Make Useful Notes. Use Templates.

A framework for taking smart notes. From Take Useful Notes.

Edmund Gröpl
2 min readDec 13, 2022
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About 9 month of personal learning about how to use Obsidian with Zettelkasten. And templates are good to save your precious time. ️Here are 16 Obsidian templates for Zettelkasten to start with.

Obsidian is a note-taking and knowledge management app on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. It lets you turn a collection of plain text files into a rich network of linked thought.

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.

Here is my repository containing templates and scripts for Obsidian to support the Zettelkasten method for note-taking.

Users _not_ choosing Zettelkasten may also benefit from:

Great add-ons for Zettelkasten:

What are your experiences from using templates?

Thanks very much! I really appreciate you reading my work. If you enjoyed it and found it useful, you might also like the related book “TAKE USEFUL NOTES. A simple guide to a complex skill by using Sketchnotes, Obsidian and Zettelkasten”. Here’s your free copy.

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Edmund Gröpl

Data Scientist and Data Storyteller. Talks about #smartsketchnotes and #datastories. https://linktr.ee/groepl