Physical vs Digital PKM
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The question of what type of note-taking software you should use has been hotly debated. There are proponents of every piece of software out there. But maybe you should take one step back from which piece of software you should use to ask yourself if you should be using software at all? Maybe a pen…
PKM Weekly May 14 2023 – Issue 069
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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…
Does Technology Improve Learning Outcomes?
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Weekly research notes are reserved for members. Members also get all my courses. This week we look at digital versus physical note-taking starting with an old study titled – The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard – which showed that people taking notes on laptops did worse on tests than those taking handwritten notes. We…
BBEdit turns 30
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BBEdit has been around for 30 years and they’re running a discount to get the software for $30 USD right now. I use NeoVim as my main code editor, but BBEdit is my secondary editor and until today I had just used the free edition. I got started coding on macOS with TextWrangler, which has…
Education Assistant turns to OnlyFans to feed her family
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So let me get this straight. An Education Assistant in BC is so underpaid they had to turn to OnlyFans to make enough money to get by. Then, when some parent watches the content they may lose their job. This parent/adult is participating in OnlyFans clearly. You don’t just randomly find this content if you…
Cross-platform offline documentation
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For years I’ve relied on Dash to provide offline documentation for coding projects. Unfortunately, the excellent Dash app is not available cross-platform which means I’ve started using Zeal for offline access to coding documentation. Add Docs to Zeal To add documentation to Zeal click the button provided when you open the application. Then search through…
Illinois seems to be heading the right direction
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Illinois banned the ability to ban books, or at least get funding for your library or school library if you ban books.
PKM Weekly May 7 2023 – Issue 068
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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…
You Can be So Productive You Never Live Life
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Today we talk about the dark side of productiivty, the lack of life. If you want to read these posts become a member. Members get my courses included..
Obsidian SNW plugin
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The point to building a personal note system is to be able to find related thoughts in your vault. That can be hard at times as you have to be intentional about opening the backlinks panel or looking at the Graph Analysis panel. This is where the Strange New Worlds (SNW) plugin for Obsidian can…
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