Any notes online you think are so perfectly written you’d put them into your markdown note vault without changing a thing?

Please share a link here, can be from any subject or knowledge area. Like a summary notes for some math topic, or an analysis for a book.

For instance, I love this Git notes article the diagrams are very well drawn, and I've saved it in my notes.

I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?, and found myself writing a lengthy response. But, after I wrote my response I reread Brennan's article and found myself in a bit of a quandary.

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While he presented the counterpoints, or counterarguments to these positions, he didn't seem to treat them in the same manner as his primary arguments and points. That has caused me to think about his article from a different perspective.

I admit I don't fully get it, so here's the creator's own take on their platform.

Documents are fully publicly viewable and editable, as their is no identity system in place. Don’t put anything private, secret, or important in prototype 1.

Found this while on an online rabbit hole. Figured some might find it a cool PKMS!

cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/27821868

Hi, This will be my first significant open source contribution. A markdown lsp that works as PKMS. It features an interactive graph like one in obsidian.

Currently in beta stage.

Would love your feedback.

And if you like the project consider starring it. I need at least 100 to be able to add it into mason registry for easy installation.

Does anybody have experience with using Treesheets instead of a wiki or an outliner? I use #TiddlyWiki mostly, as it is usable on a smartphone too. Treesheets is desktop-only.

In other words, the biggest bother, the most annoying annoyance. Maybe it's something you wish your system had a nice dedicated tool for but it doesn't, so you have a clumsy workaround. Maybe it's something that your system would work well for if it weren't for this one little thing. Whatever it is, talk about it here!

Figured it might be a good discussion question. Originally posted to our friends over at !journaling@sh.itjust.works.

I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me.

Hello guys,

I'm new to the community but have been a Zettelkasten user for quite some time.

The thing is that my Zettelkasten is full analog, not digital. Yep, I use some pen to write on index cards that are then stored in boxes. Like some caveman ;)

It's low-tech not because I'm averse to digital, mind you. It's just that I prefer being able to freely spread and order my index cards on a table as I see fit, and a few other reasons like that (like being away from a screen).

Is the community digital-only, or would that be OK to post about analog too?

Thx

Designed for Apple Notes but I have heard of people doing this in Obsidian. I like looking at different knowledge organization systems, so I'll be looking into this even though I'm definitely not going to use Apple Notes.

I was looking into rocketbook and it sounds really nice, but I'm not sure if there's an option to save as markdown, which is kind of a dealbreaker to me as I'd like to continue using Obsidian. Does there exist something like that?

I thought I'd ask, since I have an organized method for some forms of media (things you watch, which is ironic given I spend much less time on watching tv/movies/videos than I do on any other form of media consumption) and for others… not so much. And I probably should organize the other methods and implement a system I'll actually use, instead of just tossing them on the To-Watch/Play/Read list and never actually consuming the things on the list.

Links to Obsidian forums, but the information here is applicable for any PKMS, not just one using the Obsidian software.

Hi y’all— I’m here today to talk about library and information science (LIS), personal knowledge management (PKM), and YOU.

Since this whole PKM/B (base) thing has taken off there has been endless endless endless discussion on how to organize things. Systems seem to pop up all the time ranging from PARA to Johnny Decimal, to folksonomies, etc, etc. This is a really fascinating and interesting time to be around and also very exciting to see this developing. however one thing that gets lost in all of these back and forth and arguments is that there is an entire field dedicated to the representation organization cataloging and classification of knowledge, a field that has been around for hundreds of years & has the experience of thousands of people involved: library and information science.

As far as I’m able to discern, almost none of these novel PKM or PKB organization systems have benefited from the input of library and information science. There are a lot of things that the LIS field can provide to help all y’all PKM folks. I’m going to talk about that a bit…

Found out about this. I'm already on Obsidian but I might check it out. Very not interested in the AI, but since it's open source you can definitely try to remove it instead of having it forcibly shoved onto you with no way to try to turn it off like with Notion.

markdown-oxide: Robust, Minimalist, Unbundled PKM for your favorite text-editor through the LSP.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components.

However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases.

So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

Heard it described as somewhat like Obsidian before.

Comments are: it's to be expected

Too much apps posts heh?

Since I tried to do google keep, I was making notes for about a month and then just didn't open the app for some reason...

I reaaaaally missed the graph view of obsidian. I am actually a backend developer. So I decided to learn flutter to make my perfect note taking app. And I was postponing creating notes, because I need to make a perfect app first. It was counter productive. I needed to make notes and I didn't.

Last weekend (the only time when I have free time) I researching how to make graph view. As I was thinking about edge cases for my own implementation (because how else ofcource) I realised something. It is not worth it. I spend too much time and energy on it. It's not fun, it will not bring me money.

I wanted to make my own obsidian because I didn't want to use syncthing. Then I spend 6 months (well not really if we exclude the time spent on work). And now I am back from where I started.

I want to try this.

I do feel a little anxious that I don't really have a goal for an output. But it is better to stick to something then start the search for something perfect again

I read a lot of articles. In the past, I've used Pocket to access articles on all my devices.

I prefer to read on my e-ink tablet, where scrolling is a pain. So I need a read-it-later app that supports page-turning, the same way an e-book does.

Pocket used to have this feature, but they killed it with their most recent update.

Wallabag has this feature, but I find the Wallabag fonts ugly and unreadable.

Omnivore does not appear to have this feature.

Does anyone use a read-it-later app that supports page-turning?

Thank you!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/8295637

Today I discovered a tool called OrgPad which has a lot of potential. Unlike all the major players in the mindmap space right now, each node isn't just a heading, but an actual piece of content, with a title. Each node can be expanded or collapsed so you can focus on what you want to while maintaining context.

It's also got an amazing interface that's incredibly polished.

I've also just discovered TheBrain, which is also a delightful mindmap tool, but the cost is prohibitive at around $20/month just to sync across devices, the interface isn't as slick as mindmeister or xmind, in fact it looks ancient. But it's very powerful and feels really good to use. It also has the benefit of making notes a first class object instead of a tiny icon on a node which the more popular mindmaps do. But the win goes to org mode for being superior in most ways, at a fraction of the cost.

Originally posted to !obsidianmd.

This is absolutely gorgeous. I take academic notes in Obsidian and am going to take several cues from this professor’s notes.

I may have also been trying to make a similar thing for math in general, including discrete mathematics. The professor’s turned out prettier than my own. Still going to make my own, taking/making the notes myself will reinforce these topics, but this is definitely a handy reference.