Using Logseq to research and plan for a video

I wanted to make a video about how I use lock seek to turn knowledge into video so my process to do research collect notes and how do I put those together by showing you a real world example on this is how I get actual results now most of this will be basic things and that's because I believe in Simplicity I rather have a system that is simple and works than a complex system that constantly breaks and I need to tweak with now when making this I have two types of videos one is the actual topic so that's where I collect the research that's my single source of truth that is Greenfield it stays there for the Long Haul is the thing that I'll read when I want to talk about the same topic later and then the other one is the shortlived content page well the page itself is long lift because why throw it away but it's where I basically keep all the notes for that specific piece of content or video that I'm making now let's first dive into the topic page because I think that one is the most interesting and the most flexible for most people now let me show you the knock free topic so this was the topic that was discussing last week this nice keyboard that I have here and the knock free page talks about these keyboards and all the research that I did about the keyboard comparing it to like different types of the same set looking at the page there's a couple of things here a couple of properties on the top usually things like the PDF manual that I Chuck into locks as well how to customize it some URLs the website tags basic stuff but also like in what videos was this topic used that's mostly for me because you know I want to see like hey where did I talk about this specific topic later then another thing is that I have two different modes of working in L seek I have focusing on this topic mode that means that I sit down for a couple of hours and I work on a topic then I work in this page I work straight in the topic page because that's where it's going to land anyway so why Chuck it anywhere else and I have the oh I have a bright idea in the middle of the day or I see an interesting article while reading acts on masteron and that's stuff that goes into my journal and I will link that towards the main page and usually I'll mark that with Todo so what I would do as I I would make it to-do I would link it towards the page that I want to talk about knock free in this case and say like example note with right idea type whatever you need and the reason I do this is because then if if I go back to the no free page when I want to do research or work on it I have this open task query which is just a basic query that says like this page knock free and to do doing and then it will show up here and then I'll know like hey there's a note that I still need to process or make part of the larger hole one of my pet peeves when I was working with lseek was that I didn't have a table of contents when I did long form documents in time I learned that instead of working against loic I should work with loic loek is an outliner that means that I don't have a table of contents I have folds and that is what you see when you look at the page now these are roll folds with details and if I want to see the details I would click on the button and then open that as a sub page so I do like research and go through this as well one of the main benefits I think with this is that I can work with keyboard I can use alt and arrow keys to alt right alt left to dive into and out of the contacts and then you might think like okay that's nice and all but you know what if I need to keep things side by side that's another problem that you see very often it's like hey I can't open multiple documents side by side yes you can because you can open a new window you go to here find it here and then there's like the new window I think control n works as well that works and you can put stuff side by side but in my experience is very clunky what I prefer to do is just move things towards the sidebar and then work top to bottom So currently you know demoing what I'm doing this one shows the outline that I'm currently talking about this is me using loek to make this video and this is just a subp part of what is under here but as soon as I'm done with this section I would close this go here and then go towards like the next one and then I would shift click on that move that up and this is a bit how I work is that when I'm working on stuff I will open things on the side when I have the cross check and when I'm done I will close the thing on the side and this makes it so that I have like an automatic build-in workflow how I go through my notes for someone with a chaotic brain like me this keeps my mind a lot clearer than when I have six panes open and I don't know where to put my eyes personal preference but something that I really like now I already shown you the task query on this side which is a very simple one I have another one and that one's for emails now the query itself says mail and knock free and as you can see here I have a couple of examples there two things first of all yes I have a query and I like the query but the a disadvantage of using the query is I get a lot of information and another thing that I do is that I like to have things in order and and split and processed so what I do is I use contr e and then put the links towards the emails on top and then those will link towards the source in the journal so the journal will tell me when the email happened what it was about and this will show me like these things are important you might want to have those as a reference now when I take emails from my email app into log seek I also try to break them down into blocks that depends a bit on how I'm working if I'm really lazy I'll just put them in a quote block and I'll just have the email as a reference there but if I want to refer to individual talking points in that email then what I do is that I break it up into different bullet points and then I can link to the individual bullet points in other places of my log seek now quick dive into the research so what do I do for research is basically when I'm sitting down and I'm working on the topic I'll be doing my research in here and the things that I did is like hey I wanted to check out other keyboards so I made these individual notes about keyboards and I also linked towards the keyboard set and my mind is chaos so what you see already here is that I have here like a full namespace one keyboard mechanical faor Alice 80 um this one should be there as well but I'm chaotic so at some point I'll need to make a decision am I going to keep the name spaces and I'm going to give a dedicated one I'm going to try both it is not perfect but what I do know is that as I'm writing this stuff down I'll put links towards it so if you take this one for example this the the misto barocco yes there's lots of notes here but if I go to the page the page is empty and that is because I am not researching this I was researching the KN freak but I do l link to it so that if in the future I want to research a keyboard or I need details on it I can click here and I can use the references already to get like a basic idea get started and then it's soon enough to process the notes I don't try processing all the notes all the time you don't have time and as if it's not used for some kind of output then you're just spinning your wheels spend that time when you need it focus on the outcome not on prepping that's what I call it prepping it's just wasting your time trying to clean your notes don't clean your notes clean them as you need them then another bit of chaos on the side here and it shows that for example here the notes that I made on the moonlander let me zoom in a bit this links towards the content page so what I used to do is I would basically work from the content that I was making page and put all the notes there and the problem that I had and I started to notice that in this video is then I have to look at two places I have to read the video notes that I have and I have to read the moonlander notes that I have moonlander is a different type of keyboard that means I'm I'm looking in two places that's