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engineering.fb.com engineering.fb.com
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https://dev.to/einargudnig/building-my-second-brain-with-obsidian-pt-i-4oc2
too basic; Tiago Forte disciple; pass
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zettelkasten.de zettelkasten.de
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https://zettelkasten.de/posts/no-categories/
There's lots of advice for categories, tags, and other taxonomies out there. This isn't as opinionated as some, but takes the approach to allow things to come organically so that one can grow, expand, and (possibly most importantly) change.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Joel Chan</span> in on Twitter: "@RoamBookClub next book? Extended Mind draws on distributed cognition, which is a powerful theoretical perspective for understanding #toolsforthought and #BASB" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>09/14/2021 10:01:01</time>)</cite></small>
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Likewise, the notes and sketches of artists and thinkers over the centuries bear testament to “that wordless conversation between the mind and the hand,” as the psychologist Barbara Tversky puts it in “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought.”
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This is the theory of the extended mind, introduced more than two decades ago by the philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers. A 1998 article of theirs published in the journal Analysis began by posing a question that would seem to have an obvious answer: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” They went on to offer an unconventional response. The mind does not stop at the usual “boundaries of skin and skull,” they maintained. Rather, the mind extends into the world and augments the capacities of the biological brain with outside-the-brain resources.
https://icds.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clark-and-Chalmers-The-Extended-Mind.pdf
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?
There seems to be a parallel between this question and that between the gene and the body. Evolution is working at the level of the gene, but the body and the environment are part of the extended system as well. Link these to Richard Dawkins idea of the extended gene and ideas of group selection.
Are there effects to be seen on the evolutionary scale of group selection ideas with respect to the same sorts of group dynamics like the minimal group paradigm? Can the sorts of unconscious bias that occur in groups be the result of individual genes? This seems a bit crazy, but potentially worth exploring if there are interlinked effects based on this analogy.
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www.basicbooks.com www.basicbooks.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul</span> in Opinion | How to Think Outside Your Brain - The New York Times (<time class='dt-published'>09/13/2021 19:58:53</time>)</cite></small>
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Turn your Aeropress upside down (using the inverted method pictured below) so that the plunger is rested on your countertop and the brewing chamber is at the top.
James didn't include a photo here, but oddly I've never thought of using my Aeropress upside down like this. I'll have to give a try this week.
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jamesg.blog jamesg.blog
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https://jamesg.blog/2021/08/24/ordering-espresso-at-cafes
This reminds me that I ought to be more adventurous in cafes myself. Of course the pandemic ending could help in that area as well.
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jamesg.blog jamesg.blog
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https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/13/new-social-pages
Some awesome looking progress here.
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punctumbooks.com punctumbooks.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Suzanne Conklin Akbari</span> in Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History | Penn Libraries (<time class='dt-published'>09/12/2021 21:11:23</time>)</cite></small>
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punctumbooks.com punctumbooks.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Suzanne Conklin Akbari</span> in Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History | Penn Libraries (<time class='dt-published'>09/12/2021 21:11:23</time>)</cite></small>
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Code that is needed to create the output and the output itself is hard to read because of all the workarounds we have to use, especially around shadowed variables and control flow
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finiteeyes.net finiteeyes.net
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https://via.hypothes.is/https://finiteeyes.net/pedagogy/extending-the-mind/
A well written review of Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind. Matthew Cheney has distilled a lot out of the book from his notes with particular application to improving pedagogy.
I definitely want to read this with relation to not only using it to improve teaching, but with respect to mnemotechniques and the methods oral and indigenous societies may have either had things right or wrong and what Western culture may have lost as a result. I'm also particularly interested in it for its applications to the use of commonplace books and zettelkasten as methods of extending the mind and tools for thought.
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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forum.artofmemory.com forum.artofmemory.com
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https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-do-you-call-these-techniques-on-the-art-of-memory-forum/67030
It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of techniques and canonical names for them.
