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A Few Snags With Obsidian Canvas

Canvas 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…

Obsidian

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A Few Snags With Obsidian Canvas
A Few Snags With Obsidian Canvas
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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First Look: Polywork

A 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…

Polywork

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First Look: Polywork
First Look: Polywork
Polywork

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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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Jan 14

Headaches with Obsidian Block References

I 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…

Transclusion

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Headaches with Obsidian Block References
Headaches with Obsidian Block References
Transclusion

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Nov 7, 2022

Nothing Seems Real

Newest issue of Work Futures posted 2022–11–07 — Check it out.

Future Of Work

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Future Of Work

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Nothing Seems Real

Newest issue of Work Futures posted 2022–11–07

Check it out.

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Nov 6, 2022

Word of the Day: Shiplap

From 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…

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Word of the Day: Shiplap
Word of the Day: Shiplap

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Published in Workings

·Nov 4, 2022

[Wonkish]: Refining A New Taskidian for Obsidian

A 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…

Obsidian

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[Wonkish]: Refining A New Taskidian for Obsidian
[Wonkish]: Refining A New Taskidian for Obsidian
Obsidian

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Nov 1, 2022

Twitter’s Twists and Turns

Can 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…

Twitter

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Twitter’s Twists and Turns
Twitter’s Twists and Turns
Twitter

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Published in Workings

·Oct 21, 2022

‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian

Moving 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. …

Productivity

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‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian
‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian
Productivity

5 min read

Stowe Boyd

Stowe Boyd

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

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