I'm over on Substack now! β Read more
I'm over on Substack now! β Read more
I had a baby. The Obsidian ecosystem has evolved. Find out what that means for the Obsidian Iceberg π β Read more
Mini reviews of books that don't mess with my postpartum emotions. Think overpowered protagonists, slice of life stories, & underpants jokes. β Read more
An evaluation of the viability of using Obsidian for long form content as opposed to tools like MS Word, Google Docs, & Scrivener. β Read more
Some resources for staying up to date while I'm out on maternity leave. β Read more
Insights into productivity & society, tools for academic compiling, and new password protection options. β Read more
Featuring guides for verifying encryption, using Obsidian for TTRPGs, link to tab, and Zotero Citation Picker. β Read more
Buttons needs a new maintainer, there's a new TTRPG community vault, & Tasks continues with fast-paced updates. β Read more
New themes, productivity Shortcuts for mac, and systems for pairing digital & analogue. β Read more
Showcasing teachers, authors, medical students, people impacted by LLMs, gardeners, and mathematicians. β Read more
Check out some great guides on how to create folder and tag systems, and how to use the Strange New Worlds & bookmarks plugin! β Read more
Explore elephant, narwhal, hippo, walrus ivory's captivating history & uses in jewelry, tools, games, & trade. β Read more
New dev docs & a hub for medium articles, rapid logging tips, & a guide for ensuring productivity goals don't stress you out. β Read more
New plugins for scientists & storytellers. Guides for knowledge management & new features. Plus, a review of a year in Obsidian. β Read more
Set goals, reward yourself for codewriting, search tasks, protect your privacy, and make Obsidian (even more) beautiful. β Read more
Tasks styling, a plugin for day trading, multi-column embeds & callouts, and a method for taking notes about people. β Read more
Natural language syntax highlighting, improved reviews and habit trackers, and a nifty way to leverage Google for searching your vault. β Read more
New folder plugins, LLM powered plugins, plugin APIs, improved audio notes support, and some neat new public vaults. β Read more
The Digital Garden plugin now supports style settings and RSS (!), Canvas continues to be a hit, and there's improved collaboration tools for Git. β Read more
An interview with Obsidian's new CEO, workflow tips, and a personal note about the Silicon Valley bank run (I'm fine; I hope you are too). β Read more
Digital Decluttering, GitHub Auto Scans, Obsidian on e-ink devices, & a handy autohotkey script for folks who want to control youtube in the background. β Read more
Access an RSS feed of interesting (and occasionally annotated) articles, check out some of my very short stories, and more benefits for financial supporters. β Read more
A bunch of stuff nobody is paying me to tell you I liked. β Read more
Auto-close on Mac, generate TTRPG content, & improve your audio notes transcription β Read more
Canvas updates, zen mode, improved podcast handling, & the ability to mass delete tags. β Read more
Improved flashcards in spaced repetition, guides and tools for spacial thinking, and different perspectives on note taking and naming. β Read more
On the importance of knowing when to sit down and dive deep into your notes... so you don't get overwhelmed always keeping them neat. β Read more
Improved inbox experiences, more better backlinks, gems of the year voting, & a new scifi theme based on Cyberpunk 2077. β Read more
Agrarian societies experience famine for a variety of reasons, including poor governance, war, and weather. β Read more
Cloth records, syllabic scripts, and bone calendars. β Read more
Complementary subscriptions, a new chronic condition, & upcoming research updates. β Read more
Tasks now supports custom statuses, table experiences are enhanced, & there are new tricks for emacs users. β Read more
Antiseptic poop, agricultural poop, & the surprising value of eating poop. β Read more
Obsidian's nominated for a Golden Kitty in Productivity, there's a new RGB theme. Plus, fancy new dataview & templater scripts for day planning & YouTube metadata. β Read more
Old, simple tools are often still useful, especially when paired with a practice of frequent check-ins with your goals and mental state. β Read more
Quick facts about historical cleaning methods from around the world, from lotus leaves to bronze knives; the secrets of urine, rice water, & sulfur. β Read more
Mobile has Canvas now, you can render 3D model files, and there's a new Clockify integration. β Read more
On the origins of agriculture, money, & currency β Read more
Ancient science, modern discoveries, & animals that sleep with one eye open β Read more
Improvements to academic workflows, an upcoming successor to Dataview, and the return of AnuPpuccin. β Read more
A guide for using Readwise with Obsidian, a demo vault for computer engineering students, & the first Canvas plugins. β Read more
Canvas showcases and a holiday hiatus. β Read more
Media workflow diagrams, film project dashboards, daily journaling discussions, python libraries for batch-changing metadata, and more! β Read more
System commands & tips for making notes useful. β Read more
For the most part, my teaching notes are very simple and low-tech. But Obsidian was helpful when I was allowed to use it. β Read more
A request for python devs to help out with the community hub vault, a new comprehensive tutorial for beginners, & discussion of YAML APIs. β Read more
## Introduction[[1]](\#fn1)
Historically, the length of media content has often been the result of technological restrictions. The SMS, for instance, is restricted to 160 characters due to the underlying GSM-7 protocol. Consequently, a change in the technological conditions can affect the l ... β Read more
A new social media instance for personal knowledge management & a theme to bring back old-style Obsidian. β Read more
Fields for tags, academic workflows, & a great method for using Obsidian to improve onboarding at a new job. β Read more
Lots of new color schemes are proliferating. Plus, inspiring stories about quitting marijuana and putting visual studio code inside of an Obsidian window. β Read more
Kepano shared some thoughts about the AI-assisted text generation plugins, there's a new plugin for RTL/LTR language detection, plus: improved OCR β Read more
Table generators, advanced project management options, & a guide to Charles Darwin's note taking method. β Read more
How to make notes for reference, not self-improvement: A practical guide to messy notes meant to be used, not admired. β Read more
Tips on time blocking, a dashboard for dataview queries, & management tools for Magic: The Gathering. β Read more
Weekly notes, Eisenhower matrixes, and my new job with Readwise. β Read more
There's a new interactive medical terminology dictionary, & a step-by-step guide to setting up a second brain in minutes per day. β Read more
Memes about minimalism, bullet backlinks plugin, timeshifting, a book club, and an upcoming mystery event. β Read more
I divide my RSS feed according to how I can interact with the articles, how far along I am with processing the information, and how I think I can use them later. β Read more
There's an upcoming discussion of daily logs, a new jira integration, and a job opportunity from the folks at Readwise right as Obsidian's team expanded too :) β Read more
Dataview has its own channel and I canβt access Discord until next week. β Read more
You can now push notes to Readwise's Reader app for improved spaced repetition review. You can also comment on the Roundup! β Read more
A new tool for diffing PDFs, a new method for managing RPG campaigns, and guides for using Obsidian with Devonthink or Dendron. β Read more
Easy in the eye of the beholder. But also, sometimes things really are easier than we think, if we just give them a chance. β Read more
Sync highlights and annotations from Raindrop & execute codeblocks interactively, a la Jupyter. β Read more
Group snippets for one-click activation, compare tags and folders, & improve your inline metadata. β Read more
New ways to group tasks, customizable spaced repetition buttons, & default theme discussions. β Read more
Plugin settings design tips & productivity book recommendations. β Read more