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====== PhD Wikis ====== | ====== PhD Wikis ====== | ||
+ | Note: Updated version of this, and with clearer images, now on Medium at [[https:// | ||
I'm interested in the whole idea of doing a PhD "in public" | I'm interested in the whole idea of doing a PhD "in public" | ||
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Then last week (March 2022) I decided the time had come to make a choice between Notion and Roam, but in hunting out tutorial and comparison videos (I'd recommend [[https:// | Then last week (March 2022) I decided the time had come to make a choice between Notion and Roam, but in hunting out tutorial and comparison videos (I'd recommend [[https:// | ||
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Obsidian may not look the prettiest (at least in note taking mode) but it's the best implementation I've seen yet of this " | Obsidian may not look the prettiest (at least in note taking mode) but it's the best implementation I've seen yet of this " | ||
- | As you build your notes the graph view build automatically. It not only looks lovely but hovering on a node highlights all its links. The one downside is that although the graph shows the tag links and note links on the same graph, and connects pages to their own tags, you do sort of have two different ontologies to manage, pages and tags. Within those community plug-ins I mentioned there are already a number that implement different network graph algorithms, so I should be able to use them to start to analyse the graph and perhaps yield new insights that I hadn't spotted. | + | {{ : |
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+ | The one downside is that although the graph shows the tag links and note links on the same graph, and connects pages to their own tags, you do sort of have two different ontologies to manage, pages and tags. Within those community plug-ins I mentioned there are already a number that implement different network graph algorithms, so I should be able to use them to start to analyse the graph and perhaps yield new insights that I hadn't spotted. | ||
One of the other big plusses of Obsidian is how it stores your data - it's all flat-file markdown files, one per note, on your PC. For something like a PhD with a 5-6 year life I need to know my data is safe and if the company folds I can get the data. This approach delivers that - particularly as I store my " | One of the other big plusses of Obsidian is how it stores your data - it's all flat-file markdown files, one per note, on your PC. For something like a PhD with a 5-6 year life I need to know my data is safe and if the company folds I can get the data. This approach delivers that - particularly as I store my " |