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www.mississippifreepress.org www.mississippifreepress.org
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chicago.eater.com chicago.eater.com
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www.irishcentral.com www.irishcentral.com
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm
Worth looking up the relationship of this to the creation of institutional racism and potential means of dismantling it.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Book review (and cultural commentary) on Alex Beam's A Great Idea at the Time, (Public Affairs, 2008).
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_album
Interesting historical personal document type. This feels like it has some influence within the realm of the commonplace book tradition.
Is there a way to revive these in an internet age and nudge them along with webmentions?
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ivankreilkamp.com ivankreilkamp.com
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nesslabs.com nesslabs.com
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https://nesslabs.com/eisenhower-matrix
The Eisnehower matrix is a means of helping one to implement the Pareto principle.
Seen this basic idea so many times before and have it generally implemented in the bullet journal portion of my digital commonplace book. I should spend more time gardening in there regularly though.
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nesslabs.com nesslabs.com
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https://nesslabs.com/plus-minus-next
The big benefit of this is that it tacitly gets you focused on planning the next thing instead of dwelling on the past.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com
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https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/02/micropub-social
A solid overview for folks interested in implementing Micropub on their own websites.
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/3/22656196/godaddy-texas-right-for-life-abortion-whistleblowing-site
Good to see GoDaddy paying continued penance for those dreadful ads a decade or so ago.
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jrdingwall.ca jrdingwall.ca
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https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/25-years-of-ed-tech-blogs/
JR writes about some of his journey into blogging.
I appreciate some of the last part about the 9x9x25 blogs. For JR it seems like some smaller prompts got him into more regular writing.
He mentions Stephen Downes regular workflow as well. I think mine is fairly similar to Stephen's. To some extent, I write much more on my own website now than I ever had before. This is because I post a lot more frequently to my own site, in part because it's just so easy to do. I'll bookmark things or post about what I've recently read or watched. My short commentary on some of these is just that, short commentary. But occasionally I discover, depending on the subject, that those short notes and bookmark posts will spring into something bigger or larger. Sometimes it's a handful of small posts over a few days or weeks that ultimately inspires the longer thing. The key seems to be to write something.
Perhaps a snowball analogy will work. I take a tiny snowball and give it a proverbial roll. Sometimes it sits there and other times it rolls down the hill and turns into a much larger snowball. Other times I get a group of them and build a full snowman.
Of course lately a lot of my writing starts, like this did, as an annotation (using Hypothes.is) to something I was reading. It then posts to my website with some context and we're off to the races.
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growth.design growth.design
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Mike Rohde </span> in "Another instant classic by the Growth Design team that worth checking. Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe, and how to design a great subscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns. https://t.co/SWTpftuMAb" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>09/03/2021 13:16:34</time>)</cite></small>
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knowablemagazine.org knowablemagazine.org
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Josh Cohen </span> in "More Than 80 Cultures Still Speak in Whistles" - Language Learning - Art of Memory Forum (<time class='dt-published'>09/01/2021 12:48:40</time>)</cite></small>
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fs.blog fs.blog
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Scott Sampson has argued that we should subjectify nature rather than objectifying it. People are a part of nature and integral to it. We are not separate from it and we are assuredly not above it.
Can the injection of multi-disciplinary research and areas like big history help us to see the bigger picture? How have indigenous and oral cultures managed to do so much better than us at this? Is it the way we've done science in the past? Is it our political structures?
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oldschool.scripting.com oldschool.scripting.com
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https://fs.blog/2013/11/taking-notes-while-reading/
Interesting but not useful to me as it's too basic within my current system. I like that he encourages people to go back over their notes and cross link them.
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scripting.com scripting.com
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http://scripting.com/2021/08/01.html
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Andy Sylvester</span> in Episode 001 – Introduction - Thinking About Tools For Thought (<time class='dt-published'>09/01/2021 11:39:20</time>)</cite></small>
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scripting.com scripting.com
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http://scripting.com/2021/06/24/150234.html?title=theGlossaryInLittleOutliner
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Dave Winer</span> in Scripting News: Sunday, August 1, 2021 (<time class='dt-published'>08/01/2021 19:31:13</time>)</cite></small>
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lists.w3.org lists.w3.org
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https://fs.blog/2021/07/mathematicians-lament/
What if we taught art and music the way we do mathematics? All theory and drudgery without any excitement or exploration?
