## Tasks - [x] Fill out [[#Planning]] 🆔 5vq0tl 📅 2024-10-11 Packaging - [x] Fill out [[#Packaging]] 🆔 icdffu 📅 2024-10-11 - [x] Think of possible titles and thumbnail, run through thumbnail principles and checklist - [x] Use one as a reference as you create the video - [ ] [[#Outline]] 🆔 5erblf 🔺 - [x] [[#Intro]] - [ ] [[#Content]] 🆔 aesoh5 - [ ] Add new changes in [[#Youtube v2]] - [ ] [[#Conclusion]] - [ ] Choose what video to do the demo on 🆔 f65t58 Scripting - [ ] See note on it - [ ] Pay-offs Video editing - [ ] Create project in Davinci Resolve - [ ] Video Edit - [ ] Watched through it once - [ ] Work on thumbnail - [ ] Description - [ ] Share on YouTube post, Twitter, and Discord - [ ] Share on next newsletter ## Logs ### 2024-12-18 - Ended up just polishing the Readwise part, Obsidian part should be straight forward ### 2024-12-17 - Just need to brush up the end where i talk about my note-making, + conclusion - Felt really nice to be back hehe, ## Weekly Progress ```button name Add New Weekly Progress type command action QuickAdd: Insert Project Weekly Progress Addon ``` %% Weekly Progress Start %% ### [[2024-W51]] #### Plan `INPUT[textArea(placeholder(Plan)):Plan-2024-W51]` #### Reflection `INPUT[textArea(placeholder(Reflection)):Reflection-2024-W51]` ### [[2024-W43]] #### Plan `INPUT[textArea(placeholder(Plan)):Plan-2024-W43]` #### Reflection `INPUT[textArea(placeholder(Reflection)):Reflection-2024-W43]` ## Notes w intro youtube is one of the best sources of information, but unfortunately the app is designed not for learning, but to keep you addicted learning from professors helped me learn about creating YouTube videos, productivity, philosophy, even tips for games and more value prop the two apps i use to learn question: When we transcribe, we miss out on the most important part of YouTube which is the video aspect but fortunately we can just highlight and when we highlight it will take us to that part of the video ### Youtube v2 **YouTube v2** represents a bundle of improvements to the way you can consume YouTube videos in Reader: - **Automatically enhanced transcripts.** Your YouTube transcripts now receive robust GPT-based cleanup _automatically_ so they’ll have more logical formatting, punctuation, and paragraph breaks right out of the box. This is especially useful when highlighting your transcripts, enabling you to capture clearer takeaways than the default transcripts from Google. In most cases, this enhancement will now run automatically, but if not you can always toggle it with the button in the top-left (or bottom sheet on mobile). - **Resizable video windows.** For times when you need to reference the transcript (or expand the video) while watching, you can resize videos to fit your preference, on both web and mobile! ## Details ### Packaging - Commentary + tutorial - How I Take YouTube notes - Can pl - Learn anything on YouTube with this note-taking process (Readwise Reader and Obsidian Tutorial) - Do I want to narrow down note-taking process? - Inclined to say yes since that qualifies the viewer for being interested in what I mention in the future - How to learn anything from YouTube - This will transform the way you see YouTube - Instead of seeing it as another social media app where you end up mindlessly scrolling - What if it was a place that helped you grow as a person and to better understand the world - Curiosity gaps are part of outline - Play up benefits, not features - Have a personalized AI tutor to help you understand things - Deeply process the information to compound your knowledge **What emotion are you trying to convey?** - Tutorial style - Easy - Enhanced ### Title - How to learn anything from YouTube - How I use YouTube to learn anything - How I turned YouTube into a personal university - How I self-study using YouTube how to take notes for youtube videos how to effectively watch youtube videos for self learning how i use youtube for self-studying (your personal university) addiction -> productive how i use youtube to learn anything we all know self learning most accurate but less demographic productive easiest to understand addiction doesn't make sense Replace your youtube addiction with learning - could work but i dont think it fits the vibe of the video ### Thumbnail - Show a YouTube video - Left could be hmm - Readwise icon in top right - Show graph on right always LMAO - Maybe can do a custom graph - Youtube icon in middle - Links to - Lightbulb - Task icon - Book - Exclamation mark - Thought emoji - Go from doomscrolling to ### Description ## Planning ### Five W's **Details:** - Share my new workflow for taking youtube notes **Reason for success:** %% What are examples of it already working? %% - Nicole had a decent youtube video notes but it was based in Obsidian and didn't use AI/Reader **What is my audience and how can I cater towards them?