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Hi Aidan, I liked your video on the concept 'creation of structure in links and concepts with hubs; called as MOC. I also saw that you have interest towards religious principles and philosophy. I like to invite you for a 3 day course on 'Journey of Self-discovery'. This is course is taken my thousands of students and has helped them to reach more heights through the more disciplined process. Thanks, Your friend Balram
Good stuff. A table of content is fine for a book. An index is a sorted list but we have a flexible search which is superior. A MOC is a map structure that, rather than being spatially organised in the traditional sense, is cognitively organised. I think the important enhancement of a MOC is the context added around the links. Subbed.
This was a fun thing to watch, thanks for giving us a peek. I didn't know what an MOC was until today but I was already doing this and I called them "root files" now I know what I call them. Thanks!
Hi! I’am feeling so inspired from your videos! I am now in an active search for a note-taking system and there are so mush of them! Even only regarding obsidian! And i cant decide which one to chose, what to structure logic to use, how to organize notes and how exactly to write them! It is so complicated question for mw that i actually cant start taking any notes already! But i feel like your approach is what i need. Very interesting take on organization, while pretty simple and without any unnecessary for start complexity! Thank for your content bro!
Thanks for the explanation Aidan, I've got a pretty clear picture of how I want to set mine up now. I've been organically heading this way as I get more information into obsidian, but your videos have been very helpful 👍
@@aidanhelfant I've got the 3 main areas in my life currently: personal, professional work and home business. I need to keep these separate but there are cross links between them all. From the home MOC I'll be able to touch on all the major MOC's inside on these areas while adding some context and flow.
8:55 Obsidian will add the slash when you have two notes with the same name. You dragged a specific note that happened to live in the cards folder. There is probably another note with that same name living somewhere else in your vault.
Amazing stuff, Aidan. Subscribed. I love how the MoC finally works out better on Obsidian. August Bradley suggests 'Knowledge vault' and creating a ToC. Just came to halt when the database doesn't completely transpose all your property data into the notes unfortunately. Gonna give MoC a little more try. Let us see how it goes.
In my system of taking notes, it's tag based, but it's obsidian form of taking notes seems to be page based. So in order to change the much more common markdown format, I'm going to have to interoperate between my tag form and the page form. In Obsidian, you have a page that links to a bunch of other pages and that functions as a central source of knowledge. In my system, every single page already has a tag in it and uses a search function that goes through all the notes and pulls them together to have a certain tag. I could essentially do the same thing as my tag system by having all the pages link to a page that's titled the tag name. In my system, the first thing you write down is which moc or tags the note belongs to. There are several incidental features, too. In my system, everything is based on tags. So all the five levels are represented by different tags, Different tags have different levels of meaning. And I'm sitting in everything's bi-directional. Which means a tag could essentially be a link to a page Which then has an internal backlink that goes back to the original page. My system has the ability to do complex queries. But using a tag-based system that uses backlinks, I'm not sure how that'd be possible. "+adv rtn -del" Would find everything about routines, necessitating advice and removing deletions. ||rtn|Sometimes following a routine is very boring. ||rtn env adv|Life design is about optimizing a perfect average day. ||rtn del|You just stick to your routine and never deviate. I'm not sure how I'd this in obsidian. Since tags were also their own specialized objects in my system, I had a way of grouping all the tags together. My system could pull out all the tags at once and essentially, again, create a proto moc. So if I wanted to go over my entire system, I could just read all the tags that I have a wrote and pick out the ones that are relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve. Since Obsidian has a note-based note-first note-centric kind of paradigm, I'm not sure how I do that when it doesn't have separate tags. One of the reasons I designed my system with tags as a first class citizen was because I wanted to be highly analogous to analog notebooks. My system started off as a single sheet of paper which then grew into a notebook which then had to get digitized. I want to keep that back operability. Having a system of interlinked specific notes would kind of ruin that back operability because it requires an advanced indexing system. Since my notes are literally defined by the tags that create them, file naming is also a problem. Some of the notes are literally single sentences. And so there will be an absolutely inane number of small files. The decision I must make now is should I import my tags into Obsidian system using their tag-based system or using their link-based system? My main reason to switching to markdown is my own format is very specialized and I'm essentially vendor locked to myself. So I'm single-handedly programming an entire note system when I just want to take nodes. It's exhausting and I can't possibly wear all the features that I want. If I just import it into another project that's much easier. The first step of importing is changing the format of the notes. And it's going to be mark down. The alternative is LogSeek and Orgamode, but they have this awful fucking closet open-source superiority. I can do it if I just use a five-step technical process mentality, So I'm going to switch to mark down. Now that I switched to Markdown and I know I'm going to switch to Markdown, the question is, what's the most popular flavor of Markdown for PKMs? And that is Obsidian flavor. Now that I know I'm using Obsidian flavor mark down, I have to decide between tags or links. Tags probably have complex search queries in Obsidian, but links allow for rich metadata.
