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Eleanor Konik
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Eleanor Konik writes Manuscriptions, a personal blog at eleanorkonik.com about writing, productivity and philosophy. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags””. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on personal knowledge management, such as Johnny Decimal folder systems in Obsidian, and a 2021 book review of Atomic Gardening. Comments cite or link these posts without judging their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Insightful lessons from history, science, & real life... aimed at autodidacts, productivity nerds, efficient thinkers & tech junkies.
Most-linked posts?
- Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-17
- Downsides of surrounding yourself with brilliant, skilled people2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-25
What Hacker News says?
Here are some examples from a Normal Person: https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/muse-was-my-gateway-drug-to-g...
Comment linking /p/muse-was-my-gateway-drug-to-grok
on “The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening”Submitted Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags” as a story · 143 points
HN discussionI use Johnny Decimal style files & folders with Obsidian and it's great. I wrote about how (and why) I implemented my Johnny Decimal system into Obsidian here, if it helps: https://eleanorkonik.com/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-ver...
Comment linking /yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-versus-tags/
on “Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files”Submitted The Difficulties of Teaching Critical Thinking as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYeah, I read it all the way through and enjoyed most of it. The rice part got a little preachy and the speculation about dog domestication was kind of annoying, but I learned a ton. It was originally recommended by a friend. At risk of being accused of self promotion, if you're curious for my in-depth take, I reviewed back in 2021 on my newsletter: https://eleanorkonik.com/book-review-tamed
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on “Atomic Gardening”Submitted On Testing Hypotheses Instead of Setting Goals as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Downsides of surrounding yourself with brilliant, skilled people as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secondary sources are pretty great, actually as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Review: The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Downsides of surrounding yourself with brilliant, skilled people as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Considerations for Fostering a Healthy and Active Online Community as a story · 1 points
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