For the last two years now, I’ve made a habit of writing these complete guide pieces, summarising my recent work and pointing you to the best articles I’ve published.
Obsidian Complete Guide (New and Updated for November 2024)
New articles, updates, features and more…
Obsidian - An Up-to-Date Guide (November 2023)
Your one-stop location for everything new and exciting in the world of Obsidian PKM...
A Complete, Up-To-Date Guide to Obsidian (June 2023)
A collection of the very best guides to theory, plugins, features, settings, use cases and workflows...
And here’s the most recent instalment. We will be talking about what I’ve shared on Medium since the November 2024 piece…
Much of what I’ve shared this calendar year has hinged around the launch of the PARAZETTEL Community back in March (which turned out successful, so thank you).
The general topic has been more centred around PKM theory, rather than Obsidian-specific, but much of this remains applicable, if you use Obsidian or anything else. The biggest piece about this was a roundup article — Note-Taking Theory 101: The Most Useful PKM Ideas.
Note-Taking Theory 101 - The Most Useful PKM Ideas
A one-stop guide to the PKM principles that have helped me the most during the last three years...
Following this post, I had another idea about a relevant analogy for note-taking — that you should treat your system for notes in the same way you treat your house. Stay with me, because there are more parallels than you might first notice…
Your PKM System Should be Treated the Same Way You Treat Your House
Let me explain this analogy — so effective I'm embarrassed I didn't think of it sooner…
Just after I launched the community, I talked a little about using templates for note-taking, like I share with PARAZETTEL for Obsidian, and how they might not be the most in-depth solution…
Note-Taking Templates: The Limitations of a Done-For-You Approach
Progressing beyond selling an Obsidian vault…
And another piece talked about the kind of character you need to build a good note-taking system. This is the kind of thing that I was struggling with the most, but once I figured out that I have to try and slow things down and just commit to the same system properly, things became much easier…
Improve Your Knowledge Management by Building These Two Traits
These are the key more than anything else…
Before this launch of the community, back in 2024, I was more focused on a few different new features that I’d started using more and more. The first was a very interesting new feature, and one I didn’t at all expect — Obsidian adding web browsing in version 1.8.
Obsidian Adds Web Browsing in Its New 1.8 Update
This wasn't on my Obsidian 2024 bingo card…
Following this, with all the attention on internet browsing and content, I thought I’d update people on the different methods that I use to capture online information as well…
Clipping The Internet To Obsidian — All The Platforms & Tools I Use
The foundation of gathering ideas ready to work upon…
As well as writing, I started posting videos about PKM on YouTube at the back end of last year as well, and I wrote a couple of pieces commemorating this…
Obsidian and PKM Content on YouTube — Finally!
After what seems like ages of teasing that I was going to do so…
Teaching Obsidian: Writing vs Videos — Which is Better?
I've done both, and there's not an easy answer…
And that completes this roundup, at least up until now. By this point, I’ve completely sunk into using the app full-time for everything that I do, and keep developing new ideas that I’m looking to share in the near future.
Since writing that piece about having a more persistent and slow-minded character, I’ve also made an effort to incorporate these traits more regularly. This has been crucial for avoiding using Obsidian just as a distraction that I can click away within.
As always, thanks for reading! Soon I will return with some more new content and ideas, but for now I hope that this has served as a good roundup.