Start here: download the software
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Tropy — manage, describe, and annotate research photographs. https://tropy.org
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Obsidian — a free, local-first note-taking app built on plain text files. https://obsidian.md
Download a starter Obsidian database and templates
Even though there are Obsidian apps for iOS devices, it may be best to start on a Mac or PC.
Download obsidian-template-for-219B.zip
Read and watch some tutorials
On sustainable text formatting
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Dennis Tenen and Grant Wythoff, “Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown,” Programming Historian 3 (2014). https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0041
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Sarah Simpkin, “Getting Started with Markdown,” Programming Historian 4 (2015). https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0046
On using Tropy for historical research
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Tropy documentation: https://docs.tropy.org
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Video introduction to Tropy:
On using Obsidian
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Getting started with Obsidian: Obsidian Help
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Elena Razlogova, “Doing History with Zotero and Obsidian”: Notetaking for Historians