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Productived.net discusses productivity in the digital world. I put my thoughts on relevant apps, workflows, and ideas to maximize my productivity in my daily work as an academic.
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- 2022-09-07: Craft.do now available for Windows
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Keeping your Obsidian notes clean and consistent
Today I want to discuss some tools which can be helpful for keeping note-taking clean and consistent. I am using Obsidian for academic research.
I have a mixture of a Wiki-based approach, where I have a "Frontpage" which links into different surface-level topics which then link to even more detailed notes. I also have literature notes, notes with thoughts and summaries of different methodology, and so on, implementing some form of "Zettelkasten" approach. Then I have notes for certain people (e.g., students or collaborators), daily notes where I basically dump down thoughts during the day, event-related notes, and various other things.
Read More...Using DataviewJS to dynamically create multiple tables
I have written in the past about how I use the Dataview plugin in Obsidian to create tables and lists from content. Lately, I have also been looking into the DataviewJS functionality. Here, rather than SQL scripting, you can use the full power of JavaScript to create even more advanced automations.
In this article, I will discuss how to use DataviewJS to create multiple headings and tables in a row from a single Dataview embed.
Read More...My favorite resources on Obsidian
Obsidian and especially the ecosystem around Obsidian plugins and themes is blooming. Therefore, I have been searching around Obsidian and have collected some materials around this ecosystem. In this article, I discuss a number of places worthy to look at (except my website, of course ;-)).
Read More...More thoughts on streaks and gamification of habits
As I blogged recently I have been reading the book Atomic Habits and rethought some daily processes in terms of how I approach habits.
Read More...My thoughts on Atomic Habits
Recently I really got into non-fiction books. I picked up a couple of productivity/self-help kind of books along the way. One is Atomic Habits by James Clear.
I won't go into a "full" book review, nor will I summarize the whole books. There's probably several websites which already have done so, so I'll keep this section short. I will split this article in half: First some initial thoughts on the book which stood out to me, and then how I implemented some ideas from the book into my daily life.
Read More...My gripe with no end-to-end Encryption in productivity apps
One of my biggest issues with many new productivity tools in the cloud is actually my data privacy when using them. While I would love to play around with fancy new tools like Craft or Roam, I will not put any real work related information in these tools.
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