Notes on YouTube videos

This week's video: YouTube videos in Obsidian

This week's video is about different ways to take notes from YouTube videos that I've tried, including a recent release I'm pretty excited by. I am on YouTube A LOT, for learning and for pure entertainment, so you better believe being able to extract ideas from videos as easily as I do from books or webpages is important to me.

(nvdh-vault) New workflow: Taking book notes

I've gotten several comments asking for my current template for creating notes on books, so I added a new workflow to the sample vault that includes a command to add a new book and a book template that will be automatically applied. As always, tweak it until it works for you! :)

Are you on Mastodon yet?

I've been really enjoying using Mastodon as my primary social network (after YouTube, if you consider that one). If you're curious about what it's like to be in a social network where real people (not companies) post actually meaningful messages about PKM and no algorithm controls what you see, join the fun on pkm.social, a Mastodon instance I'm hosting with my friend Marcus Olsson, developer of Obsidian Projects. It's free, and filled entirely with kind people who are interested in note-taking and personal development.

Recently I tried my hand at creating a Mastodon bot that sends posts I like to Readwise, which was a fun learning exercise.

Obsidian for Everyone course

I've wanted to create my own course for a while, and I've finally been making real progress on that front! I'm hoping to release it very soon... like, in January. (It's a little scary to type that, because now it's out there!) When I release it, all active Patreons will absolutely get a significant discount because it's only thanks to your support that I can carve out the time to work on this side project.

It's going to be an absolute fundamental course to Obsidian, to complement and supplement some of the more intermediate/advanced topics I typically cover on my channel. I've enjoyed making it and I hope others will, too! Stay tuned for more updates on that front. ;)