Youre an incredibly amazing wise person for the young man that you are. Can you tell me though, how do you set it up that each note you create goes automatically into your ENCOURNTERS folder so you can sort them later?
I have a different system. I create a note about a dog, then a note about dog food, a note about a leash, and many other similar notes. Then I create a note about a cat and other notes that relate to it. After a while I see: Hey I already have a lot of notes and many of them link to the note about the dog and many to the note about the cat. I create a blank L3 animals note. I link the note about the dog and the note about the cat just to L3 animals. I have several more similar blank notes L3 People, L3 cars, L3 computers. I create blank notes L2 creatures and L2 machines. I link L3 animals and L3 people to L2 creatures. I link L3 cars and L3 computers to L2 machines. The final step is to link all L2 to L1 Home. I have the Backlinks plugin enabled, so I can see backlinks in the empty L's, which are the table of contents. Everything from L1 leads through L2 to L3 where the final backlink is the main note, which also has backlinks to minor notes. In fact, I just make sure, when creating a new note, that it is linked to similar notes. The note that has the most backlinks leads to L3. And so on.
I just wanted to add that if it follows the restriction: L2 can only lead to L1, L3 can only lead to one or many L2s, notes can lead to other notes and notes that have the most backlinks can lead to one or many L3s, then I get something like a neural network. For example, if I want to link two L3s together, then it aggregates them into a new L2, I don't even have to look at the notes. This gives new crazy connections. What if I write a very valuable note that matches only the L2? I duplicate the empty L2 to the L3 level. This also gives opportunities because I can assign this duplicated L3 to yet another L2!
This is awesome! Thanks for so vividly describing the way your system. It sounds similar to MOCs but uses backlinks more heavily. If it works for you, go for it. The fact you are even thinking about how to look at your knowledge from both a bottom up and top down fashion is awesome enough.
I coded a very similar system in my own note-taking system where I'd have 'travel' related to 'vehicle;, which goes over 'car', 'bike' and 'skateboard'.
@@hobocraft0 I simply gave up on everything that would excessively overload the system. I’m not going to spend my time constantly reorganizing and ensuring that chaos doesn’t spiral out of control, instead of thinking creatively and enjoying adding notes. You can simply focus on linking each new note to others that are similar, or not linking it at all. Thanks to the backlinks visible in each note, you have full insight into the notes connected to it. The search function gives quick access to the content you need, and the connection graph in Obsidian allows you to easily visualize the relationships between notes. You analyze these connections, and the program naturally shows the strong relationships between the notes. As a result, categories form themselves based on real relationships and the strength of those connections, allowing for the flexible growth of your knowledge system without the need to impose rigid structures. I’m afraid that in my case, a MOC will never be created because my goal is not to have an encyclopedia, and therefore not rigid categories or even tags. The goal is always to maximize the creation of notes, and those notes that have been created, but in a rather narrow context (because in my opinion, it’s not good to force something or create too many connections), should be used to remind me of certain things and inspire new topics (yes: certain combinations resulting from the connections of various notes can stimulate the mind to create something new). In general, everything needs to remain very simple and as low-maintenance as possible.
Great content, do you offer your templates anywhere? Or do you specify in writing anywhere your tag taxonomy and folder set up etc? I see it in videos but would be great to see in article form. Thanks for sharing all of this.
I have a tag taxonomy page on my published obsidian vault, but I would recommend checking out Nick Milos video on the ACCESS folder structure to learn more about folder structuring. publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Cards/Tag+Taxonomy
of course! I have a video recounting the main findings here: ruclips.net/video/NYUmmB-Dnss/видео.html&ref=aidanhelfant.com And you can see the MOC on my Obsidian Publish site here: publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Atlas/MOCS/Happiness+MOC
Tags don't refactor if you decide you want to change it later. Folders force you to give a note a singular category and is cumbersome to organise whenever you make a note that doesn't neatly fit into the existing categories. Links don't have these problems and so stand out as the superior solution, as well as being able to explain what the overarching linking idea is about (given every link is a note)
Good job dude. Can you do one on how to use the "spaces" concept? I have no idea why it's beneficial, especially when each space has its own full MAPS framework, it really throws me off.
