Video preview: My information processing pipeline in 2024
Added 2024-01-18 23:06:32 +0000 UTCThis week's video is about the process and apps that I use to consume content (books, articles, PDFs, podcasts, and videos) and take notes on them so that I remember the important bits. I also talk about a controversial newsletter issue I read from Oliver Burkeman entitled How to forget what you read, which I both loved and hated so much that I made this video.
In other news, did you know I have a newsletter? It's called Thinking In Public, and you can read the first issue here. I just sent it out last weekend! You can sign up on that link if you want to get it going forward, too. I'm going to be experimenting with the longer text format there to really get into details the way I can't in my videos. It is free to sign up, and i promise to be intentional about the stuff I send you.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Comments
I hear you on the OSS front. My day job is in open source and I feel very strongly about open knowledge and standardisation of protocols, etc. It pains me to choose the non-OSS version even for Readwise-- if you haven't checked it out already, omnivore.app is really cool, open source, and very functional... but only for text. If that's all I needed, I would probably be using them. But Readwise is just amazing because of their integrations with things other than text (podcasts, videos, PDFs). And the Reader UI is just so nice and keyboard-friendly. I agree that Napkin is expensive. I paid for a Believer license so it's one-off, which is arguably still expensive but at least is not a recurring cost for me anymore. I do like what they're trying to do, but I wish they were acquired by Readwise or something so that I'd just get that functionality rolled in to where I'm already processing things.
Nicole van der Hoeven
2024-01-19 17:23:35 +0000 UTCGreat video! You got me back to Readwise. While Napkin is nice, they're no Android app and it's way too costly IMO. I wish there were more open-source solutions in this vein and for Readwise functionality. I've been moving away from proprietary SaaS in the last year.
Blake B
2024-01-19 16:13:17 +0000 UTC
