The last few weeks have been rather scattered. I’ve been working with ProseLab a lot, travelled to France for a short while, and have found little time to share updates within the PZTL newsletter.
That being said, you might have read my email a couple of days ago about the book and where it stands, but I made you an offer - we’ll start with that, in case you missed it…
Get the Minimal Note-Taking course when you pre-order the book
I’ve decided, in the wake of discontinuing the PARAZETTEL vault/community conglomeration of resources as a product, that I’d attach the Minimal Note-Taking course as a little bonus for the Minimal Note-Taking book pre-order.
When you get your copy now, not only do you save on the book when it goes live, but you also get some resources to watch to prep you with a summary of the ideas that I touch upon in the Minimal Note-Taking book…
Pre-Order Minimal Note-Taking
A Guide to Simplicity in a Distracted World...
Seeing as Minimal Note-Taking is the most important project that I’m working on at the moment, I’ve decided to wind down the other areas of my work right now, including ProseLab and Obssistant.
However, I’ve got something exciting to announce with relation to the latter…
The Obssistant plugin
I’ve been building out a plugin that allows you to interact with agents from within Obsidian.
The intention is to make it an all-in-one solution (built for myself as much as anybody else) for working with AI in the app. This means chats (first and foremost, powered by what I taught in PARAZETTEL V5 about Claude setup), with access to your notes and context.
At the same time, I loved InternetVin’s terminal plugin, so I’m looking to take inspiration from how it’s put together in the plugin, and also for building HTML views, so that we can view rendered html inside the editor rather than having to use the web viewer as well.
In short, it’s going to be a toolkit for the direction that I see AI-augmented PKM heading right now. It’s in the github repository if you want to download it now and try it yourself! (very early stages, so bear with me as I build).
Other than that, there’s one more change to announce…
A few visual changes on the site
I’ve been studying sites that I enjoy using, and have made a few changes to the PARAZETTEL.com platform in the wake of this.
We’ve built in a little border to frame articles a little more attractively, and make things more accessible and default from a display perspective - image thumbnail at the top, then title, metadata and content, as you might expect.
There are also new changes in the footers of articles and newsletters, as well as the signup pages that they lead you to. Signing people up to put them on this list is the most important thing that the website’s there to serve from a progress perspective, and they required a little tender love and care rather than just routing people to ConvertKit hosted forms.
It’s been a while since I wrote or filmed any new content as well, so I’ll leave you with my most recent article for now, but expect some new snippets from me soon, especially regarding book progress!
Talk soon,
– Theo
