Tag: obsidian
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Beyond silos: AI as a personal knowledge management system
The future of personal knowledge management lies beyond siloed note-taking apps. We need a system that integrates information across various platforms and formats, creating meaningful connections in our fragmented digital lives. Whether through browser-based solutions, operating system integration, or local AI models, the goal is a seamless, intelligent layer that unifies our entire digital ecosystem.
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Zettlr is an open-source writing platform for academics
I’ve always been fascinated with the tools people use to write (I should write a follow-up to that post), and over the last couple of years that interest has been focused on what I think of as . Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your…
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Nord colour palette
in NoteI love the Nord colour palette, but every time I use it in KDE Plasma (my desktop) and Obsidian (note-taking), there’s always something that doesn’t quite feel right.
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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Weekly digest (22-28 May 2023)
I spent a lot of time this week experimenting with a range of software that we need for a new In Beta project that Ben and I are working on. I wasn’t sure if it was worth writing this process up, but figured it may be useful for someone else, so here goes. It’s also…
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Using a weekly review to close open loops
In this video, I do a walk-through of the weekly review that I do every Friday afternoon. This weekly review is a sweep through my entire personal and professional life, where I try to wrap up everything that might cause me any worry after I leave work. My weekly review is basically a process of…
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Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
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Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra
There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…
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‘Structured serendipity’ in collaborative writing
In this video I’m talking to Ben Gordon, a physiotherapist in Boston with an interest in the role of machine learning in clinical practice. Ben and I have been working on the very early stages of writing an article together, and quickly became frustrated with the limitations of working collaboratively in Google Docs. We started…
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Expanding a note stub into a permanent note
In this video I walk through the process of taking a note stub (e.g. some information you’ve quickly captured) and expanding it into something more comprehensive and useful. I review the sources I use to add information to the note, talking about why I value some sources more than others, and explain what I’m thinking…
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Using Zotero to create literature notes from video
In this video I talk about the way that I use Zotero to create literature notes from a video presentation. With the increase of video content online – especially academic content that’s now being recorded by default – I’ve been spending some time experimenting with different approaches to extracting useful information from video. Video remains…
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Using Hypothesis and Zotero to create notes while reading online
In this short video I demonstrate how I take notes using Hypothes.is while reading on the web and in Zotero. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. I didn’t do much planning for this video;…
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My top personal learning tools in 2021
This post was inspired by a recent post by Stephen Downes where he shared his own tools for learning. I know how much I enjoy reading about what other people use so I thought I’d do something similar in the hope that this post is interesting or useful for someone else. And besides, it was…