<h3 id="the-simplest-online-memex-worfklow"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#the-simplest-online-memex-worfklow"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow</h3>
<p>Folks, this is <strong>the simplest publishing option yet</strong>. You use a combination of a plugin for Obsidian with a free account on <a href="https://mixa.site">https://mixa.site</a>.</p>
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<li>In obsidian, go to community plugins -> browse.
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<li>Search for 'mixa'.</li>
<li>Install that.</li>
<li>Enable it.</li>
<li>Have its settings look like this </li>
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<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/resource.mixa.site/cdh2025/Crafting%20Digital%20History/3.%20Tutorials/02%20assets/Misc/Pasted%20image%2020230323144316.png" priority="1"></p>
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<div class="callout-content" style=""><p>In the above image, you will see the section <code>Site Folder</code>, followed by <code>/website</code>. Please DO NOT type in /website. Leave this section blank for now.</p></div>
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<p>See that secret token business?</p>
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<li>Go to <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmixa.site%2F&#x26;data=05%7C01%7CShawnGraham%40Cunet.Carleton.ca%7Cab096b2b02be49dc879108db21b73ffe%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638140843152796313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#x26;sdata=QSkvJRP5Wtbc8i4rxkXQ2sNAap68yDliDt1BEaKuIl0%3D&#x26;reserved=0" title="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmixa.site%2F&#x26;data=05%7C01%7CShawnGraham%40Cunet.Carleton.ca%7Cab096b2b02be49dc879108db21b73ffe%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638140843152796313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#x26;sdata=QSkvJRP5Wtbc8i4rxkXQ2sNAap68yDliDt1BEaKuIl0%3D&#x26;reserved=0">https://mixa.site/</a> and click login. We're going to use the free tier of service, do not purchase anything. When you click login, it'll want an email address; give it something (not carleton) and then check for that email.
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<li>Click on the link in the email.</li>
<li>On the page that opens, there'll be a big button for 'generate' - hit that. Copy the long string that is generated, and put it in the mixa settings in obsidian where it says <code>Enter your secret token</code> (see the screenshot above).</li>
<li>'Site Folder' is that placeholder folder in your vault where you should tuck things away you want to put online - for now only have <code>/</code> in this field. When you decide what to publish online, we will adjust this field.</li>
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<li>Hit 'publish'. In a few moments, your memex should be online. </li>
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<div class="callout-title warning" style="background-color: undefined1a;"><span style="color:undefined" class="callout-icon"></span><strong><p>To Consider</p></strong></div>
<div class="callout-content" style=""><p>If you some parts of your vault to remain private, then you will need to create a <code>Private</code> and <code>Public</code> folder. It will be the <code>Public</code> folder that will be placed into the Side Folder field.</p></div>
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<p>This course website is built using Mixa and Markdown language. Here's another quick demo of what that might look like <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsg-memexhist1900.mixa.site%2Fhome&#x26;data=05%7C01%7CShawnGraham%40Cunet.Carleton.ca%7Cab096b2b02be49dc879108db21b73ffe%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638140843152796313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#x26;sdata=GMrvFkopWjF6DpKO%2BGNqOac2GVb1vyrZPoW9YVpoDn0%3D&#x26;reserved=0" title="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsg-memexhist1900.mixa.site%2Fhome&#x26;data=05%7C01%7CShawnGraham%40Cunet.Carleton.ca%7Cab096b2b02be49dc879108db21b73ffe%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638140843152796313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&#x26;sdata=GMrvFkopWjF6DpKO%2BGNqOac2GVb1vyrZPoW9YVpoDn0%3D&#x26;reserved=0">https://sg-memexhist1900.mixa.site/home</a></p>
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<div class="callout-content" style=""><p>Anytime you make any changes to notes in your website folder, you can hit the mixa icon in Obsidian - the little paper airplane icon - and your changes will be pushed online. Ta da!</p></div>
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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

14 Consolidation Week Number 2

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

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