## Socials 2025 **Substack**: Professionally, I put note taking apps through their paces. For fun, I garden and share tips about weird history & obscure science. Two kids, as few parenting hot takes as I can manage. **Twitter**: I put apps like @Readwise & @obsdmd through their paces. Autodidacts, productivity nerds, efficient thinkers & history junkies are my people. ## Worldcon 2022 (ChiCon) Eleanor Konik teaches (& research) ancient civilizations, then writes stories & articles inspired by all eras of history... which involves a fair amount of notetaking. Her nonfiction articles have been published by Tor.com, Worldbuilding Magazine, and the SFWA blog. She sells her short fiction (flash and micro) directly to fans using the newsletter business model and teaches people how to use modern notetaking apps to organize their writing notes. In her free time, she reads slush for Diabolical Plots, maintains a very practical garden, and enjoys programmatically-generated storytelling engines (aka video games). ## Diabolical Plots Eleanor Konik teaches (& researches) ancient civilizations, then writes stories & articles inspired by all eras of history. Her nonfiction articles have been published by Tor.com, Worldbuilding Magazine, and the SFWA blog. She shares her short fiction (flash and micro) [directly to fans subscribed to her newsletter](https://newsletter.eleanorkonik.com/), alongside nonfiction essays illuminating the obscure history and science behind each piece. In her free time, she helps sort submissions for Diabolical Plots, maintains a very practical garden, and enjoys programmatically-generated storytelling engines (aka video games). You can follow her on Twitter for updates [@EleanorKonik](https://twitter.com/EleanorKonik). Eleanor Konik is a first reader for Diabolical Plots and staff writer for Worldbuilding Magazine. A history teacher, she's also contributed nonfiction to publications like Tor.com and the SFWA blog. ## Table Talk (twitter-length) Eleanor Konik reads slush for Diabolical Plots & writes nonfiction for outlets like Worldbuilding Magazine, Tor.com and the SFWA blog. She teaches high school world history and maintains a very practical garden.