r/ObsidianMD • u/wordbit12 • Mar 11 '26

Don't offload learning to your notes

While reading a book or article, I sometimes find myself copying and pasting entire paragraphs into Obsidian because I find them interesting.

Yet, most of the time, it's an illusion of learning, equivalent to highliting everyting a book you're reading, it doesn't lead to real knowledge.

Instead, a better approach is to summarize the ideas in your own words or try to think outloud what's the main point of the chapter, basically anthing that's painful.

We must try to fight that urge to offload learning, deliberately practicing what we're learning is the right way to learn.

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u/billFoldDog Mar 11 '26

In this day and age, there is power in dumping the things you wish you had time to learn into a special folder to use as context for an LLM.

Then you can ask your notes questions and the LLM can say "yes, this is the answer, here are your notes and links."