I teach college courses on philosophy and political economy in Chicago. Been a wee bit obsessed with note-taking methods and apps since 2018.

Chicago
Joined October 2022
FINALLY!!! Notion-like TABLES in HEPTABASE—how to set up Heptabase for RESEARCH (@Heptabase @NotionHQ). youtu.be/LMyZLlYV3Ao?si=62rC…
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In the latest version, you can now easily create and insert editor templates!
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Funnel - my new iPhone app for quick capture In the early 2000s, I made a significant effort to improve my ability to manage my time, projects, and other complexities in life. One of the things I learned about is the importance of quickly capturing ideas. This concept of quick capture is now deeply embedded in my thinking. (Thanks @gtdguy). The idea is simple. As you have ideas or things you need to do, you quickly write them down before you lose them. You must capture them quickly. It doesn't mean that you need to do those things at that moment of thought, but you've captured the idea, the thought, or the task, and you can process it later, assured you won't forget it: it is written down! In those early years, I used a piece of paper and would make a jotted note, and that paper served as my reminder. But as things moved heavily into the digital age, we needed a digital equivalent. Recently, a new application for the iPhone was released that is designed for quick capture with speed and flexibility at the core of its design. It's named Funnel and made by the amazing @DharamKapila. apps.apple.com/us/app/funnel… Funnel supports quickly capturing those ideas, thoughts, and tasks into a number of applications, such as Apple Reminders, Things, Dev and Think, and, of course, Obsidian. Funnel supports customization to better tailor the quick capture for each of these applications. Funnel also allows you to have multiple destinations defined for quick capture. So some things you might want to capture to Apple Reminders, like tasks, whereas others you might want to capture as ideas and thoughts to Obsidian or some other application. Funnel also supports quick capturing of photos, scanning a photo that has text on it into text along with other media types. The advantage of Funnel is speed. You have the thought: you open the app, type it, tap the place where you want to send it to, and it's saved. And then, you can process it later when you have more time. Please check out my video, in which I do a walkthrough of the features of Funnel to give you an idea of how it can be used. It's definitely worth installing and trying. #TfT #ObsidianMD #Markdown youtube.com/watch?v=ED16gOZk…
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Learn how to build a useful Quotebook in Obsidian with this informative video. 📚💡 @mikeschmitz shares a simple solution for managing a large collection of quotes. He also offers a clever hack to display more content in the query control plugin. 🔧#TfT youtu.be/ELhdhdE0vUQ
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We're delighted to announce that our Performance Refactor has finally shipped today 🚀 The Reader mobile/web apps should now be 2x to 100x faster across basically every metric (interaction speed, memory usage, loading times, etc)
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Just released a new video that provides a glimpse of how I have been using @Heptabase for research. Check it out if you're interested: tinyurl.com/49w9jfy7
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If you open our in-app browsing tool using the split panel, you can now drag text from a web page onto the whiteboard to create new text elements.
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NEW: drag text directly from webpages into Heptabase. Quick walkthrough of that and other new features here: youtu.be/fFG9RmMigVo
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In the latest version, we have upgraded our working tab section to support pinned tabs, tab folders, and tab groups!
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New video: "Two problems with Obsidian that HEPTABASE has helped me solve." @Heptabase @obsdmd @logseq @tana_inc A few days ago I posted here a link to the transcript. Now the video itself is available: youtu.be/NYRK-Ts2Kuw
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Obsidian --> Heptabase: I decided a few weeks ago to try out @Heptabase. Doing so made me confront two problems I was having with @obsdmd (which I still love). Here's a piece I just wrote about this subject: fpnotes.io/im-trying-out-hep…
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I haven't posted a video in a while (been out of the country), so I decided to post a short article instead. TITLE: Three information-organizing approaches I do not use tinyurl.com/yvdwmvnw
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It's been a few weeks since I've posted a video, so I just now released a brief "channel update" video. Those interested in @obsdmd might want to take note. link to video: youtu.be/tzEBl6N5hN0
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My morning routine includes 20 minutes of staring into the computer screen wondering why on Earth I didn't write a to-do list last night.
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Ok Metadata Menu is so under rated as a plugin!!
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In the latest version (v0.248.0), you can drag your PDF highlights & annotations onto the whiteboard to make sense of what you’ve read and learned.
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Someone asked me to make a video about the process of turning notes about a text into an "idea card" (aka permanent note, evergreen note, zettel, etc.). Just released the video a few minutes ago: bit.ly/3VCfSbX #antinet #Zettelkasten @obsdmd @logseq
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I'm excited to share that we have open-sourced the Obsidian Canvas file format under MIT license! Just like Markdown files it means that your .canvas files can be stored locally and interoperate with other tools that may use the format.
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Just released Video #8 in my series on building an old-school (analog) Zettelkasten. #zettelkasten #antinet bit.ly/3vclH52
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This video is on why I think it's important to create Folgezettel, something most practitioners of what gets called "THE Zettelkasten method" mistakenly think there is no good reason to do now that we have apps like @Obsidian, @Logseq, etc. bit.ly/3vclH52
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