Btw. I switched back to @obsidian from #logseq

Obsidian works much more stable and fast for me. I also have the impression Obsidian improves at a much faster pace.

It's so good to use simple markdown files which can "easily" used in many apps. For the migration from LogSeq I only had to do some full-text search and replace.

Tip of the day: Over the years, we have had many people migrate to #DEVONthink for one reason or another. One application people have switched from is Evernote. If you are considering making such a move, here is how to switch and what to expect. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #thirdparties #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230503-switch-from-evernote

Tip of the day: Are you looking for a way to share your #DEVONthink database without having to set up a sync right away? Here is a simple way to do this. #collaboration #pkm #productivity #safety #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20241203-share-database-archive-without-sync

A Zettelkasten is just a neatly ordered Crazy Wall.
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#pkm

#ToxicProductivity was already being discussed 100 years ago, and the mania for #SelfOptimisation began to blossom in strange ways: The Isolator, Science and Invention, vol. 13, no. 3, July 1925

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/69697807-3c5f-4de5-aa3b-d070728205f9

#ProductivityPorn #PKM

via @DIZH

#Diversity is our secret weapon to deal with complexity and ambiguity. In the book Future Perfect, Steven B. Johnson discusses the work of Scott E. Page who states that, “Diversity trumps ability”.

Diversity is how we can become collectively smarter.

Now you know why the fascists are axing #DEI initiatives. It's harder to control smart groups of people.

https://jarche.com/2019/12/diversity-trumps-ability/

Linking Supernote and Obsidian https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/linking-supernote-and-obsidian-a7d635f468ab

Tip of the day: #DEVONthink’s Global Inbox is an ever-present database used as a temporary holding tank for items you’ll late file in other databases. Here is how you can add items to it more efficiently than merely drag and drop. #macos #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240604-global-inbox-aliases

“A Second Brain without the First Brain doing its part becomes little more than an archive. It is a warehouse full of other people’s ideas, with no real point of view behind it.“

Read “Don’t Build a Second Brain If You’re Not Using Your First One“ by Josh Spilker on Medium:
https://medium.com/create-make-write/dont-build-a-second-brain-if-you-re-not-using-your-first-one-834b382fc908

“… it’s easy, and it’s seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another. And how quickly we can forget that wisdom without knowledge, wisdom without any data, is just a hunch.” —Toni Morrison (2019)

https://jarche.com/2019/03/connected-thinking/
#KM #PKM

Obsidian users should pay attention to the size of their attachments folders. I found several notes today, all downloaded web pages, that had over 100MB of attached files. I used ImageOptim to compress the images, making my vault smaller and syncing faster. #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #PKM

Is #PKM bullshit? Only when it is technology-centric, and not a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. The bullshit is believing in a technology silver bullet, but unfortunately BS sells.

Hard work and discipline do not scale and that is what personal knowledge mastery is all about. This makes #PKMastery a hard sell.

https://jarche.com/2022/05/ninety-percent-of-everything-is-crap/

As search engines & productivity tools keep regurgitating the same slop, we move toward “an orthodoxy that ruthlessly narrows public thought”. Generative AI & their hidden algorithms are hacking away at 3 things that human organizations need to learn, innovate, & adapt — diversity > learning > trust ...

So keep on producing human-generated writing, like blogs, & use social media that is not algorithmically generated, like Mastodon.

https://jarche.com/2025/04/sensemaking-through-the-slop/

Tip of the day: In a another post on smart rules, we discussed how to organize #DEVONthink documents in an automated fashion. In this post we briefly touched on the File action, but some people have wondered why not just use the Move action. Here’s the difference between the two. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20220802-filing-and-moving

I enjoyed reading @writingslowly 's post on the pros and cons of publishing all our notes online; working with the garage door up.

My take is that no one needs to see the literary equivalent of us in our underwear! some parts of the thinking process may be best left behind closed doors.
#pkm #writing
https://ellanew.com/ptpl-2025-04-21-some-ideas-wither-in-the-light

Currently I have 79MB of .org files in ~/org. That's 7608 files, 1631829 lines of text, 83849 headlines, and 8339921 words. The largest single file is 1.4MB and the longest lined file has 26370 lines.

Tip of the day: In many documents, there is a need to divide content, breaking it into discrete sections. Navigating those sections can be done with the help of a table of contents. Fortunately, #DEVONthink can display such a table in certain documents. Here’s how you can use it. #devonthinktogo #pdf #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20220920-table-of-contents

If Obsidian users are willing to spend some time with a good LLM and install Python, you can do some cool things to your vault. I used it to remove all emojis from file names and to move inline properties to YAML. #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #PKM

For Mac and iOS users of Obsidian, you can really level up the integration of many OS features via Shortcuts using Actions for Obsidian. According to my stats, I've used it 1894 times. #Obsidian #ObsidianMD #PKM

https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian/