I am super interested to see how you set up your reading tracker in Notion. I’m still figuring out which PKM works best for me — right now it seems like Craft is winning over Obsidian because I’m a balanced visual-verbal. As much as I love physical books, it may be time for me to try an e-reader because I really want to be able to more easily move my highlights and margin notes to my PKM & link ideas more easily… I really appreciate you sharing about your process as it seems you are months (years?) ahead of me in setting up systems that work well for “thought relationship” and I definitely benefit from what you’ve shared.
Yes I use a combo of Notion and Obsidian. I researched Craft and Capacities as an alternative to Obsidian but honestly sometimes the visual formatting stuff can be a distraction and I keep my Obsidian super streamlined and simple for writing. At some point I may switch to Craft or Capacities, but as I am getting the basics of my linked thinking "idea culture" started, simple is actually better. I get to do all the fun formatting and aesthetic stuff in Notion, which is where I keep all my task and project management as well as the non-writing related info ( mostly mundane information relating to everyday life and craft projects etc). I am thinking about running a collaborative learning cohort to explore and incubate PKM systems for creatives in my virtual community, I will keep you posted!
I would be totally interested in a collaborative learning cohort of this kind with your community. A lot of the other folks I come across when I try to learn more about how to really make this work well for me seem to be in it for the optimization / pure efficiency (part of a very white/bro productivity culture or white feminist hustles, which makes me suspicious).
The reason I wanted something visual is that in addition to my own PKM, I’m considering rebuilding EcoGather’s repository as highly linked shared/shareable PKM (of collective knowledge platform) instead of its current structure — a collection of individual online courses on an LMS. And so being able to bring in and beautifully embed images/videos/PDFs worked well. For my own writing that probably works against me because I devote too much time to making things pretty! I have a vision for this in my head that I haven’t had the time to put into practice yet but mostly because I don’t have the technical skills on my team to figure out an innovative way. Bi-directional linking and multilinking seems so essential to learning and through relationship though, that I’ve just got to figure it out.
Thank you for sharing. (I’m reading _Quaking of America_, too!) Would you mind sharing the name again of the writer (Tony...?) interested in the colonial mindset at a neurological level? I have studied collective consciousness for years, and I would like to learn more in this vein from an Indigenous perspective
that's my tweet, wahey! hope 2024 was a good reading year for you and that 2025 is even better 🙏🏾❤️
I am super interested to see how you set up your reading tracker in Notion. I’m still figuring out which PKM works best for me — right now it seems like Craft is winning over Obsidian because I’m a balanced visual-verbal. As much as I love physical books, it may be time for me to try an e-reader because I really want to be able to more easily move my highlights and margin notes to my PKM & link ideas more easily… I really appreciate you sharing about your process as it seems you are months (years?) ahead of me in setting up systems that work well for “thought relationship” and I definitely benefit from what you’ve shared.
Yes I use a combo of Notion and Obsidian. I researched Craft and Capacities as an alternative to Obsidian but honestly sometimes the visual formatting stuff can be a distraction and I keep my Obsidian super streamlined and simple for writing. At some point I may switch to Craft or Capacities, but as I am getting the basics of my linked thinking "idea culture" started, simple is actually better. I get to do all the fun formatting and aesthetic stuff in Notion, which is where I keep all my task and project management as well as the non-writing related info ( mostly mundane information relating to everyday life and craft projects etc). I am thinking about running a collaborative learning cohort to explore and incubate PKM systems for creatives in my virtual community, I will keep you posted!
I would be totally interested in a collaborative learning cohort of this kind with your community. A lot of the other folks I come across when I try to learn more about how to really make this work well for me seem to be in it for the optimization / pure efficiency (part of a very white/bro productivity culture or white feminist hustles, which makes me suspicious).
The reason I wanted something visual is that in addition to my own PKM, I’m considering rebuilding EcoGather’s repository as highly linked shared/shareable PKM (of collective knowledge platform) instead of its current structure — a collection of individual online courses on an LMS. And so being able to bring in and beautifully embed images/videos/PDFs worked well. For my own writing that probably works against me because I devote too much time to making things pretty! I have a vision for this in my head that I haven’t had the time to put into practice yet but mostly because I don’t have the technical skills on my team to figure out an innovative way. Bi-directional linking and multilinking seems so essential to learning and through relationship though, that I’ve just got to figure it out.
Thank you for sharing. (I’m reading _Quaking of America_, too!) Would you mind sharing the name again of the writer (Tony...?) interested in the colonial mindset at a neurological level? I have studied collective consciousness for years, and I would like to learn more in this vein from an Indigenous perspective