How to take notes from a book with Obsidian // The Culture Map

I demonstrate how to take notes from a book (The Culture Map) using Obsidian. In the process of taking notes, I also create learning exhaust in the form of notes, an atomic essay to go on Twitter, a visual that summarises a concept, and a video presentation. Taking notes from books is more than just understanding what the author wanted to say; it should also involve consolidation and interrogation of the book's ideas into our personal knowledge management systems.

// RESOURCES MENTIONED

The Culture Map: https://amzn.to/3KqVtma
Readwise: https://readwise.io/nicole
Typeshare: http://typeshare.co/?via=nicolevdh
PARA method image from Forte Labs: https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
Getting Things done flowchart from GTD: https://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-cont...
Zettelkasten process image from Zettelkasten.de: https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/
My tweet (which I created during this video):   / 1564260701392314370  
How to add footnotes in Obsidian: https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Forma...
My public notes, which I created during this video: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/...

// TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
0:45 Importing highlights into Obsidian
01:51 Creating main book page
04:47 Summarising and wrapping up main book notes
06:12 Thinking critically + Excalidraw
09:32 Contextualising with Excalibrain
13:53 Aggregating with Typeshare
16:02 Video presentation of topic
18:19 Embedding atomic essay and adding footnote
19:30 Visual with Excalidraw

If you want to learn more about Obsidian, check out my course for beginners, Obsidian for Everyone: https://courses.nicolevanderhoeven.co...

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// ABOUT ME
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