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0:00So, here's the thing about
0:01save-for-later apps. They become
0:03graveyards. You save an article because
0:05it feels productive. You add a YouTube
0:07video because you might need it someday.
0:09And then, nothing. It sits there. You
0:11never go back, and even if you did, you
0:13can't remember why you saved it. This is
0:16the consumption mindset, and consumption
0:19doesn't stick. But, when your sources
0:21live in Obsidian, something different
0:23happens. They become interwoven with
0:25your knowledge. That article that you
0:27clipped is now linked to the project it
0:29inspired. That YouTube video connected
0:31to the notes where you applied the
0:33ideas. You can trace how your thinking
0:35developed over time. And here's a test.
0:38When you look at a source and see no
0:40links, no connections, that is when you
0:43delete it. It has served no purpose. It
0:45didn't earn its place. This isn't a
0:48dumping ground. This is an engine of
0:51producing. And today, we're building it.
0:53So, in the previous three videos in the
0:55base series, we went through the system
0:58base to help you Obsidian's stay squeaky
1:00clean. In part two, we built the journal
1:02base to go through the daily notes
1:04flowing into the weekly, monthly,
1:05yearly. In part three, we tackled the
1:07project base, tackling all the
1:10white-collar workers' wet dreams. And
1:13today, we are building and finishing the
1:16final element in the series, which is
1:18the source base. So, the only tools
1:21we'll need for this is Obsidian Web
1:23Clipper and Obsidian Base. You'll see me
1:24play around with some AI tools just to
1:27clean up some notes as we go along.
1:30There'll be more videos on that coming
1:32later. But for now, the the two main
1:34things that we're interested in, because
1:35this is a base video, is the Obsidian
1:37Web Clipper to get the sources into
1:39Obsidian, and then Obsidian Base to
1:41display it. So, the build where you set
1:43up Web Clipper, we install it, we create
1:46a couple of Web Clipper templates. And
1:48then, for the source base, we build the
1:50source base with all the columns that we
1:52need from the sources that we're pulling
1:53in. A quick side note. If you like the
1:56setup and you like what Bases can do, I
1:58have the full setups available for
2:00projects, for journaling, and for
2:02studying. So, you don't have to build
2:03everything out yourself. I also offer
2:05one-on-one consulting sessions, so you
2:07can speed up your knowledge management
2:09journey.
2:12So, let's see what this might look like.
2:14So, this is my personal vault, and this
2:16is my source base.
2:18You can see the image cover can quickly
2:20tell you what it looks like. We have the
2:22file name, summary, the source, so you
2:24can just go into and watch it.
2:26Or better yet, you can just go into the
2:27video and click play in your Obsidian.
2:32You have the properties, so this just
2:34comes from our source template, which
2:37you won't really use because we have
2:39replicated [clears throat]
2:40this template in the Obsidian Web
2:42Clipper, which we are using to capture
2:44things from the web.
2:46But, this is what it looks like if you
2:47want to build it in your vault, if you
2:49want to capture things manually.
2:51We have
2:52If you go to source mode,
2:54top indicating that it's a source,
2:57we have the source where you would paste
2:58the link, the status, created, updated,
3:00aliases, up, related, tags,
3:02and summary. And then we just have these
3:05sections. And you can choose what you
3:08want to put into the source note
3:09template, but this is a good starting
3:11point. And
3:14we have the summary, we have the
3:16in-browser view, or if it's an article,
3:18you have a link here as well.
3:20And then we have the key takeaways. Now,
3:21this you can either do manually, which I
3:24think most of us are doing, but with AI
3:27tools,
3:28we can speed up this process by pasting
3:30in the transcript of an entire video, or
3:33podcast, or just pasting the entire
3:36article.
3:37And after you read it and watch it
3:39yourself, you can then ask AI to
3:41basically give you the key takeaways,
3:43and then you can go further by creating
3:46these notes. So, what will this look
3:48like? So, if we go to the web browser,
3:50and we go to Obsidian Web Clipper. So, I
3:53would say first go to Google. And then,
3:56to install Obsidian Web Clipper, so this
3:58just an extension of your browser. You
4:00can go to the Obsidian Web Clipper
4:02website, and then you can just add it
4:05here. And as soon as you went through
4:06the installation steps,
4:08you'll find that the extension lives
4:10under your extensions. It would either
4:11be in your extension, or there would be
4:14a little icon at the top right that
4:16looks like this, Obsidian Web Clipper.
