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17 Tool choice & Workflows

For the precious small notes that don’t fit into the project-related folders of the Operating System, the biggest challenge is how to combine context and details; so the tool must be adaptable to overcome the page paradigm.

Minimal GitHub for reassurance

Posted on August 26, 2022 by x28

Finally I have found the minimal GitHub procedures for my simple use case: just reassuring me a safe way back from trying out changes of my code. Continue reading →

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Pruning for Output

Posted on July 13, 2022 by x28

The key of my workflow from ‘Zettelkasten’ notes to an output is probably to see which items need to be pruned. Continue reading →

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Reclaim filing

Posted on September 22, 2021 by x28

If students do no longer understand how files and folders work on a computer, the problem is not that they should *know* how apps work ‘under the hood’ but that modern apps and operating sytems keep them away from *using* their own files and folders.
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Commonplace Book

Posted on July 5, 2021 by x28

Comment on Chris Aldrich’s very comprehensive description of the “new boil” of note-taking.
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Large maps

Posted on June 23, 2020 by x28

This is the third description of use cases for my tool. It is about very large maps.
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Sense-making workflow

Posted on April 20, 2020 by x28

In a previous post I showed screenshots of processing my own notes and ideas. Here, I want to describe how I use my tool trying to make sense of an existing text by someone else.
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Notes workflow

Posted on February 25, 2020 by x28

In a previous post and video I described the workflow of my notes processing in an abbreviated sample demonstration. Now here are three screenshots of the authentic processing. Continue reading →

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Augmenting human intellect

Posted on March 8, 2019 by x28

With the help of 26 other annotators, I tried to understand more about Doug Engelbart’s visionary text “Augmenting Human Intellect”. Why didn’t this work? What went wrong?
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More gRSShopper

Posted on October 12, 2018 by x28

I have played quite a lot with gRSShopper because I like it.
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Exploring gRSShopper

Posted on September 7, 2018 by x28

I knew that gRSShopper is able to harvest RSS feeds, but it is much more powerful than that.
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