Published in Workings·PinnedMember-onlyA Few Snags With Obsidian CanvasCanvas is a huge breakthrough, but there are some basics that need fixing. — I have spent only a few hours with the new Obsidian Canvas feature, available only to Obsidian insiders right now. I am very excited by the opportunities that Canvas offers. In a nutshell, an Obsidian Canvas presents A new type of obsidian file, .canvas , which when opened presents the…Obsidian3 min readObsidian3 min read
PinnedDig your own hole, sharpen your own shovelAll 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…Tech5 min readTech5 min read
Published in Workings·PinnedMember-onlyFirst Look: PolyworkA portfolio and stream based alternative to LinkedIn. — I have avoided LinkedIn for years, maybe since it was launched, actually. It seemed a community dominated by ‘upward-striver’ dynamics, where I receive people eager to aggressively create ‘connections’ with me instead of the more organic pattern of following and commenting that I love in blogging and Twitter. It seems…Polywork3 min readPolywork3 min read
Published in Workings·PinnedMember-onlyHow I Take Notes When Doing ResearchFollowing 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…Research7 min readResearch7 min read
Jan 14Member-onlyHeadaches with Obsidian Block ReferencesI thought changing the name of my journal folder would be easy, but… — So I fell into 2023. Hooray. I had been keeping my daily journal and related docs in a folder called journal 2022 but today I realized that my 2023 notes and files were being directed to last year’s folder. I fooled around with moving the 2023 files and docs into…Transclusion3 min readTransclusion3 min read
Nov 7, 2022Member-onlyNothing Seems RealNewest issue of Work Futures posted 2022–11–07 — Check it out.Future Of Work1 min readFuture Of Work1 min readNothing Seems RealNewest issue of Work Futures posted 2022–11–07Check it out.----
Nov 6, 2022Member-onlyWord of the Day: ShiplapFrom Wikipedia Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings. Shiplap is either rough-sawn 25 mm (1 in) or milled 19 mm (3⁄4 in) pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 76 and 254 mm (3 and 10…1 min read1 min read
Published in Workings·Nov 4, 2022Member-only[Wonkish]: Refining A New Taskidian for ObsidianA deep dive into my evolving task management — ‘work processing’ — in Obsidian. — I’ve been revamping an approach to task management in Obsidian that I call Taskidian. This is a long and deeply wonkish dive into the second version of Taskidian: New Taskidian. In an earlier post — ‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian — I laid out the basics of using the Kanban plugin which…Obsidian13 min readObsidian13 min read
Nov 1, 2022Member-onlyTwitter’s Twists and TurnsCan Twitter return to the dream of a platform? — It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to people who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation. | Simone Weil, Draft for a…Twitter8 min readTwitter8 min read
Published in Workings·Oct 21, 2022Member-only‘Kanbanibalization’ in ObsidianMoving from Search and Dataview to Kanban, all the way down — I have been experimenting with an evolution in how I manage my work in Obsidian. Ever since I adopted Obsidian, I’ve used Dataview as a unifying element of my workflow. …Productivity5 min readProductivity5 min read
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