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How my newsletter and blog has evolved
I had a newsletter a year or so ago where every week, I would gather all of my bookmarks, notes, and resources and turn them into a newsletter where I would share these valuable links with some brief commentary. I gave up the newsletter because I often had weekends when I was out of town and was very busy during the week. Taking a couple of hours out to formulate the newsletter was too time-consuming for me. Continue reading →
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Lantern
Lantern is a slick service from @rknightuk that allows you to quickly search for a game, TV show, or Movie. Give it a rating and post your thoughts on your Micro.blog site. Since Micro.blog has books covered, this is a great addition. Well done! Continue reading →
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This may seem odd, but I won’t even give Mem.ai a shot because of this giant blue Share button in the middle of every screen in an otherwise simple and clean app. I don’t want to share my notes. Give me the option in the submenu. It’s a big distraction for me.
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“The End of Organizing” by Dan Shipper argues that AI will be the best way to organize our notes in the future.
So you rarely go back to use your old notes. It’s too cognitively expensive and not rewarding enough. For an old note to be helpful it needs to be presented to Future You in a way that clicks into what you’re working on instantly—with as little processing as possible.
As you consume content and take generic notes, the AI can transform it into more meaningful text, autocomplete the thought, apply context, and organize it, making it easy to find again.
As you create content, AI could show your notes as you type. Imagine typing about a topic, and the AI presents the notes to you as you type, as it applies to the current context.
Many note and reading apps already incorporate AI, including Readwise, Mem, Mymind, Craft, and Notion. Some with plugins that add this, including Obsidian and Logseq. It should quickly evolve to the point envisioned in this essay.
This essay does not account for the act of writing as a way to help you think and learn. If we let AI do the lifting for us, does that make us smarter, or do we lose the ability to think for ourselves? There is a fine line.
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Readwise Reader is growing on me.
I spent some time learning how to configure it to my liking and learned some shortcuts. I removed most of the views, updated the swipe commands, and changed my Library Commands to only Later and Archive. Also, I cleaned up my feed.
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From Problem to Solution - How Writing Can Help You
Have you ever started an email to someone that explains a problem to them, one that you don’t know the solution to, then by the time you finish the email, you’ve realized you have come up with a solution? Simply writing out a problem where the explanation is as simple as possible (so someone else can understand it), we are clarifying in our mind precisely what the problem is. You likely don’t understand if you can’t explain the situation to someone else. Continue reading →
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Evernote now supports backlinks
Evernote 10.51.7 has been updated with backlink support. This means you can easily add links to other notes, and the backlinks will show you which notes are linking to the current note. A previous update made adding links to other notes easier through a menu option (and keyboard shortcut). These updates make Evernote much more helpful for some note-makers who love connecting notes. Whenever I check the new Evernote apps, they seem faster and more stable. Continue reading →
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📷I finally completed my Christmas gift. The Razor Crest from The Mandalorian.
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Kill the Newsletter!
📱 Kill the Newsletter! is a straightforward service from Leandro Facchinetti that lets you subscribe to newsletters but instead of giving your own email address, Kill the Newsletter gives you an email address to use as well as an RSS feed to add to your RSS reader to consume it. Continue reading →
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I felt like going analog today, so I dusted off my Bullet Journal and started using it. I have wanted to start journaling more in 2023 and have always enjoyed writing on paper, so it felt like it was time to give it another go.
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A day full of meetings and emails can make things easier because we don’t have to decide what to do with our time. We have an excuse not to do real work.
It’s a trap! An easy way to procrastinate.
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A book review of Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott P. Scheper
Finished reading: Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott P. Scheper, 📚 a book about how to create an analog Zettelkasten (slip box) that acts as a “communication partner” for thinking and creating. After seeing a couple of videos from Scott and keeping up with his website, I expected this book to be a deep and dull venture into the analog Zettelkasten, including tons of history and facts. Not that his other content is this way, but the build-up to the book made me think this. Continue reading →
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I updated my Books page to show what I’m currently reading and what I finished reading (each year). I’m using the Bookshelf shortcode plugin by @kottkrig and Book Reading Goals by @manton.
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Play - Manage your video playlist
Play, by Loop Apps LTDA, is an app for iOS and macOS that lets you easily save videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other sources so you can manage your playlist and watch them later. If you get frustrated by the Watch later feature built into YouTube, this app could solve your problems. Continue reading →
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Fade in your website using CSS
If you would like to add a simple effect to your website that makes the page appear to fade in, you can do this through some simple CSS. Add the following CSS. Adjust the seconds as desired. This determines how quickly the page will fade in. Next, update your HTML body tag to include this onload method. This will tell the page to set the opacity to 1 when the page loads. Continue reading →
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Currently reading: Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott P. Scheper 📚
If you are interested in analog note-taking, this is the book to read—the book details the analog Zettelkasten system and how and why it works.
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You won’t succeed with a digital detox unless you replace what you are removing from your life with other things you enjoy. You also need to become comfortable being bored. It’s an opportunity to let your mind wander.
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I started playing around with a new custom theme today. I applied the first draft to my blog. I have some fixes to apply, and I’m still tweaking things, but pretty happy with it so far. 🎨
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Using TeuxDeux for time management
I’m trying TeuxDeux again to see if it can be suitable for time blocking. One of my favorite things about TeuxDeux is that I can see an overview of my week and keep as many lists as I need on one clean page. TuexDuex supports Markdown headers, links, recurring tasks, configurable colors, and more. You can also email tasks into your account. Otherwise, TuexDuex is a very minimal app, almost like writing on a big sheet of paper. Continue reading →
