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Eleanor Konik

I write stories & articles inspired by all eras of history & science... so I wind up putting notetaking software like Obsidian & Readwise thru their paces.

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2021-05-15: Better Footnotes, Plugin Synergy, & an Electron Update

New showcases, typography convos & lots of great knowledge management discussions. New plugins like incremental writing, inline variable support, & OCR support via Templater.

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Governments

Eight ancient government systems from beyond Europe

Photo of scales and gavel by Sora Shimazaki from Pexels.
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2021-05-08: Templater, Syncthing & Requested Plugins

Featuring the Excalidraw, Templater, Kindle, Dataview, Kanban, Tasks, Buttons, Leaflet & Comments plugins. Also tips for mobile, feature requests, & more!

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🎓 Heating Oil Fraud, Ancient Fire & Ice Volcanoes

Micro-reviews from my recently-read pile: ancient marriage politics, Mediterranean dyes, Hittite architecture & whales throughout the ages.

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2021-05-01: Showcases, QoL Improvements, & Theme Updates

The Community Talks are ramping up, there were lots of great little plugin updates especially in the "importing things as markdown" space, and we're starting to see some organized writeups about workflows that utilize dataview and templater.

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Early Pastoral Economies of the Eurasian Plains

Debates about horse domestication

primitive horses on a snowy hillside
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Lamps

Stones, Moons, & Lies: Lamps & Other Subversions

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2021-04-24: Inline Dataview, Showcases, & a Markdown GUI.

Big Obsidian updates for the API, search, and tasks. Lots of Dataview improvements, some nice Spaced Repetition options, and tools to help developers. CSS tips & PKM discussions.

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Masonry

Stone is no defense & the bravery of horses

Photo of path under brick archway by Anastasia Zhenina from Pexels
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2021-04-17: RSS Tips, Self-Publish, & Debug Tools

The Dataview plugin is getting a lot of attention. Plugin developers got some nifty debugging features for mobile. We discussed resonance calendars and task management, and surfaced some useful RSS tricks for keeping up with Obsidian news if this newsletter is too infrequent for you.