Bible study with Obsidian

It's been a long journey for me in finding the right mix of tools to aid my study of scripture. It started with Olive Tree's Bible Study app, eventually moved to Ulysses [https://thesweetsetup.com/how-to-use-ulysses-for-long-term-research/], and now, thanks to my exposure to the Zettelkasten system, Obsidian is now the home of my notes. This is one of those topics where each individual could have a slightly different setup than the next person. But tools like Roam Research [https://thesweetset…

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Moving to a 4-day workweek

It's been interesting to watch Buffer move to a four-day workweek and share their results. > The four-day work week resulted in sustained productivity levels and a better sense of work-life balance. These were the exact results we’d hoped to see, and they helped us challenge the notion that we need to work the typical ‘nine-to-five,’ five days a week. It’s worth noting that though we’ve seen sustained productivity levels, we’ve been gauging that based on teammate feedback and not company-wide g…

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Using tags in Obsidian

In a tool like Obsidian, direct, manually created links are the best way to connect your thinking across notes. This is the default behaviour of the Zettelkasten, and I appreciate the emphasis [https://zettelkasten.de/posts/backlinks-are-bad-links/] it's given by the folks at Zettelkasten.de [https://zettelkasten.de]. However, I'm also not against using other forms of linking notes together. There's value to being able to see connections across topics, and for that use case, tags work well. Bu…

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The Wheel of Time entry on Wikipedia

Yeah, I don't normally link to Wikipedia here. But I came across this recently when looking something up and it really sucked me in. Having spent 25+ years of my life reading this series, some of the books 5–10 times, I consider myself to have a fairly intimate knowledge of the story. But the Wikipedia entry introduced some concepts that were new to me right from the start: > The series is set in an unnamed world that, due to the cyclical nature of time as depicted in the series, is simultaneo…

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