@@aidanhelfant I did watch it. It didn't help, tbh. He said to "deploy MAPS" but I don't see the benefit of having all 4 of those things. It might be projects and support notes at most, tbh.
Great video! Brand new Obsidian user here. I love this setup, but how do I add the tags: and up: above the title of the note? Do I need to turn off the show inline title option for it to show up the same way as yours? Making it so that I have to add the title to both the note itself and the name of the note in the folder? I have been trying to find a solution, but am unable.
You do need to turn off show inline title, but only if you don't want the title to show up automatically. When the inline title update came I already had been using Obsidian for a year and all my templates had titles included, so I would see double titles. That's why I don't like having it on. But up to you.
I can't give you a detailed analysis of how that would work because I don't do it myself but I love how you are personalizing your vault to you. So if it's working for you than I'm all for it!
Here's the code: ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link as "Encounters and new notes", (date(today) - file.cday).day as "Days alive" FROM "+Encounters" SORT file.cday desc LIMIT 20 ```
What's the main difference from fleeting notes and litrature notes. For me I want to use Obsidian for sources from books or youtube videos I watch or from atricles you read. And the other question I have is what type of template should you use? can the template for a fleetingnote be the same as for a litrature note?
Fleeting notes are notes written quickly to be turned into more permanent notes later on. They are fleeting as if you don't turn them into something else soon you will likely forget what they mean. literature notes are notes you take from your various mediums of consumption like books, Podcasts, or videos. They contain mainly the authors ideas. To see the templates I use I would check out this article: www.aidanhelfant.com/how-should-your-classify-your-notes-in-obsidian/
Felt like you were just regurgitating the info from the Nick Milo video i just watched, but then I felt it was easier to understand so i preferred your video. Have a like :)
Nick Milo heavily influenced my video on MOCs. But in the content creation space it isn't stealing if you add your own spin on things and reference the original creator. Glad you liked it!
I think in simplest term, this is just a decomposition tree or a mind map. Theres just 1 center, that spreads too other MOCs and eventually to finer notes. Theres just too many terms flying around nowadays...
That's a good point. But I think it differs from a mind map in the level of connecting you can have to other mind maps. As far as I'm aware in a traditional mind map software it's not possible to link mind maps together. I could be wrong.
I don't get it , ltags are much more powerfull , you can build lists from any composition of them , dinamically; so why essting time in editing this mocs manually adding removing links ?
I didn't figure this out until 50 minutes ago, but you can do the same thing using advanced search queries. (links:"health") AND (links:"exercise") AND (-links:"old") Assuming that there are pages that link to health, exercise and old.
this atomic note structure is extremely unintuitive for class notes and studying specific segment of information for a specific exam question set. I've been trying to re organize a days worth of notes for a week almost and I just keep coming full circle to just 1 lecture one noted organized heirarchically by folders.
The issue I run into is trying to integrate information that's taken from a centralized source like a seminar class, information that's taken in life. Having a topical structure to put them both into at the same time is very useful.
@@hobocraft0 i realized its best not to force structured information just so it can be atomic. its best to stick with natural stucture, which will link with other notes naturally over time
I understand life isn't truly infinite. My point is that by treating it as an infinite game in some respects, it can make us live better in some aspects.
@@aidanhelfant Honestly, I would’ve been a little worried about you if you didn’t know that life was not infinite. Regardless, IMO we have a much better perspective of our lives if we see them as shorter rather than longer. That way we make the best use of the limited time we have, and that is our reality. All the best to you and nice work.
Thanks for the comment, I'll try and keep this in mind in the future. Personally, I think having a balance of short, medium, and long form content is the sweet spot for people of all different preferences.
Allow me to disagree with you. I'm here just to have a peek at the process of note-taking, seeing how he makes good use of it. This, to me, is what makes this content unique and stand out from others. Short and straight-to-the-point tutorials are abundant. How someone actually uses Obsidian is harder to find.
Doesn't linking MOCs to MOCs now start to become more headfog inducing? Defying the whole purpose of Obsidian - to cread a headspace platform? Is it a step too far? It reminds me of going down the RUclips rabbithole - where you look at one video, which links to another then another then another - and then you end up far away from what you were looking at. The problem is most topics can be linked to each other if we look at the grandchildren links level. So is the linking of MOCs just incredibly unnecessary and flawed? And my other worry is by doing so, you're becoming a curator of knowledge rather than spending time creating and outputting amazing stuff. Also, such a shame you gave little space to folders and tags - which are incredible tools but neglected.
I appreciate your thoughts and do think there is danger in notetaking just on notetaking. But if you look at the content across the channel I think there is lots that aren’t on just notetaking. Thanks for watching.
