@chrisaldrich I learned to use index cards for bibliographic research as a child, in English class. I took notes by hand in school and as an undergrad, and while studying for my qualifying exams, I created HypdrCard stacks for my study notes, and later, teaching notes and research notes. Those were converted to HTML pages. Later, I used VoodooPad (a macOS/iOS app) for permanent notes (local wiki, exports HTML). Last year I tried a bunch of apps for note management for research/writing, settled on Obsidian, but am moving away from it, and going with static html pages. I’ve created so many simple html sites, for work, that I can keyboard basic html very easily. It’s stable. It’s attaractive, and it’s very portable.

I still take a lot of notes by hand, especially in terms of reading printed /codex books, but those I keep end up on the computer.

As a Medievalist, with a solid background in English Renasiassance and Early 17th literature, who worked for a rhetorician, the koino topoi were fairly standard parts of educaiton for centures. Common place books were common place. I even started <a href=”https://konoitopoi.blogspot.com”>a commonplace blog</a>, in part becasue early blogs reminded me of the 18th century version of the commonplace book.

The tech community/podcasts have a lot of overlap with productivity podcasts, and interest in PKM stuff (see the <ahref=”https://www.relay.fm/focused”>Focused podcast</a>, for instace, from David Sparks and Mike Schmitz).. I’m both fascinated and horrified by it, so have been reading a lot about it, as I read books about reading.

I created this page of <a href=”https://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opinionated-celtic-faqs/learn-medieval-welsh/”>resources for learning Medieval Welsh</a>. The page is on my list of pages to update, but it’s got about ten pages listed ahead of it.

And good to meet you too!