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…
Greg on Followers and Supporters
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Greg talked about how supporters are far more valuable to creators than followers. The gist is that followers just read your stuff, supporters actually pay for it in some way. His thoughts remind me a lot of the 1000 true fans someone needs to create a viable thing. I diverge from Greg though in going…
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
Yoink bring clipboard history to iPad
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One of the features I use all the time in Alfred on macOS is the clipboard manager. So many times while writing code I need to copy something, then copy another piece of text, and finally paste them both in the same field. Alfred makes this easy and it’s been a feature that iPadOS has…
Yup AirPlay is Kind of Broken
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In this article Jason Snell laments the state of AirPlay on macOS and I totally agree it’s broken. I have 2 Sonos speakers in my office. One Sonos One and one Sonos Roam. The Roam does double duty as it moves around the house a few times a week to be a speaker for others…
DailyTekk on being Successful
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Specifically I like Chris’ thoughts on finding a frontier. I started with WordPress in 2008 when it was very much a frontier and it’s why I have the coding career I have today. It’s why many people subscribe to my site and still are interested in what I have to say. I also think I’m…
A look at how Josh Kaufman does research and reading
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I’d love to be like Josh and get to spend 75% of my day reading. I mean I get to spend a decent amount of time reading books or articles, but I’d prefer to do more. I also like his unlimited book budget, which I don’t have. Check the article out for his reading process,…
Allen Pike on cross-platform software development
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Interesting post from Allen Pike about the tradeoffs we make with cross-platform development. It seems to come down to the ability of a team to keep native products in sync across platforms which gets harder with more platforms and bigger teams. I for one am fine with what 1Password is doing with Eletron. Seems to…
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.…
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.