# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 174 - Aftermath ## Welcome Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week I've resumed my Knowledge Management coaching sessions, and it's been a blast. I always have a ton of fun exchanging ideas, tips, and tricks about PKM and Obsidian. I've also had fun launching the Obsidian Starter Kit on Product Hunt. More on this in The Lab section! Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The lab **🧪** As I've announced before, last week I [launched the Obsidian Starter Kit](https://www.dsebastien.net/obsidian-starter-kit-launch-i-need-you//) on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/obsidian-starter-kit). It was my first launch, and even though I didn't make it to the top of the ladder, I think I did all right. I did my best to promote the launch everywhere I could: - Mail to past customers - Messages to the PKM communities on Slack, Reddit and Discord - Blog posts on Ghost, Medium, Substack - Newsletter announcement - Tweets - HackerNews post - IndieHackers post - HashNode post - Banner on top of the Website - ... In total, we managed to 57 upvotes and 18 comments/testimonials: ![[image-48.png|Product Hunt Launch Day chart rising to 56 upvotes after hitting the homepage]] Caption: Obsidian Starter Kit Launch Day Stats @ Product Hunt Since the launch, we have now reached 92 followers, and 15 reviews: ![[image-49.png|Obsidian Starter Kit Product Hunt listing with 5-star rating, 15 reviews and 92 followers]] Caption: Product stats on Product Hunt Launching on Product Hunt had a positive impact on different levels: - More awareness about the product - Many visits to the landing page - A few sales - Useful feedback - More customer testimonials I can use to help me convince future prospects Moreover, the product page will remain online on Product Hunt's Website: [Obsidian Starter Kit - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/obsidian-starter-kit) This is also interesting, because it will continue to drive traffic to the product, and to my own website. That's a long-term SEO benefit. Last but not least, it's possible to launch the same product multiple times on the platform, meaning that I could try it again later (e.g., after each major release). I've learned a few lessons with the first launch. I shared those on X: > Some notes and lessons learned about the launch: > > - I should have prepared emails/social posts a few days before > - I should have warned my community at least 3 times, not only the day before and on launch day > - I should have prepared the correct link to the launch post [pic.x.com/tYFljwgj6c](https://t.co/tYFljwgj6c) > — Sébastien Dubois (@dSebastien) [August 12, 2024](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1822907317534298335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) PS: The launch promotion will remain active until the end of August. You can get a 25% on the [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit), using the following code: **xorertt** 🎉🎉🎉 [Obsidian Starter Kit](https://obsidianstarterkit.com) ## Business No real progress since the last edition. We're still at $112 per month: ![[image-50.png|Ghost stats card showing MRR stuck at $112 with 19 paid members out of 1,701]] Caption: Subscribers of this newsletter You are 19 paid members out of 1701 members. And you guys are my real true fans, then top 1% ❤️. If you care about what I do, then don't hesitate to show it: ## New articles I've published a short piece about how to assemble new pieces of content by reusing your existing notes: [How to create new content using your existing notes](https://www.dsebastien.net/how-to-create-new-content-using-your-existing-notes//) It's a really straightforward process. The more notes you have at your disposal, the more pathways there are through your knowledge base, and the more content you can create. ## Notes of the week I've started centralizing information about Obsidian on the following note: [Useful resources for Obsidian - DeveloPassion](https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.02+Content/Useful+resources+for+Obsidian) My goal is to create a hub of information about Obsidian, sharing useful links, recommendations, and best practices. I've also published various other notes this week, for instance about [learning curves](https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.02+Content/Learning+curve), the [forgetting curve](https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.02+Content/Forgetting+curve), the [spacing effect](https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.02+Content/Spacing+effect), and [spaced repetition](https://notes.dsebastien.net/30+Areas/33+Permanent+notes/33.02+Content/Spaced+repetition). ## Quotes of the week - Birds born in a cage think flying is a disease — Alejandro Josorowski - Which