Category: PKM

  • Obsidian Workflow Tips for Making Connections

    Obsidian Workflow Tips for Making Connections

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    Today we’re going to look at a lesson from my Obsidian course where I show you some of the workflows I use to make connections with notes. You can get all the lessons by becoming a member or by purchasing the course below.

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  • Developing Book Ideas in Obsidian

    Developing Book Ideas in Obsidian

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    Today we’re going to look at fleshing out a big research project I’ve been toying with for a few years. We’ll look at some Obsidian plugins, how I search DEVONthink for more content I may have captured at different times and Shortform to evaluate resources that may fit with the project. Shortform is a sponsor…

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  • How I Organize Video Course Notes

    How I Organize Video Course Notes

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    In my Getting Started with Zettelkasten Course I’ve been asked how I go about taking notes for video courses. Today I’m going to walk you through how I organize Obsidian to take those notes. Members get all my courses and books for free. Learn more about membership. Learn to have a good process regardless of…

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  • Best Sync Service for Obsidian

    Best Sync Service for Obsidian

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    Today you’re getting a sample course from my Getting Started with Obsidian Course. You can purchase the course below, or members get access to all my courses

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  • Obsidian Quick Add – Automate Note Entry

    Obsidian Quick Add – Automate Note Entry

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    Getting your notes into Obsidian can be a bit of a chore. I find adding a book to my notes as I’m reading a book particularly time consuming, and it breaks me out of the reading workflow. This is where Quick Add can help automate some of the process of adding specific types of notes.…

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  • Obsidian /Slash Command Plugin

    Obsidian /Slash Command Plugin

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    Recently Obsidian introduced a new cool core plugin that will save you some key strokes when you need to activate commands in it’s interface. Today we’re going to talk about the /slash command plugin.

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  • Obsidian Longform – A Scrivener Replacement?

    Obsidian Longform – A Scrivener Replacement?

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    For a long time I loved Scrivener, but the development is so slow it may as well not happen. It also has had 10 years to really support iPad’s as primary writing tools and it’s done a terrible job. You’re almost missing more features on an iPad than you get. You certainly can’t produce a…

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  • Obsidian Workspaces

    Obsidian Workspaces

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    Workspaces allow you to save a configuration of your Obsidian panels and files. This is useful for when you have a configuration that you use regularly. I regularly need to open up my writing workspace which has a Kanban board and hides all the sidebars. One of the other default workspaces I have is for…

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  • Obsidian Papercut Plugin

    Obsidian Papercut Plugin

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    I was recently asked which tools I’d recommend for someone getting started with taking notes in a Zettelkasten style system and contrary to what many people would believe I said start with a notecard because it enforces a character limit on you. When you get started it’s far to easy to jumble a bunch of…

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  • Craft 1.7 Gets Tables

    Craft 1.7 Gets Tables

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    With Craft 1.7 users now have the long requested feature to have tables. Overall the tables are a very understandable user interface that allows almost everything that Craft has in it to be used inside a cell. Combining tables and pages you could even build out a Kanban flow that follows the traditional horizontal layout…

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