1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:21,180 Okay, we are live. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend. This is Marks. I'm your host every week, week in and week out. Let's make sure that we're live here on the channels. But as you can see, I'm not in my normal location. I am on a trip. 2 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:24,620 I'm just checking to see if this is live. 3 00:00:25,980 --> 00:00:26,640 There we go. 4 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,140 We are live. 5 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:27,660 Great. 6 00:00:28,580 --> 00:00:29,120 Got audio. 7 00:00:30,140 --> 00:00:32,340 Yeah, I'm in a remote location. 8 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:35,560 If I bend over here, you can see the ocean is behind me. 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:37,080 There's the water. 10 00:00:37,220 --> 00:00:37,840 Beautiful water. 11 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:43,540 Go out, get some sun, touch some grass, get in the sand, go swimming, do something. 12 00:00:44,239 --> 00:00:48,300 Wherever you are, you can get outside and enjoy a little bit of Mother Nature. 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:50,440 Maybe not today, but tomorrow. 14 00:00:51,420 --> 00:00:53,600 If you're in poor weather somewhere, the weather will pass. 15 00:00:54,900 --> 00:00:55,720 Go get some sun. 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,720 Okay, we're live everywhere, it looks like. 17 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:00,600 Let's see if we're even live on ZapStream. 18 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:01,440 Yeah, all right. 19 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:02,980 ZapStream is working this time. 20 00:01:03,140 --> 00:01:03,600 That's awesome. 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:04,519 I'm going to mute it. 22 00:01:04,620 --> 00:01:05,199 Sorry about that. 23 00:01:06,060 --> 00:01:06,700 Okay, cool. 24 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,440 Well, today's show is going to be a little short for multiple reasons. 25 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,340 One, I am on a trip, so it's not going to be as long. 26 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,060 And then also, my battery is getting low on my laptop. 27 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:19,080 So we got that going for us, too. 28 00:01:19,740 --> 00:01:25,380 And I took so long getting this all set up out here that I didn't don't have time to go grab the cable here. 29 00:01:27,060 --> 00:01:28,140 But let's see. 30 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:29,780 Sure. 31 00:01:30,260 --> 00:01:31,320 Okay, great. 32 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:34,220 Today, we're going to be talking about taking notes. 33 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,220 Note taking is something that tons of people do. 34 00:01:37,860 --> 00:01:38,780 I'm sure you take notes. 35 00:01:39,260 --> 00:01:42,140 And there are like a million tools out there for taking notes. 36 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:47,560 And so many of them have different privacy implications underneath the hood. 37 00:01:48,140 --> 00:01:51,080 And so I want to talk about the one that I use every day, which is Obsidian. 38 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:53,640 And I have tried tons of different tools. 39 00:01:54,350 --> 00:01:55,460 This is the one that I'm using right now. 40 00:01:55,900 --> 00:01:57,800 I am always looking for something better. 41 00:01:57,850 --> 00:01:59,800 I have another one on my radar that I want to start trying. 42 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:05,440 And so I'm going to give it a try here in a little while and then do a future show about it 43 00:02:05,530 --> 00:02:09,880 and maybe compare my experience between Obsidian and this other one that I want to look at. 44 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:11,120 It's called AnyType. 45 00:02:12,020 --> 00:02:13,760 So let's dive into Obsidian. 46 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:16,780 If you have any questions, drop them in the chat. 47 00:02:17,540 --> 00:02:20,360 I got some emoji thumbs up and smiley faces. 48 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:20,760 All right. 49 00:02:20,970 --> 00:02:21,440 Thanks, Johnny. 50 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:22,440 Cool. 51 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:23,760 We got some people on the stream. 52 00:02:24,180 --> 00:02:27,220 So again, if you're just joining us, we got the ocean behind us. 53 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,500 I've got birds all around chirping and I've got ocean sounds. 54 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:32,100 It's great. 55 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:34,120 We are going to talk about note taking. 56 00:02:34,460 --> 00:02:35,880 Let's secure our notes. 