4:19So, the next step is we want to see what
4:21templates we are using in the Web
4:22Clipper. So, first we need to find
4:26something that we want to learn
4:28something from. So, you can see I just
4:30have a lot of music, but somewhere
4:32there's going to be something that I
4:34would want to learn
4:36from.
4:37And this would typically be productivity
4:40things.
4:42Um I have a lot of music these days.
4:44Interesting.
4:47Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream.
4:49>> [clears throat]
4:50>> I like mythology, so
4:53you know, why not? This would be a good
4:55video.
4:58So, step number one is we click into the
5:00video.
5:01And we're going to go through the same
5:03steps, but I just want to show you what
5:04the templates looks like. So, if you
5:05want to go and update the Obsidian Web
5:08Clipper templates, but you can think of
5:10it as being quite similar to
5:12our templates in Obsidian itself.
5:18Which we just want to mimic the
5:20structure.
5:21Where we have our properties, summary,
5:23key takeaways, content, or the
5:26transcript.
5:27So, we want to replicate that, and we
5:29can do that by going to your web
5:31browser, going to Obsidian Web Clipper,
5:33and you'll be met with this thing that
5:35want to immediately clip this YouTube
5:38video into Obsidian.
5:40But what we want to do is we want to go
5:41into the settings of the Obsidian Web
5:43Clipper.
5:45And that's when we would go to our
5:47templates. So you would add a new
5:49template and then you would
5:50make another one for different
5:52scenarios. So I have basically two
5:53templates that I use a lot, YouTube
5:55templates and article templates. So
5:57let's first go to the YouTube template.
5:59Here you give it a name.
6:02You choose to override notes for
6:04behavior. This is the title that you
6:06give. So
6:07we are interested
6:10in putting a S for source, U for
6:13YouTube, and then this grabs the title
6:16of the video and then it tries and it's
6:18not always
6:20working 100% but it tries to go get the
6:23author or the channel name.
6:25Where do you want to save it? So this is
6:27we go back to Obsidian. Can see that we
6:30want to save it in our notes folder and
6:33we want to go to the Obsidian vault cuz
6:36you might have multiple Obsidian vaults.
6:38The last used one it's going to go and
6:40push it into there.
6:42The triggers is you can put websites
6:45that you generally visit. So if I go to
6:48YouTube I want it to automatically
6:49detect that it should use the YouTube
6:52template instead of the article
6:54template.
6:55>> [snorts]
6:55>> And
6:57properties, this is where we are
6:59building out our template structure. So
7:01you can see type is source YouTube, area
7:04source, this where you just type in the
7:06URL in curly brackets. So
7:09that would make it possible to just
7:11click on and then go to YouTube in order
7:13to watch it. The cover
7:15this is the cover code. So we go with
7:20image YouTube and then yeah, I would say
7:22just pause it and
7:25copy it if you want.
7:27I'll give some time.
7:31There we go.
7:34So this is some code that I had to write
7:36in order to
7:37have the best chance of retrieving a
7:39cover for a video.
7:41And then created, updated, and then the
7:44rest we just leave blank for now. And
7:45then the note content, so we want the
7:48URL to be displayed. So this would make
7:51it possible for you to watch the YouTube
7:52video in your Obsidian.
7:54We have the summary, we have key
7:56takeaways, and then we have the
7:57transcript. And for the article, it's
7:59basically the same thing.
8:01We just have the same properties, and
8:04then we have
8:06the same information for the note
8:08content with just a little bit of a the
8:10difference with the
8:11displaying of the image.
8:14So those are the two templates that I
8:15mostly use.
8:17So now if we go back to Sisyphus and The
8:19Impossible Dream,
8:21how I would normally do this is I would
8:23watch it if it's a topic that interests
8:25me,
8:26and [snorts]
8:26I would take my own notes.
8:29But I found this
8:31to be quite useful in terms of
8:34pulling it into Obsidian and doing my
8:36analysis there instead of just passively
8:39consuming because we want to do
8:40something with these sources, otherwise
8:42it was basically useless. If it's just
8:44for entertainment purposes, that's fine.
8:46But typically you won't watch
8:48productivity things, or when you learn
8:50about new subject, like I'm currently
8:52learning a lot about cloud code and how
8:53to set it up and using it with Obsidian.
