Month: August 2021

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)