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Craft Docs

I am a huge note taking / building a second brain / zettelkasten / knowledge management nerd. And my notes app of choice is craft.do.

My most used keyboard shortcuts in Craft

I was talking to a friend who was sharing his screen while typing in Craft. It was a little painful to see him slow his thought process down by having to use the trackpad to format his text. One of the reasons I love Craft is that my typing can

My ideal Skillshare intro, lessons learned from studying three Skillshare classes

I scheduled for us to record our Skillshare class yesterday. While we were setting up, I realized I forgot to buy the lightning to 3.5mm jack connector for the lapel mic, so we had to reschedule. To make use of the time, we decided to practice filming, starting with

Using Craft Docs for narrative project planning

One week ago, I tweeted about experimenting with using Craft Docs to drive my projects forward. I've been experimenting with using @craftdocsapp to drive my projects forward. — Chiara Cokieng (@chiaracokieng) August 12, 2021 Instead of a laundry list of context-less obligations in a task manager... I write

The product challenge of creating Tools for Thought

There's an interesting discussion going on in Craft's Slack Community. Thread. The gist: In his podcast with Metamuse, CEO and Founder Balint talks about Craft being primarily a tool for thought. A real tool for thought must remove all friction for users to dump thoughts easily anywhere … knowing that they

How to save a tweetstorm to Craft Docs

Update: Or just use https://the.rip/ 🤦‍♀️ I loved Andrew Barry’s tweetstorm on delivering student transformations at scale. I wanted to save it as a note in Craft and just learned how. Let's talk about delivering student transformations at scale How do you ensure 150-200 students all

How to automatically group all todo items in Craft Docs

Similar to Roam's TODO page.

How I use Pages vs Blocks in Craft Docs

In my post on why I replaced Bear, Obsidian, and Roam Research with Craft, Jeff asks, I am still rather confused about Craft’s Pages vs. Blocks. They seem to work just about the same, but I don’t think I’m using it as intended. Maybe I’m missing

Just-In-Time Reading: How to smash through books to solve problems

I recently changed my relationship with books I read to solve work problems. Not only has it helped me actually solve work problems, it has also freed up my personal time to read books for personal enjoyment. Here’s the tl;dr: When you’re looking for a solution to

Why I replaced Bear, Obsidian, and Roam Research with Craft

I used to use and pay for Bear, Obsidian (free), and Roam Research. These days, Craft (https://www.craft.do/) is my notes app of choice because: I find it the most pleasurable app to read, write, and annotate (bold and highlight) with. With Obsidian, I found it a pain

My implementation of Zettelkasten in Craft

I have been using a new notes app called Craft.do. I love it and have been obsessively using it for the past three days. In this blog post, I share how I’m implementing the Zettelkasten method in Craft. For the best experience and links to work, view this