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I've been using a combination of Obsidian and Otter/AndroidRecorder to get writing more frequently. I have daily notes for streaming odd thoughts into and while I walk the dog I turn on Otter (or if I have no signal Android Recorder) and just talk to myself as I walk.

I come back from my walk with 1000-2000 words which I run through AI to clean up and remove all the dog commands and garbled bits. I use another preconfigured setup to link those to existing subjects and extract tags, topics and summaries. All of a sudden I have a wealth fragments of my thinking.

Often I will listen to a chapter of a book while I walk and then try to note down my thoughts about the chapter. With the same result, I've now got an enormous PKM covering all of the things I care about.

When I come to actually write a blog post I'm just pulling all my already written notes and snippets together.

It has taken a lot of time but I've imported and organised lots of old notes and notebooks into Obsidian as well. Putting them in dedicated notes or just into daily notes. My PKM is now ~120k words (not all of them mine, there are quotes and snippets from elsewhere as well)