Thinking About Tools For Thought

Notes from today’s episode:

– [Bullet Journaling](https://bulletjournal.com)
– [Hobonichi Techo](https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/)
– [Drafts](https://getdrafts.com)
– [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
– [Doom Emacs](https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs)
– [Org-mode](https://orgmode.org)
– [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)
– [nvALT](https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/)
– [FSNotes](https://fsnot.es)
– [Craft.do](https://www.craft.do)
– [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com)
– [Phil’s TiddlyWiki](https://youneedastereo.com)
– [Phil’s Micro.blog](http://micro.blog/twelvety)
– [Roam Research](https://roamresearch.com)
– [Org-journal](https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal)
– [Org-roam](https://www.orgroam.com)
– [Logseq](https://logseq.com)
– [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md)

Notes from today’s episode:

• Kev Quirk – Describes overall process he used for converting from WordPress to Markdown
• WordPress.org – Export screen info
• Dreamhost – Description of how to perform export using WordPress CLI (had to log into my web host using Putty to do this)
• LoneKorean – WXR to Markdown converter in Node.js (my version of Node.js was not current enough for this one)
• Swizec – Another converter in Node.js, had some problems
• SchumacherFM – WordPress plugin to convert content to Markdown, had to do this one with WordPress CLI again
• Logseq – How to import Markdown files into Logseq
• Logseq – main site

Notes from today’s episode:

• Zylstra.org/blog – Ton’s weblog
• Ton’s series on his first few months of using Obsidian
  • Personal Knowledge Management
  • Daily project work
  • Task management
  • Note taking
  • Flow using workspaces
  • Final observations
• ReSpec – W3C tool for creating HTML pages (Ton uses it with Markdown)
• Tinderbox by Eastgate Systems

Links from today’s episode:

• Baty.blog – Main weblog
• Rudimentary Lathe – TiddlyWiki site
• Coping Mechanism – Jack’s photgraphy blog
• Micro.blog – Jack’s microblog site
• TiddlyWiki
• Org-Roam
• Craft
• Mem

Links from today’s episode:

• Working And Learning Out Loud – Harold Jarche (also, Starting To Work Out Loud is good)
• Working Out Loud – John Stepper
• Narrating Your Work – Dave Winer
• AndySylvester.com – Andy’s personal web site
• Chris Aldrich post on his use of tags

Links from today’s episode:

• Chris Aldrich web site
• Gardens & Streams II (Indieweb pop-up event) on September 25, 2021 https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/gardens-and-streams-ii-pPUbyYME33V4
• Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/)
• Hypothesis (https://web.hypothes.is/)
• Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory, and the Transmission of Culture by Lynne Kelly (Cambridge, 2015)
• Memory Craft by Lynne Kelly (Pegasus, 2019)
• Anthropology: Why it Matters by Tim Ingold (Polity Press, 2018)
• How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens (Create Space, 2017)

And for the crazy rhetoric and note taking nerds:

Early Philosophical Texts

• Aristotle, Topica, written about 350 BCE Venice, 1495.
• Aristotle, Rhetorica, written about 350 BCE. Basel, 1529.
• Cicero, De Oratore, written about 46 BCE. Northern Italian manuscript about 1450.
• Cicero, Topica, written about 44 BCE. Florentine manuscript, about 1425-30.
• Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales, written 62-65 CE. French manuscript, about 1175.
• Quintilian, Institutio oratoria, written about 100 CE. Paris, 1542.
• Macrobius, Saturnalia, written about 430 CE. Central Italian manuscript, about 1475.
• Boethius, De topicis differentiis, written about 480-526 CD. English manuscript, about 1275.

Renaissance Handbooks

• Rodolphus Agricola, De formando studio. Antwerp, 1532; composed 1484.
• Desiderius Erasmus, De ratione studii et instituendi pueros comentarii totidem. [Paris, 1512].
• Philip Melanchthon, Institutiones rhetoricae. Wittenberg [1536].
• Philip Melanchthon, Rhetorices elementa. Lyon, 1537.
• Desiderius Erasmus, De duplici copia verborum ac rerum. Cologne, 1540.
• Petrus Mosellanus, Tabulae de schematibus et tropis…. In Rhetroica Philippi Melanchthonis. In Erasmi Roterdami libellum De duplici copia. Paris, 1542.
• Joachim Camerarius, Elementa rhetoricae. Basel, [1545].
• Henry Peacham, The garden of eloquence: conteyning the figures of grammar and rhetorick. London, 1577.
  • One of the first handbooks in English
• Philip Melanchthon, De locis communibus ratio. Augsburg [1593].
• John Brinsley, Ludus literarius: or, The grammar schoole; shewing how to proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection. London, 1612.
• [Obadiah Walker], Of education: especially of young gentlemen. Oxford, 1673.

Links from today’s episode:

• OPML Home Page – Contains link to OPML specification
• Instant Outlines – Describes the use of these in Drummer
• activism.opml – Example file for testing
• Radio Userland – Prior product by Dave Winer
• Inter-outline inclusion – Writeup by Dave Winer
• OPML spec on inter-outline inclusion
• elections.opml – Example file mentioned (expanded version as a web page)
• Call for Drummer testers
• Little Outliner – Another outlining tool besides Drummer

Links from today’s episode:

• Ken Smith’s bio
• Ken Smith’s Old School blog
• Adam’s Task (book that Ken mentioned)
• Instant Outline that Andy Sylvester talked about creating (activism.opml)
• Fargo
• Little Outliner
• Drummer

Links to topics from this episode:

• Organizing Information for Use – Subject of this episode
• Tragedy of the Stream – Starting point of this topic by Mike Caulfield
• Caulfield’s Tragedy – Ken Smith responds to Mike Caulfield’s essay
• OPML – Home site of the OPML specification, has example files and application code
• XML – Extensible Markup Language (Wikipedia) (W3C) (W3Schools tutorial)
• Little Outliner – Web based outliner, file format is OPML
• Drummer – Scriptable outliner from Dave Winer (in development)

This is a new podcast series titled “Thinking about Tools for Thought”, which will talk about tools and methods for helping people think. The following are links to different tools/resources mentioned in this episode.

Tools:

• Logseq
• Roam
• Notion
• Org Mode/Emacs
• Drummer

Weblogs/posts

• Dave Winer/Scripting News
• Ken Smith Drummer blog
• Andy Sylvester Drummer blog
• Organizing information for use
• Ken’s earlier post on this
• Mike Caufield’s post referenced in Ken’s post on “Organizing information for use”
• Ken on Twitter
• Chris Aldrich on tools (not mentioned on the podcast, but a good overview)