How to Make a Map of Content (MOC) to Get More Out of Your Notes & Ideas
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Published 2023-09-08
But it doesn't happen without the right perspective and the right mental models in your toolkit.
In this video, I walk through the process of making a Map of Content (MOC) and share the key mental model you'll need to unlock your creative potential, in Obsidian (or any other connected note-taking tool).
0:00 - The Promise of PKM
0:32 - What is a Map of Content? (MOC)
1:06 - Mental Models
1:50 - The Map is Not the Territory
3:34 - Becoming a Map Maker
6:15 - Collecting Ideas & Having Opinions
7:43 - An Example MOC
11:37 - When to Use an MOC
12:40 - Free MOC Template
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My Map of Content (MOC) Template file is available in my Obsidian University Starter Vault. You can download it for free: www.obsidianuniversity.com/vault
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
🧠 Linking Your Thinking Workshop - www.linkingyourthinking.com/?via=mike-schmitz
📚 The Great Mental Models Volume 1 - amzn.to/3sJvth9
🎥 Why I Don't Use Readwise for Book Notes (And What I Do Instead) - • Why I Don't Use Readwise for Book Not...
📚 Atomic Habits - amzn.to/45IDdye
🎥 Unlock the Creative Power of Obsidian with Atomic Notes - • Unlock the Creative Power of Obsidian...
📚 Tiny Habits - amzn.to/45DFo6i
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All Comments (12)
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“It’s not the books that unlock things, it’s the ideas inside the book” - I love the picture of the mental workbench!
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Tremendous content, I hope you keep generating more ideas and advice.
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This was a really helpful description of the purpose of the map of contents, than Nick Milo's introduction to Map of Contents idea, but kudos to him for coming up with the idea, and thanks to you for explaining it.
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Outstanding video. You've managed to capture the true MOC value: a dyamic workbench or workspace. Not as a collection of links to other content, rather as a synthesis of the material and a workspace for that process. By the way, this shows the value of linking your thinking methodology as a model for note MAKING and Obsidian as a tool to use to do that work and capture the (ever changing) MOC content as it morphs into a very personalized and useful condensate of the ideas and knowledge one synthesizes from the source material (and attendant references to the detailed information).
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Thank you
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I appreciate a lot your videos; following you since I discovered bookworm a few years ago. question about the MoC you preseznt in this video (about habits): the structure is linear (the sequence of books you read). But your thoughts about habits is transformed each time you discover a new idea or book. The result is totally not sequential. My intuition is: we need another MoC that could be name MoT for map of (my) Thoughts where I would express my thoughts about the topic and updating it each time I discover sth new, but not in a linear sequence like in the MoC
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Hello what is the name of the book describing the Latin root of decision?
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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” George E.P. Box
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Big ask - can I have the .md files of the entire Bible? Which Version do you use? That would be huge!
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++ for bible reference. 😊
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"I have the idea to create a Map of Content in Canvas, as the regular Map of Content is always linear and displays text only."