12 seconds, Turned it off. Sorry, have a life, time's precious. Just thought you'd like to know. I'm sure there's 6 minutes of good stuff here. Thanks for the video
Bro, can you explain what you include in these folders "Encounters, atlas, calenar, cards, extras, sources, spaces" and how do you color code MOC in the graph view?
Yeah - new video. But seriously - that thumbnail was almost lazy - even though you put so much work into your video. And noone cares about you as a creator yet. When you are a smaller creator find another hook then - look how I do X. And you do think about your hook. Right in the beginning - it was perfect. "Folders, Tags or Links - the Obsidian dilemma solved" PLEAASE - put a bit of work into your title and thumbnails so you properly represent your great videos. The Thumbnail - Make three beautiful mermaids singing around you - one singing "folders" one "tags" and one "links" - and you being in the dilemma where to go/who to choose. Or some other thing that represents dilemma while getting attention and making people click in dark mode in particular (80% of users use dark mode)
Are you a professional thumbnail designer? Your ideas for titles and thumbnails are incredible. I did have a thumbnail set up but my uploader forgot to add it. I just put it in but I think I will remake the thumbnail to show what you are describing. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate the feedback.
I did have a marketing agency once and manage the RUclips account of an actress. But my mission is in changing the education system. But just comment on one of my comments if you actually ever wanna talk. I respect the work you put into your videos.
Hi, do you have a more comprehensive video on creating MOC step by step? You've given an overview and there are parts where it's confusing to me but on a high level, this is the system I was looking for to implement on obsidian. Watched tons of video with no proper explanation on long time wasters. Finally found this but a step-by-step explanation to create the map and how you shorten the title and how you do it would be amazing! Subbed!
Nice. But… what you did not notice and understood is that 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, for example, and other cathegories that you created in the note used to collect your MOCs should be notes themselves; because, this is the concept of the software: collect and join concepts. The idea of notes is because it is the way humans have to collect and explain a concept. So the 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆 is the way but the 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 is the matter, the material. I hope that this could help you.
Want to apply the learnings from the video into your school coursework?
Check out my FREE course 3 Days To Supercharging Your School Learning With MOCs In Obsidian!: course.aidanhelfant.com/3daystosuperchargingyourschoollearningwithmocsinobsidian
Hi Aidan,
I liked your video on the concept 'creation of structure in links and concepts with hubs; called as MOC. I also saw that you have interest towards religious principles and philosophy. I like to invite you for a 3 day course on 'Journey of Self-discovery'. This is course is taken my thousands of students and has helped them to reach more heights through the more disciplined process.
Thanks,
Your friend
Balram
Thank you for giving an example of a MOC in the first 2 mins. Whereas it takes other RUclipsrs half an hour to do the same thing.
I appreciate it! I like combining theory with actionable examples.
This is a way better "from the ground up" explanation of the creation and usage of MOCs than I've seen from other RUclipsrs. Great Job
Thanks!
I'm glad you liked it.
Good stuff. A table of content is fine for a book. An index is a sorted list but we have a flexible search which is superior. A MOC is a map structure that, rather than being spatially organised in the traditional sense, is cognitively organised. I think the important enhancement of a MOC is the context added around the links. Subbed.
Appreciate it a ton! Love your point about a MOC being more than just spatially organized but cognitively organized as well.
I am a newbie with Zotero, Obsidian and Zettelkasten and it was really confusing how to organizaze all my knowledge. Thanks, you made my way clearer.
I'm so glad to hear that!
MOCs are my favorite way to organize in Obsidian. They are so simple.
This was a fun thing to watch, thanks for giving us a peek. I didn't know what an MOC was until today but I was already doing this and I called them "root files" now I know what I call them. Thanks!
Thanks for the response!
It's people like you why I keep creating.
Hi! I’am feeling so inspired from your videos! I am now in an active search for a note-taking system and there are so mush of them! Even only regarding obsidian! And i cant decide which one to chose, what to structure logic to use, how to organize notes and how exactly to write them! It is so complicated question for mw that i actually cant start taking any notes already! But i feel like your approach is what i need. Very interesting take on organization, while pretty simple and without any unnecessary for start complexity! Thank for your content bro!
Thanks so much for your kindhearted reply!
I'm glad to hear you resonate with my notetaking philosophy.
Thanks for the explanation Aidan, I've got a pretty clear picture of how I want to set mine up now. I've been organically heading this way as I get more information into obsidian, but your videos have been very helpful 👍
No problem! What are some of the MOCs you would like to create in the future?
@@aidanhelfant I've got the 3 main areas in my life currently: personal, professional work and home business.
