Tip of the day: Smart groups are a good way to view items matching specific criteria, like all the flagged #PDFs in your #DEVONthink database. While it’s easy enough to make a smart group, if you find yourself doing the same search over and over, you can use it to create a smart group in a few clicks. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240102-reuse-search-devonthink-smartgroup

Tip of the day: In #DEVONthink, you move documents around, duplicate them, or capture web content and store them in a specific location. So that you can quickly continue working, there is a command in #DEVONthink that takes you to your last destination. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20241217-access-last-destination-devonthink

Überzeugte Benutzer:innen von #Emacs #orgmode können bei dem Video von @CT3003COOL drunter einen Kommentar hinterlassen, sich eventuell mal in einem anderen Video mit Org zu probieren. (Ich habe kein Account, um YouTube-Kommentare zu hinterlassen.)

Bei diesem Zielpublikum eine interessante Herausforderung, denn sowas wie lock-in Effekte, Migrationsaufwand, Möglichkeiten, an den Rohdaten selbst mitzufrickeln (extern generieren/auswerten, ...) kam gar nicht vor.

Wichtiger scheinen da optische Gimmicks wie Titelbilder, Emoticons und Gifs. Wer das nachvollziehen kann, darf sich bitte bei mir zwecks ein paar Fragen melden.

Endlich Leben im Griff | #Anytype statt #Notion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKvDdsa6oyY

There are people in this world smart enough to write articles for money, yet the articles they write are about how hard it is to use #Obsidian, an app that creates plain text files. I don't get what's so hard. I'm an old man with no college and not a developer and I can do it. #pkm #ObsidianMD

Excellent #PKM advice for people getting started with notes or people who've already created complicated, potentially unmaintainable systems. It's about #Obsidian but applies to any complex PKM app.

Pardon me while I go work on my Neovim config and pretend I didn't just watch this

https://youtu.be/DRBXGOr6faU?si=idHsxsZjzZiMBMz4

Of course, if you do have long-time plans for your personal #knowledgemanagement, you should not use proprietary tools like #Obsidian, #OneNote, #Evernote and alike.

You also should think of switching to a much better (learnability, portability/compatibility, typobility, logic, featureset) markup syntax like #orgdown which is used in #Emacs #Orgmode (among other tools).

But if you start with Org-mode, you need to know the right way of doing it, as so many web pages recommend. Here's my take:

#UOMF: The Right Way to Use #OrgMode
https://karl-voit.at/2021/08/30/the-org-mode-way/

ad syntax/Markdown/Orgdown/#LML: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

A specific blog post about the #lockin effects of Obsidian and Co (despite using some tool-specific flavor of MD) is in the making. (Please don't start a religious discussion here.)

Tip of the day: If you have groups or tags in a #DEVONthink database and want to use them in another, you may have tried copying them. But this also duplicates the documents. We have a script for you to duplicate only selected groups or tags, leaving their documents behind. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240820-duplicate-groups-and-tags

Tip of the day: With our Clip to #DEVONthink extension, you can easily capture web content in Google Chrome. However, if you are having trouble downloading the extension, we may have a solution for you. #capture #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #troubleshooting https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250121-download-chrome-extension

Tools for thought ≠ just apps.

PKM isn’t new—and it isn’t just digital. From notebooks to mind maps, analog tools still play a powerful role in how we think, write, and learn.

Don’t let shiny new toys and apps distract from solid thinking and meaning making.

Full post https://doi.org/10.58079/13opo
#PKM #PIM #ToolsForThought #Notemaking #Obsidian #DigitalMinimalism #Zettelkasten #notelab #notizlab #myth

I'm going to include this whenever I finally make part 3 of my Obsidian tutorial series, but if you are an Obsidian Lover such as myself and want a sync solution that also provides google-docs-style real time editing of your notes both in-app and on the web, you should very much check out Screen Garden: https://screen.garden

Tip of the day: Scanning documents is a much needed function for many people, but you might not have a scanner available. If you have an iPhone or iPad connected to the same Apple Account as your Mac, you can use it to scan directly into #DEVONthink’s Global Inbox. We show you how. #ios #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240716-iphone-ipad-mac-scanner

Eine Idee, die ich aus dem jüngsten Video von Nick Milo mitgenommen habe, ist die Eingabeaufforderung zum Verlinken von Notizen ...

https://www.mathoi.at/2025/04/07/der-verlinkungs-prompt/

It's #FollowFriday !

Boosts appreciated

#photography #art
@JohnnyPunkster77
@kristinHenry
@selyfriday
@colossal
@seidla
@markwyner

#fountainPen
@jimp

#pkm #zettelkasten #noteTaking
@ctietze
@amerpie

If you have a blog and you take pictures, join maybe
#ythe100pics challenge - https://the100.pics

Tip of the day: For some sync-related errors or when needing to modify an encryption key in #DEVONthink or #DEVONthinkToGo, cleaning the sync data may be required. Here we show you, how to properly do this. #pkm #productivity #sync #tipoftheday #troubleshooting https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20241008-clean-sync-location

Tip of the day: Many people use #Markdown documents, citing the ability to make global edits to the formatting. In #DEVONthink, similar global edits in the formatting are possible in rich text documents as well. Here is, how that works. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240521-formatting-rich-text

Trying to decide: Obsidian.md or Logseq — which one is the ultimate tool for knowledge management and note-taking?

Both have their strengths, but I’m curious:
Which do you use and why?
Pros, cons, hidden features — let’s discuss!

Honestly don't know how people can stand using OneNote. Every time I have to use it for work I feel like I want to pitch my laptop out the window. #pkm

Your next tiny experiment in visual thinking starts soon!

We’ll be reading Tiny Experiments by @annelaure …while sketching, mapping, and building ideas together.
7 weeks. 5 sessions. 1 book.
visual-thinking-workshop.com/cohort-13-bundle

Tip of the day: In our browsers, many tabs tend to accumulate, as most of us are certainly familiar with. Perhaps you would like to preserve some of these tabs, e.g., when you are doing a research? For that, we have a #DEVONthink script available to file tabs from Safari or Google Chrome. #automation #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240924-save-browser-tabs