ObsidianRocks - Taking Notes

From Obsidian Rocks: How To Take Notes In Obsidian

Structure notes with an eye towards discoverability.

Create atomic notes that stand on their own two feet, that aren’t glued to any other single resource.

how to capture information

keep a simple list of books I had read (that year)

Obsidian has a linked nature

Jordan Peterson’s Beyond Order

Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated

C.S. Lewis

• Fighting with yourself every day is hard.
• Pursuing the good at all costs is hard.
• Avoiding distraction is hard.
• But that is the way to salvation, that is the way to a good life, and there’s no point putting it off until you’re old.
• Fix yourself now, with any luck you can bring a bunch of other people along for the ride.

Do not do what you hate.

Follow your conscience and live with the consequences.

The consequences of following your conscience will always be better than the consequences of betraying yourself.

I’ve never read the full note. It’s too dense, too cluttered, too much work to figure out the long-lost context TL;DR

The worst type of note is a note that requires context to understand.

Disconnect the idea from the book