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

Plain text, paper, less productiity digest 34 - graphic by Author

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 …