How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian

Learn how to take Smart Notes in Obsidian to boost your productivity and improve your ability to think.

Collecting is rewarding. It feels productive to ingest information and unproductive to spend time digesting it. But a body that doesn't digest is malnourished and a mind that doesn't process its input is starved.

By taking smart notes you slow down your rate of consumption, reduce information overload, and ensure you extract the nutrients of wisdom from the information you consume.

Includes: free 90-minute video course.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Configure your environment
• Take smart notes
  • Capture fleeting notes
  • Take literature notes
  • Take permanent notes
• Add smart notes to the slip-box
  • Begin a sequence
  • Create note-to-note links
  • Index the notes
• Use structure notes to organize topics
• Navigate through connections
• Build projects based on interest

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FAQ

What's the refund policy?

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Is there an example Obsidian vault I can download?

An example vault of the entire course can be found on GitHub. Download it as a .zip file and open it in Obsidian to browse through the knowledge base used to create the ebook and video course.