🙏Thank you Theo! It worked and so easily! Not sure what effort was needed on your part to set it up, but I am very grateful! After posting my question, I asked ChatGPT to provide step-by-step directions for using Python, and for it to create a script to turn the CSV file into markdown documents. So glad I waited until this morning and saw your response first. So much easier! I may have to check out using Claud instead of or in addition to ChatGPT. What you set up also allowed me to turn a CSV file from my Book Buddy app where I track all of my physical books owned as well. 🙏

@Theo Stowell I am grateful to have learned about “Interactive Artifacts.” ChatGPT can also create them. I asked it to create one that I could drop a whole document into, or download of a full ChatGPT conversation, and have the artifact return content with all the headings and the application of different levels standardized so that I can make use of the plugin Note Refactor with prep work on my part. When I play around with it more, and make sure it works as intended, I will share it. This may be useful for others using Obsidan also.

Thanks for sharing photos! Venice is on my "some-day" list. I also love photography and would enjoy seeing your process for working with images.

Semantics may play a part. The word "tool" can mean different things for different people. If "a tool" is conceptualized as the mechanism that makes something else possible, then it might fit as a catalyst for thinking. Someone might say, "This hammer allowed me to build this house," when in reality it allowed nails to be driven into boards. For me, a note-taking system is the mechanism that allows me to see patterns and relationships between ideas or information. This activates and improves my deeper-level thinking.

I commend Tiago for being forthright about his use of AI. Time will tell how much of an impact it will have on those who have followed him for some time. Currently, we have no idea who is using AI or to what extent. Are things sounding more like AI just because we now suspect it’s use? It definitely makes a stronger case for not being a perfectionist! I use Grammarly at times. I found my internal angst interesting when I initially started declining many of the grammar suggestions offered. A part of me worried about the “grammar police” and literary editors coming after me! As students we often faced the “red pen of shame” correcting our errors. However, I also realized that it is my “misuse” of prepositions, turning nouns into verbs, and love of commas that makes what I write sound like me. I recently listened to a webinar for mental health professionals regarding the impact of AI. The lack of “friction” provided by AI hit home. They discussed youth gaining the sense of acceptance and approval they long for from their AI conversations. I realized that I too liked hearing the compliments from ChatGPT on my “great ideas” when I use it as my brainstorming partner. We have cultivated a world where, most often, we tell people what is wrong rather than right. Yet, the complements provided can also create a false sense of success. I haven’t listened to Tiago’s video. I am curious how he is determining what “sounds like him.” Is it his opinion, or is he basing that on feedback from his readers? Like a photoshopped image, a replication of me in different contexts will never be the same as a collection of candid shots. However, it may be “good enough.” I guess Tiago will get to decide if his replicated voice achieves his personal and professional goals.

@Theo Stowell, our discussion makes me think of artists from the past, the great masters who would train apprentices to paint just like them, so that they could come in and do the finishing work. Or, modern artists who create giclée prints of their paintings and then add additional painted strokes to some, charging a premium price for those, yet all in service of lightening the workload while still satisfying demands (or financial goals). It's hard not to see the similarities. Yet I don't recall any professor during my college art history lectures putting artists down for training an apprentice to paint in their style. Now I wonder what the art-loving public back then thought of the practice? 🤷‍♀️