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#^de8630b1Original source: here Use these colors to highlight text. (Highlights are not shared between zotero and Obsidian)
Also: Color-Code Elements in text Analysis
| Color | Use |
|---|---|
| 🟨 Yellow | Highlight - 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
| Color | Use |
|---|---|
| 🟨 Yellow | Highlight - 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
| Color | Use |
|---|---|
| 🟨 Yellow | Jehovah |
| 🟩 Lime | Purpose |
| 🟦 Blue | Internal advice / 💭 |
| 🟪 Purple | External advice / 💭 |
| 🎀 Pink. | Secondary answer / point |
| 🟧 Orange | Primary answer / point |
| source |
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?
- Good example:
- data task codes - Eleanor’s Notes - Obsidian Publish
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
Outside examples
Writing in books:
Bob Doto on marginalia yomu link
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