Think Better with the Graph View + Live note-making session (in the Obsidian app) - Full Version

[@ProductivePM]

Nick, your presentation style is so professional and your story-telling ability draws us into the knowledge that you are presenting. So thankful for your efforts . . . all the best!

[@linkingyourthinking]

That’s very kind to say, thank you Greg!

[@thomascurro1405]

Totally Agree

[@shaggyfeng9110]

Greg, your comment style is so professional. I have to give you an up-vote.

[@nomadicam]

This guy is so wholesome and soothing. We must protect him from the world at all costs. Also, I love obsidian.

[@DeconTheMonkey]

I’ve just recently porting my notes in obsidian. Only recently because I initially thought it was too complicated to wrap my head around. But as i was linking thoughts around different ideas and seeing how they are connected, that’s when i understood the concept behind the power of obsidian. I’ve been binge watching your videos to kickstart my journey and this particular video inspired me to discover new paths to linking my notes. Inspired to a new level now!

[@DemetriPanici]

The amount of cool functionality that Obsidian has blows my mind

[@FlávioAlvesMartins-z8j]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I definitely agree with you in every aspect.

[@DavidCaldicottMedia]

You are so inspiring. I've been desperate for a tool that works in the same way that my mind does, and obsidian has been so transformative; but your videos have been making it an almost transcendental for me. Thank you! Can't wait for your next video

[@SB_2009]

Thanks for helping me 23:10 find a new freelining question.

[@ZeinabeeM]

This video was so so inspiring :))) Thank you Nick

[@joseantoniogarciarivas8042]

Higher Quality Content, grace to you from God our Father.

[@linkingyourthinking]

Thanks!

[@ManasMadrecha]

Who are you! 😮 Damn, this was so refreshing. Came here to know about Graph view, got to know about so many things! ❤ from India.

[@linkingyourthinking]

Thanks, Manas!

[@alyx3135]

At 4:40 I didnt know you can do that amazing presentation!

[@mauricegoldi5954]

Love your content Nick! The triangulation thing is actually known as a clique in graph theory and social network analysis...cliques of thought :)

[@linkingyourthinking]

Oh, this is most interesting, I didn't know. Thanks for sharing!

[@cscdvmp]

Thanks for the video, most of time I use Graph View for seeing what is the most linked topic :D

[@alinajmaldin]

I just had my first Mental Squeeze point and wanted to say that your framework is amazing! Thank you so much for your content :)

[@alinajmaldin]

Can't wait :)

[@jeremiahbaxter6887]

Darmok and Jalad on the ocean!

[@raiseyourvibration1411]

Nick, regarding your note "Spatial Context," in [[American Sign Language]] something that a person must refer to repeatedly is signed and then "placed" in a given location, say at the position of 3 o'clock in relation to the person signing. IOW, they sign something, then they "grab" it, and "place" it at 3 o'clock. Then every time the person makes reference to that thing, they don't go through the trouble of recreating its sign, rather they just point to the 3 o'clock position and their interlocutor automatically knows the reference. Aloha!

[@linkingyourthinking]

This is amazing, thank you for sharing!

[@chilljlt]

Excellent!

[@kevinlyons4214]

Nick, when you get a chance read Harold Bloom and his argument for "anxiety of influence" a node that would connect with your "how great works are flavored by early works"

[@linkingyourthinking]

Ooo, very exciting, thanks for the suggestion!

[@dj_timoy]

_*watching this video right after "3 Ways to Think Better Using Triangles Δ"_ 8:08 "So, between these 2 notes and the tag, we've triangulated something. Hmm, that's interesting, maybe we'll come back to that 🤔 _*makes note: "the internet is a time machine 👀"_

[@SahilChaturvedi]

Hey Nick -- you're currently filtering the graph with only notes with this "develop" tag. What if you wanted to link together (and do this same exercise) between a note to be developed (like "Skin In the Game") and a note that is not shown as tagged "#develop"?

