PTPL 033: My Obsidian Planning Workflow Now Includes Paper

Plus, initial thoughts on a new Markdown app, and how 3 Good Things can rewire your brain

PTPL 33 graphic by author

Welcome to the first Plain Text, Paper-Less Productivity Digest of 2023! In case you missed it, here’s a link to an article (with quotes) about my favourite 2022 Obsidian and plain text related articles.

Today I’ll be talking about —

• How recording 3 Good Things can make you healthier and happier

• Two people who think about Markdown and folders the same way I do

• An invitation to pick one thing and do it differently

• The Tangent Markdown app

• Why I’m injecting more paper into my planning workflow

Productivity Inspiration

3 Good Things

Martin Sketchley wrote about gratitude journaling near the end of last year, right on the cusp of me starting my second 5-year diary (this one). Each day I pen five to seven lines of text in a rectangle that’s one fifth of an A5 page, making sure to include good things I’ve seen, heard, or felt.

I believe there’s a (probably) provable link between an intentional gratitude habit, and an increased sense of personal wellbeing that leads to greater…