What's the Difference Between Traditional and Visual Note-Taking in Obsidian?

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The main ways to do mind maps was through paper note-taking or on a different website but they didn't bring the same editing capabilities as X-coliDRAW does. I think there's lots of benefits in being able to write things down and I tend to agree with the this notion that writing is thinking so if you're able to express your thoughts then you actually have thoughts, he says. He thinks our ability to write has been just a blink of an eye in the last couple of thousand years.

Zsolt Viczian is a YouTuber, blogger, and plug-in developer for Obsidian. He creates content on business analysis, algorithms of thought, note-taking, journaling, and visual thinking inside of Obsidian. He’s the creator of two plug-ins, Excalidraw, a visual-spatial drawing tool inside of Obsidian, and Excalibrain, a plug-in for visualizing relationships in your markdown documents.

In this podcast you will learn:

What visual thinking is
Why it's so effective at facilitating retention and understanding
How Zolt implements visual thinking into Obsidian.

Zsolt's Twitter: https://www.google.com/search?q=zsolt+twitter&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS951US951&oq=zsolt+twitter&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l4j0i390l2j69i60.1805j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Zsolt's GetHub: https://github.com/zsviczian
Zsolt's Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/
Zsolt's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/visualpkm/featured

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