knowledge base

Current problem As a lifelong learner of a wide range of subjects, I need robust tools to manage my acquired knowledge and act as an idea pad for content creation. My minimalist mindset also requires the number of deployed tools to be as few as possible. This post is a summary of my journey in notetaking with Obsidian. I’m going to go over why Obsidian is a great (although not perfect) tool for notetaking, project management and journaling....

Learning is my biggest hobby, and I am always looking at ways to improve both my skillset and learning methods. As my main professional interest is using NLP to build recommenders, I have been using the kinesthetic learning approach in the past few years, to learn while actually coding personal projects using NLTK, SpaCy and various Japanese language modelling libraries. This approach, while fun and provides instant feedback, lacks a foundational structure....

For many years I’ve been using a Kindle Touch as my primary device to read books and long-form web content. I also employ a strict regimen to capture my learnings via my BookTracker app. Recently, I upgraded to a Kindle Paperwhite for its better screen resolution and warm backlight. I thought that the upgrade would be as seamless as that of a phone’s, and I could easily migrate all my notes and reading progress over....

This is Part 3 of the “Improve knowledge conversion with book tracking” series. In this series, I will explain why we should build a tracking system to assist in converting what we read into actionable knowledge. In Part 1 and Part 2, I’ve explained the why and how of the book tracking system. Now let’s dive into implementing the metrics to track our investment. How many books am I reading now?...

This is Part 2 of the “Improve knowledge conversion with book tracking” series. In this series, I will explain why we should build a tracking system to help converting what we read into actionable knowledge. In Part 1 I discussed why we need to take an investment view to scrutinize the output of what we read. In this post, I’m going to show you how I build the book tracking system using Google Sheets, Apps Script and AppSheet....

Why we can’t recall what we read This is Part 1 of the “Improve knowledge conversion with book tracking” series. In this series, I will explain why we should build a tracking system to help converting what we read into actionable knowledge. In Part 2 and Part 3 I will explain the technical details of building one. Have you spent a lot of free time reading books, only finding out later that you can’t recall anything?...