PTPL 045: Dashboards in Obsidian Canvas, and Why PKM Apps Aren’t Necessary

PLUS a plain text accounting update, and a scary experiment

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Welcome to the Plain Text, Paper — Less Productivity Digest! A once-a-week taster of the unusual, the helpful, and the delightfully mundane, as well as the next instalment in my quest to future proof and simplify my digital-analog workflow.

This week —

• Using Obsidian Canvas to build your own Notion-esque dashboard
• Why personal knowledgement apps aren’t necessary
• An experiment to test just how app-agnostic I really am
• Plain text accounting: I’ve started using Beancount, and it’s great!

Productivity Tips and Inspiration

How to Build Beautiful Dashboards With Obsidian Canvas

Check out the great Obsidian info and beautiful typography on Trevor Tarakjian’s Product Nook website! In this piece he explains how to use embedded Obsidian queries to build your own personal dashboard. You’ll find yourself saying…