What textbooks out there take math from the perspective of exploration?
- Inventional geometry does
Certainly Gauss, Euler, and other "greats" explored mathematics this way? Why shouldn't we?
This same problem of teaching math is also one we ignore when it comes to things like note taking, commonplacing, and even memory, but even there we don't even delve into the theory at all.
How can we better reframe mathematics education?
I can see creating an analogy that equates math with art and music. Perhaps something like Arthur Eddington's quote:
Suppose that we were asked to arrange the following in two categories–
distance, mass, electric force, entropy, beauty, melody.
I think there are the strongest grounds for placing entropy alongside beauty and melody and not with the first three. —Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS (1882-1944), a British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician in The Nature of the Physical World, 1927
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www.maa.org www.maa.org
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https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_03_08.html
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>FARNAM STREET </span> in Why Math Class Is Boring—and What to Do About It (<time class='dt-published'>09/01/2021 09:22:50</time>)</cite></small>
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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fs.blog fs.blog
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https://fs.blog/2021/08/remember-books/
A solid overview of how to read. Not as long or as in-depth as Mortimer J. Adler, but hits all of the high points in an absorbable manner.
Definitely worth re-reading...
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marksstorm.medium.com marksstorm.medium.com
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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www.academia.edu www.academia.edu
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https://www.academia.edu/35101285/Creating_a_Commonplace_Book_CPB_
An interesting looking assignment for creating a commonplace book.
Annotations for the .pdf document available here: https://hyp.is/B7BXuArgEeyJB5PFTw2x2A/docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Creating-a-Commonplace-Book---Kennedy-Colleen-E_-0r3r1.pdf
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s3.us-central-1.wasabisys.com s3.us-central-1.wasabisys.com
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☞(excerpts) Beal, Peter. Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology: 1450 to 2000.Oxford, GB: OUP Oxford, 2007. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 19 December 2016.☞Lesser, Zachary and Peter Stallybrass. “The First Literary Hamlet and the Commonplacing of Professional Plays.” Shakespeare Quarterly, (2008), 371–420.☞Smyth, Adam. “Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits.” Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Manuscript Culture in the British Isles. Eds. Lawrence-Mathers, A. and Hardman, P. Rochester, U.S.: Boydell and Brewer, 90-110.☞Summers, David. “—the proverb is something musty: The Commonplace and Epistemic Crisis in Hamlet.”Hamlet Studies 20.1-2(1998): 9-34.
sources to add to my reading list, if not already there
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dailynous.com dailynous.com
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blogs.princeton.edu blogs.princeton.edu
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www.ncregister.com www.ncregister.com
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www.khanacademy.org www.khanacademy.org
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www.khanacademy.org www.khanacademy.org
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www.khanacademy.org www.khanacademy.org
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Using the book: an introduction
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www.khanacademy.org www.khanacademy.org
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slate.com slate.com
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medievalbooks.nl medievalbooks.nl
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Helping Hands on the Medieval Page
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As I'm thinking about this, I can't help but think that Hypothes.is, if only for fun, ought to add a manicule functionality to their annotation product.
I totally want to be able to highlight portions of my reading with an octopus manicule!
I can see their new tagline now:
Helping hands on the digital page.
I'm off to draw some octopi...
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blog.library.villanova.edu blog.library.villanova.edu
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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It might be worth moving the latest updates to the top of this answer. I had to go through the whole thing to get to the best answer, flexbox.
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Local file Local file
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For several examples of how commonplacing gave rise to filing systems during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,see Malcolm, ‘Thomas Harrison and his “Ark of Studies”’.
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The impactof such practices upon eighteenth-century visual and material culture is recounted in te Heesen, The World in a Box.
This reference appears to show some of the historical link between the method of loci in rhetoric with that of commonplacing ideas within books. The fact that the word box may suggest some relational link between commonplacing and zettelkasten.
