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I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

#techwriting #techwriter #documentation #pkm #obsidian

I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

#techwriting #techwriter #documentation #pkm #obsidian

I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

#techwriting #techwriter #documentation #pkm #obsidian

I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

#techwriting #techwriter #documentation #pkm #obsidian

I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

#techwriting #techwriter #documentation #pkm #obsidian

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

#Writing #WritingCommunity #techwriter #techwriting

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

#Writing #WritingCommunity #techwriter #techwriting

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

#Writing #WritingCommunity #techwriter #techwriting

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

#Writing #WritingCommunity #techwriter #techwriting

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

#Writing #WritingCommunity #techwriter #techwriting

Hello, all. I'm available to perform professional writing duties. Skills include: blogging; proofreading; article/tech writing; online content creation; and using WordPress. Available locally (Seattle) or remote.

Portfolio: https://www.diversetechgeek.com/portfolio/

#jobs #HireMe #TechWriter #freelance

Tell me you haven't talked to a real live tech writer on a time scale of decades without telling me.

https://kibbler.dev/blog/turn-your-codebase-into-a-knowledge-base

#TechnicalWriting #docs #documentation #writeTheDocs #techWriter

I fortunately have one colleague left (after another left), but we work in separate hours and I actually understand how this isolation feels. To compensate, I work with friends during the day and make a point to go to the physical office. I wonder how is it gonna be like in the future.

I told my friend when discussing this that in the future the need for a big team of writers may be reduced; writers will still be needed but they may be managing AI junior writers instead.

"A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (and analyzed by Marlynn Wei in Psychology Today) found that the more employees collaborated with AI, the more they felt “socially deprived” and lonely. The studies say that AI lacks the social cues (“facial expressions, eye contact, body postures, and gestures”) that we humans have been biologically wired for. Absent these social cues, we feel a void. "
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/isolation-loneliness-worsens-with-ai#:~:text=.%20A%20study%20published,feel%20a%20void.

#TechWriting #TechWriter #Writing

Work is 1/2 hour getting coffee to get the dopamine you need to start work, 1 hour of trying to start, 30 min of actual work, 1 hour of resting from actual work, 2 minutes of seeing Jira notifications and emails and saying fuck it and another hour of trying to get back to work.

Rinse repeat

#Tech #techwriter

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Ok serious question to #Jira users. I find using it throughout the day strains and exhausts my brain due to the numerous links, UI features. And when I switch from one tab to another, especially to a Jira page, I suddenly forget what I am supposed to do on the Jira page. How do you all manage this??

Or is it just me??

#Tech #techwriter #softwareengineering #software

Writing code is like plain ol writing, except that if you forget that one comma there will be hell to pay.

#programming #tech #techwriter

Gah! at Microsoft documentation not matching what incantations and sacrifices you must do to print a document as booklet.

Neither their Mac or Windows docs were accurate. And why both would want to print *4* pages per side by default on the booklet setting, I have no idea. 2 pages per side wasn't even an option.

Add to that, the UI and options (Office 365) are frustratingly different across both platforms.

Puzzled out a proof-print by doing the booklet layout with my printer options, not Word. With a great many curses.

#TechWriter

When people say #technicalwriting is stress free, we mean this.

We are just used to the roasting.

#techwriter #tech

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With a mission to provide the best cloud and open source technologies, Mirantis is seeking technical writers, software engineers, and account executives. Check out open positions on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/860/ #Mirantis #TechWriter #sales #SoftwareEngineer #Kubernetes #cloud #infrastructure #DevOps #jobs

Forgot to do an #introduction
I'm a #techwriter in Florida and I live with my #dachshund

List of stuff I enjoy:
#ThemeParks (especially #DisneyParks #disneyworld);
#RollerCoasters;
#tea;
#reading and all things #bookish;
#CozyGames and #cozygaming;
#makerspace movement and #making;
#DIY and #3dprinting;
Being a #geek and a #nerd and having lots of #fandoms

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Bringing enterprise open source to the world, #Canonical is growing! Browse more than 150 open positions for technical and non-technical roles https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/485/ #engineer #accounting #Linux #Ubuntu #finance #marketing #TechSupport #TechWriter #sales

With a mission to unite data and empower users, @grafana is hiring open source professionals in technical and non-technical roles. Browse open positions on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/486/ #jobs #career #engineer #FullStack #sales #TechWriter #marketing #support #DevOps #SRE

Are you looking for the right job with an open source company? Sign up for job alerts on #OSJobHub to see new positions when they are posted https://opensourcejobhub.com #OpenSource #jobs #career #Linux #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps #sales #marketing #security #TechWriter

senior technical writer (EMEA) @ Grafana Labs

https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/7661/senior-technical-writer-application-observability-remote-emea/

#TechWriter #GetFedihired #grafana #OpenSourceJobHub

senior technical writer (EMEA) @ Grafana Labs

https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/7661/senior-technical-writer-application-observability-remote-emea/

#TechWriter #GetFedihired #grafana #OpenSourceJobHub

senior technical writer (EMEA) @ Grafana Labs

https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/7661/senior-technical-writer-application-observability-remote-emea/

#TechWriter #GetFedihired #grafana #OpenSourceJobHub

senior technical writer (EMEA) @ Grafana Labs

https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/7661/senior-technical-writer-application-observability-remote-emea/

#TechWriter #GetFedihired #grafana #OpenSourceJobHub

senior technical writer (EMEA) @ Grafana Labs

https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/7661/senior-technical-writer-application-observability-remote-emea/

#TechWriter #GetFedihired #grafana #OpenSourceJobHub

With a mission to unite data and empower users, @grafana is hiring open source professionals in technical and non-technical roles. Browse open position on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/486/ #jobs #career #engineer #FullStack #sales #TechWriter #marketing #support #DevOps #SRE

Been learning DITA for work. For most of my career I've just used Word or Google Docs. It's igniting my imposter syndrome for sure. #DITA #techwriter

If you're a #documentarian or #techwriter or otherwise interested in #documentation , check out #WriteTheDocs ! The Portland 2023 conference has an Opportunity grant for those who would otherwise have difficulty attending: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/opportunity-grants/
#noxp

Hi, I'm Kym (aka Seirff) - an always cold fire #dragon.

Work: #Freelance #techwriter with a computer science degree, #ghostwriter, #editor & #proofreader, #translator (DE>EN), & former #ESL teacher. I write and draw diagrams at drawio.com.

Open for new clients, especially academic, and diagramming topic requests for the #drawio blog.

Where: Living in #Leipzig, Germany, after a short stay in #Fukushima, Japan. Originally from #Melbourne, Australia.

Owned by two big fluffy Maine Coon #cats, whose fur is the bane of my and their existence.

On the rooftop balcony I grow as much food as possible with a black thumb - #gardening.

Eternally curious, I share my learning process, crafting, art process and deep thoughts about tricky topics with #Patreon members.

Woven items and art, #ESLteaching and learning materials and tips are available over on #KoFi.

Many hobbies - #languages, #art, #piano, #cello, #guitar, #gaming, #sewing, #xstitch, #tapestry, #yarn crafts like #crochet, #knitting, #weaving & #spinning.

Occasionally also #3dPrinting & #MiniPainting.

Gentle persistence is my mantra - #spondyloarthritis / #PsoriaticArthritis, #SystemicSclerosis, #endometriosis, complex #PTSD, #BreastCancer survivor, #migraine monster - a collection of #ChronicIllness. I rant about the health system and incompetent doctors. #spoonie

I want to read your toots, not go down the boost content rabbit hole.