In this fifth post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to present the key aspects of my minimalist approach to handle non-actionable items with Obsidian. The discussion around how to select one app or another can be found in the third post of the series, where I concluded that Obsidian meets most of the requirements for most people to manage non-actionable items, including me....
In this fourth post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to present the key aspects of my minimalist approach to handle actionable items in GNU Emacs. Disclaimer: To use a minimalist Emacs setup we need to be in a Zen mental state I call Practical Emacs, and avoid at all cost to enter the Hacking Emacs dark-side all of us have inside....
In this third post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to jump on the wheel and tell you what exact applications you need. However, before I would like to tell you some truths No application is going to make our work, no application is going to put our shit together, no application is going to make us stand up and say: Here’s what I am going to do tomorrow because it will serve to achieve this goal I have, and here’s what I’m not going to do....
In this second post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I will present the key ideas of Getting Things Done and Building a Second Brain methodologies, at least those which resonate with me. We are going to explore their limitations, and how both integrate and extend to eliminate these limitations....
For some of us there is no way around it, we simply don’t feel comfortable with any app out there for personal knowledge management. There is always some small detail that make us uncomfortable, and therefore we search for an alternative that solves it, we search for the perfect app someone else has succeed using....