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24 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read
1/ Today I to start officially cover @craftdocsapp. Craft is a beautifully “crafted” app for iOS, Mac & the Web. They define themselves as “a fresh take on writing & collaboration”for the modern era of digital devices that brings back the joy of writing. craft.do
2/ It isn’t necessarily a PKM or TfT tool, so a bit outside my focus area, but has many of the core features in place to compete in this space over time.

I have to thank @calhistorian for brining this app to my attention last year.

So what do I like?
3/ It is block based. So very natural experience for Roam and Logseq users.

It supports backlinks. Who doesn’t? But crucial!!!

Excellent collaboration features - multi-user editing

A beautiful WYSIWIG experience with great markdown support (import/export)
4/ Now, just to make it clear, Obsidian is my main PKM driver and I am not planning to change that. However, I will use Craft for publishing useful how-to articles. This is one area where Craft excels.

Craft makes it so simple, fast and beautiful to publish.
5/ You can publish pages you make (and all their linked content) to the general public. I am just getting started, but here is the shell of the site I am building with Craft. Over next few months will be documenting in detail many tips and tricks.

tfthacker.com
6/ I am a long time user of Apple products and have to admit I am a sucker for a beautiful UI, and working with Craft on my iPad/MagicKeyboard is a simple joy.

I love when devs tweet the UI to perfection, as the Craft team is doing.

Their web UI is also solid and useful
7/ Craft has clearly defined & public ally documented data ownership policies. It just burns me that some companies provide such poor disclosure on this (shame on you, you know who you are).

Craft and Obsidian do an excellent job with this.

From Craft:craft.do/s/5EYqvXdOUIrN…
7/ There is a free tier & a professional tier for 44.99 a year. Good value for the money.

If you are looking for

+ a simple publishing tool
+ a beautiful writing tool
+ something to journal with
+ lite PKM
+ “hassle free” team writing collaboration

... you will like Craft
8/ Regarding Craft, I have a few things to hope to see in the future:
+ API
+ Readwise integration
+ expanded features for publishing

That is my wish list :-)

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13 Oct
1/ iOS Shortcuts

I have been doing some work to integrate my iOS devices with Obsidian. the iOS Shortcuts tools is amazingly powerful and well designed.

Many in TfT community are using this to integrate workflows with @obsdmd and @RoamResearch, and probably other tools.
2/ If you haven’t used it before, it is a tool for non-developers and developers to build commands that automate various workflows. For example, in my current Shortcut, I am extracting all my calendar agenda items for today and dumping them out to Obsidian in my DNP.
3/ Though I have to say on iOS 15 the Shortcut building tool is super buggy. Constantly constantly crashing. I think @viticci mentioned this during the 15 beta…. Seems its not better.

But ok, you can make it work with patience.
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10 Oct
1/ In today’s Twitter Spaces discussion between myself, @rroudt & @JessicaShieh, @readwiseio got a lot of deserved praise.

ReadWise is a “Stealth Tool for Thought”, under the surface at periscope level, working away at their ideas & steadily bringing great tools to the surface.
2/ Reader which is currently in private beta is proof.

I use “stealth” because they are perhaps underrated and overlooked since they seem niche.

Reader will change that. We are getting a set of tools that help us with our workflows from capture to reuse of what we read.
3/ They are not stealth though in community engagement. The opposite! They are proving to be partners in the Tool for Thought community.

Partnership is crucial while TfT space develops.

Partnership should be a criteria in any tool we choose to put into your TfT toolbox.
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7 Oct
1/ FLEXIBLE SYSTEMS - Structure with the rewards and not the pain.

So many of us when starting our PKM journey want the perfect tool & perfect system for how we will take notes, resurface / reuse knowledge.

Sorry to tell you, there is no perfect tool and no perfect system.
2/ We should not expect perfection, rather be in the pursuit of a good, flexible & adaptive system.

The fact is our lives change, interests, priorities, needs & desires. If we had a perfect system, it would require freezing our lives into a period of time. None of us want that.
3/ Therefore, a long time ago I got over the illusion that there is a perfect system and embraced the concept of a flexible system.

A flexible system should help us to accomplish our PKM needs, but not lock us into a rigid way of doing things.
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27 Sep
1/ I am super happy to announce that the “Obsidian42 - Text Transporter” plugin was released to the @obsdmd community plugin list and is available for general download.

Text Transporter is the Swiss Army Knife of text manipulation plugins.

#obsidianmd #TfT #PKM
2/ Text Transporter has commands for Block Reference copying and replacing
3/ Text Transporter has commands for Copy/Push/Pull operations - make life easier, think at the level of your vault, not just the file.

If you are a roam42 user, this is workBench.
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24 Sep
1/ 1st Impressions of the @readwiseio Reader Beta.

I have been testing the Reader Beta for about 2 weeks and I have to say I am super satisfied. It is just a beta, but has already entered deep into my psyche & something I see myself using for years to come.
2/ Reader is a new tool for all those passionate for reading and retaining the value of what you read.

Reader can be compared to tools like Pocket & Instapaper. I love those tools, but they fall short.

ReadWise delivers and I can’t wait for you all to get it.
3/ Reader when combined with the other ReadWise services delivers the features that a lot of us for a LONG time have been search for.

Acquiring knowledge and wisdom from reading is a more complex process than it appears on the surface.
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10 Sep
1/ Over last 2 weeks been playing with @craftdocsapp while working on my newest @obsdmd plugin. For all you #roamans, it is Roam42 workBench, but tailored to Obsidian. I am calling it Text Transporter (for you Star Trek fans) since there is already a plugin with workbench name.
2/ anyhow @craftdocsapp is beautiful. For those looking for excellent block centric authoring with export MD support, this is amazing.

Some of my #roaman friends (@beauhaan) preach the gospel of Blocks. And I agree, blocks are the best unit for work. Craft supports them natively
3/ While Craft is amazing, I still can't see it's future. It is a little between Roam and Obsidian, but not a totally fair comparison. It is simpler and easier to learn. Uses more standard UX metaphors, which makes it a snap to learn.
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