I need to keep these separate but there are cross links between them all.
From the home MOC I'll be able to touch on all the major MOC's inside on these areas while adding some context and flow.
Thank you! I just started using obsidian, this was really helpful!
I'm glad you found it so!
I was struggling to use obsidian and i was about to give up, and this video gave an idea to use MOCs that work for me. Thanks a lot man.
I'm so glad to hear that. MOCs simplified Obsidian a ton for me as well.
This was fantastic! Thank you for sharing, I'll definitely be changing up a few things to improve my Zettelkasten.
No problem, glad you are inspired. Excited to see how that goes for you!
8:55 Obsidian will add the slash when you have two notes with the same name. You dragged a specific note that happened to live in the cards folder. There is probably another note with that same name living somewhere else in your vault.
I appreciate that thank you!
It's interesting to see that I had already thought up how to organise my notes in this fasion before starting.
Thanks for the information :)
No problem!
Have a great rest of your day!
Man, this was brilliant!!
Thanks I appreciate it!
Amazing stuff, Aidan. Subscribed. I love how the MoC finally works out better on Obsidian. August Bradley suggests 'Knowledge vault' and creating a ToC. Just came to halt when the database doesn't completely transpose all your property data into the notes unfortunately. Gonna give MoC a little more try. Let us see how it goes.
If you want to share your journey using it email me at aidanhelfanthello@gmail.com or message me on Twitter!
Finally found a video on how to actually use obsidian!
It can get so complicated sometimes in the PKM community 😂
Glad you found it helpful!
In my system of taking notes, it's tag based, but it's obsidian form of taking notes seems to be page based. So in order to change the much more common markdown format, I'm going to have to interoperate between my tag form and the page form. In Obsidian, you have a page that links to a bunch of other pages and that functions as a central source of knowledge. In my system, every single page already has a tag in it and uses a search function that goes through all the notes and pulls them together to have a certain tag. I could essentially do the same thing as my tag system by having all the pages link to a page that's titled the tag name. In my system, the first thing you write down is which moc or tags the note belongs to. There are several incidental features, too. In my system, everything is based on tags. So all the five levels are represented by different tags, Different tags have different levels of meaning. And I'm sitting in everything's bi-directional. Which means a tag could essentially be a link to a page Which then has an internal backlink that goes back to the original page. My system has the ability to do complex queries. But using a tag-based system that uses backlinks, I'm not sure how that'd be possible.
"+adv rtn -del" Would find everything about routines, necessitating advice and removing deletions.
||rtn|Sometimes following a routine is very boring.
||rtn env adv|Life design is about optimizing a perfect average day.
||rtn del|You just stick to your routine and never deviate.
I'm not sure how I'd this in obsidian.
Since tags were also their own specialized objects in my system, I had a way of grouping all the tags together. My system could pull out all the tags at once and essentially, again, create a proto moc.
So if I wanted to go over my entire system, I could just read all the tags that I have a wrote and pick out the ones that are relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve. Since Obsidian has a note-based note-first note-centric kind of paradigm, I'm not sure how I do that when it doesn't have separate tags.
One of the reasons I designed my system with tags as a first class citizen was because I wanted to be highly analogous to analog notebooks. My system started off as a single sheet of paper which then grew into a notebook which then had to get digitized. I want to keep that back operability. Having a system of interlinked specific notes would kind of ruin that back operability because it requires an advanced indexing system.
Since my notes are literally defined by the tags that create them, file naming is also a problem.
Some of the notes are literally single sentences. And so there will be an absolutely inane number of small files.
The decision I must make now is should I import my tags into Obsidian system using their tag-based system or using their link-based system?
My main reason to switching to markdown is my own format is very specialized and I'm essentially vendor locked to myself. So I'm single-handedly programming an entire note system when I just want to take nodes. It's exhausting and I can't possibly wear all the features that I want. If I just import it into another project that's much easier.
The first step of importing is changing the format of the notes. And it's going to be mark down. The alternative is LogSeek and Orgamode, but they have this awful fucking closet open-source superiority. I can do it if I just use a five-step technical process mentality,
So I'm going to switch to mark down.
Now that I switched to Markdown and I know I'm going to switch to Markdown, the question is, what's the most popular flavor of Markdown for PKMs? And that is Obsidian flavor.
Now that I know I'm using Obsidian flavor mark down, I have to decide between tags or links. Tags probably have complex search queries in Obsidian, but links allow for rich metadata.
(links:"health") AND (links:"exercise") AND (-links:"old")
Thanks for the video. ❤❤❤
It was helpful to put a more concrete view on the idea of MOCS.
