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Patreon preview: Emergent note taking (Patreon)

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2023-04-22 07:11:16

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2026-06

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This week's video preview is about emergent note taking, which is the idea of taking modular notes and being able to put them together in new ways-- a good idea, but hard to put into practice. In this video, I talk about how that really boils down to two things:

how to write notes to be found by yourself later
how to find relevant notes at the right time

Note: This video will be unlisted until Friday, when I have to mark it as private shortly before it is published for everyone to see. If you try to watch it and get a "Private video" error, you've probably caught it in that small window. Wait a few hours and try again-- it will be published shortly.

I've been busy all week due to being at a work conference (KubeCon EU) where I spoke about emergence, this time applied to load testing, so you can tell that emergence has been on my mind a lot lately. :) I met a few lovely folks who knew me from Obsidian stuff, which was awesome! If you ever see me out in the wild, come up and say hello! I love meeting other PKM nerds.

Have a great week, everyone!

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Emergent note taking: what ants can teach us about notes

Emergent note taking is the process of turning individual notes into something more than the sum of their parts and combining them in different ways. In this video, I talk about how to take notes to be found and how to explore your vault in ways to help ideas emerge. // RESOURCES Emergence, by Steven Johnson: https://amzn.to/3LlgLn7 @VisualPKM 's video - Book on a Page about Emergence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTh0A6fp7U Visual atomic note taking with ExcaliBrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqrczIftYyA // TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:48 What is emergence? 03:22 Writing notes you'll find 05:40 L - Location 06:56 A - Alphabet/Aliases 07:41 T - Time 08:48 C - Category 09:35 H - Hierarchy 11:00 Different ways to find your notes 13:21 Lightning rods of thought using Dataview 18:48 Exploring your notes using ExcaliBrain 21:14 Folders, bookmarks, tags, and links 23:18 Learn in public --- // ABOUT ME Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole My travel YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/c/luckydippers k6 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/k6test // APPS I USE - Obsidian: https://obsidian.md - Readwise: https://readwise.io/nicole - Shortform: https://shortform.com/nicole - Reclaim: https://reclaim.ai/r/s/yYOqK // GEAR https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/gear/ // WANT TO SUPPORT ME? ❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: https://patreon.com/nicolevdh ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nicolevdh Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/ethics/