Tag: personal information management
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Calm Productivity course is on sale
Summer sale The Calm Productivity course is on sale until the 31st of August. The Calm Productivity course is aimed at busy academics who are stressed, under pressure, and working extended hours just to get through a ‘normal’ workload. By embracing a structured workflow, Calm Productivity helps create sustainable approaches to academia without sacrificing your…
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Weekly digest (10-16 Jul 2023)
This week’s digest is a little wider-ranging than the previous ones, where I focused almost entirely on AI. It’s been great to think about things that aren’t ChatGPT, to be honest. The thing that resonated most with me was this post by Arthur Atwell, where he promotes the use of web books for sharing information,…
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Automatically organising and summarising your notes
To use Tailwind — which is available through Labs, Google’s refreshed hub for experimental products — users pick files from Google Drive. Tailwind then creates a private AI model with expertise in that information, along with a personalized interface designed to help sift through the notes and docs. Wiggers, K. (2023, May 10). With Project…
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My new project: Thinking in public
What would a serious approach to knowledge work and academic productivity look like? How do knowledge workers manage information as part of a framework for turning it into something valuable? These are the kinds of questions I’m trying to explore with this new project.
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One standardised storage format for common data
Is it too much to ask for software developers to agree on one standard storage format for commonly accessed data? Why does every browser that I use have it’s own bookmarking system, rather than one location separated out from the actual programme that all programmes can then access. For example, Firefox keeps it’s bookmarks at…