Open Source Contacts Made My Business Too
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From Heather Burns: After years of dragging my arse to the only mildly tolerable option, an open source community meetup appeared – in the function room of a twee Oirish pub, no less – and what ensued didn’t so much pivot my business but my entire life. And on that evidence, it’s no wonder that…
Goodbye DEVONthink
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Now that I have a Fedora Linux laptop to do my work on I’m realizing that I have some vendor lock-in I need to deal with in my note-taking system. Specifically, I’ve used DEVONthink as my storage for research materials and “other people’s thoughts” for a long time. DEVONthink is not available on Linux though…
ASUS ROG Z13 – Better than the iPadPro?
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Sure the iPadPro may be more powerful than this1 but this runs a full fat operating system. So it can be a tablet, and my full-time computer for all tasks. My iPad still doesn’t do code well. I never checked I’m simply guessing because M1/2 chips are so fast. ↩
Writing is a transit system for electrical brain sparks
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From Analog Office: The magic is in the fact that writing is a transit system, which transports little electrical sparks in your synapses into things that affect shared reality. Yes I love Obsidian. Yes I write down most notes during the day in a notebook.
Matt Birchler – AI Hype is Like Chatbot hype from 2016
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There is so much to agree with in Matt’s post. Tech hypes so much that will “revolutionize” our lives and lots of it fails to bring these innovations. How do we always forget the broken promises and blindly trust the new thing tech is hyping?
How Will AI Change Note-Taking?
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AI will solve the need to organize your notes!!! But will it really? Crypto was supposed to solve banking and make it modern. Instead it’s crashed a bunch and rich people got in early then cashed out and got richer. Ride hailing was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation. Instead they used data to drive down…
PKM Weekly April 2 2023 – Issue 063
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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 from this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You could also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. Membership includes all my courses. You…
Don’t Buy a Piece of Substack – Own Your Work
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Let’s talk about Substack starting its enshittification walk towards death by asking writers to prop up a company that doesn’t make money. To read this post you need to be a member. Members get my courses as well as the weekly research notes..
Repurposing a ThinkPad 701C with Framework
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I love this repurposing of an old computer with new brains from Framework. Before I purchased my 13″ Framework I tried to get an older ThinkPad, but after numerous shipping issues, I never got any of them. I love my Framework laptop. I love that even though I missed out on their latest upgrades by…
The Richest School Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Properly
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This story from Vice about Harvard shows the sad state of affairs across the working world in North America. Harvard is doing the “great service” for it’s student workers of showing them resources to help them pay for things, like food. They want to be congratulated for this, while we look the other way as…
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