Appreciate it!
No problem.
Wonderful video , I really benefited ,thanks you & keep Going 👊
Happy to hear that!
Youre an incredibly amazing wise person for the young man that you are. Can you tell me though, how do you set it up that each note you create goes automatically into your ENCOURNTERS folder so you can sort them later?
If you go to settings in Obsidian you can make it so that new notes automatically go to the encounters folder in the files and links section
Interesting! It's like building a galaxy of information
Exactly! Love the space analogy.
This helped me a lot!! Thank you!! 🙏
I'm glad!
folders, tags, links, and now metadata props :)
True, I'll have to make a follow up video!
I have a different system. I create a note about a dog, then a note about dog food, a note about a leash, and many other similar notes. Then I create a note about a cat and other notes that relate to it. After a while I see: Hey I already have a lot of notes and many of them link to the note about the dog and many to the note about the cat. I create a blank L3 animals note. I link the note about the dog and the note about the cat just to L3 animals. I have several more similar blank notes L3 People, L3 cars, L3 computers. I create blank notes L2 creatures and L2 machines. I link L3 animals and L3 people to L2 creatures. I link L3 cars and L3 computers to L2 machines. The final step is to link all L2 to L1 Home. I have the Backlinks plugin enabled, so I can see backlinks in the empty L's, which are the table of contents. Everything from L1 leads through L2 to L3 where the final backlink is the main note, which also has backlinks to minor notes. In fact, I just make sure, when creating a new note, that it is linked to similar notes. The note that has the most backlinks leads to L3. And so on.
I just wanted to add that if it follows the restriction: L2 can only lead to L1, L3 can only lead to one or many L2s, notes can lead to other notes and notes that have the most backlinks can lead to one or many L3s, then I get something like a neural network. For example, if I want to link two L3s together, then it aggregates them into a new L2, I don't even have to look at the notes. This gives new crazy connections. What if I write a very valuable note that matches only the L2? I duplicate the empty L2 to the L3 level. This also gives opportunities because I can assign this duplicated L3 to yet another L2!
This is awesome!
Thanks for so vividly describing the way your system. It sounds similar to MOCs but uses backlinks more heavily. If it works for you, go for it. The fact you are even thinking about how to look at your knowledge from both a bottom up and top down fashion is awesome enough.
I coded a very similar system in my own note-taking system where I'd have 'travel' related to 'vehicle;, which goes over 'car', 'bike' and 'skateboard'.
Could tell me more about your hierarchy system?
@@hobocraft0 I simply gave up on everything that would excessively overload the system. I’m not going to spend my time constantly reorganizing and ensuring that chaos doesn’t spiral out of control, instead of thinking creatively and enjoying adding notes. You can simply focus on linking each new note to others that are similar, or not linking it at all. Thanks to the backlinks visible in each note, you have full insight into the notes connected to it. The search function gives quick access to the content you need, and the connection graph in Obsidian allows you to easily visualize the relationships between notes. You analyze these connections, and the program naturally shows the strong relationships between the notes. As a result, categories form themselves based on real relationships and the strength of those connections, allowing for the flexible growth of your knowledge system without the need to impose rigid structures. I’m afraid that in my case, a MOC will never be created because my goal is not to have an encyclopedia, and therefore not rigid categories or even tags. The goal is always to maximize the creation of notes, and those notes that have been created, but in a rather narrow context (because in my opinion, it’s not good to force something or create too many connections), should be used to remind me of certain things and inspire new topics (yes: certain combinations resulting from the connections of various notes can stimulate the mind to create something new). In general, everything needs to remain very simple and as low-maintenance as possible.
Great content, do you offer your templates anywhere? Or do you specify in writing anywhere your tag taxonomy and folder set up etc? I see it in videos but would be great to see in article form. Thanks for sharing all of this.
I have a tag taxonomy page on my published obsidian vault, but I would recommend checking out Nick Milos video on the ACCESS folder structure to learn more about folder structuring. publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Cards/Tag+Taxonomy
Im so interested in the content of that Happiness MOC. Would it be possible to share that research?
of course!
I have a video recounting the main findings here: ruclips.net/video/NYUmmB-Dnss/видео.html&ref=aidanhelfant.com
And you can see the MOC on my Obsidian Publish site here: publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Atlas/MOCS/Happiness+MOC
Tags don't refactor if you decide you want to change it later.
Folders force you to give a note a singular category and is cumbersome to organise whenever you make a note that doesn't neatly fit into the existing categories.
Links don't have these problems and so stand out as the superior solution, as well as being able to explain what the overarching linking idea is about (given every link is a note)
Great notes! Love how you applied the ideas in the comments.
