A productivity cornucopia of tutorials, tips, and templates — Welcome to an index of the stories I’ve written, and resources compiled on and around Obsidian, the app that describes itself as a “a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.” Here’s where you will find the complete list of articles I’ve written…

PLUS How plain text task lists can be just as effective as that app you’ve been eyeing — 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. It’s a bit longer than usual this week because my enthusiasm just will not be contained! Plain Text Task Lists Thanks to this article from Scott Nesbitt, I’ve started keeping a task…

PLUS a Drafts to Obsidian collection of tutorials — 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. With Drafts to Obsidian, I go out of my head (and I just can’t get enough) I know, I know… I keep going on about Drafts, and how to use it as an entry point to your Obsidian vault without opening the latter. *…

I love you and I’m doing my best, but I think we have a supply and demand issue to deal with — Dear Synapse-Maker, Thank you for all the yummy food you’ve been giving me lately, I really appreciate it. without you, I wouldn’t have the energy or the strength to get up in the morning, never mind carry your 15kg mobile office from place to place! You know, it’s pretty dang…

PLUS harvesting your notebooks into a truly useful resource — 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. Announcement about the frequency of my articles I’ve been on a (planned) roll lately with publishing one productivity digest (like this one) and one supplementary article per week. The reason for this has been twofold…

Free to wander, free to roam; free to move around my home! — Several years ago I untethered myself from the standard desk and chair setup I’d been using to run my business for nearly three decades. Best choice ever! Almost as life changing as switching to the northern European tradition of using separate covers for both occupants of a double bed. Now…

PLUS A tool for downloading Substack posts to Markdown files, with Obsidian links — 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. Tool: download Substack posts to Markdown files (with Obsidian links) I honestly have no clue how to use this kind of geekery, but if you do and you have need of such a tool, I hope it’s useful…

Or, May your notebooks never rest in peace — Did you know that stonemasons of old would sometimes use the base of the gravestone they were working on as a scratchpad of sorts? Check out these photographs of the end of grave markers most people never get to see: Scratchpads can be paper or digital or foggy shower glass…

PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST PTPL 067: My EDC is a Mother Ship and a Compact Explorer Pod (Photos) PLUS Using habit fields to program your surroundings for focused work 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. Habit Fields: shape your environment so that it can shape you Thanks to Josh Spector’s For The Interested newsletter, I’ve learned a new term for a phenomenon I’ve been aware of for…