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PTPL 080: Why I’m Sad That Obsidian Sync Is 100% Necessary on iOS
PLUS A 4-step exercise for discovering your productivity-guiding values
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Ellane
Simple Task Management in Obsidian for the Digitally Overwhelmed
There’s no need for complex plugins when straightforward links and queries will do
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Ellane
PTPL 079: How to Link and Quickly Switch Between Multiple Obsidian Vaults
PLUS a Read It Later tip, and my search for the perfect pencil
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Ellane
PTPL 078: I'm Beating Procrastination by Asking 3 Short Questions
With a case study to show how I'm applying them in my work day
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Ellane
PTPL 077: A Peek Inside the Obsidian Weekly Note That’s Keeping Me Focused
PLUS Using TaskPaper as a journal — why not?
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Ellane
October 2023
PTPL 076: The New Johnny.Decimal Workbook— What I’ve Learned So Far
PLUS A paper budgeting progress report with PKM insights
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Ellane
PTPL 075: Plain Text, Or Paper Budgeting Templates? The Experiment Begins
PLUS There’s one teeny iOS problem with FKM task management
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Ellane
Sync Your Obsidian Vault For Free With iCloud By All Means, But Don’t Stop There
With a short review of the new app I’m using to keep my precious files safely backed up
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Ellane
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PTPL 074: Drumroll…The One-Task-Per-File System Finally Works!
PLUS A pleasant plea to keep your tasks out of your calendar
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Ellane
2
PTPL 073: Are You Obsessively Date-Format Opinionated? Sadly, I Am.
PLUS An Omnifocus–Obsidian workflow, and how one blind fiction writer uses plain text
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Ellane
2
PTPL 072: I Love Keeping All My Projects and Tasks in a Single, Searchable File
PLUS The most important piece of tool-related productivity advice you’ll ever hear
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Ellane
September 2023
PTPL 071: File-Based Knowledge Management—a Subtle but Profound Shift in PKM Thinking
PLUS How plain text task lists can be just as effective as that app you’ve been eyeing
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Ellane
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