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West, Theatres and Encyclopaedias, ch. 2; Garberson ‘Libraries, Memory and the Spaceof Knowledge’. For a multicultural introduction to the architectural imagery of early modern memory practices, seeSpence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci.
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In recent decades there have been a number of stud-ies that have shown how humanist approaches to commonplacing not only evolved in tandemwith attempts to coherently arrange naturaliain studioli, wunderkammernand museums, butalso facilitated the conceptual development of natural history. Key works that led up to this rein-terpretation were Walter Ong’s work on Ramus, Frances Yates’s history of the art of memory,Tony Grafton’s defence of humanistic textual practices and, crucially, Paolo Rossi’s argumentthat Francis Bacon used topical logic to organize his lists and tables.7Once the topical box wasopened, a number of seminal studies on commonplacing natural knowledge followed. Keyentries in this canon are works written by Ann Blair, Ann Moss, Jonathan Spence and HowardHotson.8
Lots of references to add or read here.
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www.academia.edu www.academia.edu
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Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), 550 pp + 60 figures.
I can't wait to read Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022)!
I see some bits on annotation hiding in here that may be of interest to @RemiKalir and @anterobot.
If you need some additional eyeballs on it prior to publication, I'm happy to mark it up in exchange for the early look.
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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https://indieweb.org/blog_carnival
Not having any examples of this, I'm curious how it might relate to the idea of blogchains? See: https://web.archive.org/web/20201025125935/https://blog.cjeller.site/blogging-futures
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hedgeschool.substack.com hedgeschool.substack.com
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https://hedgeschool.substack.com/p/finding-the-greatest-thinking-partner
He almost gets there and highlights some useful pieces for why have a zettelkasten, but I think he's missing some of the ultimate power in the end. I become a bit lost at the end because he's not clear about the intent and the final product. What becomes his final set of permanent notes from his reading in this case. What exactly is he linking to that already exists in his slip box?
I'm lost with his logic and I know what I'm doing. I can only wonder what others make of it?
Did you follow what he's finally created here in this last piece @mrkrndvs?
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hedgeschool.substack.com hedgeschool.substack.com
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https://hedgeschool.substack.com/p/the-vulnerable-author
This piece isn't as interesting or as substantive as its predecessor.
I feel like he's missing an important part of some of the great ideas he came up with in his fleeting notes. Where do those go? What will become of them. I'm quite curious to see how he ends up tying this all together. If he can't do it properly then I have a feeling he's missing the boat on the point of some of this.
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www.nngroup.com www.nngroup.com
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indieweb.org indieweb.org
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https://indieweb.org/2012/Positive_Arguments
It would be fun to revisit this. I'm not sure how much we can expand on the why portions, but looking closer at and thinking about expanding the how would be useful.
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nooshu.com nooshu.com
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https://nooshu.com/blog/2021/05/12/weve-spotted-something-on-your-scan/
The waiting and not knowing is one of the worst parts. Even reading updates into August is difficult. I was hoping that the surgery would have taken place already.
Hoping the best for you and your family Matt.
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postphd.letterdrop.com postphd.letterdrop.com
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scripting.com scripting.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TO-OkIMtI
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis</span> in 📑 How to remember more of what you read | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>08/20/2021 12:31:59</time>)</cite></small>
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www.thrivinghenry.com www.thrivinghenry.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis</span> in 📑 How to remember more of what you read | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>08/20/2021 12:31:59</time>)</cite></small>
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collect.readwriterespond.com collect.readwriterespond.com
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https://collect.readwriterespond.com/how-to-remember-more-of-what-you-read/
Some useful looking links here. Thanks Aaron.
I've been digging deeper and deeper into some of the topics and sub-topics.
The biggest problem I've seen thus far is a lot of wanna-be experts and influencers (especially within the Roam Research space) touching on the very surface of problem. I've seen more interesting and serious people within the Obsidian community sharing their personal practices and finding pieces of that useful.
