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Digital notetaking apps amplify our tendency to overselect captures and results in a mess of unprocessed notes. This video covers the tradeoff with using quick captures in digital notetaking apps like Obsidian, Notion and Roam. I provide 5 selection criteria that have helped me kill my Obsidian inbox and write more valuable notes using the zettelkasten system.

Get off the information collection treadmill by generating higher quality outputs with more meaningful inputs. Be a creator, not a collector.

0:00 Intro
1:42 Avoid the personal wikipedia trap
2:56 The problem with fleeting notes
5:12 Handwriting source notes
7:11 Capturing quotes, excerpts and highlights
9:15 Using a reference manager (Zotero)