[@hexchad765]

Brilliant

[@theXaint]

12:25 How do you pull up those custom templates?

[@alanbirchenough]

The German word "Knecht" is cognate with the English word "knight", and means "servant". The initial "Kn" is pronounced as one syllable, not two.

[@Matterful]

Nick, the more I watch of your work, the bigger a crime I feel I am committing by not trying to introduce you to the work of John Vervaeke if you aren't already familiar with him. He is the cognitive science department head at the University of Toronto studying meaning, wisdom, consciousness, and insight-related phenomena like mindfulness and flow. So many of your interests are deeply convergent with his, and I am not at all trying to flatter his work when I say that it has been life-giving for me. If you ever approach the 39th episode of his AftMC series, please let me know. I am very interested in seeing whether there's potential for integrating your work around MOCs/Idea Emergence in the RTNAR project. (and if you never touch Vervaeke's work, let me at least leave you with a book recommendation -- "What is Ancient Philosophy?" by Pierre Hadot; if you've not yet read it, it should serve to ground a lot of the notes you touch on; it is a sort of plea for the return to wisdom as an area of central importance in philosophy, and his interpretation of ancient philosophy is now verging on consensus in his field)

[@linkingyourthinking]

What a wonderful message to find here. I haven’t heard of JV but will look him up. On your recommendation that Hadot’s book can ground many of my notes, I purchased the book. You use a key word that influences much of my efforts: “grounding” our thoughts.

[@Matterful]

@@linkingyourthinking Please, let me know what you find/think!

[@TheJoshtheboss]

12:25 Would it be possible to share your templates?

[@JonGretarB]

I love Obsidian. Use it as my main collection of thoughts and knowledge and it has the best linking and backlinking feature set I have used. That being said I find the graph feature to have no practical purpose. Even watching your video I just saw you showing the power of linking with the graph slowing you down. But if people feel better and like the UI and are happy with it’s inefficiencies then thats fine for them.

[@JonGretarB]

Oh and I hardly ever use the list view either.

[@theseriousaccount]

I like to sit back and just look at the graph from time to time and it helps me to get sort of a grasp of what i have. When you have lots of notes i find the presentation of a list to be hard to read, i like to see the “universe” of notes.

[@rymaru2138]

I was able to make a cool connection to one of your ideas with something i just learned from having skin in the game 😂 people refuse to believe things despite evidence cuz they have different experience, which also connects to your note about those people being fragile, cause their experience is different...so because everyone has different experiences they have different nodes on their graphs to connect to and if they don't have a connection on their graph that will connect to the links on your graph, the bridge can't be built and they keep their own cluster. I experienced this the other day with my Mom not understanding something that was obvious to me and it hit me...her links are different 😢

[@matusa6714]

Hi, nice video. I was wondering if the "ref" line on top of your pages are automatic. So for example you type [[hello]] inside a page called "english" and when you open the new "hello" page then in the first line there is "ref:[[english]]". Is this a plugin or you do it manually? Hope you understook my question. Thank's :)

[@gnostie]

It would be useful if Obsidian could calculate the number of links and display the most linked topics along with the number of links. Maybe this functionality exists already, but I don’t know how to access it. I’ve got around 30,000 files here, and relying on graph view isn’t practical. In addition, the more people there are with a lot of linked nodes, the greater the need for capacity to display the graph view on a separate (very) large monitor. It’s sort of like one’s private galaxy of thoughts/topics.

[@francescomarzotto]

Vault Statistics by Bryan Kyle does that and more. Hope this helps!

[@francescomarzotto]

I meant the link number thing. The separate monitor thing would be awesome.

[@gnostie]

Huge thanks! Will check it out.

[@terrysmarina1737]

Do you know if there is a Spell Checker for Obsidian?

[@linkingyourthinking]

Yes there is! It's a core feature built into it.

