Personal Knowledge System

Who doesn’t like to have a nosy around someone else’s Obsidian vault?! Last time, I wrote about three Obsidian plugins that my PhD couldn’t do without. Today, I thought I would like to take you on a tour around my vault so you can see how it all fits together…

A framework for taking smart notes — Let me give you an overview: Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten [1] is a method of note-taking and organization that he developed over the course of his career as a sociologist and philosopher. The following are some of the basic concepts that are central to the Zettelkasten method: Interconnectedness: One of the…

I was elated when I finally received my tana invite and I wrote about my first impressions here. I loved the tool so much that I even started a wiki at tana.wiki where I thought I would help others to learn Tana. But over the weeks, I almost stopped using tana because Tana had a learning curve. I won’t say it is a particularly steep…

We’re all unique. A notetaking system that works for you, might not work for me. True. But, another thing is also true. 😈 If a system is adapted to you. It might not work anymore. Or worse, piece-mealing a variety of techniques together and expect it to function as a well-oiled machine. ‘Unfortunately, most students collect and embrace over time a variety…

How to Read-it-Later and save your time — Readwise Reader I’m still learning to structure and build my second brain and tried some apps while doing my catch and organize parts. In this phase, reading and annotating the material you collect from the Internet takes a lot of time. The…