** %% This is who you should keep in mind when writing this %% - People into my channel and who want a more cleaner way of taking youtube notes **Personal/Channel Benefits:** %% Remember this as motivation for working on it %% - My own exploration of workflows as well :) **Main ideas/messages:** %% For keeping a central focus %% - What if I split this into 3 videos? - The app that helps me fight against the algorithm (general learning, digital galaxy) - How I turned YouTube into my personal university - if i do an algorithm video ### How **Extra preparation/research needed:** - Just had to try it myself **Presentation style:** %% What kind of video will it be?%% - Tutorial **Contents of script:** %% What are the main categories and key takeaways? %% - Seen in content already **Contents of visuals:** - Just overview **Helpful resources and materials:** - Notes I already have ## Outline - Unfortunately, there's one major problem. YouTube itself is not designed to be a learning platform. It designed to %% do the opposite, to %% steal and monetize your attention. - Shorts hijack your attention and provide shallow learning. - It's easy to start binge watching recommended videos, distracting you from taking the time to deeply engage with the video you just finished. - your original learning intentions - Even creators can prioritize watch time or selling you something over giving you a quality education - But what if instead, we created a digital environment that treated YouTube more like a personal university? ### Intro - Contemplating changing hooks, this isn't as relevant to YOUTUBE specifically (unless I make it hmm) - I think the user will be more productivity-focused, but I also want to add a bit of inspiration and mindset in there. - With educational content, this can be helpful to establish authority **Hook** YouTube itself is not designed to be a learning platform. It's designed to %% do the opposite, to %% steal and monetize your attention. - Shorts deteriorate your attention and bloat your mind with shallow information. - Instead of taking the time to deeply process what you just watched, it's easy to continue binge watching videos, falling down rabbit holes that distract you from your original learning intentions. - Creators themselves might overprioritize pleasing the algorithm or trying to sell you something, which sacrifices your quality of education. But what if instead, we created a digital environment that treated YouTube more like our personal university? - I say this because I've personally learned more from YouTube than I have from school, whether it be for my career or personal growth. - %%I went to school for a computer science degree, but the skills that landed me my first internship were acquired by watching YouTube tutorials for free.%% - %%The skills that helped me get my first internship weren't learned%% - Even though I went to university to study computer science, the skills that got me hired at my first internship didn't come from the thousands I was spending on tuition, but instead were from free YouTube tutorials. In fact, I had no choice but to learn online because the things I actually wanted to learn about, weren't even available until the third year. - %%First off, the skills that helped me get my first software development internship weren't acquired through courses at university, but instead were from free online tutorials. In fact, I had no choice but to learn online because the topics I actually wanted to learn about, weren't even available until halfway through my degree. %% - %%Not wanting to wait, I dropped out of school, and to this day continue to use the internet%% - %% Chances are, you find similar solace in YouTube to nurture your curiosities. %% - I didn't want to wait, so I dropped out in my first year. Why wait two years to do what you want when in reality, you're only one search away from a channel or video? - One search away from embarking on a personalized learning journey into any curiosity or passion you want to explore. - Beyond computer science, I'm a generalist that's fascinated by many other topics like philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, spirituality. - Instead of having to take isolated courses at school to learn about each, on YouTube I got to watch a 50 hour long lecture series from a university professor that has fundamentally changed my worldview. **Brief outline of topics covered:** - So, In this video, I'll be sharing how I've been self-learning on YouTube with the power of certain apps and strategies. - Using them I've been going through a 24 episode lecture series on philosophy, which has been rich with both insight and practical application. - %% should I mention how I'll share how I do this as a verb? %% - Instead of just passively watching a video, I'll show how I actively take notes on important ideas and insights. - Instead of getting stuck on certain parts, I have a personal tutor at my fingertips to help me better understand the material and stay in learning flow - And instead of just forgetting everything I learned when watching the video, all my learnings can compound into a deep and personally meaningful understanding of a topic, that only continues to grow as I learn from other sources. - All of my notes are public, so feel free to see both my highlights and my notes for the first half of the series I've completed. - Without any further ado, let's