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7. End-to-End Encrypted Security

Your Obsidian notes are extremely secure as they are both end-to-end encrypted as well as stored locally on your device.

This means not even the people behind Obsidian have access to your info.

This is as secure as it gets.

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6. Upgradeable Features

Whether you want to sync your notes between your laptop and mobile, get early access to features, or want to publish your notes online via Obsidian Publish you can.

All these features you can upgrade to if you want.

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5. Graphical Overview

Interested to see what your connected thoughts, notes, and ideas look like?

Obsidian allows you to visualize the connections between notes in a graph like this one.

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4. Files Stored Locally

Your Obsidian files are not stored on the cloud but instead locally on your computer.

This means that you can open them and work on them with or without an internet connection and it works very fast.

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3. Markdown Format

All your Obsidian notes are markdown files which means you can easily export and open them using any basic text editor.

You can even share the notes with people who don't have Obsidian because the files are markdown.

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2. Linking Notes

Think referencing but on steroids.

Obsidian allows you to link your notes on a conference talk you just heard to your notes from an article you read months ago through backlinks and unlinked mentions.

Extremely powerful features for connecting ideas.

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1. Free To Get Started

The first question on everyone's lips "Is it free?"

Yes, for the low cost of $0 you can get started today using it.

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Do you want to always have access to all your notes and link your ideas in one app?

Then Obsidian sounds perfect for you

Here are 7 reasons why you should use Obsidian to take Notes during your PhD

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TL;DR: 6 Ways to Keep The Audience Engaged During Your Talk

1. A Captivating Title
2. Emphasizing Important Words
3. Don't Overload Slides With Text/Figures
4. Entertaining Visuals
5. Ask The Audience Questions
6. Clear and Easy Takeaways

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6. Clear and Easy Takeaways

If you want them to remember your presentation then you're gonna have to make it as easy as possible for them.

- This is why we researched this.
- This is what came out.
- This is what it means

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5. Ask The Audience Questions

By asking simple questions you get them engaged and interested in what you are talking about. A simple "yes or no" or "A and B" question does the job nicely.

By asking you get them invested in finding out the answer which you'll provide.

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4. Entertaining Visuals

You could use the same image of cells differentiation that everyone else uses.

Or you could illustrate it using pokemon evolutions.

Which do you think the audience would enjoy and remember more?

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3. Don't Overload Slides With Text/Figures

You may feel safe adding a lot of info to your slides but it makes for a terrible audience experience and distracts from what you're saying.

Keep your slides clean and concise.
Use only what you need to get your story across.

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2. Emphasizing Important Words

We've all heard someone with a monotone voice present before.

It bores everyone and makes it unclear what is important and what is not.

By emphasizing keywords you help your audience discern the important stuff and keep them engaged.

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