obsidian
On one side you have the shitshow that is known as Twitter with its 280 char limit and weird thread logic, and the on the other side you have the stuffiness of posting full 10,000 word essays, Obsidian Publish is a great compromise. Why?
- You can write with a lacksadasical nature, much like the meme culture on Twitter
- You can go as hard as you want with images, code blocks, etc
- (most important imo) You work on private and public at the same time. Basically, it is literally two birds with one stone. The quality of your local vault goes up drastically, and you release something every day with very little added stress.
- Share projects as they're being built! Pog!
Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share. Where you are in your process will determine what that piece is. If you’re in the very early stages, share your influences and what’s inspiring you. If you’re in the middle of executing a project, write about your methods or share works in progress. If you’ve just completed a project, show the final product, share scraps from the cutting-room floor, or write about what you learned. If you have lots of projects out into the world, you can report on how they’re doing—you can tell stories about how people are interacting with your work. (Location 211)
Show Your Work! - Austin Kleon
I know writing journals is helpful to keep track of salient thoughts and information, but writing in them with a pen is just not for me. My carpel tunnel can’t stand working with it, and with the blindness as a cherry on top, it turns out horribly. (View Highlight)
Tool affordances should continue to be individualized. As a leftie, I resonate with this sentiment strongly. No tool fits the needs of everyone, at every time.
Despite peoples varied habits we all have the same base materials like kitchens the kitchen is the gravitational well of the home but this may be putting the cart before the horse
Appreciating the Waxing Zettelkasten
I appreciate the visual of my Zettelkasten, which looks like a waxing moon with connected notes on one side and orphaned notes on the other.
The right side is all my connected notes, the other dots are orphaned notes I've yet to process.
It looks like a waxing moon!
I accept that my work will remain unfinished. I am eager to discover what the soil can produce, but there are only so many hours in a day. I already marvel at how far it has come (View Highlight)
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???? Why did i think i would remember what this meant
This is why having good capture systems is critical. Don't underestimate the Doorway Effect,and don't trust that ideas will lodge themselves in long term memory just because you've consciously willed it/desire it to stick.
Also come up with trusty shorthands. Some of mine:
- 'tdo' = '- [ ]'
- 'tpo' = 'to-process'
- 'p{#}' = active project #1, #2, ...
PKM zealots assume that the act of note-taking will create emergent properties by making singleton notes. But how does one prove this? Is note-taking worth the effort?
Some potential ideas to test:
- What is the half-life of any particular note? Meaning, when do the contents of a note become useless? 202212212331
- How easy is it to append/expand upon the idea in a note? Is it locked off to updates? How easy is it to "breed" a note with others? 202301071346 Is it calling to be connected to the network like mycella or does it have a sexual urge to procreate? 202212291355
- How often does the note appear in relevance searches? How often does the note bubble to the surface? Is it semantically similar to many other notes? Birds of a Feather
a boy stands in darkness and silence. He speaks; his words float up like a bubble. It explodes, and the world is a little brighter, and a little less stiflingly silent. (Location 4869)