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Why I changed my OBTF from one to the other this week
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3 min readApr 15, 2024
This week: Knowledge management practices in 19th C literature, dictionary and specimen notes in Obsidian, and why I’m glad I turned my 11-week-old OBTF on its head.
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Cool texty tech finds
- Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot’s Middlemarch — Chris Aldrich (a cyberneticist) looks at the note taking and indexing practices in a 19th Century classic. I read it years ago and now have it bookmarked to read again — looking for PKM references, this time!
- Obsidian Dictionary Notes (Medium) — Nathan Dunn describes how he creates a new (linkable, obviously) note for each word he’d like to become more familiar with.
- Jake Mahr’s Obsidian/Specimen Template on GitHub, from his detailed Medium article on how he records and classifies scientific specimens
