• Can Joplin Replace DEVONthink

    Can Joplin Replace DEVONthink

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    Today we’re taking a live look at Joplin for note-taking. Ultimately I’m looking for a DEVONthink replacement. I’m now in a mixed operating system environment and DEVONthink doesn’t support anything but macOS. Some highlights from the video. Joplin supports embedded PDFs but you need to create a note, then drop the PDF into the note

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  • PKM Weekly August 15 2023 – Issue 082

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    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 also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. Bigger Ideas Platform

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  • Reads for August 16 2023

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    In this members newsletter we talk about the rug-pull that is Uber (and really it’s most tech companies), how the routines of others probably don’t suit you, paying taxes at the higher end of income, and opting out of the capitalist dream of endless purchasing. If you want to read this whole post become a

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  • Research With Me – The Good Enough Job

    Research With Me – The Good Enough Job

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    Today we’re going to look at my notes from The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff. Some highlights of the topics the book addresses: During the video, I show you how I take notes. How I turn some notes into writing ideas for my members newsletter and how I clean up my vault as I

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  • PKM Weekly August 6 2023 – Issue 081

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    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 also purchase a course if that fits your needs better. You can get this in your inbox by signing up. Bigger Ideas Platform

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  • Should I still Read Liberal Facism

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    What do you do when a book on your shelf you haven’t read turns out to be a political hit-piece that has no solid backing and ignores most of history? Today I discuss Liberal Fascism, which sits on my shelf and I’ve learned is a thinly veiled poorly researched hit-piece on the left. If you

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  • Maybe the Friction of Mastodon is a good thing

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    Matt has a good point. As I’ve thought about before, I’m learning that I’m personally more excited about ActivityPub than I am about Mastodon specifically. I’m excited about the idea of being able to use Ivory to log into my Mastodon account and talk to people using Micro.blog, Tumblr, or Threads (one day). RSS currently

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  • The Dilemma of Content Creators

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    From Sebastien Dubois: The one part I’m disappointed about is the MRR of this newsletter. As I write edition after edition, week after week, I notice how little progress I manage to make. You are now 800+ subscribers, and I’ve only managed to convince 6 of you (❤️) that my work is worth supporting (i.e.,

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  • People Really Don’t Want to Work in the Office

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    So it turns out that people like flexible work and don’t want return-to-office policies mandated. I’m baffled that companies were caught off guard by high attrition rates when they mandated return-to-office policies. Employees got a taste of what autonomy is like and realized that sitting in the office every day all day was a bad

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  • Bear 2.0 First Look

    Bear 2.0 First Look

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    Today we’re going to take a first look at Bear 2.0 released by Shiny Frog software. Bear is an excellent note-taking application for macOS, iPadOS and iOS. That means if you use Linux or Windows…you’re out of luck when it comes to this beautiful application. During this first look we tested out the formatting of

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