[@flor.7797]

Why do Castalian’s have no skin in the game though? :o

[@joseantoniogarciarivas8042]

Castalias are fragile in the outer world because they invested so much life in the glass bead game: Playing intellectuals can do better by engaging practically with the world or by withdrawing into contemplation. Also in the bible: "...much study is a weariness of the flesh." Ecc 12:12 See how many of your concepts and in your search for meaning is always this decision of opposites, and many times we end doing contrary things. So, the big question, how to know when to go to the left or the right, towards high or low? maybe there is something higher than high vs low dualities.

[@alro7779]

Could I use Obsidian like having an own Wikipedia creation for some information notes from courses that I'm taking? Instead of taking notes in a real notebook, so I can connect them all with links related to one particular course, for example?

[@linkingyourthinking]

Yes, Alejandro, a lot of Obsidian users are managing their course notes and other research within their vault. There are a lot of benefits over physical notebooks as you can start linking concepts together in ways you'd never be able to on paper. If this is something new to you, you might want to start small and just use it for one course and see how it goes but you might find that it works really useful over time!

[@alro7779]

@@linkingyourthinking Thanks!

[@adriansrfr]

You'll probably never grasp the Almagest without at least entertaining the works of Sungenis.

[@expeditioner9322]

Obsidian graph is amazing. But how much dependence on it should we build?

[@rubberyone5173]

I know this is an older comment, but I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve only discovered this channel and obsidian a few days ago, and I’ve dived in and I see and appreciate the value, but I’m already feeling uneasy about becoming too reliant on it. Weird connection, butI feel similarly about being prescribed medication to help with behavioral disorders like ADHD. I think I’d be able to benefit from it for sure, but something in me is extremely resistant on becoming dependent on any external tool or device. It’s been some time; have you given any more thought to that question?

[@merieedgegaming7621]

@@rubberyone5173 hope it's not too late to answer, but I'd say that you shouldn't worry too much and use the tools you're given access to if you think it'd help you. What's wrong with being reliant on it?

[@sleepisoptional]

you had me at darmok

[@theXaint]

Don't be a note taker, be a note giver! 😅

[@vyacheslavn2910]

Honestly, I don't understand why you have to make tags when the MOC already binds notes? Do you have to have tags? Because I really don't know. For example, you have [People MOC], why do you add tags for that? Why tag friends or family when you can just create a note for that or even create a new MOC? Hmm? By the way, what about zero-links + MOCs? P.S. sorry for a sily comment...

[@linkingyourthinking]

It's not a silly comment! These are great questions to ask yourself as you build out your PKM space. Explore all note relationships - naming, foldering, tags, links, and others. You don't have to use tags but they can be a nice additional lens in the future to help you find connections between notes that aren't necessarily related to each other in a narrower scope. They might have the same broader tag even if they don't necessarily share the same MOC. There are a LOT of other ways people use tags and feel free to experiment with your own. I hope this helps!

[@PulinAgrawal]

Love Obsidian, love your presentation style. But that was not triangulation. One of your vertices was state/develop. Triangulation needs 3 concepts together. I can't really call state/develop as a concept relevant for concept triangulation.

[@linkingyourthinking]

Yes you can

[@PulinAgrawal]

@@linkingyourthinking okay. I watched your video very carefully and still don't get it. If you can explain that'll be great.

[@prasenjitgiri919]

I've been trying to think how it helps, but having this beautiful video I now am sure, someone who is about to work on something clear wont have the time nor the interest to do all this. Its kind of fad and does not really work as one would spend too much time reflecting how to make the notes better than actually working.

[@birrellwalsh]

Beethoven's Fifth... Magnum Opus

[@irreadings]

What about the crazies around here that uses Luhmman-inspired IDs for titles like 1, 1a, 1b, 1b1, 1b1a, 1b1b, 1b1c, 1c, 1d...?

[@linkingyourthinking]

You can lead a horse to water...

[@irreadings]

@@linkingyourthinking fair enough

[@BartvanderHorst]

The graph view is dumb because it is always different when you open it so it is impossible to really orient yourself in this supercloud... if it didn't randomly build itself everytime in a different way, it would be superusefull.