Software
Typora vs Obsidian: Two Different Ways of Thinking About Writing
A writing tool and a thinking tool that get compared constantly, used here for what each one is actually good at.
Essays
The Cost of Switching Tools
Migration is never just moving files. It is rebuilding the habits that made the old tool work.
Essays
Knowledge Management Is Really a Publishing Problem
Notes do not become useful because they are stored. They become useful because something forces them out.
Essays
Why I Stopped Searching for the Perfect Productivity System
Every system I abandoned taught me the same lesson: the bottleneck was never the tool.
Software
Obsidian After Three Years
What survives long-term use in a knowledge base: structure, restraint and a deliberate lack of plugins.