PARAZETTEL: Note-taking Lessons, Articles, Templates and More

In 2024, I wrote about stepping back from AI in my knowledge work. Things have changed since then, and this article is going to talk about what’s different, as well as how you might be able to take advantage of my new learnings and tools used. First, here’s my story with AI in taking notes… In 2024, I said ‘I focus and create better without it’, but that was back when AI was pretty limited, manifesting simply as a chatbot. Yes, it was getting more capable, but it wasn’t what I was looking for. ...

Claude Code x Obsidian Workshop Happening February 7th. Click below to sign up, where you'll be told more about what to expect, in terms of session agenda, and post-workshop resources and recordings. Sign up for free I’m hosting an important workshop about this on the 7th February — read this piece and look at the footer to see what it’s all about I’ve been finding loads of interesting signs online that people are becoming increasingly bullish on using AI for note-taking. ...

So this title might be misleading, but I think that it’s important we address the pandemic of overly-complicated PKM systems. Every time I log into Medium, I see something new along the lines of… “I ditched my folder-based note-taking system for a synaptic, symbiotic combination of the latest two research papers on how we can attach notes 2.2x more effectively.” And this just seems like a waste of time, content for new pieces of work. ...

For a long time, I’ve created Folder notes in Obsidian, containing indexes first from Dataview and second from Obsidian Bases, to give me a simple outline of a project’s progress. However, more recently, I made a small improvement that I thought might be interesting to you. This isn’t going to be a long piece, but it’s going to be an interesting one… The folder-note-index setup This is what I’ve called the most revolutionary change on the system side of my note-taking that I’ve ever made. ...