Tag: writing
Collecting Book Ideas in Obsidian
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About once a month I’ll write a blog post and the idea will stick with me for a day or two. The most recent time this happened was with the post We Own Nothing – The Broken Promise of the Information Age, I think that idea has legs to it. I have a personal story…
Library as Serendipity and Writing is Thinking – PKM Weekly Issue 096 for Nov 12 2023
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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. The Library is…
4 Mistakes Beginner Note Takers Make
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Today we’re going to look at the mistakes beginner note-takers make, though they’re not limited to beginners really. As I’ve coached more people on their note process I see many people falling into these traps in their PKM system. They learn these bad habits then never recognize them and don’t make changes to their systems.…
Obsidian Novel Word Count
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Depending on how you have your projects organized, you may want the word count of a folder. This is where Novel Word Count for Obsidian can help you. Novel Word Count does one thing, count the words of the items in the folders in your Obsidian vault. By default it will only show you the…
Like Marc Said…Writing is Magical
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I entirely agree with Marc, writing is magical. All of his reasons are excellent, but I use 4 and 5 regularly. At my programming gig if any issue in Github takes more than a quick fix then I document it in our work Obsidian system alongside the issue. Yes sometimes it shows failed paths that…
The More I Write My Thoughts
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From Joe: The more I write out my thoughts, the more I understand myself and the more I want to write out my thoughts. I too journal my thoughts on the day in my Bullet Journal. Sometimes it’s intimate, sometimes it’s me saying I wish I could read more without needing to do “billable” hours…
Extra Complexity Everywhere
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I’m very much looking forward to the rest of what Jamie will write about…writing. Today’s start is a good rumination on writing getting so much more complex. I’m going through some issues around this right now as well as I try to get out of software lock-in so that I can have as open a…
We Love a Flash of Creativity and Forget About Editing
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From Ryan Holiday: As a culture, we love flashes of inspiration and we love finished products. We have little interest and little understanding, however, of what goes on in between—of the essentialness of editing and improving and tweaking until whatever we are creating is just right. This idea was echoed in his book Perrenial Seller…
Content’s Race to the Bottom – It Doesn’t Really Want to be Free
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[Ben Brooks][bb] wrote a [fantastic article][bbart] about free content and the expectations that were set eons (at least in web terms) ago about content being free. I am already a [member][mem] of [Shawn Blanc’s][sb] site. I pay $3/month so he can write full time, and I’m happy to do it. Paying for his content at…
Great Writing Tips from a Great Author
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Some great writting tips from one that would know C.S. Lewis. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them. Never use abstract…
