Obsidian

As of January 11th, I keep fiddling with our class Obsidian starter vault. We will only start to use Obsidian in week three.

Obsidian is a powerful tool for taking notes and organizing knowledge. As their promo materials describes:

Everything is connected

The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following connections is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.

They are happy to describe what it is and what it is good for. We agree: it's benefits are:

1. it allows you to connect information easily and visual those connections

2. it can be used simply or in very complex ways - it has a community of developpers who keep expanding what it can do

3. it is future proof - it is easy to keep ownership of your information and you can easily export out information if you want to stop using it.

To get a sense of what Obsidian does and how you can use it, take a look at their resources page: https://www.obsidianroundup.org/resources/

At the end of the term, students may wish to submit their entire Obsidian vault to show how it was used throughout term (i.e. to show whether the student made use of the medium above expectation) to bump up your participation mark.

• our goal will also be to create a communal vault, linking people's work together and establishing a shareable repository of everyone's work in a new Obsidian vault.

• students will submit their annotated bibliography as part of an Obsidian vault, but the remaining assignments can be completed in other formats.

We can share a common Obsidian vault on Teams (it can be synced via OneDrive if that it is installed on your computer or through the Teams interface manually).