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Sept 22, 2025 
by Scott Coleman
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Housekeeping 
Welcome to week four. First, thank you to those who have submitted their proposals. I look forward to reading them. I plan to provide feedback within the week. For those who have not handed in their proposals, please do so immediately. If you have not emailed me and received an extension approval, then marks will be deducted for late submissions. If you are struggling with writing a proposal, please reach out and ask for help.
I plan to create a video to provide more context about my objectives for this course, as some of you have reached out about your struggles with Obsidian and some of the material. I do hope to have a video produced by this evening, but please bear with me if it comes in late. In the video, I will address the proposed workflow, why I use Obsidian.md, and my expectations and goals for you, the student of this course.
If I have not reviewed and provided journal feedback, please let me know. Sometimes these things get missed. However, if you are submitting your journals late, then do not expect to receive feedback immediately. I have set these deadlines for your success, and if you cannot adhere to them, then you cannot expect immediate feedback. Please try to submit journals on time. If you run into any difficulties and need more time, please request an extension. I will grant it, but do not leave this to the last minute. Review <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/2%20Weekly%20Work" title="2 Weekly Work">2 Weekly Work</a> for more details.
Discord 
There has been very little activity on Discord, which is disappointing. To get the most out of the class and material, I expect students to participate in Discord. However, I realize that my prompting may not be adequate. Thus, I plan to do more this week to facilitate more discussions.
Weekly Journals 
I have only received 22 Mixa/Memex site domains in the Google Forms. Please submit your Mixa Site Domain as soon as possible if you haven't done so. This is critical for course exercises and YOUR GRADES. This is not an option. It is a mandatory component for the course. If you are having issues, please ask for help in our Discord.
Week 4 
This week, you will dive into the world of LLMs and their impact on historical knowledge production. LLMs (AI) have proliferated and have been embedded into our lives over the past four years. I want you to think about how the impact LLMs have on the "Craft" of Digital History and History in general.
The exercise this week is a spinoff from an experiment I performed a while back, and I want you to try it with your proposed research topic. Please read the <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/2.%20Schedule/Module%201%20Contextualizing/Week%204" title="Week 4">Week 4</a> exercise carefully. I will upload my experience with GPT for your review to help provide a context for what I want you to do. You can find it here in <a href="/News/6%20Week%20Four%20Exercise%20Example" title="6 Week Four Exercise Example">6 Week Four Exercise Example</a>

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