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As a Obsidian obsessive, I cannot agree more! What must be absolutely taken into account with these kind of digital « web of notes»-taking apps is the availabi
by lolive 4y ago
As a Obsidian obsessive, I cannot agree more!
What must be absolutely taken into account with these kind of digital « web of notes»-taking apps is the availability of the search feature.
ALL your note-taking strategy should be pointed at that feature.
You need to write things for later INSTANT information retrieval and no context switching overload.
Just like the Google experience: information is just there, at your fingertips. And YOU are in control.
It takes a little time not to be shy to give meaningful titles and subtitles, to make a lot of references to other correlated notes, and to capture all the important points without being verbose [usually you don’t have much time to capture information and be verbose, anyway]
Really really, you want, when you search a note or a part of a note, to have an instant access to all the context you had at that enlightened and fleeting instant, when you had all in mind and wrote the note.
The term of « second brain » is really appropriate, in my humble opinion.
- dSebastien 4y agoTotally agree with you! I need to write an article about optimizing for search/retrieval. I touched on that on my article about tagging [1], but it deserves more explanations :p [1]: https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-05-17-why-and-how-to-tag-notes-in-your-pkm https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-05-17-why-and-how-to-tag-no...
- lolive 4y agoI do not use tagging yet. I did not grasp the power of it yet. Probably because the search in obsidian does not propose any tag oriented clutering of the results. Or any other feature where the tagging is inherently visible and accessible. [i will read your article anyway]
- dSebastien 4y agoYou can filter search results using tags in Obsidian: "something tag:#work" I rely on tags for different things: search, automation (e.g., move notes to folder X if tag A is present), indexes (https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-05-15-maps-of-content https://dsebastien.net/blog/2022-05-15-maps-of-content), random exploration of my notes (e.g., open a random note with tag X).
- lolive 4y agoMay be I would use tags if they appeared as facets in search, to quickly filter out search results when you get too many of them.
- lolive 4y agoI will try to test Dataview and the query language of obsidian. But honestly, if it is not in direct relationship with search, or if it makes the note authoring process to go in pause to think about which tag is relevant or which new tag could help, I will probably not use them much.