PTPL 043: Pretty Obsidian Callouts, and Sketchnotes on Paper rather than iPad

Plus my first impressions of the Noteful app for handwritten notes and PDF markup

Ellane

Mar 13, 2023

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This week —

Why I’ve kicked your (and everybody else’s) thoughts out of my second brain
Prettifying your Obsidian callouts
All daily notes in one text file?
Sketchnotes on paper, compared to iPad
Noteful: how it almost beats Goodnotes, Notability and Noteshelf
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Your Thoughts Don’t Belong in My Second Brain

Initially (tentatively) titled “Get out of my head”, this article explains why I no longer import my Kindle and Readwise highlights into my main Obsidian vault, and why the Bible no longer lives there.

The reason for the mass eviction is that when I search Obsidian, I only want to see my thoughts and ideas. Quotes are fine as long as I’ve added notes about the topic.

The only hard and fast rule I can see with this second brain business, is that you put…

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