I just received my BYOK device and I couldn’t be happier with it. One thing that I have been experimenting with since I received it are different workflows. Most mornings I do a brain dump in a daily note with the heading # Morning Pages . Over the years I have used different devices for this (Pomera DM250, iPhone,...

On January 20, 2025, a convicted felon became the 47th President of the United States. I’ve seen many shake their head in disbelief, wondering how we got here. I look back to the mid 1800s and partially lay the blame on the telegraph. In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote: “We are in great haste to construct a...

I think watching note taking videos broke my brain. Thinking back to high school and college, I used to write some quite serviceable essays. I didn’t need linking, a personal wiki, transclusions, block references, or even atomic notes. I had primary sources, a few pages of notes, and a handful of index cards. I...

I’ve recently started using TheBrain App more and I’m finding it extremely powerful to make connections between ideas. I’ve been so impressed that I’m likely to start using it as my daily PKM driver. However, I’m still a heavy user of Apple Notes and I like its seamless sync and ability to both enter and retrieve...

As I’m using Apple Notes more, I start to miss features that were part of my workflow in Obsidian. For example, in Obsidian it is trivial to consolidate multiple notes into one note using the Obsidian Note Composer Core Plugin. There is no such built-in functionality in Apple Notes. However, whenever I run into a...

Lately, I’ve been trying to simplify my workflows. Two truths recently hit me like a surreptitious note-taking app subscription: I use way too many apps and it stresses me out. I am all in on the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, Macbook, iPad, Watch). I’m going to start exploring just using the damn apps that come with my...

I’m going back to basics. I love to write and I realize lately that my website was actually a blocker to me actually getting words on the page. I’ve put too much time into site design and images and not enough into just writing. So that’s what I’m going to do. Just write. I’m starting a brand new Hugo design for my...

As I sit here typing on my Alpha, I’ve noticed something I haven’t for a long time. I’m seeing my thoughts in all of their undistracted, unfiltered glory. Music pumps into my ears from a Sony Walkman (yes, I said Walkman) as I type. I’m not staring at a screen, and I’m not seeing red spellcheck lines. I’m just...

Informing Parents with Perplexity and Python Whenever I try a new tool, I immediately look for a serious context of use. The marketing examples that vendors typically give are great for getting an idea of what the tool can do, but I really need to introduce it into my workflow. My latest project has been to create a...

Parents Don’t Have Time I have a child with special needs who has had an Individualized Education Program (IEP) since she started school. She’s now a teenager, and I’m fairly well-versed in the ins and outs of the IEP process and some of the applicable laws. This knowledge has grown gradually over many years when I...

I am on a mission this year to retain more knowledge. In my twenties, I was obsessed with hoarding facts and reading as many books as possible. This was great, in my twenties. I could spout off facts that seemed impressive but were ultimately shallow. As I grow older, I want to conceptualize the knowledge I gain...

After many years of dealing with dynamic, database-driven websites, I have decided to move my professional website to a static site using the Hugo static site generator. In the process, I wanted to simplify my hosting and design philosophy for this site. I decided on two requirements. I want the site to be hosted as...