LYT Kit - Discover how to use linked notes

Hello, Product Hunt! It’s Nick, back here again! 👋 9 months ago, we launched Obsidian Flight School on Product Hunt and were lucky enough to be the #4 Product of the day! Today, I’d like to share with you an exciting free product: The LYT Kit. LYT is an acronym for Linking Your Thinking. It is pronounced "LIGHT KIT". I created the LYT Kit to better demonstrate many fundamentals of “Personal Knowledge Management” (PKM) in a space where others can both learn and practice in to see what works best for YOU. You will see how you can grow your own IDEAVERSE—a well-connected thinking environment that is 100% yours. 🤦‍♂️ Problem Building a system to both find—and develop—your ideas shouldn’t feel impossible. When you open Obsidian for the first time, that blank note, while filled with possibilities, can feel intimidating. The beauty of an app like Obsidian is that you can adapt it to your needs and goals, but sometimes it can be hard to know your best path forward. Reading about PKM concepts online is different than seeing them applied first-hand. The LYT Kit is a space to learn about—and explore—several approaches to managing your ideas. 🙌 Solution Play in a sandbox of linked notes. Explore the links, experiment with the existing examples, and learn how to use linked notes by doing it yourself! 🧭 Explore examples of workflows and learn new concepts at your own pace. ⚡️ Adapt what works best for you into your own vault, and get your own system off the ground quickly. 🪐 Begin to build your IDEAVERSE: a well-connected thinking environment that is 100% yours. 🧢 Included as a bonus is an email course that takes you through PKM and LYT concepts. It blends brief videos with next actions, similar to Obsidian Flight School, that will help you master the material by getting in the reps. 🏋️‍♂️ Understand *Efforts* and why ideas can develop much more naturally in an effort instead of a project. 🗂+🔗 Learn more about the newly updated ACCESS folder structure: a PKM solution designed to merge folders and links into a holistic system. 🪣 Use the LYT Kit as a sandbox to test things out. Making big changes, especially structural changes, to your personal vault can be scary. No one wants to lose notes. Practice tiny tests in the LYT Kit before applying them yourself. 🍰 The LYT Kit is a slice of my *actual* ideaverse. 🗺️ The LYT Kit isn’t a singular path forward. It’s nearly 300 notes filled with both knowledge, examples, and workflows to help you design and organize everything from capturing source material to connecting and developing your next big idea. Most of these approaches work well for me, but we all process things differently. Find what works best for *you* in the LYT Kit and adapt it into PKM system. 💯 The LYT Kit has been downloaded over 35,000 times and is without a doubt the world's most downloaded starter kit for linked notes. 💸 The LYT Kit has and will continue to be a free product. I want everyone to have access to these fundamentals and examples and make it their own! Explore these notes and workflows to find what works best for you. 🎯 Similar to Obsidian Flight School, my goal with the LYT Kit is that it inspires other teachers in online education to incorporate the paradigm of *Lean Forward Learning* into their own educational products and services. I believe online programs designed like Flight School and the LYT Kit are just the beginning of a deeper level of digital learning. Sitting back and passively watching instructional videos is easy, but the results are far less powerful. 📽 If you want to check out the first lesson before starting the email course, you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/rEIiIdyhp88 🗣 It’s great to be back and I can't wait to get your feedback today. Ask away and I'll do my best to answer!

Even if you don't end up using Milo's structure in the final version of your PKM setup, exploring the way he organizes and interconnects knowledge is incredibly helpful; there's nothing better than a good example to help you understand what's possible and give you ideas for how to customize your own system. The LYT kit is one of the best ways I know for someone to fully understand Obsidian's far-reaching capabilities for organization and PKM.

I keep expecting Nick’s PKM work to hit its limits, for new products to be just tiny improvements on the ones before. But that doesn’t happen. Every iteration improves significantly on its predecessor. Nick is a guy who pays attention to the tiniest detail, to nuance, and his efforts make our PKM development so much more meaningful and easier to employ.

