My simple note-taking setup | Zettelkasten in Obsidian | Step-by-step guide
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My name is Artem, I'm a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University.
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In this video I show you my simple yet powerful setup in Obsidian for taking Zettelkasten notes (which plugins I recommend using, my tagging system, etc). I also show a step-by-step guide how to set it up yourself.
🕒 OUTLINE:
00:00 Introduction
2:14 How Obsidian works and main definitions
4:00 My 4-folder organisation
5:13 How to set everything up from scratch
7:55 Sliding Panes & Admonition plugins
8:28 Templates
10:08 Creating notes
12:25 Tagging & classifying notes
13:16 - Maps of content (MOCs)
14:40 - Final words
16:07 - Outro
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Description remastered: February 2026. Links & Bio updated; original context preserved.