PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

PTPL 068: Markdown Flashcards That Don’t Need Apps or Plugins (!)

PLUS A tool for downloading Substack posts to Markdown files, with Obsidian links

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by Author

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week summary of things that are helping me to simplify and future-proof my digital-analog workflow.

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Tool: download Substack posts to Markdown files (with Obsidian links)

I honestly have no clue how to use this kind of geekery, but if you do and you have need of such a tool, I hope it’s useful.
GitHub — ddanielgal/subsidian: Substack to Obsidian Downloader

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Simple Markdown flashcards in Obsidian, plugin free

Background: My flashcards are a series of Markdown files, one per card, that live in my Obsidian vault. I was using the excellent Spaced Repetition plugin to revise them, but something wasn’t feeling quite right. Perhaps…