Commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day by contemplating the power and ideas inherent in the third archive of the works of Robin Wall Kimmerer and Margo Neale.
Notes, Photos, Likes, Listens
Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
Posts with an embedded image/photo as the primary focus
Compliments to the original post/poster of external content
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Posts with an embedded image/photo as the primary focus
Compliments to the original post/poster of external content
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Cosma by Arthur Perret et al seems to be just the sort of interoperable, open, & standards-based tools for thought app that Friends of the Link will appreciate
@flancian @JerryMichalski @MathewLowry @Borthwick @dwhly @An_Agora @ZsViczian
https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/docs/user-manual/
@flancian @JerryMichalski @MathewLowry @Borthwick @dwhly @An_Agora @ZsViczian
https://cosma.graphlab.fr/en/docs/user-manual/
In homage to Roland Barthes’ fichier vert, I’ve refilled my TWSBI 580 fountain pen with Diamine green/black ink. ✒️🟩🗃️

On hand held objects and material culture
Should we view it as a coincidence or not that the information management carrier of the early 20th century is the same size and scale as the carrier at the opening of the 21st century?
The humble index card and the cellular phone have more in common than we might expect.
Katie Benner, Justice Department reporter at The New York Times, joins with takeaways and the latest news from the release of the affidavit in the FBI search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Some interesting and useful depth here beyond a lot of the usual political rhetoric.
Next month’s allotment of index card supplies have arrived.
For those wanting ample margins for active “reading with a pen in hand” are there any publishers that do a great job of wider margins on “classics”/”great books”?
I’m tempted to self-publish custom versions of wide margin or interleaved books.
During the lunch break, I’ve been thinking more about progressive enhancement in the #ToolsForThinking affordances space. Here’s an example of text-based note taking evolving into commonplacing, and from there into a more complex zettelkasten.
Reframing and simplifying the idea of how to keep a Zettelkasten
#ToolsForThinking @kevinmarks: I'll be taking notes on twitter, and posting them here afterwards https://t.co/lj133rBGMb
— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) Aug 16, 2022
Usually once a tag on my website has more than a couple hundred entries, I convert it into a category. This one was long overdue. This morning I’ve converted the “note taking” tag into a category and moved a bunch of material on commonplace book and zettelkasten traditions over to it.
If you’ve been following this idea here, it’s time to update your feed.
Wait… What!?! @AllossoDan has a book called Outside of the Box and it’s not at all about what I thought it would be. #zettelkasten
Where is the generation of singer/songwriters singing about the service economy the way artists like Bruce Springsteen nostalgically covered the blue collar worker or Woody Guthrie on Americana?