Hi Hunters, Nick here 👋 One year ago, we launched Obsidian Flight School 1.0 on Product Hunt. Now we’re back with a MASSIVE new release with Obsidian Flight School 2.0. It has 100+ brand new videos, all brand new simulations and exercises, 50+ new notes, 600+ new links, and now clocks in at over 50,000 words—which is longer than The Great Gatsby. OFS is a uniquely immersive and hands-on training kit focused on getting you to fly around Obsidian more confidently and faster than ever before. What would being faster with Knowledge do for you? There is nothing like Obsidian Flight School on the market. It is the most immersive & hands-on training program for any notes app in existence. That may sound like a bold statement—and I'm willing to be corrected—but once you try it I think you will agree: there is simply nothing else like OFS. It’s more true than ever: once you get fast with Obsidian, then you can really start thinking closer to the "Speed of Thought". 🤦‍♂️ Problem Working with ideas is hard. Making leaps of insights with your notes is even harder. We have too many lost notes. And it doesn't help hopping from app to shiny app. Well, you finally found Obsidian, but how do you use it? That is what Obsidian Flight School is for. Get ready to work faster than ever before. But to do this, you need to work on the right stuff and get the reps. That's right. YOU have to put in the work. Flight School is your guide and OFS 2.0 makes it more accessible than ever before. 🙌 Solution If you want to get better at Obsidian then stop passively watching videos. You need to start actually practicing in the app itself. Flight School will help you do the following: ⚡️ Work faster than ever before. 🧩 Learn the best ways to rapidly create and open notes, effectively utilize Autocomplete, and effortlessly refactor text. 🧢 Get reps and drill exercises & simulations to unlock your full potential. 2.0 has updated and redesigned these substantially both for better accessibility and to stay up-to-date with changes in Obsidian 🎨 Customize your themes, display panels, plugins, hotkeys, and functions to fine-tune your thinking experience. 🚀 Fly around your notes and ideas faster than ever before. 🎮 Have fun doing it. Earn awards, follow the narrative, Flight School is a learning experience unlike anything else. ♻️Lifetime updates. From the very beginning, we’ve promised access to lifetime updates for all owners of Obsidian Flight School and the same is true for you. They’re unlocking access to OFS 2.0 as a free update right now. 💯 Flight School has been trusted by over 1500 paying students from around the world. It is without a doubt one of the most engaging learning tool out there. And it is generating the intended results: people are getting faster, more skilled, and more confident with Obsidian. 🎁 Get $20 off from Jan 12-13 only. 🎯 My deepest goal with Obsidian Flight School is that it inspires other teachers in online education to incorporate the paradigm of *Lean Forward Learning* into their own educational products and services. Unfortunately, no one else has been able to create an immersive, hands-on learning experience for a note application like Obsidian Flight School. I hope that changes in 2023, but for now, we will continue to lead by example and hope that others continue this powerful approach to education. I believe online programs designed like Flight School 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 weaker. Instead, the “Flight School formula" forces you to grab the controls and “learn by doing”. 📽 If you want to learn more about how I incorporated "Lean Forward Learning" into Obsidian Flight School, check out this video: https://youtu.be/d4sB9eJVLLA 🗣 It’s great to be here. Please comment or ask away and I'll do my best to answer below!

Super job Nick, I’m eager to post this with Obsidian Keep Productive lovers! 👏🏼 Great work! As always!

This little gem is the ultimate learning device for Obsidian. It is the unofficial manual for the unconventional way Obsidian approaches data in a linked environment. Here you can save yourself hours and hours of finding the right way of structuring your data in Obsidian while at the same time getting tons applicable knowledge right at your fingertips. Lean back and enjoy the first guided lessons, then, as you feel that the reins get more loose and loose feel the curiosity that guides your progress in mastering the art of getting from a pile of MD files to a self-relating productive network of ideas. You can tell that I am a fan ;-)

Obsidian is a shining gem on the journey of productivity, and like any journey, we have the choice to tread the path on foot or soar through the skies. Nick offers the wings to fly. OFS is a comprehensive, enjoyable and best-practice based tool. I am thrilled to see the launch of its new version 2 and eagerly anticipate being a part of the journey.

Absolutely fantastic resource to build your skills in Personal Knowledge Management and Obsidian. When it comes to tutorials, Nick is the go to man with the Obsidian Flight School. I invested in an earlier version and it supercharged my learning of Obsidian, note making, plugins and linked notes. Highly recommended.

After I tried Obsidian on my own, following the free guidance @nickmilo already gave on youtube and having experienced the power of Obsidian in the Linking Your Thinking 9 workshop, I was still feeling I was not completely there yet. Working at the speed of my thoughts. Having seen this on product hunt now, I couldn't help but get all-in to experience the lean-forward learning and get the reps this cool way!

Watched the live stream yesterday. This looks fantastic! So much work has gone into it

Obsidian Flight School 2.0 lights up every one of the criteria for a great learning experience and does it in a way that’s fun and engaging. Plugins and hotkeys are my point of friction with Obsidian. I can’t wait to blast into the stratosphere with OFS 2.0.

Flight School helps you play the keyboard in Obsidian as if you are learning to play the piano. It‘s a training programme aimed at mastery learning, combining muscle memory and coherent organization of your thoughts and notes.

