Challenge 3: Build a Content Creation Pipeline

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Click here to download the training graph for Challenge 3

Today’s challenge will help you consolidate the knowledge and experience you gained from the previous challenges. And while you may think you’re not a content creator, you probably are; memos, blog posts, and anything else you share with others are content. And to make this creation process easier, we’ll use our notes as the building materials.

If you’ve followed along, you should have everything for this challenge. You should also know by now how to link or tag blocks so that they appear in queries. The only “new” thing in this challenge is the concept of block references. If you’re unfamiliar with them, check out this help article on the basics of block references.

Read the instructions below to complete the challenge. Following Systems Thinking, we’ve already identified the inputs, movements, and output of the content creation pipeline.

The inputs

For most content creators, snippets of text (i.e., blocks) are the inputs.

Now that we have a content consumption process in place (from challenge 2) and know how to create indexes of notes (from challenge 1), we have all the ingredients to produce the inputs for our creation phase.

The movements

  1. It starts when you collect a piece of content to consume later.
  2. You consume a piece of content while you keep Logseq open, saving highlights and taking notes.
  3. In a separate pass, you tag highlights and notes that are interesting enough to ponder more deeply.
  4. To collect interesting bits for your outline, you create indexes of related notes.
  5. Finally, you go through the indexes you created in the previous step and take block references from them for the outline.

The output

We’re looking to produce an outline for a piece of content. This is content in the broadest sense: an internal memo, a blog article, or even an entire paper. And as we’ll see in tomorrow’s challenge, content can even be an update email to project stakeholders.

Questions? Insights?

If you have any questions or insights related to today’s challenge, please post them in this forum thread.

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i was hoping to see a Youtube video link
Problem could be that my tablet only has Silk web browser as it is a vanilla Amazon Fire OS android-variant with only an Amazon app store for apps

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There is no video with this challenge. You need to download the training graph (see link at the top of the post) and do the exercise it tells on the Journals page.

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:white_check_mark: Challenge 3 — My step-by-step (Content Creation Pipeline)

Goal: tag useful ideas inside 3 sources, surface them by topic with inline queries, then build an Outline using block references (no full-text copy/paste).

1) Checked the exercise structure

Opened [[Article/How to Learn]] and confirmed it has two main branches:

  • Research (topics/tags)

  • Outline (where the final structure is built)

In Research, the topics (in order) are:

  • [[Fixed mindset]]

  • [[Growth mindset]]

  • [[Talent]]

  • [[Errors]]

  • [[Practice]]

  • [[Examples]]

2) Tagged blocks inside the 3 source pages

Visited the 3 pages linked in the exercise:

  1. Talks at Google: The Growth Mindset

  2. How to Learn Skills Faster

  3. POP Writing Workshop

On each page, I used Ctrl+F to find the Research terms, then turned those terms into page-reference links inside the relevant blocks.

3) Added inline queries under each Research topic

Under each topic in the Research branch, I inserted a simple inline query:

- Fixed mindset
  - {{query [[Fixed mindset]]}}

- Growth mindset
  - {{query [[Growth mindset]]}}

- Talent
  - {{query [[Talent]]}}

- Errors
  - {{query [[Errors]]}}

- Practice
  - {{query [[Practice]]}}

- Examples
  - {{query [[Examples]]}}

Each query now automatically lists the blocks I tagged across the 3 sources.

4) Opened Research in the sidebar and Outline in the main pane

  • Opened Research in the sidebar (Shift-click the branch/block).

  • Kept Outline in the main pane to build the structure.

5) Built the Outline using block references

From each query’s results:

  1. Selected only the blocks I actually wanted to use.

  2. Copied the block reference (bullet menu → Copy block ref, or copy with cursor inside the block).

  3. Pasted those references into the Outline as children under the right headings.

This keeps the Outline connected to the original notes (no duplication).

6) Quick validation check

To verify tagging worked:

  • Opened a topic page (e.g. [[Errors]])

  • Checked Linked References

  • Confirmed the tagged blocks from the 3 sources show up there