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The video focuses on using journaling as a tool for self-reflection, self-discovery, and personal growth, emphasizing the importance of writing down and managing thoughts to achieve goals. It introduces and demonstrates the use of various Obsidian templates (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly) and community plugins such as "Calendar," "Periodic Notes," and "Templater" to organize reviews. The templates include specific sections for tracking habits, weight, YouTube subscribers, and daily highlights, with a structured folder system to manage notes efficiently.
Key organizational techniques involve using specific formats and metadata hacks, quick captures with the QuickAdd plugin, and Dataview queries to generate sections like "On This Day…" and "Highlights of the Day." The video also touches on integrating tools like Readwise and Snipd to streamline the note-taking process.
Throughout the video, the creator details how to create and link notes across different time periods (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) and encourages viewers to customize their own templates. The video concludes with a call for viewer engagement and a reminder to follow the creator on social media for more productivity and note-taking content.
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In this part of the video, the creator introduces journaling as an essential tool for self-reflection, self-discovery, and personal growth. She explains the importance of writing down and managing thoughts and projects to visualize steps and achieve goals. The focus of the video is on sharing her Obsidian templates for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reviews. She demonstrates how to use community plugins like “Calendar,” “Periodic Notes,” and “Templater” to manage these reviews. She details her folder structure within Obsidian, with separate folders for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly notes, and explains the formatting syntax she uses for each type of note to stay organized.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains their organizational structure for yearly, monthly, and daily notes, emphasizing the use of specific folders and templates. They outline the necessity to specify templates in the Templater settings for different periods. They introduce the “Daily Note Template” with four key properties: tags, a checkbox for habits, a field for weight tracking, and a field for YouTube subscribers. The metadata formatting hack using angle brackets and percentage signs is mentioned, which helps prevent Obsidian from detecting it. The template includes headings for the date, internal links to previous, current, and next periods, and sections for a daily quote, TODOs, and a Highlights of the Day callout generated by a Dataview query. The speaker references other resources like articles and videos for deeper dives into related topics.
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In this segment of the video, the creator mentions an upcoming video on how they use Readwise with Obsidian and provides a link to an article on Medium for a detailed explanation of their note-taking process using Snipd, Readwise, and Obsidian. Additionally, a free one-month trial of Snipd Premium is offered.
The creator then explains their daily note template in Obsidian. The template includes sections like “On This Day…” (a Dataview query for past notes), “Daily Log” (quick captures with the QuickAdd plugin), “Notes” (self-reflection and daily review), and “Tomorrow” (tasks for the next day). They demonstrate how to create a new daily note with links to the previous day, the current week, and sections for quotes, to-dos, highlights, and past notes.
Next, the video covers the “Weekly Template,” which is similar to the daily template but with modifications such as using a “weekly_note” tag, excluding TODOs and the Daily Log, and featuring year and week number headings. Internal links to the previous and next weeks, and callouts for daily notes of the week are also included. The process for creating these weekly notes every Sunday is also explained.
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In this part of the video, the creator demonstrates using different templates for organizing notes. Starting with the weekly note template, they show how to link to daily notes and navigate between weeks. Next, for the monthly note template, they explain the need for an alternative method to generate the title due to the inability to use the calendar plugin, and demonstrate how to create and link to weekly notes within the month. Finally, they introduce the yearly note template, which includes links to the previous and next years and monthly notes, showing its creation and navigation.
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In this part of the video, the presenter shows a yearly note template structure that includes internal links to the previous and next year, as well as links to each monthly note of the current year. They encourage viewers to create personal templates tailored to their needs. The video concludes with a reminder to follow the presenter on various social media platforms for more content on productivity, PKM, and note-taking. They invite viewers to leave comments on their own review practices and thank them for watching.