Tags work best when they’re useful at the level of an individual note. Updated May 8, 2022 When you use tags, they spread. They want to appear everywhere. And appearing everywhere, we tend to have a global, top-down organization, process, or governance for the tags we use. …

Updated Sunday, May 8 and Saturday, April 20, 2022 Like many of us, I spent some time at the start of the year looking for ways to improve my personal productivity. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this. I’ve been on a long journey to find an approach that’s…

Learn the three parts to a good introduction: reassure clients you’re who they should speak to, soothe their concerns, and telegraph your experience. If you’re like most people, you spend the beginning of a call waiting for your turn to introduce yourself. …

A brief introduction to the secret weapon of networked note-taking applications This is one of several posts on backlinks. There’s this super basic intro to backlinks, a post on understanding and navigating your backlinks, and another on using backlinks to generate information. …

Note-taking apps have ways they want you to work, a grain you should follow. Except Obsidian. Obsidian’s grain comes from you. — Updated May 8, 2022 This might sound odd, but Obsidian isn’t a note-taking app. On its website, the Obsidian team describes the app as “a second brain” and a “powerful knowledge base”, as well as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for text files. And an IDE for text files isn’t…