Leah Ferguson

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PKM Social on Mastodon

Nicole van der Hoeven and Marcus Olsson created a Mastodon server called PKM.social to continue the personal knowledge management conversation.

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Can you create an Obsidian smart home?

I’ve built up a bit of a reputation for automations in Obsidian. (In fact, it’s one of the reasons I started this blog, so that I’d have a place to start sharing workflows and examples for the community to use.) So, when someone jokingly tagged me on the Obsidian community Discord asking if you could brew a cup of coffee with Obsidian, it got me thinking. While I use Obsidian as a way to both design and inventory the built environment, and use NFC tags to interact with Obsidian, could Obsidian be used to interact with the physical world? Spoiler

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Notes for Serious Play (YouTube Live)

I had a great chat with Nicole van der Hoeven live on her YouTube channel this past weekend. “Notes for Serious Play” is a great way to describe it, as we’re both avid note-makers and D&D…ers. Nicole and I first did an Obsidian Community Talk together last fall. It was another Obsidian workflow video, but I loved it, since it was five different workflows from both DMs and players in the (then) burgeoning TTRPG Obsidian community. I’d really love to host a followup talk with the group to see how their setups and workflows have changed in the past year… I know mine has! Notes for

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