dSebastien

Follow me if you want to explore knowledge management, journaling and note-taking: https://bsky.app/profile/dsebastien.bsky.social

I'm going to work on starter kits for those topics, to help people find makers, creators, abd like-minded people

I need to give this plugin a try, even though I already use too many

BTW here are my favorite plugins: https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-10-19-the-must-have-obsidian...

That's cool. I love ideas that make the Web come alive.

But I also feel like many more people need a fourth place, somewhere to think: https://www.dsebastien.net/you-need-a-fourth-place-a-place-t...

I really like Inertia. For my project, I have chosen yo use Laravel with the Jetstream starter kit, converted to React. It works quite well for my current use cases.

https://github.com/knowii-oss/knowii

I've found the key people at work, and took every chance to learn from them. But in general I've learned the most via blogs og people I identified as great sources (eg Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Bruce Schneider, and many others). I remember printing hundreds of pages a week, books and blog articles, to explore concepts and ideas (old days :p)

I'm on the other side now, and actually struggle to get visibility. I focus on Knowledge Management, not software development so much these days. I hoped to be in a new category on platforms like MentorCruise, but they considered it too nice. So I rely on my blog, my newsletter, and Gumroad: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/pkm-coaching?layout=prof...

I haven't tried, but it's on my Todo list for the coming days.

I hope this will work: https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts/blob/99744af53afcb750...

I've started exploring this topic a few days ago, and wanted to start sharing what I've learned. This is a short tutorial explaining how to train a custom version of FLUX.1 with your own images, using Replicate.com and HuggingFace

I wrote this piece out of frustration, witnessing so many people waste their tools trying to find the silver bullet, and procrastinating instead of doing the right thing.

There are settings, but at the end of the day it's just html/css/js. The publish site is not the easiest to customize, but it's possible.

We can create a js and css file.

I didn't need/want to change much, but I know I could. I just added tags, creation and update times, my newsletter form, plausible analytics etc.

One feature I lack is the ability to define canonical links..

There's a setting to debug the starting time. It's interesting to find out the culprit (often a specific plugin)

This one: https://www.dsebastien.net/2021-01-04-20-months-in-2k-hours-...

Built for two years, failed to go to market, failed to raise funding, and ran out of time. What followed was even worse.

I haven't tried Zettlr, so I can't compare, and I'm not here to criticize, but what I miss in many tools in this Market is the ability to install and create extensions. That's why I'm a huge fan of Obsidian [0].

I publish my notes [1] using Obsidian Publish [2], and find the experience really good. I'm able to customize almost every aspect I need to.

There's also Quartz [3] that is a good compatible alternative to Obsidian Publish.

[0]: https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33....

[1]: https://notes.dsebastien.net/

[2]: https://obsidian.md/publish

[3]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

I do it by sharing many of my notes using Obsidian Publish: https://notes.dsebastien.net/

I fully agree!

I've shared my favorite plugins here: https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-10-19-the-must-have-obsidian...

I agree that the learning curve can be steep, but it's worth it. The key is to keep things simple for as long as possible. There isn't that much you REALLY NEED to get started and to grow up until you reach a critical mass of notes (>=500 IMHO). Avoid falling into the trap of focusing too much on the system and too little on get value out of it

There are vault templates you can start with and build upon, instead of trying to build your own system. Some are very basic, but others are more elaborate and better documented. I have to mention mine since I've been working quite a lot on it, based on my own usage as an author/blogger. It's called the Obsidian Starter Kit [0]. It includes a clear structure, templates, plugins, automation rules for easily creating and filing notes, and a detailed user guide going from theory to practice.

The key parts it includes and that I recommend are: a simple folder structure (I chose to combine Johnny Decimal and the PARA method of Tiago Forte out of habit), tags (to ease search), clear naming conventions (for consistency), templates that define the base structure for the different note types and include the base tags to recognize those.

The combination of links/backlinks, tags and Maps of Content (even simple indexes based on tags) is key to finding whatever you need whenever you need it.

Regarding the integration between Zotero and Obsidian, having looked into it a while ago, I would recommend importing what you need in Obsidian, and accepting that as duplicate information, but enabling you to centralize as much as you can (reference information) inside of Obsidian. It's all right if you capture highlights in Zotero (I do that with Readwise), but I consider those as "transient" knowledge inboxes. You can find a copy of my Zotero template in [2].

In my own system, described in [1], Obsidian is my single source of truth. The other apps (eg Zotero, Readwise, etc) are just secondary and limited in scope. The important point for me here is the ability to connect everything within a single tool, which is where KM really shines.

PS, I've described my system a while ago in this blog post [3].

Hope this helps!

[0]: https://obsidianstarterkit.com

[1]: https://www.dsebastien.net/overview-of-my-personal-knowledge...

[2]: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dsebastien/30c5d5e85a3dd2...

[3]: https://www.dsebastien.net/2021-12-03-personal-knowledge-man...

I also like delaying "organization" to later points in time. I do this by using daily notes as the single entry point (bullet points), and rely on weekly/monthly reviews to extract whatever makes sense to extract into separate notes

Johnny Decimal is fine (same with PARA, or the combination of both) as long as you have automation in place to avoid worrying about what should go where.

In my own system, JD + PARA + Templates + Automated filing works like a charm and saves me a ton of time.

Couldn't agree more. Information hoarding is one of the main pitfalls of Knowledge Management. One must select the right sources, and curate relevant information (unless if it's all for fun).

Writing is really the key skill to focus on. I've stopped relying on my memory a long time ago, and have developed systems that help me remember. Write to forget.

Considering only the practical advice, and not the medical side, I think that what would help you is to develop a knowledge management system. Journaling to capture tasks, events and learnings you want to remember, and periodic reviews to review, look back, and look ahead.

I discussed my own system here [0].

Personal Knowledge Management helps avoid having to rely on a weak system (your brain), and instead rely on a trusted system.

In it, you can track your goals, vision, plans, progress, lessons learned, and much more.

[0]: https://www.dsebastien.net/overview-of-my-personal-knowledge...

Five years of entrepreneurship a d some lessons learned

My thoughts exactly. Time to pick up the rail gun or RL, call Sarge and go back to q3dm17.

I wrote a blog post to describe my system in detail: https://www.dsebastien.net/how-i-organize-my-work-as-a-solo-...

Yes, super useful. I call that saving and restoring mental contexts: https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-09-01-saving-and-restoring-m...

X means "done"

I forgot to mention that periodic reviews [0] help me set the pace: looking back, and forward.

[0] https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-05-16-periodic-reviews/

I rely on Personal Knowledge Management [0] and journaling [1] to organize myself and think.

And tagged/prioritize project backlogs

And sane habits/routines :)

[0] https://www.dsebastien.net/tag/personal-knowledge-management...

[1] https://www.dsebastien.net/tag/journaling-for-founders/

This is an in-depth overview of how I synchronize notes across devices and how I back up everything... too many times.

I've written an article sharing how I use Bash to do all sorts of things. I love Bash (even though I use python a lot too now) :)

https://www.dsebastien.net/2020-05-09-bash-aliases-are-aweso...

That's a good point, yes. Tools are an important part of the equation, and people need to make the right choices for those. That's why I mostly recommend Obsidian. There are many valid alternatives of course, but I Obsidian ticks the right boxes