Good job dude. Can you do one on how to use the "spaces" concept? I have no idea why it's beneficial, especially when each space has its own full MAPS framework, it really throws me off.
That's a cool idea but I suggest you watch Nick Milo's ACCESS folder framework which I link in the description. He explains it more in depth.
@@aidanhelfant I did watch it. It didn't help, tbh. He said to "deploy MAPS" but I don't see the benefit of having all 4 of those things. It might be projects and support notes at most, tbh.
Great video! Brand new Obsidian user here. I love this setup, but how do I add the tags: and up: above the title of the note? Do I need to turn off the show inline title option for it to show up the same way as yours? Making it so that I have to add the title to both the note itself and the name of the note in the folder? I have been trying to find a solution, but am unable.
You do need to turn off show inline title, but only if you don't want the title to show up automatically.
When the inline title update came I already had been using Obsidian for a year and all my templates had titles included, so I would see double titles. That's why I don't like having it on. But up to you.
Thank you. @@aidanhelfant
I Like mocs, but i dont Like how the Graph View Looks If you use links for mocs. So i use Tags and Data View for mocs. What do u think?
I can't give you a detailed analysis of how that would work because I don't do it myself but I love how you are personalizing your vault to you.
So if it's working for you than I'm all for it!
Nice vid. How did you do the encounter box?
Here's the code:
```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
file.link as "Encounters and new notes", (date(today) - file.cday).day as "Days alive"
FROM "+Encounters"
SORT file.cday desc
LIMIT 20
```
Thank you!@@aidanhelfant
What's the main difference from fleeting notes and litrature notes. For me I want to use Obsidian for sources from books or youtube videos I watch or from atricles you read.
And the other question I have is what type of template should you use? can the template for a fleetingnote be the same as for a litrature note?
Fleeting notes are notes written quickly to be turned into more permanent notes later on.
They are fleeting as if you don't turn them into something else soon you will likely forget what they mean.
literature notes are notes you take from your various mediums of consumption like books, Podcasts, or videos. They contain mainly the authors ideas.
To see the templates I use I would check out this article: www.aidanhelfant.com/how-should-your-classify-your-notes-in-obsidian/
Thank God for young people! This helps.
Amen! But also thank god for old people. Otherwise I wouldn't exist. Cause my parents would be dead. Cheers!
Good video! Thanks!
No problem, glad you liked it!
Felt like you were just regurgitating the info from the Nick Milo video i just watched, but then I felt it was easier to understand so i preferred your video. Have a like :)
Nick Milo heavily influenced my video on MOCs.
But in the content creation space it isn't stealing if you add your own spin on things and reference the original creator.
Glad you liked it!
@@aidanhelfant also you did mention him in the video ☺️
How do I connect tags? For example: tag #Python and #Rust?
You can use the tag wrangler community plug in.
Thanks man!
😊
great video
Thanks!
I think in simplest term, this is just a decomposition tree or a mind map. Theres just 1 center, that spreads too other MOCs and eventually to finer notes. Theres just too many terms flying around nowadays...
That's a good point.
But I think it differs from a mind map in the level of connecting you can have to other mind maps. As far as I'm aware in a traditional mind map software it's not possible to link mind maps together. I could be wrong.
Thank you
No problem!
Glad you found it useful.
I don't get it , ltags are much more powerfull , you can build lists from any composition of them , dinamically; so why essting time in editing this mocs manually adding removing links ?
You can more easily move them around and jump into them as individual notes. Tags aren't notes in themselves.
I didn't figure this out until 50 minutes ago, but you can do the same thing using advanced search queries.
(links:"health") AND (links:"exercise") AND (-links:"old")
Assuming that there are pages that link to health, exercise and old.
Dope!
Thanks!
this atomic note structure is extremely unintuitive for class notes and studying specific segment of information for a specific exam question set. I've been trying to re organize a days worth of notes for a week almost and I just keep coming full circle to just 1 lecture one noted organized heirarchically by folders.
Thanks for sharing.
yes, and don't let reorganising transform into procrastination in disguise
The issue I run into is trying to integrate information that's taken from a centralized source like a seminar class, information that's taken in life. Having a topical structure to put them both into at the same time is very useful.
@@hobocraft0 i realized its best not to force structured information just so it can be atomic. its best to stick with natural stucture, which will link with other notes naturally over time
MOCs are links. So the answer is links
You got it!
If a persons life is not infinite, how can “life is an infinite game” be true?
How about, “Life is a complicated test to determine who really are”?
I understand life isn't truly infinite.