I purchased the Obsidian Flight School 1.0 and was highly pleased with the results. My navigation skills and confidence using Obsidian significantly improved. The latest version, Obsidian Flight School 2.0, appears to be an even more substantial improvement on the original product. If you want to improve your knowledge and skills in using Obsidian, I highly recommend @nickmilo Obsidian Flight School.

Anything Nick creates is an insta-buy for me. This feels like a no brainer! Congrats on the launch!

Imagine you being the architect of a new home you have envisioned building for years but don’t know how to. Imagine someone who has done this for years and brought you into his home. Showing you the rooms, the rationale of the design for each room, and the secret pathways to rooms you never knew you needed. Then he leads you into another room to show you how you can build one for yourself using the tools that you have. Inspired, you go back to your building project and know what steps to take instead of being lost. You know what tool to use to build the design you want because you were shown how to. Three main reasons why this course is excellent if you are thinking about it. Teaches not just obsidian but note making: This is more than just how to use obsidian as a note-taking app. It’s an education in note-making itself. It’s beautiful: The joyful colours from the LYT theme created by Nick, is not only aesthetically pleasing but also achieve the intended effect of showing how aesthetics play an essential role in the note-making process. I downloaded the same theme on my vault, which made me want to go back repeatedly for beautiful note-making. Gamification: Gamification science works in real-time in this course. There is a positive engagement loop that improves performance. The boots were fun and challenging and made me want to go back and play them again to improve my score. It’s fun and addictive. This itself made this course different from the others in the same space. To a product well produced and made even better! Congratulations Nick!

Congratulations to Nick, Keaton, and everyone else involved in making this product! I attended the live demo presentation yesterday and was very impressed with the effort you all put in to bring this product up to date with the current version of Obsidian, even including the new Canvas plugin (released just a few weeks ago) that is generating a lot of interest and excitement in the Obsidian community. In addition to what others have said in the comments above, I was also delighted to learn that the content includes coverage of dozens of community plugins as well as a method for keeping track of them all - a very welcome addition for someone like me; I've been hesitant to experiment with what is for me an overwhelming (and slightly intimidating) number of available plugins. I have not used the previous version of OFS, but I have downloaded OFS 2.0 and am excited to dive in!

I loved Obsidian Flight School 1.0 It was an immense help in my PKM journey (Linked notes and becoming a note maker, what more can I say) -I can't wait to see the new version. Highly recommend it.

Nick and his team have been absolutely essential in helping me get a grip on modern knowledge management. What I love about this guy and his products is the constant iteration. I've been a student of LYT for 2 years now (as well as the original Flight School), and I can safely say, they never stop improving. In the age of internet gurus, Nick is the real deal. I use the skills I've learned from him (and his community) on a daily basis and I cannot overstate how much of an impact his courses have had on both the quality of content we are producing and my personal productivity. You have my word as a random (and very satisfied) stranger on the internet... you won't regret supporting this product.

I was brand new to Obsidian. 🤔 Now what? How do I learn this? Discovered Obsidian Flight School (OFS) v1 and worked through the exercises. They were fun! A challenging game with the real reward of comfort and agility in the software. Even after "graduating" from Flight School, I kept going back to it. The "reps" keep my moves in shape. Plus, I can train in skills still sinking in. OFS Version 2 is going to be awesome. Nick Milo's preview event showed how he and his team meticulously updated the lessons as current and robust as possible (e.g., covering new hotkeys, plugins). Obsidian Flight School is a gift to anyone looking to learn or stay sharp in Obsidian. 🎁 Thank you for the work and care you put into all you do! I'm downloading OFS v2 now.

An outstanding tool teaching you how to employ Obsidian as your second brain at the speed of thought.

Flight schools method to help you “lean in” with obsidian and get the best practices out the gate is one of the BEST investments I’ve ever made as I seek to improve my relationship to ideas, knowledge, and productivity of using Obsidian. In less than 2 weeks I was flying with best practices because I was using obsidian to learn obsidian. Imagine if Microsoft Excel had an easy to follow, fun, interactive, and insanely insightful training built into Excel to help you practice live as you got the hang of such an in-depth tool? The use cases of obsidian are endless and the way Nick teaches you to use it with OFS, both genius and priceless. I’ve been flying in obsidian and have not looked back since.

OFS 2.0 is just an excellent upgrade to an already awesome product. If one puts in the time, you can't help but become an Obsidian Jedi working on all the informative, exciting and challenging exercises Nick and the awesome LYT team created. This just reenforces the joy of expressive, insightful note creating. I am an alumni of Workshop 8 and that was a great experience as well. The LYT team are rock stars for this great product!

I was already obsessed with 1.0 so can only imagine how I'll feel about 2.0! I originally joined as part of my desperate search to stop app-hopping (success!) but got something SO much more valuable. The way I view ideas and approach learning/creating has changed forever. I've gone from feeling like an idea/note hoarder to an idea developer -- the more I used to consume/think, the more I felt like I was just moving/expanding sideways but now I'm able to sit down each day and make forward motion. Motion that continually increases the value of my knowledge not to mention my excitement about what I'm creating. Thanks for creating this incredible product (not to mention all of the free content you've published that supports it!)