Aram Zucker-Scharff
One of the People.
About me
Updated profile, social links, how to pronounce my name, live at my Who Am I page.
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My ideal thinking tool(s)
TKTK
My current tools and practices
- I am bad at using email but I try to handle it using GTD.
- I sign up to every newsletter I encounter, then process it through custom code called Backreads to find significant links.
- I use Feedly as a feed reader.
- I mostly interact with Twitter through twitter lists.
- All my note-taking happens in Obsidian and occasionally VSCode.
- I use PressForward to retain text archives of important links and reference material. I am one of the primary developers of this tool.
- I use 11ty to generate context sites that I use to store, categorize and archive contextually-related blocks of information.
- I feed Instapaper, Twitter, and Mastodon into Pinboard for easy search and link finding.
- I use Instapaper to build an article-reading queue.
- I use GoodReads to build a book-reading queue.
- I use Letterboxd to build a movie-watching queue.
- I want something to build a TV-watching queue.
- I use Are.na for storing design ideas from other sites.
- I publish via WordPress, 11ty, Substack and Jekyll
- I use folder structure and tagging as techniques to keep my Obsidian notes organized.
- I use keywords to add additional structure to my Obsidian notes.
up::down::tags:: #tagname
- I use YAML to add page aliases to leverage with wikilink-style links and to add additional metadata to my notes.
- I use Dropbox, git, GitHub, Obsidian mobile, and FolderSync to keep my notes synced between devices.
- I use 750Words for personal journaling
Thinking Tool Ratings
- Obsidian
- My current confidence with this tool: 9
- Openness: 6
- Note-making: 8
- Writing/Publishing: 4
- Idea discovery: 5
- User-friendliness: 6
- Power: 9
- Multiplayer: 1
- Help: 4
- Community: 7
- Cost: 9
- Data sovereignty: 10
- PressForward
- My current confidence with this tool: 10
- Openness: 6
- Note-making: 4
- Writing/Publishing: 10
- Idea discovery: 9
- User-friendliness: 7
- Power: 9
- Multiplayer: 8
- Help: 4
- Community: 5
- Cost: 8
- Data sovereignty: 8
- Pinboard
- My current confidence with this tool: 9
- Openness: 3
- Note-making: 2
- Writing/Publishing: 1
- Idea discovery: 8
- User-friendliness: 7
- Power: 5
- Multiplayer: 4
- Help: 2
- Community: 2
- Cost: 8
- Data sovereignty: 3
- Instapaper
- My current confidence with this tool: 8
- Openness: 3
- Note-making: 2
- Writing/Publishing: 1
- Idea discovery: 3
- User-friendliness: 8
- Power: 4
- Multiplayer: 1
- Help: 2
- Community: 1
- Cost: 7
- Data sovereignty: 4
- Are.na
- My current confidence with this tool: 7
- Openness: 3
- Note-making: 7
- Writing/Publishing: 3
- Idea discovery: 7
- User-friendliness: 6
- Power: 2
- Multiplayer: 6
- Help: 2
- Community: 2
- Cost: 9
- Data sovereignty: 1
- Deepdwn
- My current confidence with this tool: 6
- Openness: 2
- Note-making: 8
- Writing/Publishing: 2
- Idea discovery: 6
- User-friendliness: 6
- Power: 7
- Multiplayer: 1
- Help: 4
- Community: 2
- Cost: 7
- Data sovereignty: 10
- 750Words
- My current confidence with this tool: 9
- Openness: 1
- Note-making: 6
- Writing/Publishing: 8
- Idea discovery: 5
- User-friendliness: 10
- Power: 3
- Multiplayer: 1
- Help: 2
- Community: 2
- Cost: 10
- Data sovereignty: 5
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