https://dakotahpena.dev/tags/obsidian/ Recent content in Obsidian on Dakotah Peña Hugo en-us © Dakotah Peña Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:05:32 -0700 https://dakotahpena.dev/posts/save-youtube-learnings-to-obsidian/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:05:32 -0700 https://dakotahpena.dev/posts/save-youtube-learnings-to-obsidian/ <p>I use the note-taking app Obsidian for my personal organization needs, and over time I&rsquo;ve been building it to function as a second brain. Since Obsidian is built around markdown files on the file system, there&rsquo;s no vendor lock-in, and it&rsquo;s very easy to use with AI models for reading and writing to it. This has led me to optimize how I retain information that I want to remember.</p> <p>Occasionally, I&rsquo;ll watch an inspiring YouTube video that teaches me something useful. Bookmarking the link is futile because no knowledge is retained, and I would almost never go back into my bookmarks and watch it again. The experience was mostly ephemeral. Not wanting interesting content to be transitory, I set out to build a skill that distills the learning from the video&rsquo;s audio into an Obsidian note that&rsquo;s easy to re-read in the future. The cleaned-up note becomes part of my knowledge base to inspire me and help me learn from the content.</p>