The second issue may be that different things work somewhat differently for different people, none of whom are using the same tools or even general systems. Not all of them have the same end goals either. Part of the key is finding something useful that works for you or modifying something slowly over time to get it to work for you.
At the end of the day your website holds the true answer: read, write, respond (along with the implied "repeat" at the end).
One of the best and most thorough prescriptions I've seen is Sönke Ahrens' book which he's written after several years of using and researching a few particular systems.
I've been finding some useful tidbits from my own experience and research into the history of note taking and commonplace book traditions. The memory portion intrigues me a lot as well as I've done quite a lot of research into historical methods of mnemonics and memory traditions. Naturally the ancient Greeks had most of this all down within the topic of rhetoric, but culturally we seem to have unbundled and lost a lot of our own traditions with changes in our educational system over time.
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diggingthedigital.com diggingthedigital.com
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Aaron linkt in zijn blogpost aan meer bronnen die ik zeker eens verder wil onderzoeken voor mijn eigen Frankopedia.
I love that Frank calls his personal wiki / digital garden / online commonplace book "Frankopedia".
I should come up with a more clever name for mine.
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www.themuse.com www.themuse.com
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https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-rule-of-52-and-17-its-random-but-it-ups-your-productivity
I hadn't heard of this before, but it's a thing apparently. Similar to Pomodoro, but it's 52 minutes working and 17 minute breaks instead of 25 and 5.
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santafe.app.box.com santafe.app.box.com
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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Due to the paucity of research and significant heterogeneity in studies, definitive conclusions about the effects of these micronutrients on HRV cannot be made at this time. However, there is accumulating evidence suggesting deficiencies in vitamins D and B-12 are associated with reduced HRV, and zinc supplementation during pregnancy can have positive effects on HRV in offspring up until the age of 5 y.
Odd they don't mention vitamin E or other antioxidants. They do cite that placebo-controlled vitamin E study in diabetics. I ought to see what other important information they've left out of the abstract.
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www.jetpens.com www.jetpens.com
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https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Pencil-Cases/pt/450
Reasonable overview of the types and styles that JetPens carries. Some reasonable ideas to be used when comparing other products as well.
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kimberlyhirsh.com kimberlyhirsh.com
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https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2018/06/29/a-starttofinish-literature.html
Great overview of a literature review with some useful looking links to more specifics on note taking methods.
Most of the newer note taking tools like Roam Research, Obsidian, etc. were not available or out when she wrote this. I'm curious how these may have changed or modified her perspective versus some of the other catch-as-catch-can methods with pen/paper/index cards/digital apps?
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kimberlyhirsh.com kimberlyhirsh.com
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https://kimberlyhirsh.com/2019/04/01/dissertating-in-the.html
A description of some of Kimiberly Hirsh's workflow in keeping a public research notebook (or commonplace book).
I'd be curious to know what type of readership and response she's gotten from this work in the past. For some it'll bet it's possibly too niche for a lot of direct feedback, but some pieces may be more interesting than others.
Did it help her organize her thoughts and reuse the material later on?
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kimberlyhirsh.com kimberlyhirsh.com
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www.smashingmagazine.com www.smashingmagazine.com
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wa.rner.me wa.rner.me
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https://wa.rner.me/2021/08/13/microcamp-day-live.html
Nice quick recap of today by Warner.
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mentalpivot.com mentalpivot.com
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https://mentalpivot.com/more-solutions-for-taking-podcast-notes-a-survey-of-the-apps/
Nothing much better here, but interesting to see that a handful of apps at least support something.
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mentalpivot.com mentalpivot.com
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https://mentalpivot.com/solutions-for-taking-notes-when-listening-to-podcasts/
I definitely need a better way of doing this myself. Not a fan of paying $5/month for NoteCast. Airr is iOS only.
Sharing the link from the app with timecode seems the best, but it would be nice to have the transcription piece as well.
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chromeunboxed.com chromeunboxed.com
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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www.benmyers.dev www.benmyers.dev
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https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
Curious double entendre title here.
Note to self: I should use these patterns more.