57 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:46,240 So I know probably the most popular note taking app is Google Drive and Google Docs. 58 00:02:46,340 --> 00:02:50,980 people take notes in there all the time it's super easy and it synchronizes everywhere that you are 59 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,840 so you just pop open the tab and you start typing and then you can share it with other people and 60 00:02:56,140 --> 00:03:02,660 that's awesome most people in my experience from from when i've i've talked to people and seen what 61 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,720 they're doing the sharing functionality is great but for a ton of people they just use it just to 62 00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:11,500 take their personal notes and they take them in there and that's it so i want to show you 63 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,320 something that could hopefully replace that for you so you're not sharing all of your notes with 64 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,820 and you can get a lot similar experience as Google. 65 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,200 You do miss out on some of the collaboration. 66 00:03:23,690 --> 00:03:26,420 You still get collaboration, but you miss out on some of it. 67 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:31,920 So I would say if you need that, then you separate your note-taking, 68 00:03:32,510 --> 00:03:34,480 and you make Obsidian your default, 69 00:03:34,930 --> 00:03:38,420 or whatever local privacy one you want to do, you make that your default, 70 00:03:38,940 --> 00:03:42,580 and then you use something like Google only when you need to collaborate with others, 71 00:03:43,010 --> 00:03:45,860 and you're okay with that information being stored on Google servers. 72 00:03:45,980 --> 00:03:56,600 right okay um nice comment uh winsome hacks talking about touch grass and accidentally not 73 00:03:56,650 --> 00:04:00,900 saying grass and saying something else that could make for a good day or it can make for a really 74 00:04:00,950 --> 00:04:07,160 bad day for you depending on how that goes down okay i'm going to share my screen and we're going 75 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:13,040 to look at obsidian here again uh if you're just joining this is going to be a shorter show because 76 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:21,799 I'm on a trip and I have low battery. Okay. So you're seeing my Obsidian here. Let me just make 77 00:04:21,870 --> 00:04:29,700 sure you are seeing this. Yes, you are. All right. Cool. This is Obsidian. It has a lot of the 78 00:04:29,730 --> 00:04:34,340 note-taking stuff that you'd expect inside any app. You can create a document. You can create 79 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:39,740 folders, right? I've got tabs here so I can have multiple documents open at once. So I have, 80 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:46,660 come on, let's do this. Okay. So this is I'm showing you the ins and outs of kind of how I 81 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:52,340 prepare my shows here. So I've got this master app list for Freedom Tech Weekend, where I keep 82 00:04:52,450 --> 00:04:55,360 track of apps I don't want to talk about, and then I cross them out after I've talked about them. 83 00:04:55,850 --> 00:05:02,040 So you can see some upcoming episodes, I'd love to do bit chat, I'd love to one of our one of our 84 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,759 viewers the other day brought up the Aura digital frame that they got for their birthday, and they're 85 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:13,900 wanting to get something more privacy focused. So I want to try and find digital frames that 86 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:18,560 have a little bit of privacy built into them. I want to talk about ebooks and audiobooks on a 87 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,880 future episode. There's this photo app called Ante Photos that I want to look at. I still want to do 88 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:29,140 one on Meshtastic. Sparrow is something I'd love to cover. And then Anytype is the one that I 89 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:33,960 mentioned here at the very beginning that might become my future note-taking. It's so much more 90 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:39,680 note taking but i want to look into that one more one episode i was looking at doing was vibe coding 91 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,280 your own tools and so that's what i have over here i've come up with some use cases for maybe things 92 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:49,660 that we could go over covering how to vibe code your own tools if you're not a programmer but you 93 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:53,640 have little things that you want to do then you can vibe code some little utility for yourself 94 00:05:55,280 --> 00:05:59,800 now obsidian the main thing here is that all of your notes are stored locally you have a vault 95 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,940 right so i've got this vault down here for freedom tech weekend if i click on this um this 96 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:08,520 also we use it for for work. And so we have a shared vault for 97 00:06:08,590 --> 00:06:11,680 work, which goes into the collaboration