This is great. I'll put it into my collection along with Shawn Graham who has some prior work for teaching with Obsidian (https://shawngraham.github.io/hist1900/#the-big-idea) as does u/danallosso who has also used it quite bit for both classes as well as Open Education Resources. If you search for Dan's YouTube & Substack, you're likely to find some of his writing/resources there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/13khuxs/obsidian_for_teachers/

see also: https://github.com/biscotty666/OBSPKMEssentials

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404291953051

HH West Co. was a stationer in Milwaukee that sold Shaw Walker card indexes in the early 1900s.

Patrick Rhone's use of the dash plus system dates back to at least 2006.

(See original post at http://patrickrhone.com/2006/05/12/org-fu-uberpost-productivity-whitepaper/)

https://patrickrhone.com/dashplus/

referenced via Simon Woods at micro.camp https://hypothes.is/a/_GvLrPczEe2T-tfEqnLNhw

https://www.reddit.com/user/Paddy48ob/

• signed a post as "Pat (OBC)" obstensibly for Obsidian Book Club via https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/13m2j5b/comment/jkzhedk/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

• also mentions being a 20 year user of TheBrain at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/101st9c/comment/j2qfh5d/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

https://patrickrhone.com/2014/03/28/extending-dashplus/

Read archived version at https://web.archive.org/web/20230128105827/https://patrickrhone.com/2014/03/28/extending-dashplus/ Rhone's website was down today??

https://letterboxd.com/bitdepth/lists/

bitdepth has some interesting lists, including films directed by women.

https://teuxdeux.com/blog/swissmiss-tina-roth-eisenberg-interview

Tina Roth Eisenberg is a co-creator of TeuxDeux.

source?

https://teuxdeux.com/

https://www.businessinsider.com/ivy-lee-method-productivity-2018-9

Lauren Layne mentions that she uses the Ivy Lee productivity method.

https://www.katiefarnan.com/blogs/the-form/lauren-layne

Is the paper really that great? I've got my own self-printed stationery cards that I've used for ages, but lust after that lovely designed wood. Would standard index cards work in that base or would the rounded corners get in the way? I totally commiserate with the collecting productivity systems like Pokémon! I'm still looking for someone to recreate the original 1903 Memindex system...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLkVimqv8E

Review of the Analog productivity system. Quick overview with generally positive tenor.

The creator mentions that he collects productivity systems like Pokémon! A sort of affliction of shiny object syndrome in the productivity space.

Passing mention of Patrick Rhone's dash/plus system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czfHE6CN41c

• https://micro.blog/bitdepth
• https://letterboxd.com/bitdepth

https://kimberlyhirsh.com/uploads/2023/5976538a38.jpg

Putting a list of one's core values in the front of their notebook can be a useful reminder within their journaling or bullet journal practice.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=complexity+exonomics+textbook&crid=2SZP0E6DIIR6J&sprefix=complexity+exonomics+text%2Caps%2C630&ref=nb_sb_noss

While I'm reading Doughnut Economics, it's interesting to contemplate the images on common economics textbooks as an indicator of how the authors/publishers think about the models of the information inside them.

Some broad ideas represented here: - bustling people (consumers) walking over curvy 3D graph grids - greenish abstract cover (representing the green idea of money) - a compass rose (indicating finding one's direction; on a book about managerial economics and business strategy) - a globe of the world with a colorful infographic heat map - a bunch of blue and silver metal balls connected in a network-like configuration - a montage of images of numbers (credit card numbers, numbers on money, a ticker with stock prices, etc.) - a solar panel with blue sky and clouds in the background - blue sky with white fluffy clouds (indicating what, exactly?) - an ipad with an image of a busy street in the 1800s held up as if taking a photo of the same street today - puzzle pieces being put together with an image of people exchanging money at a farmer's market - abstract grid of a map outline of the Americas

The "Ivy Lee method" for productivity involves making a to do list with a line underneath the first six most important tasks and doing nothing else until the top six items are finished.

Jason Chatfield credits http://katiefarnan.com/blogs/the-form/lauren-layne for the idea.

sometimes known as eating the frog first...

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/stylus-pens-and-supplies/stylus-pens-&-supplies_pens/gx80k32882

https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/flex-series/flex-15iwl/81sr

The Analog system has a thin metal divider that separates two sections in the base. The broad suggestion is to use this space as storage and the divider for separating the blank stock of cards from used cards. One could also separate the next/someday cards from the today cards (new and finished).

