Introduction to note taking tools for research (GradProSkills workshop)

This training is offered by GradProSkills. It is only open to current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. 

Advance registration is required. 

This hands-on workshop will introduce students to the modern, no-cost, digital note-taking tool, Obsidian (or Zettlr). Integrated with Zotero and used in an academic framework, these tools can foster productive research writing. The workshop will help students start practising the principles of a Zettelkasten technique to build a personal knowledge base of literature notes, interlinked ideas, long-form writing, visual concept maps, and more. It will show how to associate Obsidian notes with bibliographic information in Zotero as part of the research writing workflow. 

The workshop will revolve around using a personal knowledge management tool with short or longform notes stored in a knowledge graph or hierarchy. This session will focus on using a markdown-centric tool, Obsidian (or optionally Zettlr), and will cover techniques for writing with Markdown and options for transforming notes into other digital forms. It does not require programming knowledge but participants must already be comfortable using Zotero.