News Summary

• In one of his all-time favorite books, Tools for Conviviality, the author, Ivan Illich, describes a convivial tool as one that lets the user exercise their autonomy/independence, and creativity.
• With Obsidian, you get a blank Markdown file that you can mold to your needs.
• Since Markdown is a plaintext format, you aren't locked into any app's proprietary file format.
• Obsidian makes it so easy to create and track these connections.