8:56I don't want to watch a video
8:58and
8:59just passively consume because I would
9:02not retain most of the information, and
9:04that would be 15, 20, 30 minutes down
9:08the drain because I'm not using that
9:09information.
9:11So we want to find a methodology that
9:13helps us to actually use sources.
9:17For it not to become dead weight onto
9:19our system.
9:21So
9:21step number one is putting this into
9:23Obsidian. And what I like to do, you
9:26don't have to, but I like to go grab the
9:28transcript, and this is still a manual
9:30step for now,
9:31which you go down to the YouTube video's
9:34transcript section, show transcript,
9:36and then you just do a nice little
9:39copy-paste.
9:42Next step, you go to your extension or
9:44the little icon at the top right if you
9:46see it. Extensions, Obsidian Web
9:48Clipper.
9:49And it automatically chose the right
9:52template, but you can also go choose
9:53yourself which template you want to use.
9:55And we have these two, so YouTube is
9:57fine.
9:58We check if everything has been filled
10:00in the right way. So, yes, name and case
10:03nice that. Nice.
10:05And the transcript, I'm just going to
10:07paste the transcript. And I'm going to
10:09add it to Obsidian.
10:12So, there we have it. We added it to
10:14Obsidian. And sometimes the icon doesn't
10:16appear correctly.
10:18Uh just with some videos you can't
10:20always get right, but that's fine.
10:22And this is typically when you would
10:24watch through the video. And this is
10:26where you would write down any of the
10:29key concepts that interests you.
10:34And this is where you would turn it to
10:36actual notes that lives in your
10:40Obsidian.
10:42And this is how you start using sources
10:45in order to feed into future projects,
10:48into future thinking. Because once you
10:50make notes out of the concepts,
10:52that is when we go back to the source
10:55base, you can see that sources aren't
10:57just dead weight.
11:00If they have file backlinks and file
11:03links, so you can see we created a note.
11:05If these two
11:06are being populated, it means
11:09that something is happening and we can
11:11actually trace back how certain sources,
11:14how certain videos, how certain articles
11:17are
11:18helping us produce or think. And it
11:21doesn't become just dead weight. It's
11:22not just sources that's sitting there.
11:24You can go and look at the connections.
11:28So, if we go for
11:32Uh we'll come back to this uh scenario a
11:33little bit later and I'll show you the
11:35importance of the file backlinks and
11:37links
11:38uh via the graph view. But for now, we
11:41want to go back to this video.
11:43And
11:45we want to start filling this in. So,
11:46for me, I like Claude code.
11:49And
11:50I like to make life a little bit easier
11:52on me. So, what I've done is I wrote a
11:55skill called
11:58source processing.
12:00And I'm going to point the skill. This
12:02is just It think of it as ChatGPT inside
12:05of your Obsidian vault that has access
12:06to your notes.
12:09And what this skill does is it goes and
12:12reads through this entire transcript and
12:15it takes out a summary and then the key
12:17takeaways.
12:19And from this key takeaways, I can then
12:22see which key takeaways I resonate with
12:25and start to make the notes.
12:28So, you can see our little Claude
12:30bot is working for us. And again, you
12:32don't need this.
12:34Some people still prefer to do this
12:36manually, but for me
12:38to have the AI analyze the sources
12:41immediately when I'm watching them, it
12:43helps me make connections much quicker.
12:46So, for the key takeaways, you still
12:48want to create those notes. You don't
12:51just want to tell
12:52the assistant like, "Hey, go and push
12:55knowledge into my system that I am not
12:57really curating." Like, no. You want
12:59this to be the extension of your brain.
13:01So, in the source page
13:03this is where you use AI in order to
13:06just pump out information, but with the
13:08key takeaways that's going to return
13:11that is when you want to do it yourself.
13:14And you can ask AI to clean it up.
13:16So, now we can actually see what is
13:19happening in the video. So, clean up the
13:21transcript.
13:22We have the tool mentions, no tools, but
13:24the key takeaways. Set impossible goals
13:27in moment of adversity. Like that might
13:29might be something that I resonated
13:30with.
13:31Or I want to start
13:34putting in the the Greek story of
13:36Sisyphus.
13:37And this is where I would then turn this
13:39into a note.
13:41And I would then
13:44create a note and I would say
13:47Sisyphus Sisyphus
13:50the Greek mythological
13:54character.
13:57And then I might want to learn about
13:59Sisyphus.
