The Markdown Memo
A fortnightly note for lawyers, researchers, accountants, and anyone else drowning in PDFs, scans, and decks. One idea, around three minutes, on getting your documents into a shape where Claude, Obsidian, and NotebookLM can actually do something useful with them.
The Markdown Memo
A fortnightly note for lawyers, researchers, accountants, and anyone else drowning in PDFs, scans, and decks. No spam.
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