I'm busy writing the rest of the book this summer, so these newsletters are a little shorter.

I have daily notes written in Obsidian from the past six years, and I spent around an hour linking them together in a really cool way. Now, every single daily note has a previous and next property, but they don't link to the exact previous or following calendar day. They go to the exact previous note that I actually made.

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For example, if I'm in the daily note 2022-01-15, the previous property links to 2022-01-05, not 2022-01-14, because I actually had a ten-day gap between daily notes. This makes it easy to fly around from note to note by rapidly clicking between links in the previous and next property fields.

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Then I took it further, and I have each of those notes link up to a monthly note. In this case, it links up to 2022-01. And then I took it one further and have all the monthly notes link up to the yearly note, 2022.

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Here's a look at a part of the monthly note 2026-05, which was a relatively easy month to show you without sanitizing any title names:

This whole calendar linking system will be included in the next version of Ideaverse Pro, coming out later this year. But you can do it yourself in the meantime if you're so inclined. It definitely makes monthly and annual reviews much easier and more fun.

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Speaking of which....

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Last week, I hosted our Epic Life Audit live event, open to all in the Knowledge Accelerator. Together over 90 minutes, we zoomed out and gained perspective on our lives and realigned our efforts to live with more meaning and intention.

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A life audit goes beyond goals and outcomes. It’s a chance to ask whether the life you’re living is aligned with what actually matters to you.

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Over and over, we kept hearing from people about how supportive this event was for them. Here's one:

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One of my favorite parts about this is that the audit is just the start. Across the community, we're continuing to discuss what's surfacing for us, sharing best practices, and so much more as we connect together.

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If you are interested in being a part of our community, check out the Knowledge Accelerator. If you know you can think better but feel too many things are getting in the way, the Accelerator will get you over the hump, across a whole year of trainings together alongside myself and countless others. You also get access to all Linking Your Thinking products, monthly events hosted by me, and more.

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LYT Book Update (Jul 24, 2026)

I'm interviewing people who have been doing really amazing things with their notes. It's a reminder of how wide, varied, and inspiring the use cases are for everyone who's using linked notes.

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Just the fact that we all here are using some form of linked notes gives us experience in what's known as information architecture. It's not obvious how useful these underlying skills are until we enter a new situation, usually with a group. We're always the best when it comes to figuring out how to organize information in useful ways.

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I've seen it countless times with the people I've interacted with. I just interviewed someone with an amazing example in a very competitive field where this was the case, and I can't wait to share it in the book. If you have a cool example of how you've used linked notes, share yours with me here!​

Idea Exchange

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“[My mother] gave me the gift of fantasy, and my father gave me a rigorous approach to creating.” Filmmaker, composer, actor, and so much more, John Carpenter sat down with The Guardian recently to talk through his life, inspirations for his work, and more in this really interesting article.

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Do you have a favorite John Carpenter film? Mine is The Thing. Seriously, it's one of my favorite movies. I watched it on New Year's Eve, around the time the clock struck midnight, and I swear I couldn't go to bed for the next three hours just thinking about that ending.

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Search continues to get worse... There was a great article in the New York Times this week about how Google's AI summaries are building a wall around the rest of the internet. I was glad to read about how this affects how we explore the web day to day.

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Stay connected,

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Nick

P.S... I hope the middle of the year is going well for you.

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