stuff right now as 98 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,200 I'm typing here, right if I there's an Oster by type and to 99 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:19,060 say blah, blah, blah, then this is immediately stored on my 100 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,600 laptop. But then it is also synchronized to the obsidian 101 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,040 cloud, but it's using an encryption key. So the 102 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,820 encryption key is something that I know that obsidian doesn't 103 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,480 know. And so it's privately encrypted here and then sent to 104 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,160 their servers and then sent to all my other devices. So they 105 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,680 have mobile apps for Android and iOS. They have desktop apps, obviously, like I'm using. And then 106 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:44,440 they have Linux apps. So it's available on every single platform that I want to be on. And then 107 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,780 it is synchronized in the background automatically. The collaboration stuff is pretty simple. 108 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,580 It's if somebody else was sharing this with me, as they start typing, stuff starts moving around 109 00:06:54,610 --> 00:07:01,140 on my screen, very similar to Google Docs. They also have a robust, obviously, you can see here 110 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:06,020 on the left you've got your file picker where you can have folders for files and things um this is 111 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,380 when i was trying to figure out if i could do some kind of post about like what are the macronutrients 112 00:07:11,410 --> 00:07:16,180 of a beef patty a beyond meat patty and a snickers bar which is kind of a funny little thing i was 113 00:07:16,260 --> 00:07:21,060 working on uh let's see you have all these other things over here that i don't really use that much 114 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,000 but they've got like a canvas thing so you can drag and drop and do some kind of more free form 115 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:32,820 layout. Let's see. Start a note for today. Maybe more journaling. My graph view. Let's not look at 116 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:39,320 that. All right. How do I get back to what I was doing? Okay. The other thing I want to show you 117 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:45,840 is they have this whole community thing of plugins. Now, I'm only sharing Obsidian, so I'm 118 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,720 not going to go, but we always go and look at GitHub here on Freedom Tech Weekend or wherever 119 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:56,840 source code is hosted. One caveat about Obsidian is that the core code for Obsidian is not open 120 00:07:56,950 --> 00:08:03,060 source. But a ton of their other stuff is. So they have like a whole ecosystem of open source stuff 121 00:08:03,170 --> 00:08:09,320 around Obsidian, but the core itself is not. So you are trusting that the encryption that is done 122 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:15,460 on your laptop locally is done correctly and that it is encrypted through to their servers when it's 123 00:08:15,460 --> 00:08:18,920 synchronized. So there is a trust level there. That's one reason why I want to look at AnyType 124 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:25,480 because any type is fully open source. So that I want to be open and transparent there with that. 125 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,920 Maybe something has changed. But when I went looking this morning, I couldn't find the open 126 00:08:29,990 --> 00:08:36,140 source code for the core. Okay, I want to open up preferences settings and show you a little bit in 127 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:42,120 here. So obviously, you can do auto updates for your app if you want to. Now I have purchased 128 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:47,640 an account where I get like elevated syncing access to their servers and I can add people 129 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,840 I can't remember. There's a commercial license here. I hope I didn't just dock something there. 130 00:08:53,300 --> 00:09:02,160 My bad. So what I wanted to show you here is community plugins. Now with community plugins, 131 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,440 you can click on browse. And they have tons of stuff in here. So for one, I've played around 132 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,260 this Kanban board here. So if you're doing project management or managing your own stuff, 133 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:17,620 like you can click on Kanban. And then it creates a nice little like column area where you can drag 134 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:23,640 similar to Trello. They have calendars, so you can build a whole calendar here with an Obsidian. 