According to Carl Pullein, all you need for #productivity are a calendar, a task manager, and a notes app. A task manager, he says, must have 3 things: folders, lists, and the ability to put tasks in front of you at a pre-determined time.
So in theory you can use #Obsidian as a task manager, but it’s 2 out of 3 unless you use plugins. I spent years trying to bend Obsidian to my will, but it never fully clicked for tasks. Reminders + paper = my current sweet spot.
@liztai It’s incredibly simple, and if you know your CSS you can take one of their themes and make it uniquely yours.
Blot seems to like the folder to be inside the ‘apps’ folder in Dropbox, so I just renamed it and told Obsidian to make it into a vault. Any folder whose name is preceded by an _underscore won’t be published, but the contents can be linked to.
(@johnnydecimal and @ajlewis2, look what I did! Thanks to the encouragement of yourselves and other kind people, for giving me the confidence to try unfamiliar things.)
The internet just taught me, a non-coder, how to make a table of contents for my FAQ page! So chuffed!!
Maybe there's an automatic way to do it, but for now the manual html way is just fine.
Independent, POSSE-style blogging is more than a retro-trend. It’s a beautiful statement on the importance of the humanness of the internet, and a peaceful, positive rebellion against the commodification of where we place our attention. I’m so pleased to announce that ellanew.com is my new home base! I’m still on Medium, but will finish wrapping up operations on Substack very soon. If I write it, it will appear on my blog first, and … Read more https://ellanew.com/2024/09/20/ellanew-is-live
This week — No matter what app you’re required to use at work, write (and update) all important text in a locally stored, open format. Case study: my ridiculously simple plain text to proprietary app workflow.
Has anyone found Obsidian doing straaaange things lately? Since the end of last week all my page titles and front matter look like this. All plugins are up to date.
The more I see How to Succeed On [Platform] articles, the more I want to leave (flee) their confines and build my own home. Quartz or Blot, I'm thinking.
This week - The plain text format is the best for preserving the words you want to remember, but not everyone is ready for it and that's okay. Keep your enthusiasm for open formats running hot and you could one day change a life.
I join you in calling for respectful actions and conversations. And in not taking one group's perceived disrespect toward another's as open season to mock them.
I'm not angry over it, but I do think it presented a confusing and disrespectful message. If one is about inclusivity, why create a presentation that insults the deeply held beliefs of many?
There's a lot to be said for treating others as they /should have/ treated you, rather than giving back tit for tat. The Last Supper mockery makes as much sense to me as a parent whacking their kid, while saying "That'll teach you to hit your brother!"
The idea of personal websites we control has a strong appeal, but it just struck me:
All those itty bitty scattered sites are like gorgeous little shops tucked away in winding alleys that are easy to miss. You have to know where they are before you can visit.
Platforms (Medium, Substack) are like malls; you have one place to go, and it's easy to wander around and see something new.
I love it when companies reward you for sharing their software, when it's something you love.
Someone just tried out Workflowy with my referral link, and now I get 100 more nodes a month on the free plan! Yay! It cost neither of us anything, and is a win-win all round.
Thanks, Raindrop.io for the thoughtful, respectful #AI implementation.
“You get your own private AI categorization model based on your data, which is never used for training. We use an open-source model on our servers, ensuring your data never leaves. No public APIs are used (such as OpenAI, ChatGPT, Google, etc).
@liztai Best language learning advice: find yourself a speaking partner. A native Mandarin speaker who wants to improve their English/Hokkien. Speak with them for an hour each week over Zoom, half an hour in each language.
I’ve been doing this for more than a year to improve my French, and am delighted with my progress!
@liztai What you need then is a fan in a country that can get Prime to do a synchronised live stream over Zoom! Pop it on the big screen in a floating window, and glance at it when you need the subtitles. I’m only half kidding here.
Macs are awesome, Setapp is awesome, AI sucks—sometimes. Other times AI is awesome too, like MurmurType for language learning.
@joannaholman, thanks for the quote about AI and meal replacement shakes! I added it at the last minute, just before this piece was due to be published.
Australian designer, writer, and plain text advocate. Educational publisher for more than 30 years. I encourage simplicity-focused people to plan and learn effectively without needing shiny gatekeeper apps. Using less paper, sustainably. My faith in Jesus Christ underpins all I do. Spell/say my name as in the word “miscellaneous”. Posts without interactions auto-delete. #productivity #technology #pkm #obsidian #ObsidianMD #iawriter #PlainText #writing #analog #français #QuikScript