start at the beginning of the learning process: finding videos to watch. ### Content - %% Now, the first crucial app part of my workflow is Readwise Reader, the all-in-one app I use to %% - Let's say you found this YouTube video to watch. Just as an example, I'll be doing the first episode of the lecture series I'm currently watching. - Now, to escape the distracting layout of YouTube, I begin using the first critical app of my self-study workflow, Readwise Reader. If you haven't heard of it already, it's a powerful tool for capturing and engaging with not just videos, but any online medium like books, articles, and newsletters. It is a paid app, but you can try it for 60 days free in the link below to see if it's worth it. - To add this video to Reader, I can easily use their chrome extension if I'm on my desktop, or I can share the link to the app when I'm on my phone. - Once it's ready, we should be able to open the video in the app and see not only the video, but the transcript of it as well. - Sometimes if I share a video on mobile I get an error saying there's no transcript available, but I find doing it through the browser fixes that issue. - Now, you might be asking, what makes this layout better for self-study? - First, we need to make sure the video itself is worth watching. Will it actually provide the education we seek, or is it just clickbait? - Fortunately, the app generates a summary of the video, which I can then use to gauge whether i find the ideas novel or interesting. - % comment on how the summary sounds interesting - Once we're satisfied, we can prepare to actively take notes while watching it. - If you want a place to take general notes, you can open the notebook tab and start writing them in the document note - Now, we can begin watching the video like usual: - when we click to unpause, the transcript begins to follow along. - So, if we come across an important part, instead of having to retype it, we can quickly pause and highlight that part by pressing the highlight hotkey () or selecting it. - Before we do any highlights though, I recommend enhancing the default transcript by clicking on this button. This will add punctuation and proper spacing for intelligiblity. - I will say, this is a bit too slow for my preference. - I prefer to watch lecture-style videos on 2x speed, so I also have another extension to have dynamic and faster playback speeds using hotkeys, which is "Video Speed Controller", . - This is where the magic begins. - %%As a bonus, the time you spend watching shorts with that attention-deteriorating captions can finally be put to use 🤩%% - As I watch, there's different types of highlights I might make. - If there's a new or important idea, I just highlight it and add any extra annotations that might be needed to clarify - If a certain part sparked an insight or question, then I can highlight the part and add an annotation - Usually it'll be about relating it to an idea I'm already familiar with, since we [[Learn something new by connecting it to something that you already know]] - Sometimes, they'll share things that you can only get to after you're done watching. - If they suggest a resource for further learning, I'll highlight it and tag it as "#toread" - Sometimes they'll also suggest a practice to do, which I'll tag with "#exercise" - I can also use highlights as bookmarks for parts of the video I want to easily revisit for future reference - If you ever want to see the highlights you have so far, you can just check in the notebook tab - I don't want to bore you with highlighting an entire video, but if you wanted to see some examples of what it might look like by the end you can check any of the links below - But of course, the learning process isn't always smooth sailing. It's common to feel confused by new concepts that we're having trouble understanding. - This is where we can look for help by using Ghostreader, their powerful AI companion - You can use this to help with your learning process by asking it questions or giving it prompts, which you can edit and create your own for. It's important to note that there's three different levels at which Ghostreader works from: - Document level - I find this helpful for prompts that require the whole context like generating a summary as we've seen, or for trying to understand the general themes and ideas - The second level is the selection level, which is when we have a highlight selected - Invoke Ghostreader (G), then we get to choose from options - I feel like the more useful ones are - Question - Simplifying - Elaborating - Custom prompt - If we choose one, then it will be added as an annotation to the highlight, which we can then customize. I do try to keep annotations in my own words so I usually trim or delete it. - <3 words level - Definition if it's your first time encountering a word - Internal x-ray if you want to ground it in the context of how it's used - Same thing as selection highlight, trim or delete. - If you feel like the ones I showed aren't helpful, you can also create your own prompts to personalize it to your liking - Show how - So yeah, with this process of