My point is that by treating it as an infinite game in some respects, it can make us live better in some aspects.
@@aidanhelfant Honestly, I would’ve been a little worried about you if you didn’t know that life was not infinite. Regardless, IMO we have a much better perspective of our lives if we see them as shorter rather than longer. That way we make the best use of the limited time we have, and that is our reality. All the best to you and nice work.
so the answer is... links!
Indeed!
Ok. So links. 😀
Indeed!
My nightmare :)
Hopefully, you woke up without screaming.
Hey man, great content, but please condense your videos. We are all here for productivity!
Thanks for the comment, I'll try and keep this in mind in the future.
Personally, I think having a balance of short, medium, and long form content is the sweet spot for people of all different preferences.
Allow me to disagree with you. I'm here just to have a peek at the process of note-taking, seeing how he makes good use of it. This, to me, is what makes this content unique and stand out from others. Short and straight-to-the-point tutorials are abundant. How someone actually uses Obsidian is harder to find.
Doesn't linking MOCs to MOCs now start to become more headfog inducing? Defying the whole purpose of Obsidian - to cread a headspace platform? Is it a step too far? It reminds me of going down the RUclips rabbithole - where you look at one video, which links to another then another then another - and then you end up far away from what you were looking at. The problem is most topics can be linked to each other if we look at the grandchildren links level. So is the linking of MOCs just incredibly unnecessary and flawed? And my other worry is by doing so, you're becoming a curator of knowledge rather than spending time creating and outputting amazing stuff. Also, such a shame you gave little space to folders and tags - which are incredible tools but neglected.
I appreciate your thoughts and do think there is danger in notetaking just on notetaking. But if you look at the content across the channel I think there is lots that aren’t on just notetaking. Thanks for watching.
While the video is kind of interesting, your live and interest are filled with very strange things. It really confuses me.
My interests only seem to get weirder as I grow older 🤣.
12 seconds, Turned it off. Sorry, have a life, time's precious. Just thought you'd like to know. I'm sure there's 6 minutes of good stuff here. Thanks for the video
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Bro, can you explain what you include in these folders "Encounters, atlas, calenar, cards, extras, sources, spaces" and how do you color code MOC in the graph view?
You can watch Nick Milo's explanation video on the ACCESS framework to learn how the folders work.
@@aidanhelfant Thanks bro
Yeah - new video. But seriously - that thumbnail was almost lazy - even though you put so much work into your video. And noone cares about you as a creator yet. When you are a smaller creator find another hook then - look how I do X. And you do think about your hook. Right in the beginning - it was perfect.
"Folders, Tags or Links - the Obsidian dilemma solved"
PLEAASE - put a bit of work into your title and thumbnails so you properly represent your great videos.
The Thumbnail - Make three beautiful mermaids singing around you - one singing "folders" one "tags" and one "links" - and you being in the dilemma where to go/who to choose.
Or some other thing that represents dilemma while getting attention and making people click in dark mode in particular (80% of users use dark mode)
Are you a professional thumbnail designer? Your ideas for titles and thumbnails are incredible. I did have a thumbnail set up but my uploader forgot to add it. I just put it in but I think I will remake the thumbnail to show what you are describing. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate the feedback.
@@aidanhelfant the thumbnail change made me click even tho it had zero relevance to me so cheers.
I did have a marketing agency once and manage the RUclips account of an actress. But my mission is in changing the education system.
But just comment on one of my comments if you actually ever wanna talk. I respect the work you put into your videos.
@@heinzarniaung2915 hahahaha, I guess I’m sorry (not really)
That's so funny! Glad ot hear.
LOL. How pretentious. It's called a Table of Contents.
No u
@@aidanhelfant Young and ignorant. Yet wise only in his own eyes.
Hi, do you have a more comprehensive video on creating MOC step by step? You've given an overview and there are parts where it's confusing to me but on a high level, this is the system I was looking for to implement on obsidian. Watched tons of video with no proper explanation on long time wasters. Finally found this but a step-by-step explanation to create the map and how you shorten the title and how you do it would be amazing! Subbed!
I don't have an even more in depth explanation just yet but I will definitely add it to my list of content ideas.
Thanks for the suggestion!
@@aidanhelfant Please do tired of all the fluffs all over the internet
Nice. But… what you did not notice and understood is that 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, for example, and other cathegories that you created in the note used to collect your MOCs should be notes themselves; because, this is the concept of the software: collect and join concepts. The idea of notes is because it is the way humans have to collect and explain a concept. So the 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆 is the way but the 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕 is the matter, the material.
I hope that this could help you.
Thanks!