PKM Weekly April 30 2023 – Issue 067

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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.

I Tried to Migrate to Todoist; It Didn’t Go Well. (web) Good points about chasing the “perfect” app.

Nicole talks about emergent note-taking. (youtube) How to spot clusters of notes and do something with them.

On the portability of a physical note system. (reddit)

Bryan gives us an update on his channel. (youtube)

Note naming in Zettelkasten. (youtube)

AI can be an effective partner in writing, but it can also be a drunk partner. (web) I enjoyed this article talking about using ChatGPT as a research assistant to suggest avenues of discovery.

If we offload our agency, our ability to decide, to inanimate entities outside of ourselves, we risk losing important parts of ourselves. Especially in these times as AI is on the rise, we must remain vigilant. – Is Something Wrong with my “Second Brain”? (web)

Retroactive journaling. (web)

We often have messed up ideas of what a “creative” person is supposed to be. (web)

Is most of what’s being called Zettelkasten antithetical to Zettelkasten? (reddit)

Obsidian – A Year In. (web) Good tips under the lessons learned for using any application.