14:00Well,
14:01he was a king that was cursed by the
14:04gods to perpetually push a boulder up a
14:06hill. And this is when I would just
14:08write out the story as I remember it. So
14:11that's very important that with these
14:13type of notes,
14:15you want to make this your own.
14:17You don't just want to have a Wikipedia
14:19of other people's thoughts and ideas.
14:21Like this is where you start to wrangle
14:22with what you want this note to host.
14:26Because Sisyphus in the future you might
14:29write an article or you might have a
14:32story that you need to tell for a
14:34Toastmasters or public speaking
14:35organization.
14:37Or you just want to use it in a for me
14:40for YouTube videos. I might want to talk
14:42about Sisyphus or you just interested in
14:44learning mythology.
14:47This is when you can start referencing
14:49this note because you created it and by
14:52referencing it,
14:54you are building upon existing
14:56knowledge.
14:57So all information
15:00from your brain here.
15:04And then you might ask AI to just clean
15:06it up after you've typed everything else
15:08on what you want [clears throat] this
15:10note to contain.
15:13So we made a note of Sisyphus.
15:16Uh
15:17something else life doesn't pause your
15:18dreams. Nobody cares but you. The weight
15:20of unrealized goals. So there might be
15:22some cool things that pops out when you
15:25get the key takeaways in this format
15:27that you might not have written down
15:29yourself. So, this is how we use AI just
15:32to speed up this process.
15:34Now, when we go back to our source, we
15:36might add
15:39and go add the tags and summary for that
15:41source as well.
15:43So, here we have the summary and just
15:46some tags and then you might say, "Oh,
15:48well, this is on missology
15:53as well.
15:54Uh goals, persistence, mindset, running.
15:57Uh not really.
15:59He uses running as the example, but it's
16:00not about running, so I don't want that
16:01to pop up under my running notes.
16:04So, now if we go back to the source,
16:07the source space, you can see that we
16:09have Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream,
16:11Casey,
16:12and we have the summary, we have the
16:13source, we have the tags.
16:15And here we have file links. So, these
16:18are links that we created in that note.
16:20So, you can see that there's information
16:23flowing into our system from [snorts]
16:25this note. So, if you go back to it and
16:28we say
16:29open local graph,
16:31you can see that these
16:33this little dot here coming from that
16:35source, that is information entering our
16:38knowledge base.
16:40And
16:42this is the link that traditional
16:44save-it-for-later applications are
16:46missing.
16:48There's no link between the source and
16:51what you decide to enter into your life.
16:54This is broken.
16:55But now, for the rest of my life,
16:57whenever I think, write, talk about
17:00Sisyphus,
17:01this note would then expand into
17:04different areas within my thinking. And
17:07I actually think I do have
17:10a note about Sisyphus, and I do. So,
17:12here I have Sisyphus.
17:15Sisyphus was a figure in Greek mythology
17:17condemned to roll a boulder up a hill
17:19only for it to roll back down each time
17:21he neared the top symbolizing endless
17:23futile labor.
17:24And it's titled The Myth of Sisyphus.
17:27So, this is an old note which I would
17:29then
17:30imagine that I didn't have this note.
17:32That is what I would write in this
17:36note. This is maybe a bad example. I'm
17:38just going to merge these two. You can
17:40see I'm still using the old text
17:41structure, but the new text structure
17:43should say
17:44Greek mythology
17:46mythology character for instance.
17:49But, I don't want this.
17:52So, I'm just going to
17:57merge them.
18:05So, now we have the Sisyphus linked to
18:07this note as well. And this is how you
18:08build knowledge. So, then you can see
18:10with the knowledge growth Sisyphus.
18:14This is the different places
18:17that it relates to. So, on this day I
18:19did something with Sisyphus.
18:22On future vacation approach to life. I
18:24have no idea what that is.
18:28We tend to delay gratification in the
18:30hope that something better will happen
18:31in the future instead of enjoying the
18:32present moment.
18:34You're doomed like Sisyphus in The Myth
18:36of Sisyphus. Okay, so this is where this
18:38note originated.
18:41So, it's just nice to then see
18:44how this Sisyphus and The Myth of
18:47Sisyphus might relate to this idea we
18:49tend to delay gratification
18:51in the hope that something better will
18:52happen in the future instead of enjoying
18:54the present moment.
18:56So, this is quite cool because then you
19:00can obviously see this web of how the
19:02sources are actively helping you produce
19:05thoughts and helping you produce ideas.
