Tag: Obsidian
Productivity as a Fetish
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Looking around at the productivity gurus writing about their ideal morning routine, or showing off their amazing productivity system, it’s easy to think that we’ve got it wrong. Our system doesn’t let us live the life we see captured in moments and posted on Instagram. The task manager we use doesn’t let us flow effortlessly
Bridging Analogue and Digital Notes
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The Obsidian Note Codes plugin does an interesting thing to bridge your digital and physical notes by producing a 4 letter code for a note which you can write down to reference that note in a notebook.
Readwise Reader: Sync, Highlight, and Read Smarter
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After covering a bunch of read later options recently the most requested option has been Readwise Reader. Readwise is a compelling option with RSS integration, Kobo/Kindle integrations, sync with Obsidian and to top it off the ability to send various content to it so you can read and highlight it later. Disclaimer: Readwise gave me
Apps Outside the US
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Lou has a good list of apps that won’t be subject to the changing privacy whims of the US government because they’re outside the US. I’m not sure that’s true given that we see many companies saying that they “comply with all local laws” but at this point I’m much happier to support anything that’s
ReadItLater – Obsidian Plugin
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After last week’s look at some read later services I had a bunch of suggestions including the Obsidian ReadItLater plugin. To test this out you need to go to Obsidian settings then Community Plugins where you can search for and active this plugin. Usage Unlike the Obsidian Web Clipper you don’t use an external tool
Linkwarden vs Wallabag vs Obsidian Web Clipper
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Yes Omnivore is gone so today we’re going to take a look at 3 other options for saving articles to read later. My biggest issue with all of them is how poorly they handle YouTube content. If you’ve got other options I should look at I’d love to hear about them.
Pocket Alternatives from Marcel
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While Marcel has been using Pocket for a long time recent instability had him check out other options. His list includes: To that list I’d add Linkwarden and even Obsidian Web Clipper. I’ll be recording a video on my experiences with Wallabag, Linkwarden and Obsidian Web Clipper in the next few days. They all have
Obsidian Web Clipper is out of Beta
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With the demise of Omnivore people have been looking for alternatives and I’ve heard great things about Obsidian Web clipper which is now out of beta. While it does work on mobile I don’t see a way to send stuff from an iOS app (like YouTube) to the web clipper without first going to Safari.
Matt on Professional Tools
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Matt contends that professional tools need 3 things: This is why I stick with Neovim. It just works the way it’s supposed to work all the time and doesn’t update with new tools (like some AI shit) because the company thinks it needs to get AI into its tools. Finally, I can create any workflow
Omnivore alternatives, actionable notes and friction – 3 Threads
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This is brought to you by members. To get access to my book notes and courses you should become one. Omnivore Alternatives Omnivore is joining ElevenLabs which the blog post plays as a positive thing, but you have till November 15th to export your information before they delete everything. This has left people upset and
