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2024

November

Classifying Notes in an OBTF, Inspired By the Dash-Plus System 2025 Markdown Calendars If You’re Keeping Tasks in Your Calendar, I Hope You Know What You’re Doing No and Low-Clutter Gifts for Apple, PKM, and Analog Enthusiasts PTPL 129 · Live Out of Your Notes the Way Tom Lives Out of His Car

October

Inktober 2024 PTPL 128 · Keep Your Content Separate From the Container in Which It Lives PTPL 127 · On Backing Up Paper, and Static Websites for Tiny Archives Efficient App Agnostic Tasks in a Single Plain Text File (Obsidian Optional) PTPL 126 · What the Dash-Plus System Looks Like in My OBTF and Analog Notes Word Puzzles (that aren’t Wordle) PTPL 125 · Choosing Between Digital and Analog, and a Plain Text Accounting Update How to Keep Your Wheels Turning Smoothly Despite the Automation Paradox

September

PTPL 124 · Saving Safari tabs as Markdown links, and Mono Fonts in Obsidian Looking Through Windows (From the Outside In) PTPL 123 · ‘Analog Office’ Blog and Tomoe River Planner Recommendations Mastodon and the Fediverse — Social Media’s Brighter Future Celebrating Independent Indie Blogs PTPL 122 · Aligning Your Task List with Your (Changing) Values PTPL 121 · Getting Focused With a 4-Quadrant Weekly Planning Matrix PTPL 120 · Quick Add vs Text Expansion in Obsidian

August

Touch Typing For Classic Book Fans Your Name in Landsat Psst — They Don't Know What You're Talking About PTPL 119 · Yes, You Can Be Plain-Text Enlightened and Still Use Apple’s Reminders! PTPL 118 · My Simple, Sensible Plain Text to Proprietary App Workflow PTPL 117 · Oh, You Like Making Notes! Why Not Use… ? PTPL 116 · Plain Text Accounting Level 1, Complete!

July

PTPL 115 · There’s Something New at the Top of My One Big Text File PTPL 114 · Obsidian, Silver Bullet, and Org-Mode—3 Different Approaches to Working With Notes PTPL 113 · Some Free Tools Cost Too Much PTPL 112 · Organise Your Stuff— Alternatives to Bartender and Hazel PTPL 111 · You Only Need 2 Calendar Categories For Effective Time Management

June

PTPL 110 · How to Easily Type  macOS ⌘ Modifier Keys PTPL 109 · Households With Written SOPs Are More Resilient Than Those Without PTPL 108 · Workflowy’s Plain Text Calendar Beats Obsidian’s PTPL 107 · Follow Along As I Learn the Command Line From Scratch

May

PTPL 106 · Digital Freedom Requires Intentional Use of Paper, Plain Text, and Plugins PTPL 105 · Plain Text Budgeting Progress — Paper Made My Markdown Tables Better PTPL 104 · 6 Plain Text Task Management Options—an Overview PTPL 103 · 4 Practical, Fascinating Uses of Plain Text in the Wild

April

PTPL 102 · No App Lasts Forever — Tips For Your Data Bug-Out Bag PTPL 101 · Forget Perfectionism — Raw Notes Are Real Notes PTPL 100 · One Big Text File — Top Down, Or Bottom Up? PTPL 099 · The Vital Bridging Habit That Makes My Task Management System Abandon-Proof PTPL 098 · One Tool For Everything, or Separate, Complementary Solutions?

March

PTPL 097 · Informed, Intentional Note Makers Value Processes Over Apps PTPL 096 · Content Over Tools, Files Over Apps, Internal Observation Over External Inspiration PTPL 095 · Markdown Smart Bookmarks, Portable and Plugin Free PTPL 094 · The Joy of Playing in a Focused, Offline Digital Garden

February

PTPL 093 · Projects With a Code Name Work Better Than Those Without PTPL 092 · 3 Friction Points in the One Big Text File Experiment, (Mostly) Solved PTPL 091 · I’m Using One Big Text File in Obsidian as a Digital Bullet Journal PTPL 090 · Your Daily Note Can Help You Ask Great Questions (and Get Great Answers)

January

PTPL 089 · Thoughts on the Pleasant Alliance Between Paper and Plain Text Notes PTPL 088 · Time to Inventory Your Inboxes, and the Routines That Help You Process Them PTPL 087 · Hyperlinked PDFs Now Work in Nebo! PTPL 086 · 4 Tough Questions For a Plain Text Advocate PTPL 085 · CalcCraft is the Obsidian Tables Plugin I Was Looking For!

