My simple note-taking setup | Zettelkasten in Obsidian | Step-by-step guide

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===== My name is Artem, I'm a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University. 🌎 Website and Social links: https://kirsanov.ai/ 📥 "Receptive Field" neuro-newsletter: https://artemkirsanov.substack.com/ ✨ Support me on Patreon to get access to Discord community: https://patreon.com/artemkirsanov ===== In this video I show you my simple yet powerful setup in Obsidian for taking Zettelkasten notes (which plugins I recommend using, my tagging system, etc). I also show a step-by-step guide how to set it up yourself. 🕒 OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 2:14 How Obsidian works and main definitions 4:00 My 4-folder organisation 5:13 How to set everything up from scratch 7:55 Sliding Panes & Admonition plugins 8:28 Templates 10:08 Creating notes 12:25 Tagging & classifying notes 13:16 - Maps of content (MOCs) 14:40 - Final words 16:07 - Outro ===== B-roll footage by: pexels.com Music by: pixabay.com Icons by: flaticon.com ===== *Disclaimer:* This channel is my personal project. The views and content expressed here are my own and are separate from my research role at Harvard University. #Obsidian #Zettelkasten #NoteTaking _Description remastered: February 2026. Links & Bio updated; original context preserved._