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www.zylstra.org www.zylstra.org
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www.pasadenastarnews.com www.pasadenastarnews.com
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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The web should be a two-way thing
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hellotimking.com hellotimking.com
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https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/pages-a-simple-productivity-enhancement-971b6a858432
How Tim King has modified Jilia Cameron's morning pages concept to improve his own creativity.
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papress.com papress.com
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>@vaultofculture</span> in Vault of Culture on Twitter: "@ChrisAldrich @gipperfish @jdconnor @AnneGanzert See also the work of Manuel Lima (@mslima), in particular The Book of Trees: https://t.co/30jJu1xOrY" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>08/08/2021 15:43:42</time>)</cite></small>
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism
Student shows correlation between string colors and names as well as tie location to social status.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html
Reading back into the "good old days" of the early blogosphere in academia.
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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An academic during the early part of the blogosphere analogizes blogs and early online culture to commonplace books, coffeehouse culture, and carnivals.
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www.jetpens.com www.jetpens.com
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https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Guide-to-the-Hobonichi-Techo-Planner/pt/900
Great overview of the system and the features.
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www.gentlemanstationer.com www.gentlemanstationer.com
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www.gentlemanstationer.com www.gentlemanstationer.com
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www.grammarphobia.com www.grammarphobia.com
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welsh on a bet
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www.connectedtext.com www.connectedtext.com
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http://www.connectedtext.com/manfred.php
A nice essay about note taking in general, the author's long history using many methods including index cards and a variety of digital versions. Ultimately he settled on a private desktop wiki called ConnectedText.
He talks about Luhmann's zettelkasten and some of the pros/cons as well as things that can be left out when implemented in a digital version like ConnectedText.
He's reasonably connected to the tradition of note taking, though doesn't seem to be as steeped in the Renaissance traditions of commonplace books specifically.
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www.notesaboutnotes.com www.notesaboutnotes.com
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Some thoughts about leaving space in new notebooks, especially for one's future self:
- contact information in front in case of loss
- space for a future table of contents to come
- space for page numbers and dates
- space in the back for house keeping, indices, etc.
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wiki.c2.com wiki.c2.com
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www.rossashby.info www.rossashby.info
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http://www.rossashby.info/origins.html
This page looks like a zettelkasten card embedded into a commonplace book.He's cross linking ideas using page numbers. I wonder if he's also got headings as well?
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en.wiktionary.org en.wiktionary.org
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adversaria
Note the use of adversaria also as a book of accounts. This is intriguing and gives a historical linguistic link to the idea of waste books being used in the commonplace tradition. When was this secondary use of adversaria used?
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www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-05-08-reagan-notes-book-brinkley_n.htm
An article indicating that President Ronald Reagan kept a commonplace book throughout his life. He maintained it on index cards, often with as many as 10 entries per card. The article doesn't seem to indicate that there was any particular organization, index, or taxonomy involved.
It's now housed at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA.
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ryanholiday.net ryanholiday.net
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www.gentlemanstationer.com www.gentlemanstationer.com
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www.gentlemanstationer.com www.gentlemanstationer.com
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Unlike traditional journaling or commonplacing, my pocket notebooks don’t have any set format, and mostly amount to a collection of short lists, reminders, and random stream-of-consciousness jottings. These notebooks essentially serve the same purpose as scratch paper, only I have all of my random musings gathered together in one place as opposed to scattered around my desk on post-its and the backs of old grocery lists.
This is an example in the wild of someone using pocket notebooks as waste books. Though in this case they weren't actively moving pieces into a more permanent commonplace.
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www.quora.com www.quora.com
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www.erasmusdarwin.org www.erasmusdarwin.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loci_communes_(Pseudo-Maximus)
Interesting to see the garden metaphor here in the translated Arabic title. Ties it into the idea of florilegium and a tie into the modern idea of the "digital garden".
An Arabic translation, entitled Kitāb al-rawḍa (Book of the Garden), was made by ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Anṭākī in the 11th century.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomnemata
See definition of hypomnema.