why I changed the workflow because look and like this isn't smart if I want to do another video on this keyboard then I should just be able to open the page for the keyboard and find all the relevant information and I shouldn't be diving into multiple Pages for it this is why I put like all the notes about the keyboard in the knock free page and now we'll dive into the other page the content page the one that I used to basically get from zero to results now this is a content content page and the content page is just a template that I have so I can look at my template for videos and this is like I just created empty page and I use this template to get it prefilled this is the current iteration and always changes while I'm working on the page because you know chaos is a thing looking at this uh what you see here is that it has a lot of properties so first of all it's a type video and it has a state and an app episode uh the episode is also for my mind again not every episode makes it towards being published sometimes I get like in the mid I'm working on the slow knowledge video for example and that one's been put to simmer because at some point I lost interest I couldn't focus on it and it was dragging on and but one of the reasons I do this is because by marking it as a video my giving it a state doing I have this overview so I go to my videos and here I have a query that says like hey any page with the type video that the state doing show it here and this shows the videos that I'm currently thinking working writing on inside loek other details are the video title that's very important in YouTube the topics that are related and that's of course because when I want to work on this I need to be able to quickly open the topics on the side and get some notes the channel which doesn't change but I might want to have a different Channel at some point and then want to keep those notes separated link towards notion now I wouldn't dive too much into notion but one of the reasons why I have this is because I use notion to plan the videos and then I can hook them up to any automation that I might want to have after it so let me quickly show you how that looks before going back to rock seek uh let's see I got content here and this is basically the calendar U this is mostly a things I would like to aim for but doesn't always work out things got in the way this video moved so everything here probably has to move down one row but this is like my my overview I don't use it a lot because I keep 90% of the work inside look seek but I'll get to that later as you can see this is where the most of the tasks happen I tried summarizing I used to do like a whole very detailed set in here that didn't help that much it's nice in the beginning when you're trying to create structure but these days I just have like a a rough outline of the things that I need to do now a lot of this stuff is of course Very YouTube specific but that's the goal this is a page that is about like making it into a YouTube video I would have a different layout and a different page page if I'm trying to make a blog post for example now as you can see inside this outline it's similar to here on the side as you see I'm I'm also working on the outline and under this the current video that we're currently doing then of course the references and that's mostly when I have ideas for the video now very often the ideas spark as I'm making the video but sometimes you know I just have a good idea for a video funny b-roll thing a skit that I want to put on there it just Chuck it in my journal link it towards this page and I'll know that when I'm working on the video I can go through it I can use the same trick here that I used for the topic page where I can Mark things as to do if I really don't want to forget it if I want to say like you know bring this front and center and say like process this before doing anything else but that depends very much on like how complex is the topic do I want to dive into that do I want to do the extra work very often it's just like have a reference list and I know from experience that you know before doing the outline just quickly skim the reference to see if there's any new IDE ideas that I had another important thing to note is that when I make something like the outline this is both for blog posts as well for Content I don't just you know willing nearly try this I have of course stuff on the side they also link towards the sources so for example I have here my Pro con list that one links straight towards the pro con list that was already in my Noy and I just use contr e contrl v to block and bat these things no need to type them over this thing even changes because you know in the outline like I'm talking about the pros I'm talking about the cons and then while I'm doing research the pros and cons might update meaning that this will make sure that it's always the latest updated version sometimes Blom BS work very well other times I'm just typing like custom text there and I do like a link straight towards the original Source more as a reference than as something where I'm going like okay I don't want to do the double work and it's very dependent on you know whatever topic I'm going to talk about like is this something where I need to Reg it very spefic specific for the video or is it something that I can quote for btim for example if I want to reference towards the story then the story might be in my notes and then I can just you know link to it for btim and just talk about the story and of course a nice thing about using a different content page is that you can drag different topics into it and that's of course why I have this separate page and I don't put like the single source of Truth in there anymore now I just say like hey I'm going to talk about the keyboard I'm going to talk about split keyboards I'm talk about moonlander in this video drag all those to topics in and then research that and all use that information to put it into the outline now if you like the content help me out and hit that like button that really helps me out a comment is also great if you got any questions I read all the comments I try to answer them to the best of my ability I can't do this alone I need your help to get this channel to be successful and grow else I'm just you know talking towards the wall now a quick couple of notes on the Integrations that I'm doing now the Integrations aren't very technical they're usually just URLs towards other tools there's two tools tools that I use a lot notion mostly because uh I tried working setting up like the the infrastructure for a team with mixed success last year and that means that I needed some place where I can share the status and hand over work to other people which is what I used notion for I really like the calendar view it gives me like an overview and goals to strive for as I'm working the other one is todoist and that one's twof folded one's the quick ad if I'm walking down the street then I have an idea I don't have time to wait for Loy to start to syn quick ad is my friend there just type something in an idea or a task or whatever press the Inbox and then it moves into lock seek and another thing is that todoist allows me to have notifications when I need them I am scatterbrained and todoist can say like hey you're in near store X maybe you should get that thing that you needed or B it's 8:00 in the evening make sure to pack this in your back for tomorrow but as you can see most of the stuff these days goes into walk seek this is like the place where my brain just gets together and most of of the notes live for future reference now if you're a bit like me then you want to get stuff done if you need a way to quickly get from A to B to combine the tools that you have to get the best result I highly recommend checking out the paperless movement I have a link in the description as I'm one of the paperless move experts where I look on how is your workflow together get less Tools in there get the right Tools in there and then work towards result if you watch it all the way to the end then remember you're awesome keep it [Music] up

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Published: Mon Jan 15 2024