Use it or lose it

Notes

Reasons we don’t make stuff

• Imposter syndrome
  • Looking stupid
• What is this for?
  • “I’ll map out the next three years so I have a clear purpose…”
• It’s not polished enough…

Antidote…Learn. In. Public.

• “Work with the garage door up.”
• “Document, don’t create.”
  • We all have a story to tell. Think of it as documenting, not publishing.
  • Austin Kleon’s book Show Your Worktoread
• We can be guides and not gurus.

Process

Step 1: Let curiosity be your guide

Take notes on the things that interest you.

Step 2: Identify lightening rods of thought

1. Bottom up: pick a topic and look at that note’s local graph
2. Top down
3. Outside in
4. Chaos

• Use query - the built-in Obsidian function, rather than data view.

E.g.,

TABLE tags as Tags
FROM #PKM AND -"Daily" AND -"Templates"

Chaos

Use smart random notes!