MakingHistory

A quick description of how I make PDFs and some of the apps I've used to annotate them and share them with my students.

A quick description of how I'm working on filling in the Empty Notes I make in Obsidian, and along the way editing a Wikipedia page.

Some initial thoughts about making the open educational resources I create available to my students (and maybe to the general public?) as Obsidian "Vaults".

How I use private groups in Hypothes.is to create a safe space for students to explore ideas, to focus them on classmates rather than the outside world, and to avoid annotation saturation in texts I assign.

Markus Krajewski's 2013 article, "Paper as Passion", and my process taking the notes and getting them into my workflow.

How I take notes on a book I can't write in, as well as some thoughts about grabbing clips and comments from audiobooks.

Some initial thoughts about Roam Research and Obsidian, their relative strengths, and the very cool communities surrounding each app.

My review of a very good article from a recent book, and some additional thoughts about MarginNote 3 and my own note-taking process.

At the end of a very hectic semester, I'm re-evaluating some of the apps I was excited about trying at the beginning.

I read Luhmann's 1981 article, "Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen", and here are my notes on it (in English).