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🌲 Extract Value From the "Process" Layer of Your Notes

Glean's "context graph" framework for corporate information handling has really got me thinking about how to level up my personal knowledge management…

Feb 18 • Eleanor Konik

💎 Claude + Obsidian Got a Level Up

How to get the most out of Claude + Obsidian as somebody who is not a programmer or entrepreneur and is just trying to make life easier

Jan 22 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 The Best "Gamified X" App is a GAME

Pokémon Go has done more for my overall productivity than any number of attempts to make something like Habitica work for me.

Nov 19, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 The Konik Method for Organizing Electronic Notes

An update to the award-winning 2022-era Konik Method for Making Useful Notes, now that AI can do the grunt work for us.

Oct 1, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 The Konik Method for Making Analog Notes

Life is tradeoffs. Analog notes last longer but aren't as searchable. They are, however, useful, beautiful, and less distracting to create.

Sep 3, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance

What desert engineering and Paul Atriedes can teach us about tacit knowlege.

Jun 18, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 Familiarity with the Western Canon is Surprisingly Reassuring

It's amazing how much modern conservative rhetoric sounds like Augustus and Chesterton.

Jun 4, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 Why I like Twitter Threads more than Epic Novels

On clear communication, targeted narratives, taming project sprawl, & the typical mind fallacy.

Mar 14, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 AI cannot replace genuine human connection

That doesn't mean it's not incredibly useful, or economically disruptive, of course.

Feb 6, 2025 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 Heuristics for Hanging on to Things

On deciding what to save: recording thoughts, retaining references, & purging without regret

Nov 15, 2024 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 On what it means to not have time

People mean different things by "I can't--" ; it's ok to say you shouldn't.

Oct 3, 2024 • Eleanor Konik

🌲 On finding relevant notes when you need them

Another use-case where LLMs are genuinely useful and not overhyped nonsense

Sep 26, 2024 • Eleanor Konik

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