Making notes actually useful in Obsidian

Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/nicolevdh. Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. How do you go about making notes actually useful? Using notes well entails taking good notes in the first place, processing them, and then creating something new out of them. In this video, I talk about the plugins that I use in every stage of the process, and some guidelines for how I actually make a note on something I've learned into content that I (and others) can make use of. This video was sponsored by Brilliant. Thanks, Brilliant! :) // RESOURCES Give Brilliant a free try: https://brilliant.org/nicolevdh How to create things with your notes:    • How to create things with your notes   How real people process notes:    • How real people process notes   // TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:42 Step 1 - Reading and highlighting notes 04:08 Step 2 - Processing notes 04:47 Paraphrasing and abstracting 08:00 Creating and updating notes 11:20 Linking notes and establishing hierarchy 14:44 Making something from notes If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: https://courses.nicolevanderhoeven.co... --- // ABOUT ME Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole My work at Grafana Labs:    • My work at Grafana Labs   // APPS I USE Obsidian: https://obsidian.md Readwise: https://readwise.io/nicole Shortform: https://shortform.com/nicole Reclaim: https://go.reclaim.ai/eg0tgbamp7cb Snipd: https://link.snipd.com/Cx7S/nicole Napkin: https://napkin.one/?via=nicole // GEAR https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/gear/ // WANT TO SUPPORT ME? ❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates:   / nicolevdh   ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nicolevdh ⭐ Buy Obsidian for Everyone, my beginner course on Obsidian: https://courses.nicolevanderhoeven.co... Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/ethics/