changelog

Tracking the changes across this site, which is powered by Bear + Jekyll

2020-11-20 — A few note updates

• Added:
  • I am looking for new and meaningful projects in 2021
  • Drafts is for immediate note capture and works in progress
  • The ability to jump from sentence to sentence, idea to idea, changes the way the mind works
  • Am I the mediocre white man they so often speak about?
  • We have barely begun to see the effects of the fallout from this pandemic
• Updated:
  • Bear is for networked thinking
  • My new system design
  • Writing is thinking
  • We must confront ourselves. It’s as simple as that
  • The Great Reset

2020-09-21 — Getting back into things

• Updated copy on the homepage

2020-07-01 — Tidying + evolving notes

• Added a prompt to encourage commenting at the bottom of each note
• Added example newsletter (issue #1) to /subscribe
• New Notes
  • The Great Reset
  • Digital Mind Garden
  • Learning in public
  • Every time you tend to an idea you create an opportunity to share original work with others
  • Finding topics to write about is most effective when a body of notes already exists and all we have to do is look at where there is density of notes
• Updated Notes
  • public notes build authority and trust
  • web of thinking

2020-06-26 — New + updated notes

• It’s tough to live life amid all these circumstances
• Friday is for closing loops, weekly reviews, and funky tunes
• Cleaned up and reorganized What has my attention now
• It feels like there’s a new internet being built with the principle of the early days—sharing and connecting knowledge—but with the wisdom of today, accumulated over decades of improving technology’s capabilities
• Added links to workflows on Alfred is for automation and central control

2020-06-18 — Fixed URLs + newsletter subscription

• Made permalinks more accessible with hypens instead of spaces
• Added link to substack subscription in footer
• Added refinedmind.co
• Added a new logo!
• Updated What has my attention now
• New notes uploaded
  • The land of the free is such a lie
  • America
  • automate what you can
  • Ideas improve by writing about them not by thinking about them
  • web of thinking
  • Share ideas before they’re ready
  • public notes build authority and trust

2020-06-16 — Black Lives Matter

• Updated MTDC homepage with BLM
• New notes uploaded
  • Black Lives Matter
  • We must confront ourselves. It’s as simple as that

2020-06-15 — Updated some language

• Updated homepage language
• Made changeling more accessible

2020-06-12 — Added commenting + new notes

• Sensemaking and wayfinding are critical skills for thriving in 2020 and beyond
• Wayfinding is the process of orienting within new environments, navigating through space, and progressing towards desired destinations
• Sensemaking is the process of creating situational awareness amid uncertain and ambiguous situations and anticipating trajectories in order to effectively make decisions
• Added a comment system in hopes of some dialogue and public discourse!

2020-06-09 — Content + Layout updates

• Added more notes
  • Bidirectional links between apps would greatly improve interoperability of concepts and ideas
  • My new system design
  • Alfred is for automation and central control
  • Bear is for networked thinking
  • How to take smart notes
• Updated footer with changelog link

2020-06-07 — Updated URL

• Now running on http://mind.miketannenbaum.com (will change soon)

2020-05-29 — Site deployed to Netlify!

• Deployed to tannenbaum.netlify.app
• Running on my new GitHub repo /my-public-mind
• Content added
• Stylesheets updated
• Tweeted the link out once

2020-05-28 — Built on the shoulders of others

• Base: Maxime Vaillancourt’s Setting up your own digital garden with Jekyll 🌱
• Wiki links converted to html links with Extending Jekyll markdown
  • Based on GitHub - jhvanderschee/brackettest

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