The first week (partially) in the new year. It was still mostly a week off from work. This week I Did some end of year financial transactions on Monday. Read stuff on the Art of Memory forum after reading Memory Craft by Lynne Kelley. A lot of the material is like on PKM fora, it […]

2024 is over and that means it's time to nominate your favorite projects from the Obsidian community for our Gems of the Year awards! To nominate projects go here: Gems of the Year 2024 Nomination Nominations are due by January 11th, 2025. We look forward to your nominations! Voting will begin soon ...

Extending my 2024 stats here are some thoughts on 2025. Content I did a decent job writing in 2024, but my video production dropped off. For 2025 I’d like to be intentional again about getting videos out on YouTube. While I’ll still cover some software stuff on Obsidian or Calibre I’m going to focus...

My Site I had 120k views on my site with the most popular post being a look at Scott Scheper’s Antinet Zettelkasten book, which I don’t think is worth your time. My second most popular post was How to Handle PDFs natively in Obsidian. Both of those posts were from 2023 and when I look […]

A fairly boring finish to the year here at the blog, but I thought I’d go through this list to see if there are any updates from 2023. (Reminder: the genesis of the App Defaults effort.) Up-to-date defaults: Mail Client: Fastmail Mail Server: Fastmail Blogging: Hand-crafted HTML Pika Notes: Obsidian...

Musing about the unexpectedly many conversations about #pkm I had this year, I think one should take the P in pkm much further than people seem to do based on the questions they ask. The P in pkm is at least threefold.

Obsidian, over or under rated? I like the fact that I can access all my notes when I’m not at home. Obsidian provides me that feature easily because it’s available on the mobile, as well as on my laptops.

I do almost all of my personal and professional writing in Obsidian. In 2024, I’ve composed almost 500,000 words after clicking on the purple icon in my dock. Ranging from app reviews for Reddit and my blog to instructional documents for JIRA Confluence, I find Obsidian a great tool for composition ...

I thought I would update the list of apps here at the end of 2024 after seeing a similar post from Tyler Sticka. I created a “Uses” page on the site earliet in this year that I recently updated. I have made a couple of big changes on desktop. I replaced Evernote with Obsidian in […] The post Apps I ...

Early this year we shared our new Security page and first independent audit of Obsidian, coinciding with the release of Obsidian 1.5.3. Since then we've made numerous improvements to Obsidian. Continuing our commitment to security and privacy, we asked the Berlin-based security firm Cure53 to perfor...