Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you are wondering how to take the things you encounter and turn them into a captivating, unique, and finalized product—you'll get quite a bit out of this live note-making session with Eleanor Konik.
You 'll leave with a creative process that works for writers of fiction, non-fiction, articles and everything in between.
🔗 Eleanor's amazingly awesome website: eleanorkonik.com
🔗 Check out the product of this note-making session: tor.com/2021/03/24/five-unconventional-economic-systems-as-imagined-in-sff
🔆 Free Weekly Creative Productivity Insights: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit): linkingyourthinking.com/join/ideaverse-lite?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
📚 MASTER READING: linkingyourthinking.com/how-to-work-a-book?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
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0:00:00 - Start
0:00:50 - Introduction
0:04:30 - Eleanor’s PKM Flow
0:05:43 - The hardest part of note-taking
0:06:05 - The important thing is to know what you’re trying to do with it.
0:09:03 - Eleanor demonstrating why she highlighted this part of the book
0:11:42 - On storing all literature notes in a folder
0:13:40 - How Eleanor is trying to make sense with her data dump from her readings
0:14:35 - Adding headings
0:16:04 - On using a dump file for collecting backlinks
0:18:05 - Notes for herself
0:18:41 - What indexes are for
0:18:52 - Eleanor’s demonstration on her process of making MOCs
0:20:24 - A cool new trick in the Obsidian app
0:29:46 - End of MOC demonstration
0:30:16 - Turning the MOC into an article
0:32:00 - Eleanor’s use case for dataview
0:34:40 - Comments for backlinks to stay
0:35:33 - Block queries
0:41:22 - An experiment
0:43:41 - Why Eleanor avoids links to uncreated pages
0:45:13 - You don’t have to care about everything
0:46:19 - The discovery process
0:49:36 - Eleanor’s theme
0:51:32 - A block quote class for highlighting paraphrases
0:56:16 - How Eleanor makes atomic notes
0:57:52 - The importance of doing what matters to you now
0:59:27 - How and why she tracks what Eleanor has read
1:01:22 - Taking the time to reflect on the notes that matter to you
1:05:20 - The possibilities of the power of YAML with dataview
1:07:51 - The way to use dataview for MOCs
1:12:52 - On synthesizing multiple ideas
1:14:42 - A sample final output from Eleanor’s PKM process
1:22:24 - Closing
1:22:44 - Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good
1:24:58 - Where you can read Eleanor’s weekly newsletter about random things
🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo
📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88
🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: https://obsidian.md/
📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com
🖼 SOURCES/BROLL:
🏷 TAGS: #Obsidian #obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking
🔊 SPECIAL MENTION
🔊 Big thanks to Jonathan and Jason of counterpart.work for the logo design.
If you are wondering how to take the things you encounter and turn them into a captivating, unique, and finalized product—you'll get quite a bit out of this live note-making session with Eleanor Konik.
You 'll leave with a creative process that works for writers of fiction, non-fiction, articles and everything in between.
🔗 Eleanor's amazingly awesome website: eleanorkonik.com
🔗 Check out the product of this note-making session: tor.com/2021/03/24/five-unconventional-economic-systems-as-imagined-in-sff
🔆 Free Weekly Creative Productivity Insights: linkingyourthinking.com/learn-more-now?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🚀 MASTER OBSIDIAN: linkingyourthinking.com/obsidian-flight-school?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🗺 MASTER KNOWLEDGE: linkingyourthinking.com/workshop?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
🌌 GET IDEAVERSE (Formerly the LYT Kit): linkingyourthinking.com/join/ideaverse-lite?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
📚 MASTER READING: linkingyourthinking.com/how-to-work-a-book?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=notes_published_articles_books
📺 SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL » youtube.com/channel/UC85D7ERwhke7wVqskV_DZUA?sub_confirmation=1
0:00:00 - Start
0:00:50 - Introduction
0:04:30 - Eleanor’s PKM Flow
0:05:43 - The hardest part of note-taking
0:06:05 - The important thing is to know what you’re trying to do with it.
0:09:03 - Eleanor demonstrating why she highlighted this part of the book
0:11:42 - On storing all literature notes in a folder
0:13:40 - How Eleanor is trying to make sense with her data dump from her readings
0:14:35 - Adding headings
0:16:04 - On using a dump file for collecting backlinks
0:18:05 - Notes for herself
0:18:41 - What indexes are for
0:18:52 - Eleanor’s demonstration on her process of making MOCs
0:20:24 - A cool new trick in the Obsidian app
0:29:46 - End of MOC demonstration
0:30:16 - Turning the MOC into an article
0:32:00 - Eleanor’s use case for dataview
0:34:40 - Comments for backlinks to stay
0:35:33 - Block queries
0:41:22 - An experiment
0:43:41 - Why Eleanor avoids links to uncreated pages
0:45:13 - You don’t have to care about everything
0:46:19 - The discovery process
0:49:36 - Eleanor’s theme
0:51:32 - A block quote class for highlighting paraphrases
0:56:16 - How Eleanor makes atomic notes
0:57:52 - The importance of doing what matters to you now
0:59:27 - How and why she tracks what Eleanor has read
1:01:22 - Taking the time to reflect on the notes that matter to you
1:05:20 - The possibilities of the power of YAML with dataview
1:07:51 - The way to use dataview for MOCs
1:12:52 - On synthesizing multiple ideas
1:14:42 - A sample final output from Eleanor’s PKM process
1:22:24 - Closing
1:22:44 - Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of good
1:24:58 - Where you can read Eleanor’s weekly newsletter about random things
🐦 TWEET: twitter.com/NickMilo
📖 READ: medium.com/@nickmilo22/my-pkm-story-3763985b7a3e
🎬 LEARN OBSIDIAN: youtu.be/QgbLb6QCK88
🗿 DOWNLOAD OBSIDIAN: https://obsidian.md/
📩 EMAIL: support@linkingyourthinking.com
🖼 SOURCES/BROLL:
🏷 TAGS: #Obsidian #obsidianapp #Obsidiannotetakingapp #LinkingYourThinking
🔊 SPECIAL MENTION
🔊 Big thanks to Jonathan and Jason of counterpart.work for the logo design.
