I spent the better part of a year experimenting with AI and coming away unimpressed. The chatbots were fine for generating a quick summary or answering a trivia question. But every time I tried to use them for real work, the same problem showed…
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Automators Podcast Obsidian Vault
Stephen Millard has been doing this wonderful project where he keeps all the Automators podcast episodes and resources in an Obsidian public vault. I felt awful telling him we were shutting the show down last month, but he has a plan for the maintenance of…
Listen & read notes →Apple Notes Markdown Text Export in Minutes
I’ve heard from several labs members asking for the best way to export their Apple Notes to text. My favorite method is the Obsidian Importer plugin. Even if you intend to use something other than Obsidian, this plugin gets a reliable export of all your Apple Notes to markdown text in minutes.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) and Level 2 (Backstage) Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Announcing the Obsidian Field Guide
I’m so pleased to announce the release of the Obsidian Field Guide. Hooray! Obsidian Field Guide – Plus Obsidian Field Guide – Standard Want the Short Version? Sure: 78 video tutorials 6 hours of content in the Standard edition An additional 6 hours of content coming…
Continue reading →Obsidian 1.0
Obsidian, the personal management and idea connector that we have all been losing our collective minds over, is now officially out of beta with their release of version 1.0. Congratulations to the small Obsidian development team that made a very big app. While I…
Continue reading →Using Obsidian for Task Management (MacSparky Labs)
I spent three weeks running Obsidian as my primary task manager. I learned that task management in Obsidian is a lot better than I expected, but probably still not the answer for me. In this video, I walk through plugins and workflows to manage your tasks in Obsidian…
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Linking Your Thinking Presentation (MacSparky Labs)
I did an appearance as part of the Obsidian conference run by Nick Milo last week. Specifically, I did an hour-long session about how to link from Obsidian to external sources. Here’s the video link. Enjoy!…
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Linking Your Thinking Conference
I am fully invested in the emerging idea of linked thinking and how it can help us use technology for our own good. When Nick Milo asked me to participate in his Linking Your Thinking Conference, it was a no-brainer. I’m doing a session…
Continue reading →Project Management with Obsidian (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve been busy evolving a project management system from inside Obsidian. This system relies upon the use of status folders (instead of tags) and the DataView plugin to auto-sort and display relevant projects. I believe this system could work for all sorts of work but it is, admittedly, still a work in progress. In this video, I walk you through how I’m using it and what I’m up to… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Early Access and Backstage Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Automating Idea Capture with Keyboard Maestro and Obsidian (MacSparky Labs)
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With all of these changes lately, I’ve been exploding with new content ideas. I needed a way to capture and manage them so I built a little Keyboard Maestro script to take an idea and format it into a special note, and then save the note to my Obsidian database. Here’s how I did it …