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@Shpigford DevonThink perhaps?

evernote is doubling the price of my subscription to an arguably insane price, even for a PE-acquired business. we've got 15+ years of docs stored there (huge % are scanned PDFs). trying to figure out my move here. i don't want another note taking app. i kind of just want a vault for dumping all our random document files (again, mostly PDFs) that's thoroughly indexed/searchable. big caveat: needs to be also be easily shared with my wife. wonder if there's something there from a biz perspective? 🤔

@TriciaDearborn Paging @jameshull :)

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for

@Irenaus_of_Hel @SaudiWesterna @Rainmaker1973 Back then is was the MISTER Lewis Tool.

@SaudiWesterna @Rainmaker1973 Its wut we call em now, dunno what they called it back then.

An ancient technique for lifting giant stone blocks using a Lewis tool [📹 bilimtuel]

Be right back. Gonna punch my neighbor before he can punch me back for punching him.

MARCO RUBIO: The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us and then Iran retaliating The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran without us The imminent threat was from Israel deciding to attack Iran The imminent threat was from Israel

US: “It was a preemptive attack on Iran” Pentagon: “No sign that Iran was going to attack first” US: “No but if Israel attacked Iran, then Iran would have attacked us, so we preemptively attacked them first” 🤡 This is beyond satire.

@fortelabs Waiting for someone to create an easy "how-to" for us dummies!

Very cool way of creating a "Master Prompt" (i.e. a default system prompt that provides your personal context to all LLM interactions): I pointed Claude Code at my entire PARA folder structure, and asked it to write a Master Prompt for me based on it As part of that, it came across my Obsidian vault (under Resources) and a recent backup of my Evernote database (which is in XML format) and included those too! I think this is a better approach than only pointing it at a notes app because there's many kinds of info that can't or shouldn't live in such an app It explored and integrated hundreds of different folders and their contents into a single markdown document with 10 sections: 1. Who you are (background, family, identity) 2. Forte Labs (business, offerings, team) 3. Your frameworks (PARA, CODE, Progressive Summarization, JITPM, The Perspective Era) 4. Values and principles (the four from your LIP book outline) 5. StrengthsFinder top 5 6. Current life context (location, family, active projects, daily routines) 7. How you work (tools, systems, creative habits) 8. Your 12 Favorite Problems 9. Long-term aspirations 10. Communication preferences I can now drop this into any LLM I use to give it comprehensive context on who I am I also think this is better than connecting it directly to outside sources because it's: 1. More secure 2. More compressed and token efficient 3. More portable between LLMs, and 4. Allows me to edit and choose what context I'm providing and what to emphasize

@noahzender Waiting for someone to write a "how-to" for us dummies. Sounds amazing.

Everyone talks about building a second brain. 450 notes. 3 years of curation. Books, podcasts, articles, videos. I built a section of my site where an agent forces connections between ideas and writes exploratory essays from it. Your notes are dead if they sit in folders.

@GoodpodsHQ Seriously, I can't sign in now without a phone number?

@BrookAshley999 @ProjectLincoln ?

@ProjectLincoln I thought we agreed to call it the Monica Lewinsky ballroom?

Trump hates that people are calling it the “Epstein Ballroom”. We’re about to make him very upset. 🏴‍☠️

@SIP200OK @kepano @obsdmd Thanks, really helpful, especially 4 and up. Sounds like I need to look up Kepabo’s categories ideas. And, happy to talk ukes anytime!

A fellow uke player! There are dozens of us. Granted I’m a recent transplant from guitar. What would you like to know? I have “reconfigured” my @obsdmd setup more times than I can count, but the beautiful thing about it is that it has tolerated that evolution. 1. KISS - Change only a few things at a time. 2. Plain text - To quote @sivers, “They are the most reliable, flexible, and long-lasting option.” 3. Plugins - I try to keep community plugins to a minimum, but Calendar is really useful if you use it for daily notes. Dataview and Charts are great for visualizing data. Periodic notes and Templater are good if you want to weekly/quarterly/yearly notes with more elaborate templates. I almost replaced my Dataview use with Bases, but I like my charts. 4. I wholesale borrowed @kepano’s categories/bases/templates from his GitHub, but don’t do this until you understand the mental model it uses. At a very basic level, a category template defines a schema in the form of properties, a base is just a query that returns notes whose properties align with that schema. 5. Content exists in three meta buckets. Clippings, which are things you want to save and refer to. References, act like metadata receptacles for things outside your vault. You can refer to them or store your responses to them linking out to other references. Everything else is just you, but most likely will be time series journals or evergreen notes. 6. You could in theory use tags instead of bases for categories, but bases let you expose other properties in the views which is nice. 7. I do wonder about the use of tags or a categories property as the means of filtering in Bases, and judging by the alternating uses in @kepano’s repo, I would guess he had a similar inner debate.

