• PKM Weekly July 31 2022 – Issue 029

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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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  • Building a Second Brain Gives You Permission to Fall Into Collector’s Fallacy

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    This is usually a member’s only post. Become a member to get research notes and courses. When I started writing this I had not finished Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I was originally optimistic that he’d deal with the items I thought were missing, but that didn’t happen. Unfortunately, this book follows the…

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  • My 5 Favourite Kanban Tools

    My 5 Favourite Kanban Tools

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    Kanban is one of my favourite task management systems. It does an excellent job at visualizing what is outstanding in a project and seeing all of the tasks that are assigned to you. If you’re interesting in learning more about Kanban I suggest the Personal Kanban book. Today we’ll look at my 5 favourite kanban…

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  • Unread Updates for Stage Manager

    Unread Updates for Stage Manager

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    No this isn’t a big update for Unread, but it’s a fast responsive update. Just a week ago I reported that the default keyboard command to toggle the read status of an article conflicted with the iPadOS 16 Stage Manager controls. Well July 22 2022 Unread released 3.0.2 and changed the keyboard commands around. I…

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  • The Gray Man

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    This was a fun action flick and man does Chris Evans play an excellent villain. I hope we see another instalment. You can find it on Netflix in Canada, and since it’s a Netflix property you can probably find it there in other places as well.

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  • PKM Weekly July 24 2022 – Issue 028

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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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  • Know the Problems You’re Best at Solving

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    One of the things I’m not great at is speed as a developer. The few times I’ve worked for WordPress agencies that is something I’ve been told, I’m too slow and don’t jump between projects fast enough. The first time I heard this I was very down on myself thinking that I was a bad…

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  • Fix Obsidian Kanban Mobile

    Fix Obsidian Kanban Mobile

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    While I use macOS for much of my work, I still strongly prefer iPadOS as an operating system. For the most part, Obsidian and the surrounding plugins work perfectly on iPadOS, but not always. One recent tweak I made to the Kanban plugin for Obsidian was to invert the order of new cards. This accomplishes…

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  • PKM Weekly July 17 2022 – Issue 027

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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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  • Meritocracy is a Sham and Failure

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    Today we look at what a terrible idea meritocracy is. It sounds good to rise as far as you can with your skills, but in reality it’s simply built another entitled class system that is destroying the world around us. To read my weekly research notes and get all my courses become a member..

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