On the reg Obsidian! 1996 called and it wants its database back.
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Mar 29, 2024 A deep nerd chat about Obsidian, existential freakout about Claude Opus, dance your PhD competition, building a second brain with PARA, Markdown, YAML, Zotero, and more. Mishaps on fishing trips, efficient bibliography management with tarot connectors, embracing messiness of writing, AI tools, generative AI in education, nostalgia, database management, Obsidian software, unexpected emojis, privacy concerns, and more.
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Writing as Art
- Approach writing like an artist in a studio; embrace the mess and iterative nature of the process.
- Don't get stuck in the "perfect sentence vortex", as Catherine Firth calls it.
Obsidian First
- Use Obsidian for most writing tasks to centralize your work.
- Write drafts, ideas, briefing papers, and even long emails within Obsidian.
Generative AI for Writing
- Use generative AI tools like Claude for writing tasks that don't require personal creative craft.
- Inger shares an example of using Claude to write a reference letter.