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Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
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Right from the get-go, Stanislas Dehaene tells us why he wrote Reading in the Brain because most of us understand more about how our car works than we understand about how our brain works1. His goal is to change that. He actually wants to go a bit further than that by working to explain why
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Jeff Perry launches a bunch of new stuff
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Today Jeff Perry is launching a bunch of new stuff. First, you can subscribe to the paid portion of his newsletter, which I’ll do. Second, he’s relaunched A Slab of Glass. This was a great podcast he did with Chris Lawley, but now it’s been relaunched as an interview show. I was lucky enough to
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Using Templater in Obsidian
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One of the things that had me struggling with Obsidian early on was it’s lack of iPad support and one of the big pain points there was the way that templates worked in Obsidian. Yes I could use TextExpander, or Alfred Snippets, on macOS to have templates but they wouldn’t transfer to iPadOS. Yes I
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Brad Davis on Kindle, Readwise, Obsidian
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I read a little bit on Kindle, and will read mostly on my Kindle while camping next week. Not sure it’s enough to bother paying for Readwise but if you read on Kindle lots Brad’s workflow may be for you.
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River Queen by Paul Levy
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One of the things I’ve been wanting to dig deeper into lately has been BC history. Luckily The Bookman has a huge section devoted to Canadian authors. A few months back I picked up a biography called River Queen, which follows Lucille Johnstone. Lucille was an integral part of the Vancouver Airport, Expo 86, St.
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Obsidian iOS Quick Capture with Backtap
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One of the problems I’ve had with Obsidian on iOS is saving my thoughts quickly to a spot in my iCloud sync location. While this appears to be something that will work just fine in iOS 15, we’re not in that world yet. Today I’ll share my Shortcut that uses Toolbox Pro to save a
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
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Today we’ll look at a best selling piece of fiction called American Dirt by Jeannie Cummins. Cummins writes about Mexico, specifically Acapulco and follows opens with a bang as most of a family is wiped out by a local gang lord. Two people escape, Lydia and Luca and we join them hiding in the shower
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Using Obsidian Aliases
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One of the things I missed while using Craft was aliases. Instead of having a single note that referenced a few related spellings of a word, or strongly related topics, with Craft you had to have individual notes for each spelling. Today I’ll show you how you can use aliases to stop this duplication. Aliases
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The Organized Mind by Daniel J Levitin
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Who doesn’t want to be organized? Who doesn’t want to have all the thoughts that run through their head in a decent order so that they can be retrieved as needed? Trying to answer these questions is what The Organized Mind, by Daniel J. Levitin, is meant to do. Let’s look at some of the
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James – Note Making and Linking in Craft
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James gives us a nice walkthrough of how he takes notes and links them in Craft. Also HyperCard reference FTW.
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