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Bigger Ideas

Platform agnostic ideas that may help your PKM process. They may feature a software, but I think they apply to more than a single platform.

While I don’t always share Sébastien’s email specifically, I regularly get links from it. You should subscribe. (web)

A beginner asks how to get started taking good notes. (reddit)

Heather Burns, a privacy advocate, shared her best reads from 2022. (web)

Something Interesting

Because we’re all lookin to expand our minds a bit.

Tiffany talks about fragility in the design of places you live.

Matt on the prevalence of “non-thought”.

Software

Omnivore is an open source read later service that has just released a Matter importer. While they have a hosted version, you can also install and run Omnivore yourself.

logseq

Danny hosted a 2 hour conversation about logseq and Obsidian. (youtube)

Craft

You can disable the AI assistant in specific spaces. (reddit)

Some tips on migrating from Bear -> Craft. (reddit)

Brandon talks with Josh about Craft, Obsidian, PKM and Second Brain. (youtube)

If not Craft…then what? I wonder if the OP is really just caught up with shiny tools and should use their time to take notes instead of worrying if their in the right software.

Obsidian

Interesting idea on saving tags as macOS extended file attributes so the system could read your tags as well. (reddit)

On the Arc browser and Obsidian. (medium)

Obsidian really isn’t a note-taking app so it’s hard to get started. (medium)

Nicole talked about her time management setup in Obsidian. (youtube)

On combining Obsidian with a notebook. I don’t use the daily notes features in Obsidian but I do keep a Bullet Journal to track what I should be working on, and to journal in throughout the day.

How to manually install an Obsidian plugin. (youtube)

Metadata and Obsidian. (youtube)

Mind Mapping with Obsidian Canvas. (youtube)

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