#Goodnotes and marginnote pdf#

DevonThink - for filing the output from all these apps, plus original pdf papers, and paper MindMap scans, and for its metadata and powerful search.Notion - for project organisation (now migrating my notes/ideas log).Apple Notes - for journal notes (now migrating to Obsidian).Concepts app - for mind-mapping/brainstorming (pdf images/text export) Concepts is a vector-based graphics app, so you can zoom in or out and never lose resolution it also utilises layers, so you can create mind maps with multiple layers, edit your mind maps, cut and paste between them, add layers of comments or revisions, etc… I prefer it to any purpose-made mind mapping app, and it even has an “infinite canvas” for really huge mind maps!.LiquidText - for ‘collections’ of research papers I’m thinking about, and for its subsequent annotations export (I do the review of paper collections here, and then send my notes and extracts to Obsidian).GoodNotes5 - for pdf mark-ups and my digital planner (great hand writing recognition/OCR/markdown export).Drafts5 - for note taking/creating drafts in markdown format.I plan to migrate ALL of my notes based on input from workflows using a combination of apps that I’ve settled on for now, from which I can export useful snippets or entire notes to Obsidian for making connections: And I take notes in lots of places that naturally fit my workflows and personal preferences/habits, so I don’t want to force-fit everything into one workflow (I’ve tried many times in the past, and failed). I mention this, because for me I’m not looking to use Obsidian for file management. as a place to ‘park’ ideas and thoughts.to show me notes relevant to what I’m thinking about.to re-discover notes I’ve written and forgotten about.

I also want to collect and organise my thoughts and ideas, for use in projects.

#Goodnotes and marginnote how to#

The problem I’m trying to solve is how to better utilise my paper and digital notes as ‘scaffolding’ for my thinking/learning process, whilst I make sense of and digest new ideas and information. FYI I’m on MacOS/iOS via iCloud/GDrive/DropBox for all my workflows. I’ll share my use case, in case it helps anyone’s thinking. The beauty of Obsidian is the flexibility, but it’s also what makes it hard to get your head around! I’m new to Obsidian (but not to personal knowledge management), so I’ve been thinking a lot about this too. If your goal is to learn, then removing the friction to create literature notes may not really reduce the friction in learning. Most important, just start with a way, and look for parts of your process with friction, and try and remove it.Ĭontinually, until there’s no friction left. Their writing… ends up having lots of cruft you can remove and still retain the meaning.” when processing quotes, trim them down to the core thought or idea.

when processing, rewrite in your own words because it’ll make more sense to you later than the authors words.

know your goal for a given highlight: are you trying to learn something, or do you want to be able to quote something (almost) verbatim?.

when you process, your earlier notes and highlights will be less useful/necessary as your later notes and highlights will encompass the earlier thoughts/learnings as well… so delete liberally.

Stories are the best way to communicate somethg I like to highlight good stories authors use as examples, because that’s what I’d quote when writing something.

highlight only what you want to find later.

as you read, you learn, so you don’t need to highlight ideas you’ve already highlighted unless they sum the idea up better.

You can always search later to find all the notes with a given citation and link them.) If you don’t care about that, or aren’t sure you do, then don’t link back. (If you want to track how influential a source is, link from your atomic notes back to the lit note. Once there, I process each highlight/note into atomic notes (new or added to existing) and make sure each note cites the source.Īs I process a highlight or note, I remove it from the literature note, until finally the lit note is empty, and I know I’m done. That creates a literature note for each work. I use the Readwise plugin to import only my highlights and notes into Obsidian. Highlight where you read and add notes where you read. Readwise can pull in highlights from Kindle and Apple Books as well as article highlights from Instapaper (and maybe Pocket?.