The divider serves as a tabbed divider in many systems, but here there are only a total of three slots for differentiation: one slot for one card with today's list, and two other spaces for other cards that the user can determine their uses for. This definitely makes the system incredibly simple and minimal.

It's only slightly different from the old common Park Sherman Co. desk note pad systems which sometimes had a universal calendar and one tray space for notes.

Similar to the sorts of to do list task key in many bullet journals, the Analog system has "task signals" : - black filled circle means "complete task" - half filled circle means task is in progress - a right arrow in the circle means the task was delegated - a cross in the circle means that the task is an appointment, potentially with the appointment time added to the to do item

The system suggests that you can "create your own" task signals, though in true minimalist fashion, it doesn't give other suggestions. Presumably one could do other pattern fills of the circle or symbols within it to mean other things (example: bullet journal key symbols).

Interestingly, the to do circles start out not blank, but with a single thin line splitting the circle in half vertically. This is apparently a design choice, perhaps to make it easier to fill in half of the circle?

Though the Analog system clearly delineates cards of to do lists as "Today", "Next", "Someday", I've definitely seen this sort of delineation well before this system.

What other systems explicitly use this framing or similar framings?

While the today / next / someday cards are labeled, they're also color coded (white, light tan, tan) to help distinguish them.

Though not defined in the Analog system, these differently colored cards could also be used to indicate different sorts of data, though one would need to potentially ignore the pre-printed labels of "Today", "Next", "Someday".

The Analog system utilizes a simplified version of an Eisenhower matrix which we'll call "today / next / someday" as a means of prioritizing to do list items on a temporal basis.

Following a pattern seen in many modern wooden recipe card boxes to hold the current recipe one is working on, Jeff Sheldon has cut a long thin slot into his card holder to allow one to stand up today's card in the front as a means of displaying and featuring what needs to get done.

https://ugmonk.com/pages/analog

Jeff Sheldon describes how the Analog system works, generally following most of the outline of the Memindex method, but with some hints of the Bullet Journal method's notation.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ugmonk/analog-the-simplest-productivity-system/posts

Analog Kickstarter dates: - wrapped on 2021-05-07 - funded on 2020-08-07 - launched on 2020-06-23

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ugmonk/analog-the-simplest-productivity-system

Jeff Sheldon's Analog productivity system is a physical product consisting of a wooden tray, metal divider, 3 x 5" custom printed index cards (and refills), a felt carrier, and other accessories which functions as a minimalistic version of the old Memindex.

The someday card is described as being not only for individual to do items, but "big picture" goals.

The video shows the productivity books which Sheldon used to help design his system including 99u's Manage Your Day-To-Day, Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei, The One Thing by Gary Keller, Getting Things Done by David Allen, Deep Work by Cal Newport, and Atomic Habits by James Clear.

I started making lists on index cards—you know the ones we used back in school.

Note the total lack of any referent to why we used to use index cards in school.

https://vimeo.com/420319231?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=8885398

https://ugmonk.com/collections/analog/products/analog-cards-3-pack?variant=36903475150998&selling_plan=937066646

In addition to using the three dots on the Analog system's cards to indicate how much one accomplished (modest value), Jeff Sheldon suggests using them to "link cards together", though he doesn't suggest how one could or should do this. Presumably he means to use the possible dot patterns as a code, but then one only has 2^3 or 8 ways of doing this, so the number of possible links is incredibly low. Some of this seems related to edge notched cards, though here, there's no suggestion of punching holes in these cards, so sorting or finding these cards isn't necessarily easy unless one otherwise indexes them, a functionality which falls outside of the minimalist scope of the product.

To expand on this method he also, more profitably, suggests adding titles to cards in the blank line at the top which is also frequently used for dating cards.

https://ugmonk.com/

Developed in a Kickstarter, ugmonk.com is where Jeff Sheldon now sells his Analog productivity system and refills as well as other related lifestyle brand products.

https://www.annahavron.com/handouts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence

comment at micro.camp https://help.micro.blog/chat/channel/6/micro-camp

In 2019, Carthusian monks went back to their values and decided to scale back their production of Chartreuse.

