Archive - Plain Text. Paper, Less.

PTPL 101: Forget Perfectionism — Raw Notes Are Real Notes

Capture, review, refactor and link; observing yourself will reveal how you think

Apr 22 •

PTPL 100: One Big Text File — Top Down, Or Bottom Up?

Why I changed my OBTF from one to the other this week

Apr 15 •

PTPL 099: The Vital Bridging Habit That Makes My Task Management System Abandon-Proof

There’s productivity power in noting where you’ve been and where you need to go next

Apr 8 •

PTPL 098: One Tool For Everything, or Separate, Complementary Solutions?

A plain text accounting case study, and a 3-step recipe for simplifying your processes

Apr 1 •

March 2024

PTPL 097: Informed, Intentional Note Makers Value Processes Over Apps

Quiz: are you an A, B, or C-type note maker / tool user?

Mar 25 •

PTPL 096: Content Over Tools, Files Over Apps, Internal Observation Over External Inspiration

Also — Cal Newport’s plan.txt, and the Plus, Minus Next method

Mar 18 •

PTPL 095: Markdown Smart Bookmarks, Portable and Plugin Free

With a case study on embedded queries for language learning

Mar 11 •

PTPL 094: The Joy of Playing in a Focused, Offline Digital Garden

Plus: How block references in Obsidian can still be part of an app-agnostic workflow

Mar 4 •

February 2024

PTPL 093: Projects With a Code Name Work Better Than Those Without

Plus: How I learned to move between Obsidian Sync vaults on iOS without stuffing things up

Feb 26 •

I'll Be Saying No to Setapp's New AI Subscription Tiers

Though I concede AI can sometimes be helpful for language learning

Feb 22 •

PTPL 092: 3 Friction Points in the One Big Text File Experiment, (Mostly) Solved

And how Drafts can be a one-stop plain text inbox — but should it?

Feb 19 •

PTPL 091: I'm Using One Big Text File in Obsidian as a Digital Bullet Journal

It's a perfect companion to my discbound paper notebook

Feb 12 •

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