May be useful to look at some of these literary works to compare/contrast them against commonplace books and their general use in early writings.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomnema
Hypomnema (Greek. ὑπόμνημα, plural ὑπομνήματα, hypomnemata), also spelled hupomnema, is a Greek word with several translations into English including a reminder, a note, a public record, a commentary, an anecdotal record, a draft, a copy, and other variations on those terms.
Compare and contrast the idea of this with the concept of the commonplace book. There's also a tie in with the idea of memory, particularly for meditation.
There's also the idea here of keeping a note of something to be fixed or remedied and which needs follow up or reflection.
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Local file Local file
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I'm going to need some significant time delving into and mining this treasure trove of references.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_(Ancient_Rome)
Historical precursor of the idea of the modern album (photograph as well as musical), which also bears some resemblance to the commonplace book.
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Local file Local file
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" Havens' inclusive approach and argument for a broad definition of the commonplace book responds to previous scholarship whose scope has been restricted to documents that fit classical theories of the commonplace. In Havens' view, this exclusivity obscures much of the actual history and personal practices of compilers of commonplaces, particularly because it focuses on Renaissance humanist compilations that were made for print.
I take this more inclusive approach to note taking as well.
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Review: Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structure of Renaissance Thought by Ann Moss
Author(s): Terence Cave
Review by: Terence Cave
Source: Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 337-340
Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.1997.15.3.337
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buttondown.email buttondown.email
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seedy.xyz seedy.xyz
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https://seedy.xyz/posts/0005-open-letter/
Not sure why they'd do this instead of grabbing a group of people, forking the code (or writing their own) to do what they want it to and federating from there...
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awarm.space awarm.space
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https://awarm.space/fast/standard-ebooks
Always fun to see people trying some of the same experiments I've done. A few interesting tidbits here to refine some of the process perhaps?
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Daphne Keller </span> in Project MUSE - The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work (<time class='dt-published'>08/01/2021 11:18:47</time>)</cite></small>
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U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, "Optimizing for Engagement: Understanding the Use of Persuasive Technology on Internet Platforms," 25 June 2019, www.commerce.senate.gov/2019/6/optimizing-for-engagement-understanding-the-use-of-persuasive-technology-on-internet-platforms.
Perhaps we need plurality in the areas for which social data are aggregated?
What if we didn't optimize for engagement, but optimized for privacy, security, or other axes in the space?
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Francis Fukuyama et al., Middleware for Dominant Digital Platforms: A Technological Solution to a Threat to Democracy, Stanford Cyber Policy Center, 3, https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cpc-middleware_ff_v2.pdf.
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outsider.com outsider.com
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I'm not so sure about this, even in 2012. I'd guess he'd probably done leads in at least half a dozen pilots by this point if not more. He was certainly bankable to this level at this time.
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www.jvt.me www.jvt.me
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https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/08/01/books-microformats/
This is awesomeness!
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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adactio.com adactio.com
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https://adactio.com/journal/18322
It's not always easy work getting one's feed reader to do this, but it's ever so nice when one does.
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drkimburns.com drkimburns.com
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https://drkimburns.com/why-i-keep-a-commonplace-book/
A personal statement from a researcher that keeps one where she describes some of the how and why.
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halfanhour.blogspot.com halfanhour.blogspot.com
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blog.jonudell.net blog.jonudell.net
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https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/07/21/a-virtuous-cycle-for-analytics/
Some basic data patterns and questions occur in almost any business setting and having a toolset to handle them efficiently for both the end users and the programmers is an incredibly important function.
Too often I see businesses that don't own their own data or their contracting out the programming portion (or both).
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/george-packer-four-americas/619012/
A fascinating article (and I hope book). I'll have to digest and re-read this.
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readwriterespond.com readwriterespond.com
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https://readwriterespond.com/2021/07/shopping-sheet/
Clever, but possibly overkill?
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benenewton.medium.com benenewton.medium.com
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https://medium.com/@benenewton/my-obsidian-daily-note-template-a4bdab53dc62
General overview of a someone's daily note template which uses the Templater plugin and the Tasks plugin.