Midnight Riot (Rivers of London)<br /> by Ben Aaronovitch

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Riot-Rivers-London-Aaronovitch/dp/034552425X

Recommended by Patrick Rhone at today's micro.camp book meetup.

https://www.ianrankin.net/landing-page/ian-rankin/ian-rankin-extras/ian-rankin-the-rebus-books-in-order/

Rankin/Rebus recommended by several at today's micro.camp session.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tanstaafl.asp

https://atomicbooks.com/pages/john-waters-fan-mail

John Waters receives fan mail via Atomic Books in Baltimore, MD.

the chat: https://help.micro.blog/chat/channel/6/micro-camp

https://micro.camp/

• May 19-20, 2023

https://xtiles.app/62e9167a308426236b1d2b91 https://xtiles.app/62c29d1866533a18d0717564

Presumably this is part of xTiles' planning for various personas and strategy.

https://xtiles.app/6249b3f811d8db0dcd173512

Fascinating to see an xTiles page named "competitive analysis", but an interesting example of "eating their own dogfood" to make it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166070124473

Vintage Cole Steel 5 Section Letter File Desktop Filing System Tan w/ Label Slot

Item ID: 166070124473 Buy It Now price: $19.90

Your offer: $17.91 Offer expires: May-05 13:29:00 PDT

Introducing BOOX Tab Ultra C: Let the Colors Help You Work Better

They're primarily touting one of the few e-ink tablets that does color (beginning in 2023), but it's fascinating to see the Boox marketing department using this video to sell the idea of color on a screen as a tool for thought this way.

It's subtle and something we take for granted, so they have a point, but somehow odd none the less, perhaps because of its ubiquity.

Let the colors help you think, organize, and work better.

Let the colors help you work better.

Colors inspire

https://xtiles.app/en

https://www.marginnote.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci

!?

What is the current separation of political and civil society in America in 2023? Do the differences in these two (particularly with respect to Antonio Gramsci's framing) still have distinguishing features?

Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, writer, politician, and linguist, was imprisoned from 1926 until his death in 1937 as a vocal critic of Benito Mussolini. While in prison he wrote more than 3,000 pages in more than 30 notebooks. His Prison Notebooks comprise a fascinating contribution to political theory.

Is there potentially a worry amongst Republicans that by losing the "culture wars" that they'll somehow lose control of society and the capitalist order which funds their party and helps to keep them in control?

Link to Gramsci's idea about cultural hegemony: https://hypothes.is/a/pRnPLPTtEe2_pyt2-Z7pwg

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-prohibit-book-bans-00095151

From the Republican perspective, banning books would also seem to be a hypocritical means of restricting commerce and trade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU73rMJ1vpg

https://huntington.org/exhibition/octavia-e-butler-telling-my-stories

https://www.arno-schmidt-stiftung.de/home.html

https://www.arno-schmidt-stiftung.de/Archiv/Zettelarchiv.html

The »notes of the day« shown so far from Arno Schmidt's note box for »Zettel's Traum« can be downloaded here:

https://wiki.mapofthefuture.org/projects/map_of_the_future

https://medium.com/obsidian-observer/the-best-obsidian-plugins-for-academic-writing-96824331cc7f

Too generic to be of much help to any but the most technical which isn't likely to need this sort of advice.

people are great at the collecting and categorizing pieces, but we're less good at going back in and connecting or expressing and this is where the value increases exponentially

How To Use The ACE Framework This Week

ACE Framework - Add - Connect - Express

yet another acronym

hmmm... because... as a tool for building/developing thoughts

https://www.linkingyourthinking.com/lytcon-2023/nick-milo

List of presenters and videos from LYT Conference May 2023.

https://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023-05-Off-the-Shelf-MAY-JUNE2023.pdf

It makes me happy to see all the fantastic programming going on at my local libraries.

https://view.connect.americanpublicmedia.org/?qs=5c6c49885b501758c851b7841876a2a6ccc14f1da8c3383c51c49cc79a0995c8351a5c288c6b36eec7bc7298dc426ab2c639cad0d697d722b236a577de47a17d6ac2a8773620b4a9f17beb6a229ed93a

More than just taking notes - Learning exhaust by Nicole van der Hoeven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L24rKggMX8

Nice framing to broadly define note taking as a form of learning exhaust, but broadly nothing new here for me.

https://bard.google.com/

Map of Content Vizualized (VMOC)

a start of thinking on the space of converging written and visual thinking, but not as advanced as even Raymond Llull or indigenous ways of knowing which more naturally merge these modes of thinking.

