Skills - Information Management Three Reminders to Myself on the 'Nature-based' Database In Day 5 of my word challenge, I consider databases by giving myself three nature-based reminders on how to make them.
Skills - Time Management My 2024 Journey: What Worked, What Didn't, and What's Next A look back at 2024, what worked and what didn't, and a look forwards to 2025.
Skills - Information Management Building a Second Brain for Your PhD: A Researcher's Guide to PKM Like an overgrown garden where seeds had been scattered randomly, my PhD research was everywhere. Discovering PKM has helped to transform this chaos into a thriving ecosystem of connected ideas.
Newsletter The Pareto Principle - LLMs vs Nature 🧠 Brain STREAM 2️⃣4️⃣ Can we engineer the 80/20 rule, or is it inevitable? Within my own academic-in-training context, I consider LLMs and nature to find out.
Newsletter The Lessons Learned Register: 🧠 Brain STREAM 21 Discover the unique benefits of having a 'Lessons Learned Register' for use throughout your research.
PhD - Day-to-Day Making Email as Low Stress as I Can: 🧠 Brain STREAM 19 Struggling with email imbalance? Here's 7 Principles I use to reduce stress in my inbox and beyond.
Skills - Research Tame Your Note-Taking System In Obsidian by Building It Around Questions A lot of information comes at you very quickly when doing research. Make sure your note-taking keeps focus by having a defining set of questions by which to filter information by.
PhD - Starting Define Your Questions to Keep Focus In Your PhD Discover how central questions are to a PhD and how you can then use these to keep from wondering through everything else that is interesting to you.
Skills - Information Management Embracing My Collector Within Inspired a Return to Obsidian I’m returning to Obsidian from Capacities, and it’s all due to … collecting postage stamps?!
PhD - Day-to-Day Unleash Your Inner Creative: 17 Methods I Use For Endless Inspiration So, so many creative ideas are included in this post; a whopping 17 ideas (and I could go on). Sit back relax and let your creativity juices flow!
Skills - Time Management Why I Love Doing a Personal Weekly Review in Obsidian A personal weekly review can be a very effective technique to focus on what is going well and to eliminate the things to help keep your focus.
Resources - Apps Why I'm Switching From Obsidian to Capacities Obsidian is a great software but I increasingly find myself drawn to Capacities. In this article I detail the reasons why.
Skills - Information Management Using Capacities.io To Do Efficient Research Literature Reviews How to use the features in Capacities to do a quick and efficient review of the literature — and keep on top of new research as it arises.
Resources - Apps I Had a Brief Fling With Capacities - Sorry Obsidian Could I be tempted by Capacities? Not at the moment, but it's a close call...
Skills - Research Using Capacities in my PhD - How to Streamline Literature Reviews Literature reviews for PhDs and research papers can seem daunting but here I share a quick and easy method to doing one using the abilities of the notetaking app Capacities.
Resources - Apps Nine of the Best Apps and Websites for My PhD Workflow Here's 9 of my favourite apps I use regularly for my PhD.
Skills - Information Management AI is ‘Note’ For Me It doesn’t matter how good digital tools get, I always return to pen and paper as my note-taking CPU.
Skills - Information Management Why I’m Switching From Obsidian to Capacities It’s not a decision I’ve taken lightly, but here’s five reasons why I’m making the switch.
Skills - Writing Managing Physical Notetaking in a Digital World With Capacities My current method for converting physical notes to digital ones.
Creator Diaries Featured Boring To-Do Lists? Not If You Study Leonardo da Vinci Because he knew how to write to-do lists I actually want to do.
Resources - Apps Two-way Markdown Sync With Obsidian and Zotero Better Notes Plugin Sometimes you find yourself looking in the wrong place…
Skills - Information Management Using Omnivore and Obsidian to Read, Highlight and Take Notes From Research Papers Sometimes you discover a combo of software and plugins which work so well together for your intended purpose, it would seem criminal not to…
Skills - Information Management App Optimisation and the Curious Case of the Olympus Mju Mini The perfect imperfection of a tool which wasn’t the best, but did the job perfectly.
Resources - Apps The One Subscription I Am Excited About Renewing; Obsidian Because the last year has been a blast. Where will the next one take me?
Resources - Apps 14 Reasons to Love Obsidian as a Note-Taking Tool for my PhD Just a small collection of the reasons why I love Obsidian for research and maybe why you will too.
