<h2 id="welcome-to-week-two"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#welcome-to-week-two"></a>Welcome To Week Two</h2>
Sept 8, 2025 
by Scott Coleman
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Hello, Students. 
Welcome to week two. This week, you begin creating Literature notes and Atomic notes in your Obsidian vault, as well as setting up your online open-access notebook/memex using the Mixa Plugin. Remember to read the tutorials carefully, and if you have any questions, please ask via the <code>#tech-help</code> channel in our Discord server. The <code>#week-two</code> channel is now open. Please use this channel for discussions about the week's themes. I will post a discussion question to start things off.
<h3 id="a-few-notes---updates"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#a-few-notes---updates"></a>A few Notes - Updates.</h3>
Once you set up your Mixa site, please submit your domain address via this <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelMXdGOmKSqRrNzOHNO-l3H_oKZP-wzab3nFkqf2-wa4W_rg/viewform?usp=dialog">Google Form</a>. It is mandatory to have your Mixa/MEMEX site live by September 14th. This is how I will access your weekly reflections and provide feedback to you. Thus, remember to have your reflections published on your site by each Sunday, 11:59 pm. The weekly reflections are ungraded, but do contribute to your Consolidation Reflection grade, so be critical and insightful with your reflections.
Next, tutorial videos are on the way. I plan to create an Obsidian.md video that provides an overview of the features and plugins we are using. I will also include helpful tips on making notes. If you are in a proactive mood, there are lots of Obsidian resources on YouTube. Do not expect to be perfect at making notes in Obsidian right off the start. The software takes time to learn. I've been using Obsidian for four years and still don't know all of it. Please remember that I am assessing your evolution throughout the course. It is all about process. Where you started from and where you end.
I have made a few minor updates to the week two material. Nothing changes the assignments. Fixing typos and such. This is a heads-up if you are wondering why something may have changed.
I have noticed that some students are having issues with the Templater and Mixa plugin not being installed in their vaults. I will address this issue in the coming days. My apologies for any headaches this may cause. I guess it supports my argument that the digital never quite goes to plan and we always need to adapt. Think of this as lesson number one for the week.
Lastly, start thinking about your research topic. Your <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/1%20Historical%20Topic%20and%20Proposal" title="1 Historical Topic and Proposal">1 Historical Topic and Proposal</a> are due on Sept 21st. The objective is to provide a topic that allows you to focus your research critically and assess how digital tools can be applied to create new knowledge about the ancient medieval world. If you wish to talk to me about a topic, or are unsure about where to begin, please come to the virtual office hours. Just send me a request via Discord (I'll set up a channel for requests) and we can discuss the research possibilities.
All the best 
The Prof

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