highlighting and Ghostreader combo, we have the tools available to watch and understand the video. - When I watch something more intellectual like my lecture series, I usually just do it on my phone when doing my morning routine or walk, only opening my phone to quickly highlight and add annotations. - Now that I'm done watching the video, it's time to archive it, and start transforming the highlights into a deeper understanding of the topic - and of course, this is using my favorite app for making notes and thinking, obsidian %% i like to see if it's worth the attention I give it. - I want to pierce through any clickbait and empty promises, to get a taste of what it's really about. - Before we watch the video, we have to be careful. - Be on YouTube home page - Talk about clickbait - Want it to be something novel %% - Importing into Obsidian - To import, you will need to have the Readwise official plugin - Once you install it, you get to choose templates for how you want to import your highlights. I'll briefly go over the structure, but if you're curious about how I set all of this up, you can check a previous video going more into detail - Automatically imports key information like - Author - Source - Also have a field Collection that I can use to make a link to the note I have for the general collection, After Socrates - Generic information to organize the note at the top - Status to yellow, which is the part of my workflow where I begin processing my highlights from sources - I like to have three main headers in my notes that help organize my notes into levels of density - Highlights are at the bottom - Notes are in the middle, which include our document note and the notes we're about to make - Summary at the top, by default it's the AI-generated one - Highlights under - If we need to revisit, can just click - Our annotations - To make them standout a bit from the base highlight, I use the list callout plugin to have custom styling for the line - Can also consider turning it into an inline metadata field, so you can then just query all of these annotations - To see all my sources from readwise, i have a dashboard note called "My Inputs" that shows all the things from Readwise Reader, videos included. Can also create a separate view for just videos if you want. - My highlights do a good job of extracting key ideas, but I need to take these insights beyond the source they were presented in - I need to connect it with other episodes, the rest of my existing knowledge. - %%I need to deepen my understanding, going from facts to practical application, all the way into changing my perspective and character.%% - %% might be for another time %% - Fortunately, this video was a decent example as there are two kinds of information here: conceptual, and practical - Conceptual - talked about the 4 types of knowing at which we understand things - Practical - shared exercises at the end to implement these ideas beyond theory for a deeper understanding - Unfortunately, the other two aren't possible. - For each highlight, think about what note could be useful to put it in - For any new terms, I create new notes for them and put related highlights there - Notes that are related to dialogue will go into Dialogue - Information about a type of knowing goes into that type of knowing - How do you put it in the note? - You could directly copy and paste, but I want to keep the original text in the place it's from - With Obsidian, we can instead create block links - Can directly copy and paste - Copy Block Link plugin - Directly embed it - Add it as a quoted reference - Learn more in my zettelkasten video - Now there is a connection from this note to the original source - Can be seen in the backlinks pane, but I also want to show it in the input note itself so I will make a link to it under notes - In the video note, also be sure to add it as a link under sources - But then there's also a new idea I wanted to explore - non-propositional knowing - Reminded me of another talk - The synthesis of these two sources combined with my own experiences give me a unique perspective, which I can then write in my notes - Related to dialogue since in that case, a lack of instructive teaching helps - I also have a note on that, applied learning as well as constraints-led approach, which is somewhat related - I get to feel amazed as these once separate ideas of knowledge begin to connect in unexpected ways - Once I'm done processing the highlights, and then the notes, it's time to revisit the summary. - Can keep it as you like, but after playing with the ideas, you might feel like there are key missing parts - Once we're done, we can set the status to finished - We have direct links to the parts of the video - We have notes that deepen our connection and understanding with the ideas - And we have a quick reference summary ### Conclusion What are some relevant references or links? - If you're interested in learning more about my Readwise Reader usage, you can check out this video and download the templates yourself, try it out ## Reflection **Satisfied?** **Improvements and solutions learned for the future**: