Austin Govella

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Collaborative Product Design: Help Any Team Build a Better Experience

Collects practical tools and tips that help teams collaborate on strategy, user research, and UX, ideal for agile teams and lean organizations.

2019

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Three easy ways to get started with Obsidian when you don’t know what you’re doing

Pick one of these PKM patterns for a solid foundation for your note system

Jun 4, 2023

Three easy ways to get started with Obsidian when you don’t know what you’re doing

Jun 4, 2023

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Five tips to make backlinks more useful and easier to work with in Obsidian

Five tips to give backlinks more context and make them more useful

May 23, 2022

Five tips to make backlinks more useful and easier to work with in Obsidian

May 23, 2022

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How to approach tags in your personal knowledge management (PKM) system

Tags work best when they’re useful at the level of an individual note.

Apr 17, 2022

Apr 17, 2022

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Get started with easy, evergreen notes for personal knowledge management (PKM)

Some thoughts on how to take more useful notes

Jan 5, 2021

Get started with easy, evergreen notes for personal knowledge management (PKM)

Jan 5, 2021

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Why what what’s meta matters

Six attributes describe user experience

Talking About Information Architecture, part 3

Aug 9

Aug 9

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SMART-G, a mnemonic for smart meeting notes

Some thoughts on capturing key decisions in my meeting notes.

Oct 18, 2022

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Introduce yourself to clients: best practices for client introductions

Learn the three parts to a good introduction: reassure clients you’re who they should speak to, soothe their concerns, and telegraph your…

Oct 5, 2022

Introduce yourself to clients: best practices for client introductions

Oct 5, 2022

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Obsidian Observer

What—exactly—are backlinks?

A brief introduction to the secret weapon of networked note-taking applications

May 22, 2022

Example note showing square brackets surrounding a word to create a link using wiki link syntax.

May 22, 2022

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Obsidian Observer

Why it’s hard to get started: Obsidian’s not really a note-taking app

Note-taking apps have ways they want you to work, a grain you should follow. Except Obsidian. Obsidian’s grain comes from you.

May 1, 2022

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How to introduce yourself to network at conferences

This formula makes it easy to introduce yourself and to tailor your intro to who you want to meet.

Apr 25, 2022

How to introduce yourself to network at conferences

Apr 25, 2022