Western though is just missing so much... sigh

Fireside Chat with @kepano, CEO of Obsidian

Nothing new here for me, but useful vision and direction for those not familiar with Obsidian.

An Inside Look into Obsidian Book Club

Several nice mentions of me throughout...

https://www.allsurplus.com/

productivity industrial complex!

quote from u/Powerful-Finger-4376

reply to drogers8 at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/13eyg8p/comment/jkaksn4/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

You can find some basic top level or second level DDC listings online, but to get the full set of listings, you've got to subscribe to the system which is updated every few years, something only library systems and large publishers typically do. To give yourself an idea of how deep this rabbit hole goes the DDC 23 is four volumes long and each volume is in the 1,000 page range. The DDC 23 self-identifies as 0.25.4'31-dc22. For most categories DDC generally only goes as deep as the thousands place (like Finsler geometry) though others will go slightly deeper usually to designate locations/cities. Most libraries only categorize to the tenths place, and sometimes these numbers can be found on the copyright page of books, often with the DDC volume number. I mentioned the UDC in that piece, but didn't give any links, but you could try:<br /> - https://udcsummary.info/php/index.php?lang=en - https://udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=subject_coverage - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Decimal_Classification

Honestly, you're wasting time and making way more work for yourself to adopt one of these numbering methods for a Luhmann-esque zettelkasten. Try asking yourself this question: What benefits/affordances will I get in the long run for having my numbering system mirror the DDC or UDC? (Unless you can come up with a really fantastic answer, you're just making more work to look up headings/numbers on a regular basis.)

In practice the numbers are simply addresses so you can quickly find things again using your index. If you're doing threads of cards (folgezettel), you're going to very quickly have tangentially related ideas of things mixed together anyway. (As an example, I've got lots of science and even some anthropology mixed into my math section, so having DDC numbers on those would be generally useless at the end of the day.) If it helps, Nicolas Gatien has a pretty reasonable and short video which makes this apparent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdHH3YjOnZE.

reply to u/drogers8 at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/13eyg8p/extended_numbering_and_why_use_outline_of/

Based on my research, Scott Scheper was the one of the original source for people adopting the Academic Outline of Disciplines. I've heard him say before that he recommends it only as a potential starting place for people who are new to the space and need it as a crutch to get going. It's an odd suggestion as almost all of the rest of his system is so Luhmann-based. I suspect it's a quirk of how he personally started and once moving it was easier than starting over. He also used his own ZK for showing others, and it's hard to say one thing in a teaching video when showing people something else. Ultimately it's hard to mess up on numbering choices unless you're insistent on using only whole numbers or natural numbers. I generally wouldn't suggest complex numbers either, but you might find some interesting things within your system if you did. More detail: https://boffosocko.com/2022/10/27/thoughts-on-zettelkasten-numbering-systems/ The only reason to have any standardized base or standardized numbers would be if you were attempting to have a large shared ZK with others. If this is your intent, then perhaps look at the Universal Decimal Classification, though a variety of things might also work including Dewey Decimal.

Rhiannon Giddens - Julie's Aria (Official Audio)

https://www.pbs.org/show/my-music-rhiannon-giddens/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/arts/music/rhiannon-giddens-michael-abels-pulitzer-prize-for-music-omar.html

2023 Sunday Afternoon Concert - Ojai Music Festival

2023 Sunday Morning Concert - Ojai Music Festival

OMAR'S JOURNEY – World Premiere - Ojai Music Festival

https://www.oberlin.edu/news/rhiannon-giddens-00-wins-2023-pulitzer-prize-music

reply to u/throwthis_throwthat at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/13gcbj1/requesting_advice_for_where_to_put_a_related_idea/

I don't accept the premise of your question. This doesn't get said often enough to people new to zettelkasten practice: Trust your gut! What does it say? You'll learn through practice that there are no "right" answers to these. Put a number on it, file it, and move on. Practice, practice, practice. You'll be doing this in your sleep soon enough. As long as it's close enough, you'll find it. Save your mental cycles for deeper thoughts than this.

