PTPL 034: Forget the Obsidian Graph—Create Digital Content Maps By Hand
Plus, Why I'm loving writing (and re-writing) my tasks, and an in-browser collaboration-friendly Markdown editor
Today I’ll be talking about —
How creating content maps by hand can help you take a mental picture that you won’t get with an auto-generated graph
The five questions I ask myself when writing out a task by hand starts to feel arduous
A free in-browser Markdown editor ideal for collaboration
What I’m doing about the friction in my plain text productivity system
The downloadable paper template I’m using to plain each month
Productivity Inspiration
Rasmus Ursem recommends creating concept maps by hand, asserting that they can be more useful than auto-generated graph views like Obsidian’s.
The slow design process of concept maps and the fixed placement of the nodes and edges allows you to take a mental picture of the map. It is a bit hard to express the value of this in writing, but fixating the nodes layout allow a kind of integration between the concept map and your (first) brain. While adding concept nodes and relationships, you …
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