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Overview I've been meaning to make this video for a while now as it's a subject im pretty happy about, we took our own stance against company collection of menstrual data and created our own self hosted period application using my database, appsmith, and cloud flare tunnels and now we have complete ownership and control of our data and insights that no company will have access to. Timestamps…
Overview It's been a while since i've made a "top apps ..." video and i've gotten some new ones in the workflow lately. Thunderbird has been ESPECIALLY helpful to me in dealing with the overwhelm that is modern email. xTiles has been a very unique and interesting alternative to notion in organization, and consolidation of information. And morgen is of course a timeless classic Timestamps 0:00:23…
Overview Now that i've finally made my homelab tour, i have teased about this project before in the past but this is me finally putting it together and showing off the results of a lot of my hard work to consolidate and organize ALL of my health data from every source i can get it from into my centralized database for reporting. believe me, there was a LOT of work that went into this setup and im…
Overview I've wanted to make a homelab tour video for a long time, my homelab and what i've learned with it is a project near and dear to me. I have a lot of fun playing with services and automations and building my own apps and custom code, as well as just documenting things and wiring it all together. Home-labbing is FUN, and i love doing it and wanted to share with you what i've done so far in…
Overview So I've heard that much of my Zotero workflow was still too complex to fathom or setup by others so I have endeavored yet again to make a comprehensive overview video of the process but this time in a sandbox environment with granular setup instructions where appropriate and hoping that this will really open the door for many where this workflow is concerned :) Timestamps 0:00:00 Welcome…
PART 1 Overview The supercharged links plugin is a super awesome lightweight plugin that can be used to display visual flare or additional information on the links in your vault. This plguin can take a rule like "if a note has this tag" and then apply content in a variety of ways. After making this video i actually realized that if i turned off the plugin nothing happens, i actually wasnt using…
Overview There are over 1,000 plugins now in the Obsidian plugin ecosystem, and these are a few of my top favorites and a bit about why they have such a high standing on my list. Timestamps 0:00:00 Welcome 0:00:15 INTO THE AM 0:01:45 The Top 10 Plugins 0:01:55 01 Templater and 02 Dataview 0:03:42 03 Update Time On Edit 0:05:47 04 Obsidian Zotero Integration 0:06:52 05 DB Folder 0:08:27 06 Projects…
Overview I have had a fairly robust daily notes system since the early days of my usage of Obsidian. Over time of course this process gets refined and improved. The system i have now is probably the most intentional i've ever been about journaling and reviewing the words of my past self. I hope there will be some useful nuggets of insight in this video that will help you shape and improve your own…
Overview I'm still really enjoying canvas a lot even with how simple it is compared to other diagramming tools it really does add an additional edge to the workflow for organizing thoughts and ideas visually as if they were actual note cards spread out on a physical desktop. That "spread out" and visible all at once nature of canvas is the thing that really makes it appeal to me and is the real…
This Video This video was a fun one to make as i've been falling into more effective ways to doing more research type work and as you well know in the doing of the thing, the truth of the act presents itself. It's one thing to say "this is an effective way of using this tool" and another to actually be doing real work with the tool and actually experience pain points and find better optimizations…
Reacting To Autism Memes | Feeling Personally Attacked So this video is a bit of a departure from my regular type of educational content. I wanted to try something a little more light hearted and fun that also didn't take a lot of research to put together, and didn't impact my executive dysfunction heavily. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the video in the comments, if this is something you…
A collection of helpful tools for the neurodivergent to take advantage of. 0:00:00 Welcome 0:00:36 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL 0:00:56 What 5 Tools We Are Going To Be Looking At Today 0:01:12 Half Bold 0:03:12 https://textsniper.app/a/987720531 0:03:43 Arranger 0:05:30 Goblin Tools 0:06:06 Goblin Tools - Compiler 0:06:29 Goblin Tools - Magic Todo 0:07:34 Goblin Tools - Judge 0:08:38 Goblin Tools -…
It took 6 months of work but i was finally diagnosed with Autism. This video covers a lot of the thoughts and initial impressions i have about the whole situation but this is only the beginning. There is a lot i have and want to say on this topic and piles of research to do as well. 0:00:00 Welcome 0:00:05 Big Video Is Finally Here 0:00:54 What we are talking about today 0:01:58 What Led Me Here…
Using the Obsidian Zotero integration plugin, i've updated my workflow to use this new plugin and drastically improve the quality of my zotero workflow. 0:00:00 Welcome 0:00:27 https://youtu.be/CGGeMrtyjBI 0:00:44 Getting Setup 0:01:31 https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/releases 0:02:01 Configuring the Obsidian Zotero Inegration Plugin Settings 0:06:22 Thor decideds to help with…
This was a delightful conversation with one of my Discord moderators; Omar Khafagy. We talked a lot about Obsidian, My approaches and methodology towards PKM, and neurodivergence. Might want to start a podcast in the future with this lovely human :) 0:00:29 Welcome 0:02:06 The WHY behind the way my Obsidian system is setup to optimize for search 0:08:06 Influence of the CLI on my approach, system…
Media Extended is the best approach to note taking on video files that ive seen yet. It makes it super easy to get what ive always wanted from video notes: Timestamps that jump to that point in the video Timestamps without effort Easy markdown notes generated live while watching a video I started with YiNote early in 2020 and moved to the browser extension memex when that offered a better…
Todoist is something I never stop raving about. My life would be a hot mess without this or a comparable application. In this video I go over how I use the application to organize my life. Hopefully this will help you better leverage the tool. I choose to use the very affordable Pro version of Todoist and if you'd like to check it out just click Todoist above!
The Apps, affiliate links and coupon codes for them, and i hope they help you as much as they've helped me! Textsniper: https://textsniper.app/?ref=bryanjenks Todoist: https://doist.grsm.io/p7v0i8sx9hnx2 Morgen: https://morgen.so/?ref=bryanjenks12 | COUPON CODE: TALLGUYJENKS-TEN-1YEAR Gingkoapp: https://gingkoapp.com/ Shortform: https://www.shortform.com/bryanjenks See other tools i use and have…
Dendron is one of my favorite ways to taking notes on technical content now. It takes advantage of a lot of the great work that has already gone into the VSCode IDE but also the existing extension eco-system. Where dendron can't do something, there is likely an awesome extension that can. This is now my go-to way of taking notes of structured and factual content unlike my Zettelkasten that is more…
SQL is an awesome language and has been around for decades. It is the defacto language for dealing with and manipulating data in Relational Databases. I use SQL in my day job every day and it is a fantastic tool in your toolbox. It is not only very easy to learn the basics to start getting data and working with it, but certain variations of SQL are just a pleasure to work with. My least favorite…