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 Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube...

We discuss memory from an ecological perspective. Are our brains for storage? We go into detail! Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

Jon's been building his DnD Vault, and in this episode we talk about this and a host of other things! (because it's not a podcast episode if it's not got tons of other discussions!) Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

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...

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 dat...

In this episode, We discuss and debate the evolving open source note-taking app Obsidian. As the community grows, how can it balance accessibility with compensating developers?  We discuss Ali Abdaal's comments about equity investment. And analyse whether large "creators" are better defined as media organisations with responsibilities.  Jon shares his perspective on using Obsidian pr...

In this episode we're talking about Writing in Obsidian more specifically how Jon uses Obsidian for DND! We chat about how Jon finds the app helpful for initiatives tracking in combat encounters by having character sheets and abilities easily accessible. It also allows players to review past sessions or research the world in more detail. As a planning tool, Jon can organise locations and NPC p...

We talk about fiction writing and a little bit about D&D :)

In this episode we talk about AI summarising inspired by Tiago Forte's recent video on his channel Tiago's Video Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

We have a chat about the concept of "Neurodiverse Friendly" tools, all from an ecological perspective. Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

We share what apps we primarily use on our phones, and then dive into some philosophical discussion immediately after (because when don't we.)

Both of us have taken BASB, we chat all about our thoughts now, after a couple of years

We're talking about gamifying education Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

We have a chat with a long time listener of our podcast, as he shares how he uses Reviews. Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

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! Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

The episode where Danny has a great big rant about education, and where Jon nods their head in agreement... Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

We have a chat about how social media has influenced our productivity!

This week we talk all about the Obsidian properties update!

How do we manage energy? This is what we're talking about today! Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

AI is getting smarter... or is it? We discuss Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

Whilst in Berlin Danny and Jon were both reading An Introduction to Ecological Psychology, and we thought what if we invite the writers on to chat more! So we did! Book: https://amzn.to/3O48ju1 (affiliate link!)

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 😁) Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Podcast

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 😉 Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Web...

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 😁 Joint Research Notes:  ⁠VaultCraft⁠ Danny Hatcher:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠YouTube⁠ Jonathan Stewart:  ⁠Website⁠  |  ⁠Podcast⁠ Watch the Pod...