19:07And let's think. Okay, so
19:10we digress. We are
19:12talking about the source base. So, the
19:15source base
19:18We have all of this. So, how do we
19:19actually create this? Well, you go to
19:21the side panel, right click, new base,
19:24and then you can rename the new base.
19:27So, this would basically say table or
19:28something like that. Can rename it to
19:30sources.
19:32Make sure that table, the layout is
19:33table, and the row height is tall.
19:36And now we want to populate this table
19:40with the necessary columns that we want.
19:42So, file name, image, cover, summary,
19:44that you just do by going to properties
19:46and just clicking everything.
19:48And then the only one that's a little
19:49bit different, like as you can see in
19:52these notes, we have property called
19:54source, and this is where we
19:56automatically grab
19:58the YouTube video, which [clears throat]
20:00basically returns its thumbnail.
20:03We create a new Can see this little
20:05formula. We create a new property, which
20:07you can do by add formula.
20:09Give the formula name and add the
20:12formula. And the formula would be this,
20:14image cover. So, we're just taking the
20:16cover property and converting it to an
20:19image so that it displays here.
20:23Then we have summary, source, tags,
20:24area, type, created, file backlinks, and
20:26file inlinks, and we spoke about how
20:29important that is.
20:31And then we have untitled, which should
20:33not be there. So, I'm just going to
20:34delete this.
20:36Uh that's the one we just created.
20:39And this is basically your source base.
20:41So, now you can go through and you can
20:43actually see
20:44which sources don't have any inlinks or
20:49backlinks.
20:50So, for this one,
20:51there's no connections, but this is one
20:53of my videos.
20:54So, this would probably be connected.
20:57I'll still have to connect it to the
20:58project of creating that video. So,
21:00let's take this Claude Code plus
21:02Obsidian base AI-driven knowledge base,
21:03cuz I'm learning a lot about Claude Code
21:05and Obsidian. There's no links, and it's
21:07now a month later. A I might come back
21:10to this video and see if there's
21:12anything that I want to take from it.
21:15And if there's not, that is when I
21:17delete it. And this is the the
21:19difference between a traditional source
21:21or save-it-later app and Obsidian is you
21:23can actually see if you're using that
21:25source or not. If it's
21:27um being part of a lineage of thinking,
21:30which has value in itself, that gives
21:32you the opportunity to go to the next
21:34level of thinking, not just reactive
21:35thinking, but by looking at how you form
21:38the thoughts and ideas and projects and
21:40how projects were completed and how you
21:41handle with tasks. That in itself is a
21:44higher level of thinking.
21:46Structuring is thinking. Don't fool
21:48yourself.
21:49But if I see it's not valuable, that is
21:51when I delete it.
21:54But
21:55if I see something has folded into
21:58something else, so here I made a couple
21:59of notes.
22:01Wide, medium, tight shots on how to
22:03document your life.
22:05This is a source that I will never
22:06delete because I would
22:08want to see how I
22:12finish projects, how my thoughts
22:13develop, because I can, cuz we have the
22:15lineage.
22:16So if I go into it
22:17and I go to local graph,
22:21I can see all my thinking. So here I can
22:24see that I linked it to
22:28a videography, cinematography,
22:29photography article that I'm planning to
22:31write in the future cuz for some reason
22:34photography interests me.
22:36And here I created a note from that
22:40video, which I wrote in my own words,
22:42wide shot, medium shot, tight shot, why
22:44is this important? Now I can just reuse
22:46this in future articles and videos.
22:49All my thinking, or if I'm trying to
22:51explain
22:53I'm not a photographer, but I can hand
22:56off all of my knowledge to somebody
22:57quite easily because of how I'm
22:59structuring it.
23:01But again, we digress. We were busy
23:04building the Obsidian base.
23:07So, filters.
23:08Very easy. File path does not contain
23:11template and the type contains source.
23:14And that's pretty much it.
23:16So, we have the properties, we have the
23:19two filters, and that is your entire
23:21source base.
23:23So, to recap, we go to YouTube, we go to
23:27an article, we
23:30decide that we want to clip it, we use
23:32the Obsidian Web Clipper,
23:34we paste the transcript if it's a
23:36YouTube video
23:38that you can find here by show
23:39transcript, and then just copy paste
23:42into the Obsidian Web Clipper.
23:46And while you're watching the video,
23:47that is when you will
23:49come to Obsidian.
