beauty consistency workflow

Highlighting, using colors (can) help to make it easier to remember, but also to interpret information.

This is page is work in progress

The Zotero color might not be the best Would be nice to (re-)style tags

This page is used to try to be more consistent in my colors, highlights, etc:

Highlighting text

The main point should be highlighted, while the supporting evidence is bold. Use italic for exceptionally nicely phrased expressions (in practice it can also be used for stress).

Zotero Annotating text (pdf and epub)

Transclude of Making-Proper-Marks-in-Books-•-Zettelkasten-Method#^de8630b1
Original source: here Use these colors to highlight text. (Highlights are not shared between zotero and Obsidian)

Also: Color-Code Elements in text Analysis

ColorUse
🟨 YellowHighlight - Important Point By Author
🟧 Orange💡 Main ideas and conclusions (Zotero)
🟦 Blue💬 Quote / quotable
🟩 Lime💚 Important To Me
🟥 Red⛔ Disagree With Author
🟪 Purple💭 Interesting side-point
Magenta⚙️ Method
⬜ Gray.🧩 Definitions and concepts

See: zotero template

Default colors

These colors work for paper notes, and the yomu ebook app. Yomu has its own (markdown) exporter, but the JSON export has more information, like the colours of the highlight

ColorUse
🟨 YellowHighlight - Important Point By Author
🟥 Red⛔ Disagree With Author
🟩 Lime💚 Important To Me
🟦 Blue💬 Quote / quotable
🟪 Purple💭 Interesting side-point
🟧 Orange💡 Main ideas and conclusions

jwlib

Different colour scheme, as the app focuses quite differently

ColorUse
🟨 YellowJehovah
🟩 LimePurpose
🟦 BlueInternal advice / 💭
🟪 PurpleExternal advice / 💭
🎀 Pink.Secondary answer / point
🟧 OrangePrimary answer / point
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Tags

A tag should be singular, no capitals, not more then two words, use underscore to connect words

Icons

Icons

Do icons actually help?

I have added several icons to my shortcuts, for example 💭 (think) for misc ideas and thoughts. It is still possible to search for them.

Notes Types that have icons*: 🌱 (evergreen) 💡 (concept) 💭 (idea) 🥫(sauce, for external link sources)

Idea: Use css to replace default tags with emojis, would that be easier? Or a plugin? What about export?

Obsidian plugin: GitHub - joethei/obsidian-link-favicon: See the favicon for a linked website., combined with GitHub - zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title: Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links make it very easy to add outside links, and get an idea what website it is from.

Callouts

Callouts are great for announcements, and meta-data.

  • Would it be hard to add asides (custom CSS)?

The new 1 concept template uses callouts for the main point of an evergreeen note , if it doesn’t fit inside a callout, then it is probably too long → feynman technique drawing

See Obsidian cheatsheet

Outside examples

Desktop-Cube/README.md at main · Schneegans/Desktop-Cube · GitHub - [[emoji] in github issues

‘‘‘ const colorLabel = { ‘blue’: ’⚡ Hypotheses’, ‘green’: ’💡 Main ideas and conclusions’, ‘orange’: ‘⚙️ Method’, ‘blue’: ’❔ Questions’, ‘yellow’: ’⭐ Important’, ‘purple’: ’🧩 Definitions and concepts’, ‘red’: ’⛔ Weaknesses and caveats’, ‘#aaaaaa’: ’📣 Survey instruments’ };’’’ Obsidian-Zotero import templates? - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum

How To Use Zotero With Obsidian For The Best Note-taking Experience | by Ric Raftis | Obsidian Observer | May, 2023 | Medium It is worth noting that there is no standard colour coding for highlighting notes so the following has been adopted for use within Zotero and within the template. Red — Very important, critical
Yellow — Interesting point
Green — Supporting argument/example
Orange — Disagree with author
Grey — Vocabulary, names and dates, definitions
Blue — Related, research this paper