Build Your Own Note-Taking System

Ben Hong

Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Turn your notes into a personalized system that's built for you.

We live in an age where we have to deal with more information that we can realistically process. We bookmark articles and save things for later, but the list often becomes a graveyard for things that will never get revisited or simply is lost amongst the noise. To navigate that influx productively, you need a system that goes beyond capture and retrieval.

Many note-taking frameworks promise a "one size fits all" system, but they often fall short over time. They're either too opinionated to adapt or too generic to offer meaningful guidance. In my experience, you eventually reach a point where your needs outgrow the framework. When that time comes, starting over with a new system can feel like the only option.

This course takes a different approach. Rather than prescribe a framework, it gives you the knowledge and skills to build a system that's optimized for how you think and work, and evolves as your needs change.

What you’ll learn

This is designed to teach you the fundamental concepts and skills needed to evaluate and build what you need in your note-taking system.

  • Leverage Obsidian Properties to give your notes structure and metadata.

  • Learn how timeline notes add a new perspective to your system

  • Learn techniques to compose your notes by reusing content in multiple notes.

  • Create dashboards and custom views to give you different perspectives on your notes.

  • Learn how you can integrate task management into your notes.

  • Leverage different visualizations of your notes to brainstorm and ideate.

  • Use Obsidian Templates to reduce the need for boilerplate

  • Learn how to leverage commands and shortcuts

  • Put everything together into a system that flows together

Learn directly from Ben

Ben Hong

Ben Hong

Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Previously worked ith
Google
GitLab
Netlify
Cypress.io
POLITICO
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Who this course is for

  • People who want to create their own personalized notes system.

  • People who want to enhance and automate their workflows for capturing and connecting ideas.

  • People who want to unlock new ways to be productive and effective with Obsidian through its plugin ecosystem.

What's included

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Live sessions

Learn directly from Ben Hong in a real-time, interactive format.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 14—Sep 20

    Sep

    14

    Lecture #1 + Exercise

    Mon 9/1411:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)

    Sep

    16

    Optional: Office Hours with Ben

    Wed 9/1611:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Sep 21—Sep 27

    Sep

    21

    Lecture #2 + Exercise

    Mon 9/2111:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)

    Sep

    23

    Optional: Office Hours with Ben

    Wed 9/2311:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)
    Optional

Schedule

Live sessions

1-3 hrs / week

    • Mon, Sep 14

      11:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)

    • Wed, Sep 16

      11:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)

    • Mon, Sep 21

      11:30 PM—1:00 AM (UTC)

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