.

@@Peepnbrick Thank you. I've always felt that conceptual note taking would be an optimal means of amassing information for long term retention. Obsidian and this video in specific gave me the means to evolve past more primitive forms of information storage. One more question, how do you make those boxes containing text such as the ones under "Shortcuts" headers at 13:56? It doesn't seem to be a block quote but they seem very useful.

Good points all around. Other people's mileage may vary, but for me the primary utility here isn't as a bank of information, but as a guide for how to make sense of the world. The structure of the program lends itself to a very reductionist view of the world (constantly separating things into their more fundamental concepts), which encourages me to get a more fundamental understanding of the world, rather than memorizing surface-level facts and applications. For a certain kind of person (like me), this is killer functionality. Beyond that, this has serious advantages beyond paper and pen notes like ease of access, searching, etc., like mentioned in the video.