Asking others for their advice is fine, but it's akin to asking a well-practiced mnemonist what visual image they would use to remember something. Everyone is different and has different experiences and different things that make their memories sticky for them. What works incredibly well for how someone else thinks and the level of importance they give an idea is never as useful or as "true" as how you think about it. Going with your gut is going to help you remember it better and is far likelier to make it easier to find in the future.

"So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said to them, he who has not misfiled an idea among you, let him cast the first zettel at her." —Iēsū's zettelkasten, card 8/7,1 #John ⚡🗃️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcmKWrDzEIw

For a 9 x 13 pan of approximately 30 smallish bars: - 3 cups of rolled oats (toast 15 - 25 minutes if desired; longer if self-rolled) - 2 cups of almonds - 2 cups of pitted dates - 1/2 cup honey - 1/2 cup peanut butter - 1 cup of chocolate chips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBGNTJ_Yjg

A yeast that's always on the hooch-y side could be named "Turner"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBU1iQ8PyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idqRQBsyvLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKrh4Q5ucow

"Channel your inner rooster!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCA0iQajpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KmIDT5XoeA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTt8VGyBdk

Starting yeast from scratch

• Use a approx. 1 qt "breathable" jar
  • need breathability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
• equal parts water and flour (by weight)
  • (~2 tbsp water and 3 tbsp flour)
  • alternately use unsweetened pineapple juice in stead of water (lowers ph and provides additional natural sugar for yeast)
  • (for water, used distilled or highly filtered as tap water can have chlorine and other chemicals which make it more difficult for yeast to get started)
• stir and set aside
  • stir three times per day
• every day add 2 tbsp water and 3 tbsp flour
• bubbling should begin after 3-5 days

Ongoing feeding and maintenance

• can keep in fridge to slow down reaction and feed only once a week for small batch baking
• if doing baking more frequently, feed it every day
• When using, use up half of the overall quantity and then continue feeding as before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHSbBHPbP0

examples of high protein (hard) wheats: - Khorasan - Durum - Hard White Wheat - Hard Red Wheat - Red Fife

Good for breads, pizza, and things where chew is more valuable.

examples of lower protein (soft) wheats: - Sonora - Spelt - Soft White - Soft Red - Einkorn

good for pastries, cakes, cookies, etc.

https://indieweb.org/bsky.link

https://firesky.tv/

https://indieweb.org/Bluesky

An example of someone (u/Nervous-Deal7560) using the Wakandan writing system to distinguish their ideas from those of sources!

see also: - https://omniglot.com/conscripts/wakandan.htm - https://www.fandom.com/articles/how-the-black-panther-writing-system-subverts-our-expectations-of-africa

This is essentially a version of a modern pinboard with ribbons which are used to hold various pieces onto the board!

Also similar in functionality to Post-it Notes, but with string instead of glue.

The 1929 desk in this image isn't too far from a physical instantiation of Vannevar Bush's Memex which didn't appear until 1939 (1945 published).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

I love this acronym!

Linda Yaccarino Is Twitter’s New CEO, Elon Musk Confirms by Tiffany Hsu, Sapna Maheshwari, Benjamin Mullin, Ryan Mac

reply to @jdm at https://micro.blog/jdm/19064665

Thanks! If you want sneak peaks of upcoming pieces, you might try subscribing to my "other" microblog: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich

Irish Soda Bread With Raisins

https://www.gristandtoll.com/the-simplest-things-and-two-treasures/

https://mockmill.us/product/mockmill-stone-grain-mill-attachment-for-stand-mixers/

$228.00

https://pleasanthillgrain.com/

Grain mills: - https://pleasanthillgrain.com/wondermill-grain-mill-wonder-mill-flour-grinder - Komo XL https://pleasanthillgrain.com/ - Komo Flour sifter https://pleasanthillgrain.com/komo-flour-sifter - Komo medium grinder https://pleasanthillgrain.com/komo-medium-grain-mill-flour-grinder

Bread proofer: - https://pleasanthillgrain.com/brod-and-taylor-bread-proofer

Commonplacing, florilegia, anthologies, miscellanies, zettelkasten are a ratchet for thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaHEgPk0tNM

Rowan Williams quote - not who I thought he was

• Read
• Write (collect)
• Reflect