2023

December

PTPL 084: Getting Ready For 2024 With Nothing But Folders and Plain Text PTPL 083: Markdown Formulas in the Newly Updated Obsidian Tables PTPL 082 · Obsidian Sync Is So Good, I Bought a Keyboard For My Phone PTPL 081 · New Weekly and Monthly Analog Templates for Simplified Planning

November

PTPL 080 · Why I’m Sad That Obsidian Sync Is 100% Necessary on iOS Simple Task Management in Obsidian For the Digitally Overwhelmed PTPL PTPL 079 · How to Link and Quickly Switch Between Multiple Obsidian Vaults PTPL 078 · I’m Beating Procrastination by Asking 3 Short Questions PTPL 077 · A Peek Inside the Obsidian Weekly Note That’s Keeping Me Focused

October

PTPL 076 · The New Johnny.Decimal Workbook— What I’ve Learned So Far PTPL 075 · Plain Text, Or Paper Budgeting Templates? The Experiment Begins Sync Your Obsidian Vault For Free With iCloud By All Means, But Don’t Stop There PTPL 074 · Drumroll…The One-Task-Per-File System Finally Works! PTPL 073 · Are You Obsessively Date-Format Opinionated? Sadly, I Am. PTPL 072 · I Love Keeping All My Projects and Tasks in a Single, Searchable File

September

PTPL 071 · File-Based Knowledge Management—a Subtle but Profound Shift in PKM Thinking PTPL 070 · Obsidian Plugin vs Plain Text vs Readymade Task Management Solutions Dear Human, You’ve Got Mail - From Your Body PTPL 069 · Obsidian Properties Are Just the Help I Needed to Organise My Notes What's in My Bag — Bellroy Mobile Office And EDC PTPL 068 · Markdown Flashcards That Don’t Need Apps or Plugins Your Scratchpad is a Wealth of Hidden Gems—Go Find Them!

August

PTPL 067 · My EDC is a Mother Ship and a Compact Explorer Pod PTPL 066 · A Radical Obsidian Vault Shakeup, 6 Months Later How Setapp Saves Me Hundreds of Dollars Every Year PTPL 065 · On Clarifying Your Most Basic Productivity Foundations PTPL 064 · When Calendars are Time Machines, and iPads are reMarkable

July

PTPL 063 · Your Obsidian Graph is Not Your Compass PTPL 062 · Human Joy is More Important Than Raw Productivity — A Real Life Example PTPL 061 · How to Leave Evernote and Become a Future-Proof Note Taker (Obsidian Optional) PTPL 060 · A New Circular 24-Hour Template Download for Hand Written Plans PTPL 059 · Analog-Inspired Task Management in Obsidian—Does Your System Fit Your Needs?

June

This is the Template I Use to Plan My Day in the Concepts iPad App PTPL 058 · Plugin-Free, Intentional Note Taking in Obsidian From Library Ebooks PTPL 057 · A Productivity System Under Stress - 5 Insights While Traveling PTPL 056 · Getting Text into Obsidian with Shortcuts and Drafts PTPL 055 · Physical Notes are Better Than Digital, and Vice Versa

May

PTPL 054 · What on Earth Does Productivity Have To Do With Natural Ecosystems? PTPL 053 · Plain Text is the Vehicle, Simple Productivity the Destination PTPL 052 · Simple Task Management Advice for People Who Can’t Stick to Their Lists PTPL 051 · Accessing Your Obsidian Vault in nvUltra and Taio Writing Daily in a Scrap Paper Notebook Has Made Me More Creative PTPL 050 · More on the Supremely Awesome TaskPaper Syntax in Obsidian, and 4 Other Apps

April

All Your Questions on This Surprisingly Creative Notebook Practice, Answered Alone in the Noise: Creating My Own Space in a Busy Household

March

Enough is a Perspective, Not a Sum

January

How to Escape the PKM Trap of Sophisticated Procrastination The Paper Saver Notebook Is the Ideal Obsidian Companion

2022

November

These 7 Setapp Tools Alone Make the Subscription Worth It

October

17 Obsidian Features I’ve Invited Into My Autonomous, Plain Text World

June

Typography Tip - Use the Interpunct For Horizontal Lists Don’t Go Fully Paperless if You Hope to Leave a Lasting Legacy

May

This Habit Brings Interstitial Journaling to the Physical World

April

Is Touch Typing Irrelevant in a Voice-to-Text World?

January

Using Johnny Decimal With Obsidian Solved My Organising Woes You Need to Back Up Your Paper or Paperless Planner NOW—Here’s How

2021

September

Create Your Own Delicious Slice of Text-Based Productivity in Obsidian—A Step-By-Step Guide

2020

September

5 Surprisingly Useful Secret Writing Systems for Adults (And Adventurous Kids)

August

I Was a Task Management App Addict