Author: Curtis McHale

  • PKM Weekly for May 15 2022 – Issue 019

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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  • Have We Fallen Into the Hapiness Trap

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    I don’t believe that if you find what you love you’ll never work a day in your life. In fact, I find this to be a faulty belief that causes much grief for so many. To some extent, we’ve all fallen into happiness rhetoric and it’s harming us. This is a members-only post. If you

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  • Track your Library in Obsidian

    Track your Library in Obsidian

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    Over the years I’ve tried to track the books I own and what I read with a number of different methods. For the last few years I’ve used BookBuddy to track the books I own and The Story Graph to track what I read. Even with these two excellent apps I haven’t loved my setup.

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  • Am I Better Known for Taking Notes or Thinking?

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    Today I talk about the struggle of being known for taking notes instead of the thinking and content that those notes produce. You can read the full post by becoming a member..

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  • PKM Weekly May 8 2022 – Issue 018

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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  • Automate Craft with CraftCuts

    Automate Craft with CraftCuts

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    Automation is one key feature that can save you time and with Craftcuts by FloGro you can now integrate your Shortcuts directly into Craft to speed up your workflow. Today we’ll take a look at some of these Shortcuts and how they work in Craft for macOS. Build A Daily Note One way you could

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  • PKM Weekly May 1 2022 – Issue 017

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    Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could

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  • What If I Didn’t Do Social Media?

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    So the news that Elon Musk is trying to purchase Twitter has many people saying they’ll leave Twitter for other pastures. Today that mostly means a Mastodon instance if you’re looking for a Twitter-like experience. How about a bigger question, why do you even need social media anyway? You’re reading a members only post I

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  • I’m A Terrible Parent and Proud of It

    I’m A Terrible Parent and Proud of It

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    I’m a terrible parent. Just a few weeks ago I left my kid stuck in a tree in our yard for an hour. She wasn’t very high, her head barely reached past mine, but she was stuck. Both my wife and I figure that some harm will happen to our children so we try not

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  • How I Keep Creating

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    My friend Chris asked how you keep writing. I don’t find this question hard. How do you keep doing anything you find valuable, you schedule time to do it. I keep writing by scheduling time to write almost every day of the week. There is no secret. Inspiration isn’t the key. Sit down and write

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