Note Taking §

• In Obsidian you should make notes that are titled as sentences like Diplomacy is the precursor to corcive strategies.md
  • So you can link to them in a paragraph and make it fit in easily

Good Practice Rules §

• Write in active voice instead of passive to put most important info in the front of sentence

  Example

  • Passive: Public policy is used by politicians and leaders.
  • Active: Politicians and leaders uses public policy.

• Types of note taking

  • (child:: Conceptual Note Taking)
  • (child:: Sequential Note Taking)

Daily Notes §

• Why should i use daily notes?
  1. If i want to test something out like a feature in notion or a dataview/coding feature. I can just drop it in the today’s note and have it be there later when i need it referenced again
     • Right now I want to make a note of review chapters of IS407, in waiting for my mid term exam, but don’t know where to put it
  2. Use daily notes as fleeting notes!
     • use the fleeting notes app here to put down thoughts wherever when you don’t wanna navigate or spend time opening obsidian

Referencing §

• If you’re studying one topic but using multiple sources or articles, don’t make a separate page for each of them, just compile them together, being neat does not help with convenience
• Don’t need to reference if the info is
  • non-controversial
  • not an original argument
  • is niche or specific statistics
• To indicate you reference the paper on page 1, paragraph 4, write [^1] (p1.4)

Atomic and spliting big notes §

• When writing notes make sure to accomadate and plan for future spliting
  • Use 1 # for Title and References
  • Use 2## for The content
  • Heading 2 should be named in a way that can be split into smaller files with them as their name like Consulate.History