preparing to travel to the seattle area for ~7 weeks (house+catsitting for my sister)
prepping my laptop for this (do I install nixos on a macbook? or just use it as is for emacs anyway…)
getting my cat used to the carrier that will be used for the plane
continuing to work through this sql course (context)
cleanup my melpa emacs package submission (myron-themes)
write a post about my recent use of a planner. I still use org-mode for habits and forgetting things, but the planner has been immensely valuable for looking over the past months and seeing what actually happened
Studying up on Obsidian! It’s been a game-changer for xe so far, especially after xe enabled Vim Mode. It’s been especially useful for work.
Upgraded from xir closet of a bedroom and into a bigger one!
It’s a dramatic improvement, too, suddenly having so much more room to breathe mentally again. Thought to throw covers over xir smaller, less used shelves and that’s all the less distraction. Very calming.
Continue hacking xir KALLAX. Already installed one whiteboard in front of a top shelf with a hinge and planning to do the same with all of the top and side shelves! Will likely stick to simple containers with the six inner ones for now.
Installing all the more hooks and such with Command Strips. Going wild now that xe can expect to stay in this room indefinitely.
Other than that, plugging away at organizing xir reams of notes and continue rebuilding xir systems, including xir job hunt system. Thankfully it’s a proactive search this time around.
And xir neopronouns! Xe/xem but also she/her. Xir first-person usage is irregular (even for a neopronoun) for personal reasons. Captures xir genderfluidity, too.
I can say what I like about it. It’s not even the interlinking of notes and the network graph, but the fact that it’s so flexible and customizable that you can build your own lightsaber. It works as purely note taking without thinking about it like I would do in Notational Velocity but then you can layer lots of things over it with conventions, organisation and plugins.
Certainly! For xe, it’s the simplicity of the system: Everything (with the exception of some plugins) is in plain text Markdown. Even the kanban board plugin xe use keeps the board data as Markdown.
The daily notes systems is especially useful. Xe use that as an inbox for anything worth recording - it can be random thoughts, notes from an unexpected phone call, shopping list items, anything - then xe can go back and distill the day’s notes for important action items, findings, and the like (in theory; xe haven’t found the spoons yet to do this like xe had with xir index card prototype). And xe have barely touched the power of dataview in this context, which would allow xe to find and filter for to-do items, compile shopping lists, etc. with reports instead of having to hunt those down xirselves.
Even now, xe are experimenting with porting xir daily habit tracking into xir daily notes template, too. This would supplant Daylio, though xe may go back to that regardless. But prototyping that was incredibly easy. Can’t wait to try incorporating RSS feeds into xir flow. That way xe could convert each feed item to Markdown, save the useful ones, annotate them, mark them up with xir own internal tags and links, and do all of this without leaving Obsidian. Never mind the automation xe could set up with batch jobs. Plain text is powerful.
@work: I’ve been overwhelmed with doomscrolling, so I’m hermiting up and leaving social media for a bit to do more work on logic for programmers. I want to release the next beta next week, but there’s a lot to copyedit first. I also haven’t touched my proper blog in several months, so I want to make at least some progress on new blog posts.
@personal: I’m excited to get back into confectioning! For the last who-knows-how-many years I’ve focused exclusively on improving my chocolatiering, I haven’t made non-chocolate candy in as long as I can remember. I found a great recipe for peanut butter chews I’m dying to try.
Oh, and making more progress on Factorio. @rwhaling and I almost have a ship that can survive the Aquilo roundtrip.
More formally kicking off a project at work, which means more knowledge sharing and not just hacking on something whilst keeping notes.
Also preparing to head to Gran Canaria for a fortnight. Never been before and doing some tourism with a friend for a few days before spending the rest of my time working and slowly exploring.
This week I’m:
Have you tried trillium? It’s another tool in the same space as obsidian.
Also, if it’s not rude to ask, what’s up with your first person pronouns?
This Trillium, correct? https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes (The original went into maintenance mode last month.)
And xir neopronouns! Xe/xem but also she/her. Xir first-person usage is irregular (even for a neopronoun) for personal reasons. Captures xir genderfluidity, too.
Can you tell more about what’s good about Obsidian for you? I am not the note taking type but seeing how extremely popular it has become I am curious.
I can say what I like about it. It’s not even the interlinking of notes and the network graph, but the fact that it’s so flexible and customizable that you can build your own lightsaber. It works as purely note taking without thinking about it like I would do in Notational Velocity but then you can layer lots of things over it with conventions, organisation and plugins.
Certainly! For xe, it’s the simplicity of the system: Everything (with the exception of some plugins) is in plain text Markdown. Even the kanban board plugin xe use keeps the board data as Markdown.
The daily notes systems is especially useful. Xe use that as an inbox for anything worth recording - it can be random thoughts, notes from an unexpected phone call, shopping list items, anything - then xe can go back and distill the day’s notes for important action items, findings, and the like (in theory; xe haven’t found the spoons yet to do this like xe had with xir index card prototype). And xe have barely touched the power of dataview in this context, which would allow xe to find and filter for to-do items, compile shopping lists, etc. with reports instead of having to hunt those down xirselves.
Even now, xe are experimenting with porting xir daily habit tracking into xir daily notes template, too. This would supplant Daylio, though xe may go back to that regardless. But prototyping that was incredibly easy. Can’t wait to try incorporating RSS feeds into xir flow. That way xe could convert each feed item to Markdown, save the useful ones, annotate them, mark them up with xir own internal tags and links, and do all of this without leaving Obsidian. Never mind the automation xe could set up with batch jobs. Plain text is powerful.
Thank you
@work: I’ve been overwhelmed with doomscrolling, so I’m hermiting up and leaving social media for a bit to do more work on logic for programmers. I want to release the next beta next week, but there’s a lot to copyedit first. I also haven’t touched my proper blog in several months, so I want to make at least some progress on new blog posts.
@personal: I’m excited to get back into confectioning! For the last who-knows-how-many years I’ve focused exclusively on improving my chocolatiering, I haven’t made non-chocolate candy in as long as I can remember. I found a great recipe for peanut butter chews I’m dying to try.
Oh, and making more progress on Factorio. @rwhaling and I almost have a ship that can survive the Aquilo roundtrip.
More formally kicking off a project at work, which means more knowledge sharing and not just hacking on something whilst keeping notes.
Also preparing to head to Gran Canaria for a fortnight. Never been before and doing some tourism with a friend for a few days before spending the rest of my time working and slowly exploring.
https://github.com/anacrolix/possum
Blogging on https://euro-stack.com/blog/
Working (programming) on https://github.com/abilian/hop3 , https://github.com/aipress24/aipress24 , and other open source projects.