PTPL 006: Obsidian Themed Logs vs. Daily Notes

PLUS sync vs. backup, note-making (at last!),and recipes in Markdown vs. the .cook format

Plain text, Paper, Less Productivity Digest text-based image by Author

Welcome to the sixth in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey.

Each post is a 5-minute or less summary of what I’ve read, learned, and implemented since the last edition. Links to earlier episodes are in the index.

Today I’ll be talking about —

• A free PDF editor

• Sync services vs. backups

• Themed logs vs. daily notes

• Daily notes as entries on a weekly page

• Recipes in Markdown

General Productivity Tips

Free PDF editor

This week I discovered a free PDF editor, perfect for people who occasionally need to edit PDF elements, and reorder pages. Check it out at

https://updf.com

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Sync services are not backups!

If you use iCloud and/or Dropbox as the main backup for the files you’ve poured precious digital blood into, you need to read this article