MadaboutDana
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Building a Second Brain
11/10/2022
Sorry, been away: it's now built into the actual program (V1.0 onwards)! There's a drop-down button in the top right-hand corner of the actual chrome that allows you to stack or unstack tabs.
I have ...
Building a Second Brain
11/7/2022
Your reference to Matuschak is interesting: by far my favourite feature in the new version of Obsidian is the built-in Matuschak-style "tab stacking", which allows you to have multiple notes open (in ...
Obsidian 1.0
11/7/2022
Speaking of Obsidian plug-ins, I've just been reading a rather nice article on using Obsidian as a replacement for Ulysses:
https://thesweetsetup.com/turning-obsidian-into-my-perfect-writing-app/
It...
Seeking the productive life
11/7/2022
Thanks for the reference, Andy – really interesting!
Andy Brice wrote:
This a long essay by Stephen Wolfram(of Mathematica fame) from 2019
>about how he stays productive. It touches on top...
Building a Second Brain
11/4/2022
Interesting contention: you see, given that Niklas didn't have access to digital technology, what's always impressed me is not so much his Zettelkasten system as the fact that he must have preserved, ...
Seeking the productive life
11/4/2022
There are some pretty cool man-purses around ;-)
Amontillado wrote:
Interesting. I'd heard some of his lifestyle before.
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>Funny how society can look down on practical things. His walking desk
>set...
Sounds like you need one of the TiddlyWiki variants – there are certainly folding versions that would do what you want. Try TiddlyRoam, for example (with its backlinks and graph view, plus ...
Building a Second Brain
11/2/2022
In principle, I tend to agree with @Dellu (being all in favour of strengthening my brain!); on the other hand, without my vast list of to-dos (many of them extremely tedious and forgettable), I wouldn...
Building a Second Brain
11/1/2022
Just a quick word, in the midst of much else, to urge all fellow CRIMPers to read Tiago Forte's very impressive book on "Building a Second Brain".
When I first read reviews, I felt rather dismissive ...
Obsidian 1.0
10/25/2022
Ditto!
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Thank you, very useful!
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>Dellu wrote:
>>Finally, I find a format to make the absolute link visible to all the
>>markdown aware apps:
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On a related subject, I'm just reading Tiago Forte's "Building a Second Brain", which is quite entertaining (the Kindle book isn't priced as outrageously as the various hardcopy editions).
I haven't ...
It was one of my faves while I still ran on Windows.
Jon Polish wrote:
Agreed that SQL lite is not ideal, but know that I have successfully
>merged databases in excess of 1.5 GB in Ultra Recall. UR c...
Obsidian 1.0
10/24/2022
Agreed; I'm always wary of plugins, and try to install no more than 3 in any given plugin-supporting app. But Obsidian's core plugins are already more than sufficient for most purposes. And the qualit...
Of Obsidian and Devonthink
10/24/2022
... or you could just play with existing Obsidian plugins. I'm currently experimenting with Cardboard, a kanban plugin that allows you to use dates or tags as column identifiers (and set up as many "b...
Ah, you're making an interesting argument: by imposing a cognitive framework (in this case, outlining) on your ideation, you're unconsciously but effectively constraining it to a specific model which ...
Obsidian 1.0
10/21/2022
... all the more reason to switch over to Obsidian once and for all!
Obsidian 1.0
10/21/2022
Hm, yes, fair point, guv! Like Ulysses, too. I too am moving away from database-based notetakers, so am entirely sympathetic. I'd forgotten Bear uses databases as well!
Dellu wrote:
Hi Bill,
>Yes, i...
Obsidian 1.0
10/21/2022
OneDrive – yes, good idea, that's my preferred alternative to Dropbox nowadays (since they decided to create the Biggest Client in the World!), given that I have to use MS-Office anyway for...
Obsidian 1.0
10/20/2022
You mention using DEVONthink instead of Obsidian – I'd suggest UpNote as a possible alternative, because it's genuinely cross-platform (Windows, Android and Linux, as well as all the Apple ...
Obsidian 1.0
10/20/2022
Heh, interesting issue, the Android bridge. I like your solution. I've been using iCloud for macOS, iOS and iPadOS, but would probably use something like ChronoSync if I needed Android as well. As it ...
Obsidian 1.0
10/19/2022
Yep, just been playing with Obsidian – and actually enjoying it for the first time ever!
And getting ready to ditch my combined NotePlan/Craft setup for an all-Obsidian setup instead ̵...
Obsidian 1.0
10/19/2022
Well hot dang! This new version of Obsidian is certainly the bees' knees – what an amazing evolution. I'm a convert! I especially love the "stacked tabs" view.
Daly de Gagne wrote:
Great n...
Upnote - hidden feature
10/13/2022
Heh, yes, of course you're right.
Pixelpunker wrote:
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>>So you've essentially got two sets of tags: one in the form of nested
>>tags (the notebooks, complete with colourful "covers" so they look m...
Upnote - hidden feature
10/12/2022
In fact, I'm not sure that's entirely true. I think the "Notebooks" in UpNote are really the equivalent of an extra set of (nested) tags – you can assign a note to multiple notebooks, where...
Upnote - hidden feature
10/12/2022
That's interesting – I'm always on the lookout for small mobile devices with keyboards.
And I love UpNote!
Pixelpunker wrote:
By the way Upnote is awesome to use on a keyboard phone like ...