@kepano’s How I use Obsidian has been incredibly influential in how I use @obsdmd . I read through it initially and realized I had already been messing about with a proto category system in the form of Maps of Content, but MoCs depend on you actually having content to map. They don't really drive the creation of more content. Categories and in particular, the categories that involve things you encounter in the world such as movies, books, places etc. invoke a response from you as you experience them. In turn your responses reference other things and so on. This approach beats out Tiago Forte’s PARA Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking and Bramses Opinionated Vault for me. In addition, the notion of composable templates and the realization that properties merge was mind blowing.

@Momyoffour4 @e_galv Better hurry: "all public tours will be suspended starting in September 2025, and the pause is expected to last indefinitely. Congressional offices and official sources confirm that tours scheduled for September and beyond are being cancelled"

@e_galv For the first time, im considering taking my kids to see the White House. This is the cherry on top. My son would love seeing military around keeping americans safe. I would never consider going any other time

If you want to see a glimpse of your future, come to DC and walk around. Tanks hitting cars People tackled to the ground Arrests without warrants Bags on heads Military everywhere Checkpoints everywhere Empty streets Everyone on edge You will not be unaffected.

@atrupar Hegseth holds his arms like one of those plastic monkeys.

the clown car arrives in the White House briefing room

@WillieHandler Though "Spirit in the Store" hasn't got the same ring to it.

When I was at the grocery store, they played my favourite song. Later in the day, I was in an elevator and heard it again. Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum is catching on again!

@kinginmotion Hard to say THIS is the best way to handle notes without defining "notes"...

@kinginmotion But... we never really define "note-taking." PARA seems action-based -- notes for tasks / projects. Something like Johnny Decimal is more for filing -- where's that meatloaf recipe or the first-aid checklist? Zettelkasten seems more about thinking/creating.

Day 8/30 Zettelkasten vs. PARA/Code Another nerdy note-taking debate? Maybe. But knowing the difference is how you stop fiddling with folders… and start creating for real. 👇 #ship30for30

@batcountry1980 Nice! "I guess the suits didn’t appreciate the gallows humour in Hitler watching four war babies taking over the world instead of him."

1. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band(1967) Sgt Pepper is the Beatles’ ultimate “artists, not pop stars” moment, so it demanded a work of art for a cover. Designed by Pop artist Peter Blake and wife Jann Haworth, guided by London art face(and Macca crony) Robert Fraser and shot by Michael Cooper, it’s certainly a happening. More than a cover, it’s a snapshot of 1967, the Summer of Love, and for some, the entire decade. What I love about this cover, and the music within, is while it belongs to its time, outlandish and colourful, it still manages to not fall into the silliness of so many artyfacts of that era. Even in their day-glo Edwardian suits, the Beatles(or Sgt Pepper’s band) remain effortlessly cool somehow. Surrounded by notable figures of both past and present, three Beatles threw names in(Ringo wasn’t bothered) and it’s an exotic mix of writers, gurus, artists, actors, musicians and comics. It’s a reflection not only of the Beatles’ past and present, but that of the world around them. Dylan’s there, of course, his inclusion falling somewhere between an honour and a dig. The Stones get a mention. The Beatles themselves are there, proof this definitely is an album by Sgt Pepper’s band. And there’s Stu Sutcliffe, the lost Beatle, amongst his fellow artists just like he should have been. Of course, they didn’t get everyone they wanted. Fearing controversy, EMI rejected Harrison’s request for Ghandi. Lennon also got a knock back, Jesus was a no go, as was Hitler. I guess the suits didn’t appreciate the gallows humour in Hitler watching four war babies taking over the world instead of him. Pepper represents the ultimate Beatles flex, an arrogant display of power where they stand atop the mountain(Everest?) while the chasing pack scramble below. This phase was never going to last, but this is the peak, and arguably the last moment the Beatles are the musical pioneers. 1967 will usher in a new wave of influential bands, touchstones for future generations. But none have a landmark moment like Pepper, where the eyes of the world once again look to The Beatles to lead. Pepper was the first Beatles album I bought, pulling me through the looking glass into their mythic world. I can’t imagine how many hours I’ve stared at this image, picking out faces I know, chasing down the ones I don’t. Even now, it draws me in, a sensory overload that never loses focus. More than any other cover it’s the Beatles as legends, mythical figures locked in their time yet timeless. Just like the album’s music.

🧵 Ranking Beatles albums by music is an impossible task, as though I have ones I rate higher than others, their music is one continuous, brilliant story. However, I know my favourite album covers. Each one is iconic in its own way, and I do love them all, but here’s my countdown, purely for the art, not the music within.

@WebInspectInc "Old Denty"???!!!

My Projects Dashboard on mobile Obsidian. I gave up on using Dataview for this, because it was too slow and clunky. With Bases it's smooth and lightning fast 😁👍