# Taking Notes for Work With Obsidian  ## About - Author: Nicole van der Hoeven - Title: Taking Notes for Work With Obsidian - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g38K_DtxFI ## Highlights The new way of taking notes should be constantly evolving.In fact, we should never thinkof notes as a snapshot in time.They should be an entire evolution, a life cycle that moves with you.As our knowledge changes and we learn new thingsin our respective careers,we should also be updating our notesto reflect that evolution --- Well then we'd have something like continuous note taking.Now what would that look like?It would look like notes where we read somethingor talk to a colleague or learn about something, process what we've learned,and have different levels of abstraction, perhaps,so that it's rooted in context and also abstracted.Then we write about it,we share it with other colleagues,and put it out into the world.We listen for that feedback of what we misunderstoodor what we got right,and then we incorporate that back into the cycleand let it inform what we're going to learnor write about next. This idea of continuous note taking is the new way. --- a test of learning is when you can explainand express something to somebody else.Taking notes is kind of like that,except the person that you're explaining tois the future you,the future you that probably doesn't remember anythingthat that you're working on now. - Note: The beauty is that future you can also edit it and improve on it with further knowledge. --- by learning in public, you create learning exhaust.Learning exhaust are the byproductsof learning and especially learning in public.So they are things like being able to publish your notes.Learning exhaust is super usefulbecause it quantifies what you've been working on,and not in a way where you feel likeyou have to write a blog postand it has to be super polished and edited.Learning exhaust is just putting things out thereand not worrying if you've gotten a few things wrong. ---