Tidy Up Your Dashboard — Introduction I have been setting up a dashboard to provide a landing page for my knowledge management system. In this brief post, I will describe how to use CSS snippets to backlinks on a single page. Backlinks The automatic generation of backlinks in Obsidian is an extremely useful feature as the links…

I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool. I have also recently started to also use Obsidian for managing small projects. The key benefits that I have found to date are, Automatic internal linking (wiki links) Powerful search Plugin support Storage…

I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool. The Problem I am currently only writing for Medium and one of my frustrations has been that there is no simple way to export content from Obsidian into Medium. Copying a note from Obsidian and…

Introduction Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool. The key benefits that I have found to date are, Automatic internal linking (wiki-links) Powerful search …

Part 1: Short form writing 1,500–3,000 words — Introduction This post describes my writing process for sort-form articles which are typically between 1,500 to 3,000 words (currently these are Medium posts, but may expand to include other online platforms in the future). I have taken up writing online approximately 12 months ago and until now have been using Microsoft…

Open-source tools for industrial automation — This article continues a series where we use open-source Data Science tools to analyze alarm and event logs produced by SCADA systems. This is the third article in the series, previous articles included, Processing SCADA Alarm Data Offline with ELK SCADA Alarm Standards & Metrics In Processing SCADA Alarm Data…

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool. The key benefits that I have found to date are, Automatic internal linking (wikilinks) Powerful search …

When having a purpose can harm your business — You may have noticed one of the current management fads is that every organisation needs to be purpose-driven as this is said to be the only way to ensure engaged staff and loyal customers. The extent of interest in this can be gauged by searching “Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization” on…

How to find contentment — We all seek to be happy and contented with our lives. This can lead to a number of different responses which can include, Striving to improve ourselves or our environment Blaming others Hoping for things to improve Generally, the actions listed above do little to improve our happiness. In this…