Includes a link to a gist for those who'd like to copy the format or extend it for themselves.
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web.stanford.edu web.stanford.edu
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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u/MushroomPuddle17 days agoGetting started with a commonplace notebook as someone who isn't creative? .t3_ojhwrb ._2FCtq-QzlfuN-SwVMUZMM3 { --postTitle-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; --postTitleLink-VisitedLinkColor: #9b9b9b; } Hello everyone!I've known about commonplace books for years and always feel a surge of inspiration when I see them but I'm really not creative. I don't know what I'd ever write in one? I don't ever really have any grand ideas or plans. I don't seem to have conversations or read things that necessarily inspire me. I just live a very regular life where nothing really sticks out to me as important. I've tried bullet journals before and had the same issue.Does anyone have any suggestions? I'd really appreciate it.
I'm not sure what you mean by your use of the word "creative". I'm worried that you've seen too many photos of decorative and frilly commonplace books on Instagram and Pinterest. I tend to call most of those "productivity porn" as their users spend hours decorating and not enough collecting and expanding their thoughts, which is really their primary use and value. Usually whatever time they think they're "saving" in having a cpb, they're wasting in decorating it. (Though if decorating is your thing, then have at it...) My commonplace is a (boring to others) location of mostly walls of text. It is chock full of creative ideas, thoughts, and questions though. If you're having trouble with a place to start, try creating a (free) Hypothes.is account and highlighting/annotating everything you read online. (Here's what mine looks like: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich, you'll notice that it could be considered a form of searchable digital commonplace book all by itself.) Then once a day/week/month, take the best of the quotes, ideas, highlights, and your notes, replies, questions and put them into your physical or digital commonplace. Build on them, cross link them, expand on them over time. Do some research to start answering any of the questions you came up with. By starting with annotating things you're personally interested in, you'll soon have a collection of things that become highly valuable and useful to you. After a few weeks you'll start seeing something and likely see a change in the way you're reading, writing, and even thinking.
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www.highfivehq.com www.highfivehq.com
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Highfive Notebook indexing method
A clever method for creating an index or tracking system in a bound notebook by creating an index and then marking the edge of the page for related pages.
Could also be used for tracking one's mood or other similar taxonomic items.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>u/mor-leidr </span> in Has anyone used this indexing system? Curious what you think : commonplacebook (<time class='dt-published'>07/30/2021 12:29:53</time>)</cite></small>
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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browninterviews.org browninterviews.org
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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>u/FluentFelicity (aka Kristoffer Balintona) </span> in (3) On Zettelkasten purism and the misdirection of backlinks : ObsidianMD (<time class='dt-published'>07/29/2021 22:13:45</time>)</cite></small>
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www.kristofferbalintona.me www.kristofferbalintona.me
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One of those professors recommended I read How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco, which I found to be a surprisingly close analog to Luhmann’s Zettelkasten.
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kfitz.info kfitz.info
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https://kfitz.info/23-july-2021-0951/
There's something interesting here with respect to relationships and desiring-to-have and wanting-to-be. Something we may miss in our daily interactions, but worth thinking about in our loves, crushes, etc.
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forum.obsidian.md forum.obsidian.md
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https://forum.obsidian.md/t/epub-support/1403
Some interesting resources here, though none currently suit workflows I'm keen to support yet. There is a reference to FuturePress' epub.js which could be intriguing, though even here, I'm more likely to stick with Hypothes.is for annotating and note taking to keep context.
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forum.obsidian.md forum.obsidian.md
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https://forum.obsidian.md/t/workflow-reading-ebook-epub-mobi-azw-etc-in-obsidian/17977
This is a clever hack for getting ebooks from Calibre to be readable within Obsidian, potentially for cutting/pasting and taking notes directly.
I think I still prefer my other methods, but this might be fun to play around with since I have so much stored in Calibre.
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obsidianroundup.org obsidianroundup.org
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https://obsidianroundup.org/2021-07-24/
Some useful resources to look at here.
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