Day 23: Simplify your Life: 3 No-Bullshit Uses for Obsidian as Your Second Brain

Last updated Jan 29, 2023

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Tired of hearing all about Second Brain / PKM and still got no clue what to actually use it for? Here’s Three No-Bullshit Use Cases on where a Digital Support System makes sense.

The mental health benefits that Journaling yields are through the roof. Need I say any more?

Here’s the Process:

• Keep a daily journal
• Write with a focus on your emotional wellbeing
• Establish a Reflection Process
• Regularly introspect on your goals, progress and the path you’re headed

I just survived Exam week. And let me tell you. The small bit of prior work paid of well.

Here’s three insights:

• Keep track of important Blips the Lecturer says
• Keep a Note of Exam topics. Use Bullet Points to measure your learning progress
• This prevents procrastination since you already have everything laid out to start learning

When the time comes to writing your thesis, this will greatly aid you in connecting the dots.

Here’s the Method:

• Manage & Annotate Research Papers in Zotero
• Distill, Disect & Connect Ideas to other Papers to help you connect the dots.
• Use Higher Ordered Notes to Map out Overarching Concepts from different Papers
• Use Obsidian as a writing playground
• Checkout this example Vault that implements the above: https://github.com/rlaker/Obsidian-for-Academia

This is just the tipp of the Iceberg on how to utilize digital notes to become an asset to your life. There are D&D Game Masters using Obsidian for World Building. I started using Obsidian to manage my public website (Using Quartz: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/). And the list goes on.

Hopefully this gave you some ideas on what to use PKM tools for.

First published on Typeshare