Classifying Notes in an OBTF, Inspired By the Dash-Plus System

PTPL 131 · It’s okay to be dogmatic sometimes

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My karma ran over my dogma

Here is your periodic reminder to be open to using the right tool for the job.

Don’t be dogmatic about plain text, minimalism, trying to get people to push their chairs in after leaving the table. Leave some room for the unexpected.

Do be dogmatic about protecting your hard work, and keeping proprietary apps as your playground, not your permanent residence.

Cool finds

• Scheduler is a free Mac app that does some of what Keyboard Maestro can.
• After 11 years using Logseq and DayOne, Adam Nowak has moved to Obsidian. He’s a daily note kind of guy, and has some interesting thoughts on what it takes to make this kind of move.

Dash-Plus is for paper; digital notes work better with letters

Dash-Plus system part 1 · part 2

My paper notebook is the analog equivalent of my digital One Big Text File, but I’ve come to realise that each medium lends itself to a different way of categorising notes.