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On the left, iPad showing a press release in DEVONthink To Go. In the centre is my iMac running interview notes in DEVONthink Pro Office. In the foreground is my MacBook Air 11.6 running OmniOutliner Pro. This is where I knock out the structure and basic draft of my features, most of which are 1000-words plus. Finally, on the right is my iPhone ready to take calls and show OmniFocus reminders, and my Moleskine notebook. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Why can’t you simply use one computer at a time like the rest of us?
The way I work is to have on view as much research material as possible. When I’ve got the basic structure to a feature - usually around five or six sub-headings - I write quite quickly, and also in a non-sequential way. I decide the shape only when my outline is put into Pages on the iMac for “tickling” the final draft. It should take me no more than three hours to finish a piece.
By the way, both MacBook and iMac are linked via a nifty little utility called Teleport, which allows me to seamlessly control the iMac from my MacBook over the wifi network, and drag and drop files from one to the other. They also have a shared clipboard for copying and pasting.
On the left (out of shot) is another desk, part of the L-shape, and out of shot on the right is a three-drawer filing cabinet and Brother laser printer.
I've had the idea of drawing my own GTD Flow Chart for a while now. I couldn't take it any longer so at Caribou Coffee I pulled out a blank sheet of paper and began sketching it out. I'm in the process of modifying a few things and I'm progressing to a 1.0 setup.
(click here to view all photos from the London Tinderbox Workshop)
It is risky to promise that any day of workshops will be "fascinating, erudite, practical, and fun." Happily I think that this is just what we achieved at the London Tinderbox Workshop last Saturday, a gathering which included writers, gradstudents, a journalist, a business coach, a consulting researcher, and a corporate ethicist.
After morning introductions in Starbucks, and a move to the Grand Union Paddington, Alex Strick van Linschoten and I started the day by talking about how we use Tinderbox.
I demonstrated Tinderbox basics:
- while in a group planning session (demo: Business Model Generation Canvas)
- in personal tracking (philosophybites progress)
- for personal notes, while plotting the structure of Euclid's Elements of Geometry
Alex demonstrated his use of Tinderbox within journalism to:
- Store interview information
- Track relationships
- Pick out trends and common themes
- Visually verify with his sources that his picture of a situation is correct
- Connect with DevonThink, Scrivener, and other tools as part of the writing process
After lunch, we broke into groups:
- Alex gave a further demonstration of how he uses Tinderbox for research
- Mark Anderson demonstrated import/export and timeline features
In the last session, everyone worked together to create a shared Tinderbox document about the people, events, and issues of the South Sea Bubble of 1720, one of the early, great financial bubbles.
At the end, our teams gathered together, made a composite Tinderbox file of all our research, and gave presentations on what we achieved.
Alex's team put together a fascinating map of key players and relationships (a) (b) (c). During his presentation, we also created some agents to traverse the graph and find characters who had specific links to a specific house of parliament.
Mark's team assembled a fascinating timeline of key events in the history of the South Sea Company, including share prices (a) (b) (c).
Peter Button and I tried to fill in the historical context. We identified an ongoing theme around news and information technology: Jonathan's coffee house had started listing stock prices just twenty years earlier, and the world's first daily newspaper was only nine years old when the South Sea Company was formed. We also noticed a theme of bold expectations for Britain's maritime success. We learned that Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift supported the South Sea Company, and that Sir Isaac Newton apparently lost £20,000 pounds in options or real investment. Finally, we tracked down the further history of the South Sea Company, which continued to manage the British national debt until the 19th century. How did it pay off the debt? By transporting 34,000 slaves, 4,000 of which did not survive the journey. (context map) (context map zoomed out)
Out of session, the conversation was fascinating. I recall many fascinating conversations, including topics such as business ethics, the future of publishing, Kant v Aristotle, how the news works, and Serbian history. I always find that Tinderbox draws together a group of fascinating thinkers with interesting projects, and Saturday was yet another example of that.
Our main venue was the brand new Grand Union Paddington, a spacious yet intimate restaurant which just opened two weeks ago. We weren't expecting to enter the "Pleasure Level," but the venue was very good for our day of discussion and projects. We had access to a power socket, the WIFI (mostly) worked, and our makeshift projector screen functioned as planned. The seating worked well for what we needed. Three clusters of couches with tables worked well for our breakout groups (except when everyone clustered in the corner around Alex to see his research on Afghanistan). Movable cubes provided enough seating for main presentations. The serving staff were thoughtful, and we stayed in house for lunch. My vegetarian burger was tasty, and I think everyone else seemed satisfied with the food.
Dinner was at The Frontline Club. Most went for the rabbit and morel pie. I chose the potato dumplings with sprouting broccoli and Berkswell cheese. The dumplings were smooth and light, a very good complement to the fresh broccoli. I had not tasted Berkswell (which is a sheep's cheese) before, and I enjoyed how well it paired with the greens, its taste concentrated enough to add a nice edge to the rest of the dish.
Later today or tomorrow, I will post links to some of the files we created. Thanks for coming everyone!
DEVONagent and DEVONthink Pro has two of the coolest icons in the OS X world. They are very different and still very much in the same family. I like the colors, the texture, the shapes, the patterns. And the apps are excellent too.
L to R: Finder, Dashboard, Safari, iTunes, Peak, Ableton Live 5, Modul8, Processing, Quicken, DEVONthink Pro, Preview, FontExplorer X, System Preferences, Terminal, Adobe InDesign CS, Bridge [Not shown: InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2, Canon ImageBrowser, CameraWindow, Digital Photo Professional, NI Reaktor 5].
The nerve centre of a jobbing journo. On the left, iPad running a Press Release in DEVONthink To Go, with a cup of Simon Lévelt coffee. In the centre is my iMac running interview notes in DEVONthink Pro Office. In the foreground is my MacBook Air 11.6 running OmniOutliner Pro. This is where I knock out the structure and basic draft on my features, most of which are 1000-words plus. Finally, on the right is my iPhone ready to take calls and pre-set reminders, and my Moleskine notebook. Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Why can’t you simply use one computer like the rest of us? Good question, but it ignores the toy factor ;)
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My morning notes template in Drafts. Note that the text is in Markdown. This is because I only use Drafts for capture. I’ll save the resulting note to my permanent journal repository in DEVONthink, which uses Markdown natively. There, I can connect the ideas from my morning notes with ideas I’ve collected elsewhere.
Arango, Jorge, 2023. Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes
New York: Rosenfeld
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/duly-noted-extend-your-mind-thro...
DEVONthink features an AI engine that suggests containers within your database where a document might be stored based on its content.
Arango, Jorge, 2023. Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes
New York: Rosenfeld
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/duly-noted-extend-your-mind-thro...
Obsidian stores notes as plain Markdown files in a user-accessible folder. DEVONthink understands Markdown and can index files in any user-accessible folder. As a result, you can see and manipulate Obsidian notes in DEVONthink.
Arango, Jorge, 2023. Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes
New York: Rosenfeld
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/duly-noted-extend-your-mind-thro...
DEVONthink shows a selected document. In this case, it’s a note about a book. The right panel shows a list of documents in my database that might somehow be related.
Arango, Jorge, 2023. Duly Noted: Extend Your Mind through Connected Notes
New York: Rosenfeld
rosenfeldmedia.com/books/duly-noted-extend-your-mind-thro...