1/7/2024 0 Comments Nvalt devonthink![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, I’d love the ability to bring up all the highlights related to “focus” from all books I’ve read. I also want to have them compiled and structured (rather than a giant list sorted only by modification date) but not wholly cut off from one another.Īnd I also want some pretty fancy search capabilities. I want to do more than simply jot down my ideas and notes. The issue isn’t finding an app that is capable - it’s finding an app that works for me and my workflows. There are a LOT of apps out there that do this. And so, what I’d like to do, is create a digital and universally-searchable version of that index: a single repository to organize, sort, and search all my highlights and notes. I’m already creating an alternate index of ideas in the back of each book I read. Something akin to Ryan Holliday’s notecard system - but digital. In short, what I’m looking for is something to store all of the ideas, bits of inspiration, notes, quotes and takeaways from the books I read, and more. Perhaps it’s just because I like to have things organized - but I tell myself that the aim is to help increase my ability to turn ideas into drafts. But for the past year or so I’ve been wanting a system that is just a little bit more complex than what I’m currently using. For nearly a decade all of my ideas and notes have been kept in Simplenote. I’ve been writing for a living since 2011 and despite my greatest fears, I’ve never had a shortage of ideas. Jeff Goins wrote that “what we call ‘writing’ is actually made up of three distinct activities: coming up with ideas, turning those ideas into drafts, and then editing those drafts into publishable pieces.” So, I think I might give Obsidian a try for a bit.A few months ago, I shared about my desire to begin organizing the notes and highlights and takeaways from the books I read. The other thing I don't like about Workflowy is that it creates a huge unordered list file as the backup, which is nice that it is all there, but it's pretty useless without Workflowy itself. ![]() I used workflowy, but it doesn't work very well with Markdown, and the Export function creates some gobbledy-gook with the RSS feed in my podcast, so I end up having to redo a lot of things, which is also annoying. I have to do the linking manually anyway, so this might be a good thing.Īs a side note, when I started the Cybertraps podcast with Fred Lane, he reintroduced me to Workflowy, which has been his PKM for years. I've tried using Devonthink to make it work, but that's putting things into a locked a system, and I just really despise that! I can be committed to an app, but I've lost too much data over the years, which is why I have stuck with that Notes folder in Dropbox, and why I keep coming back to it.Īll my notes are where I need them, but they are disconnected and I need a way to link them. ![]() I am in the process of writing a book, and there is so much content. I have hundreds of notes from my podcast interviews. I saw a post by MacSparky a couple weeks ago called "Why I'm Leaning Obsidian."Īfter reading his post and watching a couple youtube videos by Linking Your Thinking, I realized this is exactly what I need. I needed a replacement, so I found an app called "The Archive" from the web site. There are some tags, but not a lot.Ĥ75 of the notes in there are notes from my podcast, Transformative Principal, which makes sense.Īnyway, for some reason, NVAlt wouldn't load when I got my new computer. So, what's challenging is that these are not connected, ordered, or anything else like. My first note in this folder is from a project management training I attended on March 26, 2010, just about a month after my son was born. I've been using Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and NVAlt for that entire time. To be honest, I'm a little surprised that it has only 1656 notes in it. In my dropbox folder is a "Notes" folder that is nearly everything that I have created over the last several years. ![]()
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