Probing the Digital Side
I’m working on a book-length project now and still using the analog approach at the note-taking and idea card creation stage, but in the interest of facilitating outlining and draft compilation I’ve been experimenting with Obsidian’s Longform community plugin, and it actually seems to work pretty well for me. This involves inputting my physical cards of course as I would have anyway, but since it’s in an Obsidian vault, I’m inputting them as Zettels keeping their titles (for outlining convenience) and their unique IDs (not sure why). Anyway it gives me the feeling of having “gone over to digital” (or at least hybrid). Longform allows me to rearrange the order of the cards and assign them to chapters, but can also compile them by stripping links and titles and generating straight text when I’m ready, which can be exported or copied to a Word file. I’ll report on details soon as the project proceeds!