135 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:35,160 It's really powerful. Tables, Excalibur, edit and draw Excalibur. Files, Data View, 136 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:42,900 Task Manager. So you can have a whole Task Manager inside here. Now the underlying thing with 137 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:47,920 obsidian is that it uses markdown files and this is actually really awesome so you can use markdown 138 00:09:48,180 --> 00:09:52,100 in here and then you can copy and paste it in github or any other tool that uses markdown 139 00:09:52,440 --> 00:10:00,320 ghost blog accepts it really well so it's nice to go from here to ghost i do a lot of that and then 140 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:06,140 something else that's good is um the files are just markdown files on your laptop so i said 141 00:10:06,150 --> 00:10:10,020 they're stored locally you can just grab them and open it's not some it's not some proprietary 142 00:10:10,020 --> 00:10:14,380 format that is only known to obsidian and that's great all right we've got some comments here 143 00:10:15,380 --> 00:10:22,080 features i need and will not use without have to have encryption number two obsidian not knowing 144 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,600 the keys in case of hacks three availability on linux and mobile sounds like it covers 145 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:32,240 to my knowledge it covers all of those um again the core is not open source another promethean 146 00:10:32,260 --> 00:10:38,260 is saying log sec is just as good and it's open source i did see that in my in my research so 147 00:10:38,180 --> 00:10:41,460 So I'll look at log set and then you also like any type. 148 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:48,840 That's awesome because any type has like a ton of amazing promises on their page of what they can accomplish. 149 00:10:49,030 --> 00:10:53,720 And so I'm definitely going to try that out and give you guys give you guys a view. 150 00:10:54,470 --> 00:10:57,980 But if you want to look at log sec, then you can go check that out. 151 00:10:58,290 --> 00:11:02,500 And then any type is one I'm going to be looking at next after after this. 152 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,600 OK, like I promised, this is a short show today. 153 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:16,440 Note taking. Some people might have needed to hear this just to know there are other options than Google Notes out there or Microsoft OneNote or Evernote. 154 00:11:17,310 --> 00:11:23,000 These are systems that helped get collaboration within notes and kind of opened up the space. 155 00:11:24,150 --> 00:11:29,160 But there is so much more now that you can do that is more secure, more private, more open source. 156 00:11:29,450 --> 00:11:34,740 And that's what we're all about here. We're trying to bring more freedom and sovereignty to any tool that you use. 157 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:42,160 So this weekend, go grab a tool, whether it's Obsidian or GrowGrab, LogSec, which we haven't looked through here but is recommended. 158 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,660 Or you can grab any type and go check them out. 159 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:47,140 You don't need my permission. 160 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:48,800 Just go look into these tools yourselves. 161 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,740 We're trying to empower you with the skills you need to go suss out what is a good project and maybe what is not. 162 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:56,680 So go take a look at one of these note-taking apps. 163 00:11:57,220 --> 00:11:58,340 Start taking some notes there. 164 00:11:59,020 --> 00:12:02,260 And then I hope you have a great weekend. 165 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,960 So let's go ahead and end this share here. 166 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:08,100 Get back to my stream studio. 167 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,800 We got 600 people on there. 168 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:11,820 I think we have some. 169 00:12:11,980 --> 00:12:13,840 Oh, let me check the Zap stream. 170 00:12:13,940 --> 00:12:16,380 We got some over on Zap stream as well, but no comments. 171 00:12:17,020 --> 00:12:17,940 So thank you for joining me. 172 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,780 Go out, have a great weekend, touch grass, feel the sun, 173 00:12:21,780 --> 00:12:22,860 do all that great stuff. 174 00:12:23,140 --> 00:12:24,260 Find some family and friends. 175 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,920 If you can find some to be around in person, 176 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:28,220 if that's possible, 177 00:12:29,020 --> 00:12:31,360 it'll bring a lot of joy and happiness in your life. 178 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:32,160 All right. 179 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:33,420 Have a great weekend. 180 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:34,520 We'll see you next time. 181 00:12:35,579 --> 00:12:35,980 Later. 182 00:13:03,299 --> 00:13:06,100 Thank you.