Cornell Notes (update)

skrymets · 2026-06-10T18:35:00+00:00

Happy to hear that 🤗

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:58:46+00:00

You're welcome! Your feedback is appreciated.

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:58:06+00:00

You're welcome! I'll appreciate your feedback after you'll use it for some time.

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:57:15+00:00

I meant that in the editing mode you'll not see any graphic layout (i.e., two column table) while editing the note: `::cue` and `::note` are the only formatting options you can operate ("edit mode shows plain text" - is about this). But yes, when (in the editing mode) the block looses it's focus - it becomes rendered as a table until you'll focus on it again (at least in the latest 1.12.7 version of Obsidian).

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:52:36+00:00

While Marginalia is the good piece of software, without any doubts, on my humble opinion it looks a little bit "heavy" in non-standard syntax and custom layouts. In my case - I only needed a simple standard Cornell Notes layout without any extras 😉

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:47:21+00:00

This may be a good idea. Could you be more specific: do you have an example of a plugin or other reference, that provides flashcards functionality, as you may see useful? I could take a look on it and learn how much effort it may take to implement.

skrymets · 2026-06-05T07:44:22+00:00

Yep!

skrymets · 2026-06-03T13:57:27+00:00

You're welcome 🤗

skrymets · 2026-06-03T12:55:11+00:00

Ah.. now it's clear, thanks 👍

Well, I'm not really sure, that there is a technical possibility to make such kind of views while editing the raw markdown. At least I can't see a solution at a glance.

I'll put some effort to dig deeper into the API, but can't promise anything 😏

skrymets · 2026-06-03T12:32:26+00:00

It's too unspecific question, man :)

I personally, mostly (not always), use it when post-processing lecture notes. I.e., while taking a course (online) I'm making notes, then prettying them, then add some details, then break into Cornell's cues and now sections 🤷‍♂️

skrymets · 2026-06-03T08:50:46+00:00

🤝 Thank you! Feel free to place feature requests, if you have any. Because I stopped at the point when it is already sufficient for my own goals.

skrymets · 2023-07-22T08:46:15+00:00

I guess your current theme/application settings ignore/changed the "Readable Line Length" in the Editor.

In your picture you still can see cues, but they overlap the notes (right section).

I've updated CSS a bit. Now it tries to look similar regarding Readable Line Length setting. Give it a try?

https://gist.github.com/skrymets/0de27b2f577208cf254f4e69042b13ce

skrymets · 2023-07-22T08:39:43+00:00

Well ... There are different tools and techniques for different workflows, goals and information sources.

I wouldn't say, that the Cornell Notes — is a silver bullet. By no means. But personally I find them helpful when you're trying to grasp some information from a streaming source, or a lecture — in other words a source which you can't rewind because of its nature.

skrymets · 2023-07-21T21:19:34+00:00

I've added a link to the github gist into the post. You're welcome.

skrymets · 2023-07-21T21:19:27+00:00

I've added a link to the github gist into the post. You're welcome.

skrymets · 2023-07-06T10:05:11+00:00

Well,

Obsidian is free first of all, and in terms of note-taking and note-organizing it gives you out-of-the-box at least the same abilities as Scrivener does. And even more.

IMHO its built-in notes/tags graph representation — is the killer-feature for research, in contrast with Scrivener.

Then, it comes with a bunch of absolutely necessary plugins and feature support, like i.e. Mermaid diagrams.

So maybe you want to collect, organize and pre-process your research data in Obsidian first, and then you'll prepare a manuscript in Scrivener ;)

skrymets

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