games you play is more important than how well you play them — Naval Ravikant ## Thinking and learning If you're new to Knowledge Management, then you might be interested in my recent thread: > Ever heard about Knowledge Management? > Want to learn more? > > Then read this thread, I'm going to what you need to know... With a bonus at the end! > — Sébastien Dubois (@dSebastien) [August 11, 2024](https://x.com/dSebastien/status/1822518343255175577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) I stumbled this interesting taxonomy for tracking people using Obsidian: [A taxonomy for tracking people using Obsidian](https://medium.com/@ensleytan/a-taxonomy-for-tracking-people-using-obsidian-9318c8ca1aca) It's something that I do heavily in my own vault and in the Obsidian Starter Kit, but I could probably take a few ideas out of that article to improve my approach. I currently distinguish between "persons" and "contacts", because contacts are people I actually know, meet, and exchange with. As such, I record more information about them (both personal and professional). I'm okay publishing notes about persons, but I keep contact notes to myself. Some ideas: track interactions with contacts, and add reminders to re-engage with contacts, for birthdays, special occasions, etc --- The "Folders vs Tags" debate will never end: [🌲 Yet Another Hot Take on “Folders vs Tags”](https://www.eleanorkonik.com/p/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-versus-tags) I won't try to convince you that one is better than the other. There's no point. But I will say this: both are useful and valuable. I should probably write an article with my own take on this topic. So far, I only have one discussing tagging specifically: [Best Practices for Tagging Notes in a PKM System](https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-05-17-why-and-how-to-tag-notes-in-your-pkm/) --- I'm still in love with the Johnny Decimal system. I'm not a zealot, but seeing neatly organized folders everywhere makes me feel good: [The Johnny Decimal System](https://www.dsebastien.net/2022-04-29-johnny-decimal//) --- Bob Doto's explanation of what permanent notes are: [What is a Permanent Note? (Correcting Some Common Misunderstandings)](https://writing.bobdoto.computer/what-is-a-permanent-note-correcting-some-common-misunderstandings/) --- I deeply agree with the following article. More people should use Markdown: [Why I Use Markdown, and Why You Should Too](https://medium.com/@RyanElston/why-i-use-markdown-and-why-you-should-too-c4a7e38c96d5) --- Is progressive summarization as recommended by Tiago Forte, good or bad? [The Potential Side Effects of Progressive Summarization](https://medium.com/@nickmilo22/why-progressive-summarization-must-die-c2635d1f79f1) ## Fun stuff I've decided to add this section to discuss a bit more about my learning experiments... This week, I've started exploring [FLUX.1](https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux), a new image generation model developed by [Black Forest Labs](https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs). It's able to generate amazing and hyper realistic images. Interestingly, it's also capable of generating text much better than other models I've tried before. Last but not least, it can be fine-tuned to generate very specific images (e.g., pictures of you doing various things in various places 😂) For this experiment, I've decided to use [Replicate.com](https://replicate.com/), and their JavaScript/TypeScript API, as shown in [this example](https://github.com/replicate/getting-started-nextjs-typescript/tree/main). The end result is a React/Next.js/Prime React/Tailwind application that I have deployed on Vercel: ![[image-51.png|Custom web app built to generate article illustrations through the FLUX.1 model via Replicate]] This application enables me to generate images using the FLUX.1 model through Replicate's infrastructure. The source code is available on GitHub, but I wouldn't say that this is a good example 😂 Next up, I plan to create an Obsidian plugin for Replicate. My idea is to make it a breeze to generate images (or text) using different models, right from Obsidian, for instance by selecting a line of text in the editor and by invoking a command or context menu entry 🚀. I also want to create fine-tuned versions of the model for my own needs, following this tutorial: [Fine-tune FLUX.1 with your own images](https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-flux) LINK: - [[Obsidian Starter Kit v2.3.0 (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/obsidian-starter-kit-v3// LINK: - [[Obsidian Starter Kit v2.3.0 (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/obsidian-starter-kit-v2-3-0-your-knowledge-system-just-got-even-better// LINK: - [[Obsidian Starter Kit]] - https://www.store.dsebastien.net/product/obsidian-starter-kit