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…

Jack Watling wonders ‘Why didn’t Ukraine fall?’ Jack Watling details some of the errors in Western expectations about the war in Ukraine, including his own. I pull out his analysis of what the West is getting wrong, now, about drones in the war [emphasis mine]: Now that the threat of…

I will be using this plugin going forward. — I read about the updated Export Markdown with Embeds plugin (hereafter EMWE) in Eleanor Konik’s wonderful newsletter, and given her one-liner and information on the website convinced me to pay a $10 ‘subscription’ to MacStories to access EMWE (and I will immediately cancel the ‘subscription’ since there are no other…

Following in Edward Tufte’s footnotes, er, footsteps. — Tufte’s Sidenotes I have wanted for some time to have Obsidian footnotes displayed as sidenotes in the style advocated by Edward Tufte, as shown, here: I’ve tried a variety of hacks from the Obsidian community, but they are inadequate. I have simply come to act as if someone at some point will…