23:52And you'll give yourself some key
23:54takeaways.
23:55And if a key takeaway resonates with
23:57you, that is when you will create that
23:59note. And that's when you will step away
24:01from the source and fill it in in your
24:03own words.
24:04And you can then branch out from here.
24:07It's like the myth of Sisyphus. So,
24:08Sisyphus was the king. The myth of
24:10Sisyphus was what?
24:12Clever but deceitful king angered the
24:13gods by repeatedly cheating death. As
24:15punishment, he was condemned to an
24:17eternity in the underworld where he was
24:18forced to roll a massive boulder up a
24:20hill. Each time he neared the top, the
24:21boulder would roll back down making his
24:23efforts forever futile.
24:25And then I have my own interpretation.
24:27That is basically the whole process.
24:28Now, you might wonder this is a source
24:30base for just raw sources, but in the
24:33future we might want to return all notes
24:36related to
24:37uh Claude code, for instance.
24:40Or let's take
24:42longevity. Longevity is a good one.
24:46So, what you would do is you'll create a
24:48new note, and
24:51I'll call it longevity
24:54index. So, this is a page where I want
24:56to see all my longevity-related notes,
24:58meetings, work sessions, notes I created
25:00with the tag longevity.
25:02And we just use knowledge base by tag.
25:05So, this is part of my project base
25:07series, but we can use it here as well.
25:09And the tag that we're looking for is
25:11longevity.
25:13So, now we can see all of the notes that
25:15we've ever mentioned with the tag
25:17longevity. So, the reason why my
25:19longevity is not popping up is because I
25:21still have the old tag, which was on
25:24longevity. So, you can see when I put on
25:26longevity, these notes pops up. So, I
25:29might want to change that quickly.
25:31Uh let's go to
25:33tags.
25:35And let's look for
25:38on
25:39longevity. So, I'm migrating the on tag.
25:42We don't need it anymore
25:44because of bases.
25:45Just to
25:47remove the on because it makes more
25:49sense. It's easier to do as well.
25:51So, now we have all of the tags on
25:53longevity, and you can see
25:56uh sulforaphane. I've no idea what that
25:59is. So, let's go look at what
26:01sulforaphane is.
26:04This is an old note. So, this is all the
26:06benefits of sulforaphane, which you find
26:10in broccoli. So, consume
26:13cruciferous
26:15vegetables, broccoli, brussels sprouts,
26:17cabbage, similar vegetables, and a
26:18specific way to get the sulforaphane to
26:21be activated.
26:23So, this is how you would extract
26:26information on
26:28longevity. So, you might ask, what does
26:30this base look like? Well, we have
26:33filter, and these are the tags that we
26:35use, but you can also go download my
26:37project base from the previous video,
26:40which would have this knowledge base by
26:42tag, which you use the template.
26:45And you can see it's a little bit
26:49funky-looking because I'm using a bunch
26:52of code that if I create this from
26:54another place, it automatically falls in
26:55the tags and up.
26:58But,
26:59what it looks like when you go to source
27:02mode is just this. So, we're referencing
27:03the project base knowledge base by tag.
27:06And what does that base look like?
27:08Just has a filter for these three.
27:10Where the file tags contains this file
27:12link,
27:13so longevity,
27:15where the file name is not this file
27:16name just so this file is not being
27:18returned,
27:19and where the tags aren't empty.
27:22So, these three gets you your longevity
27:25index by just putting in longevity.
27:29So, to recap, we have a source base. We
27:32want to populate the sources and we
27:33actually want to use the sources because
27:36if it's not being used, that's when we
27:38cut it. We ruthlessly delete it. We
27:41eliminate it from our system.
27:43And the way that we do that is we go to
27:46the YouTube or any article, and we just
27:50go to extensions,
27:51Obsidian Web Clipper, make sure
27:53everything is correct, fill in the
27:55transcript if needed, add to Obsidian,
27:58and then you [clears throat] fill in
28:00your key takeaways.
28:03This is where you actually create the
28:05knowledge. So, you go out and you
28:07actually create that knowledge. And then
28:09this knowledge becomes
28:11part of your second brain.
28:13Can see this is old format, so don't
28:16look too deeply into the structure.
28:19My new structure is way more simplified
28:21node templates. So, my new structure is
28:23just this. And
28:26this
28:27becomes elements for future projects and
28:30future thinking.
28:32So, relatively short video, but I would
28:34say a fun one.

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