PTPL 066: A Radical Obsidian Vault Shakeup, 6 Months Later

PLUS four cutting edge audio note taking tools to check out

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

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week summary of things that are helping me to simplify and future-proof my digital-analog workflow.

Speak your words onto paper

When I need words on paper but would rather talk than write, I usually reach for Drafts. It’s remarkably accurate. Here are three more audio note taking tools to check out.

Drafts is also great for getting text directly into your collection of text files, whether they live inside an Obsidian vault, or are accessed from another app that writes to locally stored text files.

Tutorial: How to Get Text into Obsidian Without Opening the App

Adventures in Plain Text (and a little paper)

At the end of February this year I moved

out of my luxury Obsidian condo on the hill into an empty apartment in the country. All my nested folders — gone! 

My ultimate aim: have no more and no less than what I need in a space that only contains my words. I haven’t deleted my old vault, the two year old wonder, the playground, the lab f…