a post in Pete's Journal
by Peter Kaminski, 2022-07-25
Over on Lionsberg Town Square, we're having a discussion about Curating, including via Hashtags and Linking.
I wanted to demonstrate some linking-to-curate in this post, using a simple search for "community currency".
Doing the search in Obsidian, I find the phrase on these pages:
Had this been real curation instead of a demo, this might be where I wax poetic (or expound intelligently, or whatever) about what I observed about the phrase and where it turned up.
Note that in this simple demo, I did a simple search, and just found the exact phrase. In a real act of curation, I'd probably have a memory of a variety of posts, both in formal "core" pages, and also in informal journal pages, perhaps meeting notes (as above), chats or transcripts, etc. And it would be not just the exact strings, but I would use my human pattern-matching to pull together related materials, perhaps about economics, recognition of reciprocity, etc.
Note that a curation page like this can also link to Mattermost (or web pages, of course, but I won't demo that):
Upshot:
Pretty easy to do, ties together lots of things in ways that other people can build on. Linking, one of the true strengths of wiki.