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The Philosophy of Organizing Our Notes

Pragmatists versus essentialists. Or both. — One of the arguments that crops up in work processing, over and over again, is how to organize our notes. This idea of organizing has several layers: What forms of organizing do the tools themselves provide? For example, does a tool provide folders, tags, both, or neither? How many ways…

Obsidian

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The Philosophy of Organizing Our Notes
The Philosophy of Organizing Our Notes
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A Bicycle for the Mind: An Odyssey

Not second brains, but mind bikes. — What a computer is to me is, it’s the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. And it’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. | Steve Jobs I’ve written a great deal about what others call notetaking tools, and which I call workings: tools to think…

Second Brain

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A Bicycle for the Mind: An Odyssey
A Bicycle for the Mind: An Odyssey
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Writing Using Canvas and Kanban in Obsidian

Obsidian now contains a set of tools that are quite similar — at least in part — to what Scrintal or Scrivener offers to researchers and writers. — I’ve written in the past about using the Kanban plug-in in Obsidian as a support for writing: see Card-Based Writing in Obsidian Using Kanban. I described the use of the Kanban as a means to aggregate materials for my Work Futures newsletter: When I find something to add to the…

Obsidian

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Writing Using Canvas and Kanban in Obsidian
Writing Using Canvas and Kanban in Obsidian
Obsidian

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Dig your own hole, sharpen your own shovel

All work is personal. In a recent post (see Deep business culture eats shallow corporate culture), I took a somewhat different path to the question of reengagement in business. It’s well known that only 30% of the respondents to a recent study considered themselves engaged at work (see Why are…

Tech

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Tech

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How I Take Notes When Doing Research

Following a suggestion by Clive Thompson. — Clive Thompson recently wrote How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research, in which he lays out his thinking about research, and — to a limited extent — the tools and techniques he employs. He ends the piece he asks ‘Let me know if you do something like this, what…

Research

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How I Take Notes When Doing Research
How I Take Notes When Doing Research
Research

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May 27

Frankenstein

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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Book Covers

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May 23

Word of the Day: De-Risking

“De-risking” is the new term of art, created by the Europeans, to describe a strategy of reducing their dependence on Chinese supply chains…

Word Of The Day

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Word of the Day: De-Risking
Word of the Day: De-Risking
Word Of The Day

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May 19

Word of the Day: Longue Durée

The longue durée (French pronunciation: ​[lɔ̃ɡ dyʁe]; English: the long term) is the French Annales School approach to the study of history. It gives priority to long-term historical structures over…

Word Of The Day

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Word Of The Day

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May 13

Word of the Day: Démarche

dé·marche noun a political step or initiative. “foreign policy démarches” When the Pentagon detected a Chinese spy balloon drifting over the United States this year, Ms. Sherman called in a…

Wotd

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Wotd

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May 9

Word of the Day: Hope Fatigue

Probably behind all the mass murders —

Wotd

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Word of the Day: Hope Fatigue
Word of the Day: Hope Fatigue
Wotd

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Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd

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Insatiably curious. Economics, sociology, ecology, tools for thought. See also workfutures.io.

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