Book excerpt: Obsidian is an innovative app for working with ideas, striving to serve as your second brain. That's an ambitious goal and Obsidian is an ambitious app, which has seen its popularity grow leaps and bounds over the past year. This book brings together tips from Expert Obsidian users who've tweaked and finessed their note-taking and sense-making process in Obsidian. In this book, you'll learn how to: * Learn for the long term by focusing on concepts rather than traditional notes; * Push your creative juices by discovering connections between concepts; * Manage a publishing workflow using a Kanban board, from capturing initial ideas to developing these through to completion; * Plan and organize your day in Obsidian, tracking your regular work and documenting your creative journey; * Work efficiently in Obsidian with shortcuts, templates and several plugins to boost your creative process. This book presents Experts' use of Obsidian. For a ground-up understanding of key concepts and techniques in Obsidian, pick up the related book "Master Obsidian Quickly - Boost Your Learning & Productivity with a Free, Modern, Powerful Knowledge Toolkit" by the same author.