Blog posts

2023

2022

Using ZettelGeist

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Teachers and researchers need to create and retrieve notes. For the past two years, I have used ZettelGeist for these functions. This post explains my approach. (For a quick-start guide and documentation, see the ZettelGeist Wiki.)

Toolbox

1 minute read

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In the past several years I have adopted open-source terminal-based applications for most of the work I do on a computer. This post gathers up some of the great free software I use every day.

2018

Boethius at the Newberry

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A checklist of pre-1700 materials related to Boethius’s Consolatio philosophiae in the collection of the Newberry Library, prepared for my course on that topic, run in winter quarter 2019.