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Title: How to Take Smart Notes in Obsidian Authors: Joshua Duffney Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 8 Date: 2025-02-15 Last Highlighted: **
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Fleeting notes capture ideas. Literature notes solidify understanding. Permanent notes translate understanding to long-term knowledge. And organizing the slip-box through making connections, surfaces insight while anchoring new knowledge to previous knowledge.
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Permanent notes are the result of your own thinking, which is sparked by a fleeting note and/or a literature note.
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Abstraction is the process of taking an idea from its original text and making it usable in a general sense without the support of added context. To abstract an idea you rewrite it in your own words as if youâre writing for someone else who doesnât have the context of its source.
Because of the ephemeral nature of a fleeting note, process them within 1-2 days before their meaning is lost. As you process your fleeting notes, some will become permanent notes, some will become project notes, and others will become tasks for your productivity planner.
Taking Smart Notes is a form of deliberate practice that captures your best ideas, improves your understanding of the information you consume, while building an extensive knowledge base of notes by translating what you learn into a latticework of mental models, wisdom, and insight.
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Once an idea has been abstracted into a permanent note it can be connected to existing notes, which completes the process of elaboration.
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By design the slip-box is not meant to be searched itâs meant to be browsed leisurely like a library, and you browse your slip-box through its connections.
Fleeting notes can be ideas, insights, and/or tasks.