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Knowledge Work

How I think, learn, and work.

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

How to save a tweetstorm to Craft Docs

Update: Or just use https://the.rip/ 🤦‍♀️ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I loved Andrew Barry [https://curiouslionlearning.com/start-here/]’s tweetstorm [https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto/status/1360389276152836097] on delivering student transformations at scale. I wanted to save it as a note in Craft [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/tag/craft-docs/] and just learned how.

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 [https://chiaracokieng.com/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

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 [https://www.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

How I’m evaluating if I can use Bear Notes as my “Second Brain” again

Why I am moving from Notion [https://www.notion.so] to Bear [https://bear.app/]: 1. Speed. To search, write, and edit. Similar to Evernote, the abundance of Notion’s features just cannot compensate for its slowness. 2. Related to speed and performance, multitasking. Specifically, to take notes while on

How I organize my commonplace book in Notion

Fri, 12. Feb 2021 Update: I now use Craft and wrote about why I prefer it over Bear, Obsidian, Roam Research, and yes, Notion [https://chiaracokieng.com/why-i-replaced-bear-obsidian-and-roam-research-with-craft/] . While I still have a BASB-inspired folder structure, my main ‘organizational system’ for my ‘commonplace book’ is now more akin to densely