<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D7e1ud_Dk24" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ## Thumbnail Me smiling at the camera and outlined against a backdrop of my Obsidian graph view. Words: "Every dev and tester should have this". ![[thumbnail.png]] ## Inspiration ![[obsidian-for-work-inspo.png]] ![[obsidian-for-work-inspo2.png]] ![[obsidian-for-work-inspo3.png]] ## Title 1. Obsidian for work: my secret for staying relevant as a software engineer 2. How I Use Obsidian for Work 3. Obsidian for Software Engineers 4. ==How I Use Obsidian for Work as a Software Developer Advocate== 5. personal knowledge management for software engineers ## What value do viewers get? - They understand how a PKM is useful for any knowledge worker - They learn about a new tool, Obsidian - They get to see how _I_ use Obsidian to learn and stay relevant in tech ## Hook The hardest part about working in tech is how quickly things change. Let's build a monolith - no, wait, microservices are more efficient. Actually, those are complicated; maybe a monolith wasn't such a bad idea. Trends in tech rise and fall so fast. How are we supposed to keep up? Here's a tip I would have given myself ten years ago, when I was starting out: build a Personal Knowledge Management system. Here's how I did it with a free app called Obsidian. ## Intro Hey, I'm Nicole van der Hoeven and this is Sesimbra, Portugal. I'm a Filipino-Australian-Dutch developer advocate and I like to talk about improving performance, whether that's application performance or personal productivity. ## Structure - What is PKM? Why does every knowledge worker need one? - A PKM system is a collection of tools and methods that you process information. If you work in tech, you are paid based on what you know and what you do with that knowledge. Formalizing how we learn and build things makes our work easier. - What is Obsidian? - Local storage of data in plain text - Extensible (lots of plugins) - Responsive development - Free (but not open-source) - What makes Obsidian different from other note-taking tools? - Philosophy: - A loose structure of tightly interconnected ideas fosters creativity and learning: too much of a and your thinking is rigid and clichéd; too weakly linked and you never see the bigger picture. - Emphasis on production rather than passive learning. - Features - Backlinks, linked and unlinked mentions, tags, metadata - How I use Obsidian - Input > process > output - Input - Readwise - Meeting notes - Open GitHub repos of Markdown files as a vault - Tags to keep track of product requests - Process - Learning logs and daily notes - Building my own search engine: [[Python]] or [[k6 (tool)|k6]] - good for learning new tools - Metadata in frontmatter for use in Dataview later - Output - Slides - Content calendar (and task management) - Publishing - Push to a GH repo and people not using Obsidian can still access it; save within a Dropbox folder for collaboration ## Outro Having to learn and keep up with the constant change is hard, but it turns out it's also one of the coolest parts about working in tech. Tools like Obsidian help us knowledge workers learn and retain what we need to do our jobs. If load testing is on your list of things to learn more about, I made this video explaining what load testing is and things to consider for load testing. You may also like this one, about how to plan a load test. Obrigada - Thanks for watching! ## Related videos and resources - [[Why Obsidian is cool]] - [[How I Use Obsidian for Work]] Readwise: https://readwise.io How I Use Obsidian for work: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/blog/20210518-how-i-use-obsidian-at-work/ Obsidian: https://obsidian.md Marcus Olsson's guide for creating Obsidian plugins: https://marcus.se.net/obsidian-plugin-docs My Obsidian vault, via Obsidian Publish: https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com Obsidian Kanban plugin: https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban Obsidian Fantasy Calendar plugin: https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-fantasy-calendar Obsidian Dataview plugin: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview Obsidian Readwise Official plugin: https://github.com/readwiseio/obsidian-readwise ## Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:51 What is Obsidian? What makes it different from other tools? 04:12 Obsidian and Readwise for capturing input 05:54 Processing data regularly and consolidating information 07:13 Creating meaningful output about what I've learned ## Pre-production - [x] Take a thumbnail photo and create one for YouTube (1280 x 720). - [x] Add description. - [x] Include the title and any keywords in the first few sentences, but in a natural way. - [x] Add related videos and resources as links. - [ ] Add end screen. - [ ] Add cards if necessary. - [ ] Add video to relevant playlist(s), or create a playlist if necessary. - [ ] Create captions using Descript or using the script, then edit them. - [ ] (For k6 videos) Send Floor thumbnail and video link for promotion. - [ ] Add chapters for YouTube if longer than 5 minutes. - [ ] Schedule on YouTube. ## Post-production - [ ] Promote on personal social media. - [ ] Twitter - [ ] LinkedIn - [ ] Create a blog post on [nicolevdh.com](http://nicolevdh.com) - [ ] Include in a weekly newsletter.