Congrats on your new(ish) Substack site -- I wasn't aware of it. Substack is a very different environment than WordPress, and I have mixed feelings about it. For now I'm staying with WordPress. But I do read and subscribe here, and somehow I've picked up 13 subscribers (including yourself -- thanks!) despite having no posts.
I'd be interested to hear about your experiences with Obsidian. Like you, I have a collection of articles that could benefit from some higher organization. The work of figuring out and implementing a larger structure is daunting, and I'm starting to think about AI as an option (though I have mixed feelings about that, too). I hope you find room in your new blog for some posts about what it's like to work with Obsidian.
By the way, my last three WordPress posts (the "Planet Jung" series) concern Iain McGilchrist's ideas, in part anyway. I have a rather twisted take; I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. (Also McGilchrist's, but I doubt he knows I'm alive.)
Hi Jim, I will take a look at that recent series of posts and give you some feedback.
At the moment the WordPress version is just "mothballed" - I may go back to it depending my SubStack experience. I used to cross-post systematically from WP to SS and then in an ad-hoc way. I'm just getting frustrated with WordPress. I noticed quite a lot of the people I follow on social media did their writing on Substack, so thought I'd give it a go natively.
This time I'm using a different export from WP direct to MD (Markdown) rather than WP-XML - but still using Chat-GPT to "Vibe-Code" processing scripts. Seems to work if I patiently do it incrementally. Currently left with a stack of exceptions that reflect my own inconsistent handling of content and links - so it's a manual grind with or without the AI. Diminishing returns, but I'll get it to a point where I have a useful archive for myself, whether I add any future value or not. I will write-up on the WP blog (and share on SS).
Congrats on your new(ish) Substack site -- I wasn't aware of it. Substack is a very different environment than WordPress, and I have mixed feelings about it. For now I'm staying with WordPress. But I do read and subscribe here, and somehow I've picked up 13 subscribers (including yourself -- thanks!) despite having no posts.
I'd be interested to hear about your experiences with Obsidian. Like you, I have a collection of articles that could benefit from some higher organization. The work of figuring out and implementing a larger structure is daunting, and I'm starting to think about AI as an option (though I have mixed feelings about that, too). I hope you find room in your new blog for some posts about what it's like to work with Obsidian.
By the way, my last three WordPress posts (the "Planet Jung" series) concern Iain McGilchrist's ideas, in part anyway. I have a rather twisted take; I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. (Also McGilchrist's, but I doubt he knows I'm alive.)
Hi Jim, I will take a look at that recent series of posts and give you some feedback.
At the moment the WordPress version is just "mothballed" - I may go back to it depending my SubStack experience. I used to cross-post systematically from WP to SS and then in an ad-hoc way. I'm just getting frustrated with WordPress. I noticed quite a lot of the people I follow on social media did their writing on Substack, so thought I'd give it a go natively.
I did once write-up what I was doing with Obsidian (back here a year ago https://www.psybertron.org/archives/20200 )
This time I'm using a different export from WP direct to MD (Markdown) rather than WP-XML - but still using Chat-GPT to "Vibe-Code" processing scripts. Seems to work if I patiently do it incrementally. Currently left with a stack of exceptions that reflect my own inconsistent handling of content and links - so it's a manual grind with or without the AI. Diminishing returns, but I'll get it to a point where I have a useful archive for myself, whether I add any future value or not. I will write-up on the WP blog (and share on SS).