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I lived a lifetime reading Infinite Jest. The book, by David Foster Wallace, is 1,079 pages long. Approximately 100 pages of that are endnotes. No, you can’t skip them. It was one of the easiest reading experiences of my life. Well, kind of. When I say I lived a lifetime reading the book, I mean a few things: I went through a lot spiritually, emotionally, and mentally during. My first attempt was between my sophomore and junior years of college....

Two things are very important to me: Documenting my workflows. Sharing my knowledge with others as freely as possible. As of time of writing, I’m participating in some “learning sprints” for queries in Logseq. I actually don’t consider myself a Logseq power user or anything, at least compared to the folks who build these complicated dashboards and workflows for every aspect of their lives. I mainly use Logseq for my Zettelkasten; therefore, my needs aren’t too complicated....

The above image is the visualization of my Logseq graph, at least as of June 26th, 2022 at around 3:00 PM EDT. I know it’s not as pretty or big as some others you may have seen, but I think it’s a great way to see how I use Logseq, its linking capabilities, and its integrations. You’ll see some clusters there in the center. That represents the reference notes, topic tags, and main notes of my Zettelkasten....

These are the speaker notes of a talk I gave at the New Hampshire Archives Group Spring 2022 Workshop on [[May 17th, 2022]] Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to my presentation when you could just leave and go outside. My name is Jay L. Colbert, and today I’ll be presenting “Describing Absence: The Complicated Power of Metadata Surrogates in Libraries & Archives” Advanced notice that this presentation will mention suicide and potentially upsetting language....

Every time I search a note-taking tool online, I inevitably see it: “Using insert-tool-here to build my second brain” or some variation on that theme. The video or blog post will always go over the basics of what a second brain is, and it usually mentions that the person took Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain course. So I guess it’s my turn. What is Building a Second Brain Building a Second Brain is a methodology, online course, and (as of writing this post) forthcoming book by Tiago Forte....