<h1 id="week-eight--oct-20-2025"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#week-eight--oct-20-2025"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Week Eight:  Oct. 20, 2025</h1>
<h3 id="fall-break-no-classes-relax-or-catch-up"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#fall-break-no-classes-relax-or-catch-up"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a><strong>Fall Break. No Classes. Relax or Catch Up.</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Key Learning Goals:</strong> This week has no new learning goals. The primary goal is your well-being.</p>
<p>This week is Fall Break. There are no new readings, no new activities, and no new assignments. Use this time to step away from the course, rest, and focus on your other commitments.</p>
<p>If you feel behind on any of the previous weeks' work, this is also a low-pressure opportunity to catch up. You can use this time to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Process any readings you may have missed.</li>
<li>Enrich the links and tags in your note network.</li>
<li>Refine the metadata (YAML/Properties) in your project notes.</li>
</ul>
<p>However, my primary recommendation is that you take this time for yourself. We will return in Week 9 to explore how to work with visual and multimedia sources.</p>
<p>Enjoy the break.</p>

Welcome

1. Course Description

2. Learning Outcomes

3. Course Schedule

4. Evaluation

5. Course Communications

6. Common Regulations

6. Contact the Professor

how the course tech is built; how the course came to be

7. Colophon

8. Reuse

Orientation and Digital Setup

Week 1

Personal Knowledge Management and Linked Thinking

Week 2

Thinking about the “Craft” of Digital History

Week 3

Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

Week 4

Consolidation & Check-In Week

Week 5

Digital Excavation

Week 6

Defining Data, 'Dark' Data, & Identifiers

Week 7

Fall Break

Week 8

Seeing the Past?

Week 9

Week 10

Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research

Week 11

Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument

Week 12

Open-Access Notebook Workshop

Week 13

Exit Ticket

Week 14

1 Setting up your vault

2 Create your first note

3 Templater Plugiin

4 What Goes into a Note?

5 Properties

Hypothesis

The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow

How To Read An Academic Article

FAQ for Common Tech Issues

Where to Find help

Text Formatting

Introduction to your vault

index note

Atomic Note

Literature Note

Process Note

Weekly Journal

Topic Proposal

Weekly Work & Tasks

Consolidation Reflection

Open Access Notebook/Memex

Benchmarking Your Memex

Exit Ticket/Final Project

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History Transcript

2 Obsidian User Interface (UI) Guide

3 Templater and Hotkeys Setup

4 How to use PDF++

5 Canvas Core Plugin Introductory Tutorial

6 Hypothes.is and Annotating the Web

7 Omnisearch Plugin for Obsidian

8 How to Use Process Notes for Digital Research Projects in Obsidian

9 Properties, Identifiers and Data Management with Obsidian Core Plugin Bases

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History

2 Some Logistical Updates

3 Welcome to Week Two

4 What is Digital History?

5 Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

6 Week Four Exercise Example

7 Using Obsidian for Digital History Research and Note-Making

8 Reflection Feedback Update and Hypothes.is

9 Week Five Update

10 Consolidation Reflection Submission

11 Module Two Wrangling and Critiquing

12 Week 7 Update

13 Week 9 Welcome Back

1. Course Overview

Module 1 Contextualizing

Module 2 Wrangling & Critiquing

Module 3 Arguing & Communicating

2. Schedule

01  memex help

8. Course Files

3. Tutorials

4. Assessment

5. VideoTutorials

Crafting Digital History

News