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Welcome to WarrenWeb

It’s been almost 10 years since I started WarrenWeb here as a WordPress blog in September 2014 (initially with Doug Warren as its title). I have really enjoyed this journey, and my website has matured quite a bit over that time. As I gained more experience and explored new interests, I have decided to enhance my website and migrate to the Ghost publishing platform for my pages, posts, and newsletter.

Ghost Migration

During this transition, I have established an initial foundation with about 250 main pages that I have enhanced for the new website, with links to existing content here to ensure a smooth migration. Recently, I started a stream of daily posts on Ghost about this website migration, as well as my new digital garden of WarrenWeb Notes.

Please visit my new WarrenWeb website at https://blog.warrenweb.net. It has my Blog posts and a menu for major sections with my website pages: Home, PKM, Technology, Interests, and About.

Free Newsletter

I appreciate my experiences here with this WordPress community, and hope you subscribe on my new website. It would be wonderful to have my current WordPress followers and visitors signup with a Free subscription to receive my WarrenWeb newsletter with new blog posts.

Plus Subscription

I’m also offering a custom link with a free 3-month trial Plus paid subscription (normally 30-days) for a limited-time. This provides additional benefits such as website comments, additional content, and downloads. It also includes access to WarrenWeb Notes, which is my digital garden website with linked notes from my PKM system; you can explore what I’m thinking, linking, and sharing via Obsidian Publish before it’s ready to be published as Ghost pages and posts.

Tips and Donations

Tips and donations are now available for one-time payments to support my work with no membership required; these are processed on my dedicated payment link by Stripe payment services. The suggested amount is $5 USD, and any contributions help pay for my website and related expenses so I can continue with this effort. I appreciate your support!

Thanks

I hope you enjoy your visit to my site—reading, listening, watching, learning, thinking, and linking … and come back often. Linking my thinking has transformed my life, and I want to share information and ideas that I have learned. I hope it helps you as well.

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PKM Notes

Making, developing, organizing, processing, and sharing Obsidian linked notes.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/pkm-notes

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Shine a LYT on PKM

Part 1 of this PKM series focuses on the LYT framework for organization (ACE) and folders.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/shine-a-lyt-on-pkm

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LYT 14 Introduction

Introduction with my LYT journey, PKM thinking, app linking, WarrenWeb sharing, and Obsidian vault remodeling.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/lyt-14-introduction

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Piano Favorites #1

Listen to my Piano Favorites #1 playlist (58 songs, 4+ hours). It’s a great PKM soundtrack for your notes.
Please visit today’s blog post at my Ghost website:

https://blog.warrenweb.net/music-playlist-piano-favorites-1

It would be wonderful to have my current followers and visitors subscribe to receive new content published in my WarrenWeb newsletter. Use this special custom link for a free 3-month trial Plus subscription (normally 30-days) with additional benefits such as my WarrenWeb Notes (Obsidian Publish digital garden), website comments, and downloads. Thank you!

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Visual Thinking Tools

Use visual thinking tools to improve the writing process with Obsidian notes and maps.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/visual-thinking-tools

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Notes and Maps

Use maps for Obsidian notes to collect, cluster, and organize linked content for apps, efforts, and outputs.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/notes-and-maps

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Read Workflow

Integrate Arc Browser, Readwise Reader, and Obsidian in this new series of notes.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/read-workflow

Writing Original Works – Course Launch
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Writing Original Works – Course Launch

Develop your ideas to share with a reliable writing process based on the Creator’s Codex framework and techniques in the Writing Original Works (WOW) self-paced course.

https://blog.warrenweb.net/writing-original-works-course-launch

WarrenWeb Workflow
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WarrenWeb Workflow

WarrenWeb Workflow

Please visit today’s blog post about my WarrenWeb Workflow at my Ghost website at:

https://blog.warrenweb.net/warrenweb-workflow

It would be wonderful to have my current visitors and followers become subscribers as I publish new content on Ghost. Thank you!

Arc – Browse for me
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Arc – Browse for me

NOTE: See an enhanced version of this original post on my new Ghost website for WarrenWeb: Arc – Browse for Me. It has now been split into pages for Tidy Tabs, Instant Links, and Arc Sync.

I have migrated and enhanced much of my content from WordPress to Ghost, with links to remaining pages and posts that have not been processed yet.

Please visit my new WarrenWeb website and consider subscribing to receive my newsletter.

The Browser Company released this week’s update to Arc browser with several interesting features: Arc Sync, Tidy Tabs, and Instant Links. With these automatic tab groups, you can easily save them in Pinned Tabs, move selected folders to another Arc space, or copy all its tabs as Markdown links for an Obsidian note or map.

Arc Sync

The new Arc Sync feature provides end-to-end encryption for your sidebar across your devices that is fast and doesn’t depend on iCloud. This cross-platform capability is a step towards Arc, anywhere (iCloud sync to be phased out soon).

Click “Turn On” in the Arc Max tab of Arc > Settings (Cmd + comma), just below the Sync Sidebar with iCloud setting.

Tidy Tabs

Now you have a browser that tidies for you. It automatically makes sense of all those links that you collected while reading your email, feeds, or social media; or maybe you were just browsing interesting stuff for your efforts, or researching a topic that you’re working on. This is especially handy during the Add phase of your PKM workflow.

Previously, you would have clustered related tabs together and then selected multiple related tabs into a tab group and assigned a folder name. Now your browser helps you get this done with Arc Max AI. Then you might drag selected folders into your Pinned Tabs, maybe under a dated folder within Calendar, or perhaps move them to another space for further Relate work, perhaps for Efforts.

Press the broomstick 🧹 icon at the top of your Today Tabs in the sidebar, and let your Sidebar organize itself whenever you have over six Today tabs. Tidy Tabs only organizes Today Tabs, which appears below the + New Tab button. Your other tabs will not be affected. You can turn on Today Tabs by CMD + T > Settings > Max.

In my Web space I use for browsing, I had 33 Today tabs in my sidebar; Arc analyzed them with AI and grouped them into the following 6 folders.

  • Javascript
  • Cooking
  • Obsidian
  • Apple
  • Diabetes
  • Other

For example, I had clicked some email links on Medium about Apple Vision Pro and Apple Watch, as well as another one on Pickle (pkl) that Apple introduced as a new open source programming language for configuration. Arc automatically grouped them together in a tab folder named Apple.

Instant Links

What if you could just tell your browser exactly what you wanted, and it understood you? Well, today you get a glimpse into the future of what browsing the web might look like.

Turn on the new Instant Links feature with Arc > Settings > Arc Max > Instant Links, and let Arc browse for you.

  • Press Shift + Enter after entering a web search into Command-T, which instantly opens the top result.
  • You can also search multiple queries – try experimenting with your searches.
  • To create a folder of tabs, use “Folder of” before your search query; for example, “Folder of the cutest cat breeds”

Try this:

  • Press CMD +
  • Enter this search: Folder of the cutest cat breeds
  • Press Shift + Enter
  • Arc will search the web and immediately open the top results with the web page from the SprucePets site.
  • But it also automatically creates a tab folder in your sidebar with the name “Cutest Cat Breeds” that will contain these 5 tabs:
    • 23 Cutest Cat Breeds Anyone Will Love
    • 20 Cutest Cat Breeds of 2024 | Picture…
    • Cutest Cat Breeds | Petfinder
    • What are the cutest and rarest breeds…
    • The Cutest Cat Breeds: 14 Cats You’ll…

You might enjoy last week’s announcement that shows “A browser that browses for you”: Meet Act II of Arc Browser – YouTube video (15 min).