Danny and Jon

We discuss our plans for 2024 and a sneak into the future of what we're focused on!

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 6:50 Creator education 15:55 New year goals 23:00 Digital literacy 39:00 Writing for an audience 48:30 Book writing 54:50 Ecological systems 1:04:00 Understanding opposing opinions 1:08:00 Ecological explanations 1:20:00 Ecological communities

We discuss memory from an ecological perspective. Are our brains for storage?

In this episode we talk about refining our Obsidian vaults over time. We discuss adapting template-based systems to individual workflows while retaining flexibility. We delve into structuring notes for different types of characters in roleplaying games. Metadata Menu continues to be highlighted as a simple yet powerful tool for visualizing connections. When explaining concepts to others, balancing depth and brevity is also addressed by Jon.

WEdiscuss the new 1.5.0 desktop update for Obsidian, focusing on improvements to tables and canvas functionality and our excitement with Canvas Candy plugin, especially new options for adding headers, footers, and labels to cards. Jon explains how he uses these features to organize D&D campaign information.

As well as considering what could be possible in the future when using canvases and databases in Obsidian.

In this episode we talk about AI summarising inspired by Tiago Forte's recent video on his channel

We have a chat about the concept of "Neurodiverse Friendly" tools, all from an ecological perspective.

We're talking about gamifying education

We have a chat with a long time listener of our podcast, as he shares how he uses Reviews.

So we're diving into creating Jon's Philosophy of Practice.

A Philosophy of practice is an ever evolving document that evidences the actions someone takes.

You can find both of our POP's in VaultCraft!

The episode where Danny has a great big rant about education, and where Jon nods their head in agreement...

AI is getting smarter... or is it? We discuss

How do we manage energy? This is what we're talking about today!

The Architect, Gardener and Librarian. Do they exist and what apps do they fit with... and do we even agree with these ideas... (of course we don't... we contrarian 😁)

The PKM world loves to talk about which is better when sorting your notes.

Should you put things into folders, or perhaps just have everything linked together on an MOC (master of contents)... or do we just tags.

In this episode we chat about our thoughts... and surprising no one we have opinions 😉

We talk about our opinions on Atomic Notes... and how much we really don't see the point.

It's a common a productivity thing we're TOLD to like, but honestly we just don't see the point...

Alongside that we've got comments for previous episodes 😁

Both Notion & Obsidian made some interesting updates... in this episode we chat about em!

We started this lesson talking about overcomplicated PKM... then we went a tiny bit sideways... with the question: Is PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) Home Education?

We discuss:

• How Personal Knowledge Management is Adult Education...
• ADHD experience pre-and post diagnosis.
• "Evil" History of American Education system (Video by Jake Tran).

We're talking about Danny's Experience with using AI for creating stories (and other delightful things!)

This is a bonus episode where we're introducing Ecological Dynamics, based on a workshop Jon recently did!

Additional Resources for Further Research

At the end of our previous episode we started touching on our relationship with the labels, and Danny aversion to these labels, and my own positive relationship with them.

This week we're replying to comments we received last week, and Danny is showing us some editing stuff!

It's one of those episodes. We talk about a lot of things:

- Notion AI & Tiago's Video on it.

- What Danny & Jon are up to.

- Obsidian vs Morgan Quick Capture

And probably a host of other things we've forgotten about!

In this episode we dive into the mind of Danny, how he manages to get absolutely everything done that he wants to do... This was such a fascinating episode to record - Jon

Today we're talking about how most of your favourite apps are just glorified word processors and perhaps why that's not a bad thing.

*runs and hides from the internet*

We speak about the deliciously touch-y subject of Education and all the systems that are related to it! We share it from a science-y perspective (with Danny) and a Parental perspective (via Jon).

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We talk about changes we've both made to our systems, with how things have shifted in both of our lives.

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Today we speak all about our collaboration vault called "Vault Craft", how we do it and then diving deep back into Ecological Dynamics/Psychology again!

Jon talks all about the joys of changing systems, during big changes. 

Jon is switching to Morgen for his tasks, and Danny is very happy 😁

We talk about AI and Content Creation 😁

We talk in more details about writing with AI.

We spend a lot of time praising Obsidian... but it's not perfect, so here we talk a little bit about our issues with it... primarily it's the onboarding 😁

Jon shares updates to his Obsidian.

In our first episode in 2023 we talk a little bit about AI in Education... and Danny shows off the new updates to his system! (for audio listeners visit our youtube channel to watch!).

The final episode of 2022 is where we'll chat all about the joys of this year!

So... Obsidian Canvas released in the insiders build and so we had a chat all about that! Then we moved into the fascinating uses of AI inside of Research!