One of Obsidian's most underrated features isn't a feature at all; it's the file format.

Your notes are plain Markdown files, stored locally. If Obsidian disappeared tomorrow, your notes wouldn't be worthless. That's a promise most note-taking apps can't make.

More in my 2026 review: https://www.ctnet.co.uk/obsidian-review-2026/

#PKM #Obsidian #KnowledgeManagement #NoteTaking #DigitalGarden

A lot has changed since my last look. Bases, the web clipper, and web viewer are all new. But is it still the PKM app I'd recommend? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: https://www.ctnet.co.uk/obsidian-review-2026/

#Obsidian #PKM #KnowledgeManagement #NoteTaking #Zettelkasten

AI is changing how we think. Many people now swap deep reading for building with agents. Is the Zettelkasten just a nostalgic relic of a Twentieth Century academic process? This article explores why “efficient” tech might actually fail our cognition.

"💬 It’s intriguing that despite incredible, relentless waves of innovation stretching right back at least to Gutenberg, the age-old question of how best to write and publish for an audience is still not completely settled."

Will the last Zettelkasten practitioner please turn off the lights?

#Zettelkasten #AI #PKM #Philosophy

I really like the decentralized wiki concept of Logseq, but its usability just frustrates the crap out of me.

- Needs an edit lock per page, so things will stay put when no edits are required. Easy to break things.

- Make referenced lists to other pages stay put. Touch them and they will change their order, or bump you out while editing.

- Unknown development timeline.

I deflected back to Obsidian, but I will see if Logseq DB handles these better. Next year?

#Obsidian #Logseq #PKM

🚀 New series: AI-Powered Diabetes Coach

54% → 96% glucose control in 6 months
82% → 98% in last 6 weeks with AI integration

Part 1 just published: The Transformation
https://blog.warrenweb.net/ai-coach-part-1

5-part series on system architecture, AI prompts, and building
your own health optimization system.

#PKM #Diabetes #AI #HealthTech

#NotallyX Mobile, du suchst wirklich ein schlankes Notiz-Tool, magst Material Design, muss #OpenSource sein, Dateien (auch Fotos) willst du anhängen, Backup ist wichtig

ABER NICHT FETT SOLLTE ES SEIN: Für #pkm nutzt du zB. #ObsidianMD

(Ist Fork von Notally)

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.philkes.notallyx/

I find striking how much of a hype there is around concepts like "second brain", "zettelkasten", "networked note-taking", "PARA method", "Johnny Decimal", etc., and around note-taking apps such as Roam Research, Notion, Obsidian, and so on. So I found fascinating Kevin Baker's May 2024 take on them as "sandboxes for infinite varieties of avoidant labor".

Here's the relevant excerpt, shared without further comment:

"Incapacitating" is exactly how I would describe my relationship to computers, especially since the start of the pandemic. "Friction" for me looks like uncertainty, partial knowledge, ambiguity, disorder, or anxiety. The ecosystem of note taking software and influencers that has emerged since 2020 offer a great example of what I am talking about. Writing is a task which forces one to confront ambiguity, uncertainty, and one’s own limits directly, so it’s not surprising that a coterie of avoidance entrepreneurs sprung up around it. The goal of note taking systems, almost without exception, is to provide a smooth, frictionless environment for making connections between disparate topics. As your “second brain” develops, the ability—and indeed the desire—to create a dense latticework of connections increases. The problem for me, at least, is that I don’t find the work of making connections to be difficult. If anything, my “first brain” tends to overproduce these kinds of thoughts.

What it does provide, however, is a sandbox for infinite varieties of “avoidant labor.” If your writing anxiety focuses, like mine frequently does, on the possibility of “accidental plagiarism,” well, you can tend to your “zettlekasten,” and ensure that everything you ever highlighted is properly cited and tagged. If you have a more generic form of writing anxiety, why not spend a few hours linking your notes? In both cases, you have an act adjacent to writing, which relieves some of the tension of not writing but actively avoids the task itself.

Fiz esse post super nerd expondo minhas Daily Notes do #RoamReseach ontem e esqueci que no Mastodão tem uma galera aficionada em #pkm (que inclusive era o motivo de eu entrar aqui anos atrás)

https://cosmoliko.com/uma-semana-comigo-por-dentro-das-minhas-anotacoes-diarias/