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Obsidian & Zettelkasten for Book Summary (Literature Note)

Created Apr 16, 2022

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Obsidian management

Progressive summarisation can help while highlighting the highlights. Import into notability and do the highligting and note-taking once again.

03:02 - Split Obsidian into two pages.

Split vertically

Two panes of the same note side by side

Reading a book is like being on a journey. When someone is summarizes the book, it's almost as if we are going into this journey.

Steps

Zettelkasten consists of multiple methods. You capture, connect, crystallzie and create.

Finally it becomes a form of permanent notes.

This can be done by doing a blog post, or a shareable post.

More specifically, by summarizing the book, there are two parts in capturing the process.

I like reading books on Kindle to automatically import my highlights directly to Obsidian.

Also make a note on Notability and add them to the book summary

Progressive Summarization

Highlighting the highlights.

Export the highlights as a PDF

In this way, the link would be reflected into Obsidian

Reading a book is like being on a journey. When someone is summarizes the book, it's almost as if we are going into this journey.

Steps

Zettelkasten consists of multiple methods. You capture, connect, crystallzie and create.

Finally it becomes a form of permanent notes.

This can be done by doing a blog post, or a shareable post.

More specifically, by summarizing the book, there are two parts in capturing the process.

I like reading books on Kindle to automatically import my highlights directly to Obsidian.

Also make a note on Notability and add them to the book summary

Progressive Summarization

Highlighting the highlights.

Export the highlights as a PDF

In this way, the link would be reflected into Obsidian

Reading a book is like being on a journey. When someone is summarizes the book, it's almost as if we are going into this journey.

Steps

Zettelkasten consists of multiple methods. You capture, connect, crystallzie and create.

Finally it becomes a form of permanent notes.

This can be done by doing a blog post, or a shareable post.

More specifically, by summarizing the book, there are two parts in capturing the process.

I like reading books on Kindle to automatically import my highlights directly to Obsidian.

Also make a note on Notability and add them to the book summary

Progressive Summarization

Highlighting the highlights.

Export the highlights as a PDF

In this way, the link would be reflected into Obsidian

Reading a book is like being on a journey. When someone is summarizes the book, it's almost as if we are going into this journey.

Steps

Zettelkasten consists of multiple methods. You capture, connect, crystallzie and create.

Finally it becomes a form of permanent notes.

This can be done by doing a blog post, or a shareable post.

More specifically, by summarizing the book, there are two parts in capturing the process.

I like reading books on Kindle to automatically import my highlights directly to Obsidian.

Also make a note on Notability and add them to the book summary

Progressive Summarization

Highlighting the highlights.

/ts Collapse and expand different parts and sections

Export the highlights as a PDF

In this way, the link would be reflected into Obsidian

03:46 - What are the things missed in the current summary?

Why being nice is bad

04:06 - Being too nice, there could be very negative consequences that could affect you

Consequences

04:25 - Highlights