PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

PTPL 073: Are You Obsessively Date-Format Opinionated? Sadly, I Am.

PLUS An Omnifocus–Obsidian workflow, and how one blind fiction writer uses plain text

Ellane W
Produclivity
Published in
3 min readOct 9, 2023

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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.

Two inspiring plain text workflows

My plain text workflow as a fiction writer. — Robert Kingett

Robert is a blind writer of both fiction and nonfiction, on Windows. He lists Windows text editors that are full accessible to screen readers.

OmniFocus + Obsidian Workflows with Leah Ferguson

In this 2022 presentation, Leah shows us how she runs her life with a clever combination of Omnifocus and Obsidian.

Are you excessively (or obsessively) date-format opinionated?

This week I learned that the extent of my penchant for particular date formats goes way past an intellectual preference, into something that looks a lot like neurodivergency.

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Ellane W
Produclivity

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans