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Jamie Todd Rubin
Personal blog · jamierubin.netproductivityculture
Jamie Todd Rubin's personal blog at jamierubin.net covers productivity and culture. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on personal knowledge management and on using Obsidian's vim mode. One commenter calls the blog series pretty good and recommends it as a starting point.
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.
Writer, Coder, Avid Reader
What Hacker News says?
Browsing through Linking Your Thinking's YouTube channel[1] might be a good first-start. Despite appearances here, I am not a notes fetishist, so I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2]. Jamie Rubin's blog series[4] is pretty good, too. I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of t…
Comment linking /blog-series/practically-paperless-with-obsidian/
on “Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit”Submitted Twitter Meltdown, Mastodon, and the End of Social Media (For Me)? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use Evernote for exactly this. I organized it with a couple of notebooks: Filing cabinet, Family, Work, Inbox and Templates. I have about 20 tags that I can assign to each note and I rename all notes with the date in the name so a combination of tags, title and notebook alsways yields the result I want. A couple of takeaways: - Evernote Premium is well wort hit, it converts all PDFs and images with OCR so that the…
Comment linking /going-paperless/
on “Ask HN: How do you manage “knowledge””Submitted Mount To-Be-Read and the Danger of the Doubling Charm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMaybe not the best, but it’s worth pointing out that obsidian (the knowledge base/note editor) has a vim mode. https://jamierubin.net/2021/03/23/obsidian-and-vim-mode/
Comment linking /2021/03/23/obsidian-and-vim-mode/
on “Ask HN: What’s the best non-vim vim mode editor?”Submitted How to keep archived contents tidy? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My New Obsession: Simplicity and Automation in Technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going Paperless: My Mobile Paperless Office as a story · 1 points
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