A Real Zettelkasten Workflow in Obsidian, with Tris Oaten and Bob Doto

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:13:37 +0200

I recently had the pleasure of joining my friends Tris Oaten of No Boilerplate on YouTube and Bob Doto on my YouTube channel for a discussion on Zettelkasten, including demos of all three of our real Zettelkasten workflows in Obsidian. We talked extensively about the differences in how we maintain our Zettelkästen and plugins that we use to do so. We particularly talked a lot about folgezettel, and how the Obsidian Breadcrumbs plugin can be used to implement this concept in Obsidian.

If you’re interested in this topic, you might also like Bob’s book A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly. I reviewed it and found it extremely useful, and Tris and I both use it as a reference for our Zettelkasten workflows.

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A Real Zettelkasten Workflow in Obsidian, with Tris Oaten and Bob Doto