The Tyranny of the Note Taking Industrial Complex, and Other Notes on Notes - Herbert Lui
There’s been a lot of critique going on lately about notes. My friend Rick and I talked about it a few months ago, and I’d been copying and pasting the links down in an Airtable record (Haha—not kidding though). I’ve written 1,000+ notecards at this point, at least 200 of which made it into this […]
Steven Johnson essay on new computer-based tools that can integrate research for writers within personal library of files; describes features and results of his personal experience; says new tools allow creative collaboration between writer's intelligence and software's search and retrieval capabilities; says advent of word processors changed way writers wrote and new software will change way they think; photo (M)
Thanks to everyone for the amazing response to the Times essay and my subsequent post. Clearly, there is some serious pent-up interest out there in these kinds of tools. I’ve received so many…
This week’s edition of the Times Book Review features an essay that I wrote about the research system I’ve used for the past few years: a tool for exploring the couple thousand notes and quotations…
Practically Paperless with Obsidian, Episode 25: Five Use Cases for Managing My Writing in Obsidian
Photo by mali maeder on Pexels.com Welcome to my blog series, “Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” For an overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview. Years before I began usin…
Event Notes in Craft Are Awesome for Time Blockers – The Sweet Setup
Daily Notes became a hallmark feature in Craft in short order. The quick and easy ability to create a note, specific to a calendar date, that could be linked and back-linked across your entire Craft database made the feature a perfect option for collecting digital paraphernalia.
How I Manage Projects and Goals in Obsidian | Christian Bager Bach Houmann
Christian Bager Bach Houmann - I'm a software engineering student from Denmark with a passion for learning, productivity, and problem-solving. Let's learn together.
This started off life as a link post to an interesting video on Matt Birchlers writing set up. However, it quickly spiralled out of control into me writing regular expressions, editing javascript and spending two days making this set up my own. If you're into doing anything like this, then
BBEdit: A powerful, highly linkable, text editor for creative work and note-taking
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Whether you're simply filling out a web form, drafting a topic for a forum entry, replying to an intricate email, or creating something quite substantial like an article or even a book … you'll be more productive if you Hook yo