Thinking together with Obsidian and Dropbox
Channel: Thinking in public
Date: 2021-08-22

In this video I'm talking to Ben Gordon, a physiotherapist in Boston with an interest in the role of machine learning in clinical practice. Ben and I have been working on the very early stages of writing an article together, and quickly became frustrated with the limitations of working collaboratively in Google Docs.

We started experimenting with a shared Dropbox folder that syncs to a vault in Obsidian, where we can take a more free-form approach to note-taking and drafting the ideas for our paper. I've taken to thinking of this approach as 'structured serendipity' where there are some boundaries to what we're thinking about, that nonetheless opens up spaces for each of us to be surprised.

As usual, I don't want to emphasise the use of any particular piece of software or service; this is about different approaches to how we think about thinking.