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 Thank you for reading!
 
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+## About the Author
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+Bram Adams (@bramses) is a writer and programmer based out of NYC. 
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+Bram publishes a Zettelkasten with a weekly newsletter, is a [community developer ambassador for OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/ambassadors), and does freeleance contracts ([for hire!](https://www.bramadams.dev/about/#consulting)) related to AI/web dev/AR+VR. 
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+Bram is the creator of [Stenography](https://stenography.dev), an API and [VSC Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Stenography.stenography) that automatically documents code on save, which went [#1 on Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/stenography#stenography). He also is the author of [Bramses' Highly Opinionated Vault](https://github.com/bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023), an extremely detailed philosophy + vault template used by hundreds of Obsidian users (new and old!), and [ChatGPT MD](https://github.com/bramses/chatgpt-md), a (nearly) seemless integration of Chat GPT into Obsidian which has been downloaded by thousands of Obsidian users.
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+You can learn more about him and his work on his [website](https://www.bramadams.dev/about/). 
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+The best way to support his work is to sign up for his newsletter [here](https://www.bramadams.dev/#/portal/).
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 [^1]: hello from the future!
 
 [^2]: [calendar example](https://github.com/bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023/blob/main/_tutorial/Attachments/calendar.png)