Hands down one of the most valuable learning tools and educators out there in the sphere of personal knowledge management and Obsidian. However the topics, concepts and techniques Nick presents can be applied with any application - not just Obsidian.

If you want an amazing way to look at your ideas and mixing and combining different ideas to have new thoughts and ideas emerge then look no further. Nick and his team have created a way of looking at your notes through Maps of Content (MOC) and an overall Atlas.... Thank you for sharing your knowledge Nick - Always look forward to seeing what new ideas you have brought together!!

The LYT kit is a playground of possibilities. Just as with the real-life counterpart, aspiring notemakers have both some examples of a working system as well as the potential to experiment on their own. The best way of learning this new way of information evolution.

The LYT Kit is just a fantastic initiative Nick. It's difficult for a lot of people to get a handle around PKM and Obsidian and this is of enormous value. Thank you so much.

The previous version of LYT kit was brilliant. This new version looks to be, well, brilliant-er! :)

My journey began with the first LYT Kit. The journey LYT kit has taken has illuminated my own. It has helped keep my clutter of thoughts, needs, wants and desires to learn and improve myself, from becoming the same clutter in my digital record. LYT Kit 7 improves the clarity and completeness of the learning map in the terrain my journey takes to the next summit of understanding myself and what I find on this trek through space and time.

Excited for the next rendition of this! The first one was really informative and was helpful to use an example and get new ideas for my PKM structure. Now it's really going a step further... Create something that 100% mine. Great job, LYT Team!

I discovered Nick and his content a few weeks ago. LYT Kit is the first resource about Obsidian that I didn't find too complex and overwhelming. On the contrary, in fact, Nick's instruction is well crafted and well delivered. I'm still deciding between setting up my PKM in Notion or Obsidian. If I choose the latter, I will most likely remix this setup and probably enroll in the Obsidian Flight School !

I've used the LYT Kit and some of Nick's other class materials, and the information and presentation are all wonderful. Highly recommended if you want to dive into PKM and/or Obsidian.

LYT Kit is an invaluable life tool to create the critical foundation and best practices to, first, manage the myriad inputs in your life then, second, sense-make and apply them to generate your own engaged ideaverse, your own OS or PKM.

There's no better way to dive into the world of personal knowledge management than Nick Milo's LYT Kit. LYT stands for "Linking Your Thinking" — and it's the ability to make meaningful, sustainable connections between disparate thoughts, across different contexts, that empowers today's knowledge workers, creators, academics and writers. Even if you "only" make notes for meetings, 1:1s, projects and tasks, linked notes will change the way you work. Download the LYT Kit to get a jump start on your PKM journey today.

Thanks to Nick and his LYT kit for helping me make sense of how to use Obsidian and Markdown to put together my thoughts, daily meetings notes, research and actions. Nick's LYT Kit provides a simple, yet elaborate framework for storing everything that can be written in a note. Nick offers step-by-step videos and well-written, and linked, instructions/examples that guide you through the process, until all of a sudden, it becomes your own. Plus his portfolio of How-to Youtube videos and interviewers of other Obsidian/LYT Kit users makes the entire note-making process easy and useful. I use it for both my workplace, as an engineer, my own personal research, devotion/Bible Study and journaling.

This is fantastic, Nick! Really well done.

I cannot believe the amount of value @nickmilo continues to pour into the world, particularly the world of Linked Thinking. This impressive upgrade to an already impressive tool kit is an example of what's right with the world. Thanks for doing what you do, the way you do it, Nick!

I discovered @nickmillo "Linking your thinking" video on Youtube while I was looking to build my first Personal Knowledge Management. His starter kit helped me to build my own and so far, after only a few weeks, I got mine up and running. It is a life saver and I can dump my ideas, readings, and discoveries into it and my brain is so happy with that. I highly recommend you to check the LYT kit, it is free and it may change your life...

I'm very excited to check out this new version of the LYT Kit! Nick's teaching has helped me get started with Obsidian, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he's come up with recently so I can expand my understanding further.

Love what Nick and his team have done with LYT Kit. This is an incredible resource for anyone looking to build their PKM framework. And it’s free!