Articles

All articles published on Nosy • Science in chronological order.

  • Budget with Dataview

    Budget with Dataview

    Want more control over your project budget in Obsidian? This guide shows how to use the Dataview plugin to track costs, analyze spending, and build flexible budget overviews, all inside your notes. From linking invoices to querying by category or project section, budgeting in O3PM with Dataview gives you structure without switching tools.


  • Budgeting in O3PM

    Budgeting in O3PM

    Budgeting isn’t just about numbers, it’s the tangible bridge between project strategy and execution. Yet traditional tools scatter data across sheets, notes, and platforms, making updates painful, oversight easy, and alignment rare. Here O3PM offers a friction-less alternative by turning budgeting into a habit that improves project quality. With Gathering, Querying, and Interfacing, your system…


  • The Alignment Issue

    The Alignment Issue

    We’re not just meeting too much, we’re meeting for the wrong reasons. This article dives into the real cost of alignment meetings: those synchronous gatherings where information gets passed around instead of documented. From wasted time and passive participation to blurring responsibility, we break down why alignment meetings often do more harm than good and…


  • Meet with Purpose – A look on why we should meet

    Meet with Purpose – A look on why we should meet

    Meetings take time, energy, and attention, so they should never be treated as default. To make meetings meaningful, they must serve a clear purpose: to make a decision, generate ideas, resolve conflict, give feedback, or build relationships. In this article, we explore the real reasons to meet and how to avoid wasting everyone’s time.


  • Improving Meetings

    Improving Meetings

    In this article, we dive into the science of what makes meetings fail and how to fix them. Backed by organizational psychology and productivity research, we explore the hidden costs of unstructured meetings, the stress they cause, and why people hate them. Then we turn to practical, evidence-based methods for better meetings: from clear agendas…


  • Meeting Preparation in O3PM

    Meeting Preparation in O3PM

    Meetings can move projects forward—or waste everyone’s time. In this article, I show how to prepare meetings the O3PM way using Obsidian. From structured metadata and linked agenda items to participant check-ins via the Object Responsibility Module (ORM), this setup helps you run lean, purposeful, and traceable meetings without the chaos.