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I'm not any less concerned about the US companies.

A Chinese company seems more likely to produce Chinese products that don't directly compete in the US market.

While a US company can ship the product as a feature of their platform and undercut on price while making up the revenue elsewhere

Edit: I personally use US models, but I'm not naive enough to think that's any sort of real protection of IP

I really enjoyed this critical take on the current landscape. It's a breathe of fresh air from the seemingly neverending stream of sycophants

Meanwhile entry-level AI whisperer jobs at an all time high

Cool down sounds good until everyone does it and the issue isn't caught until afterwards

Depending on RAG is a workflow problem, not an AI problem

I agree with this. It's not that the digital tools don't exist, it's that my best think gets done when I go for a walk with nothing but a pen and a stack of blank 3x5s.

At one point I had a physical filing system, but now they get converted to digital pretty quickly since I don't have to pay 10/hr to get it done. I also usually keep a daily card, and sometimes a few weekly/current lists on the note cards and just carry them around until I'm done with them.

It's mainly the capturing of the ideas that I prefer writing physically. After that, being able to move them around my digital system makes them most useful because I can have dynamic views that surface priorities and related notes without having to physically sift through the stacks.

If it's less than 80 outside it's cold. If it's over 69 inside then it's hot and I can't sleep

-florida man

My thoughts are so all over the place that I've settled on 3x5 note cards. It also makes the transition to the computer much easier, because I can re-arrange them in a way that is somewhat organized before taking a picture that gets transcribed

Pen and paper for writing. Computer for editing.

Mostly this

> They did it to show that if you speak out against them, they'll arrest and inconvenience you. So the next person who gets a thought to speak out might decide not to bother.

That needs reiterating because an uncomfortable amount of people think this sort of thing simply doesn't affect them.

The plugin ecosystem is what really makes Obsidian different from the rest.

While OSS is nice, in theory it allows vibe-coding personalizations, without a clear plugin standard then every update would cause a merge headache.

And there is no lack of text editors.

The first real Obsidian alternative would allow use of existing Obsidian plugins. And I think this one thing could really make an alternative gain traction, with both users and those who contribute to the plugin ecosystem.

Indeed. I suspect most effective AI users are quietly making real progress toward their objectives.

Anecdotally, I see a lot of problems/solutions content about AI that doesn't reflect at all the challenges I face. But trying to tell people that there are other ways of doing things, especially when it conflicts with token-maxxing, is a lost cause

Obsidian Bases are built-in data tables.

Smart Connections for related notes surface/embeddings

Trusted source > open-source

As long as it's trusted, there is no lock-in, and the model supports maintaining the software, what do you have to lose?

It literally is just pasting into the .obsidian/plugins/ directory...

Great to see this update!

Managing this sort of community contributions is a challenge. Looks like great progress

Good to know. Any recommendations where to find this?

True. I love black coffee, decaf or not. Just thought it was worth pointing out since the thread is about health benefits

Are you familiar with the process of extracting the caffeine in decaf?

Unfortunately it isn't without potential downsides.

Familiarity breeds contempt. If business owners are your target, you'll quickly see the negative patterns. But same can be said about any target audience/persona.

I'd be interested if the author ever focused their efforts on a broad consumer archetype. Or worked in retail like a grocery store.

Every segment has a type that will spoil the bunch of you let them.

Chat -> static site

I've gotten my most tech-averse friend on this flow.

WordPress had its time, and I'm thankful for that time. But the overhead is no longer worth it for the broad audience it use to serve

Time value of money comes to mind for this, though

Perfect candidate for a custom prompt/LLM that translates your writing into normie speak.

Script can still run LLM inference

Having to manage links and tags for every note quickly makes the notion of a note system less than appealing.

Personally, I use a "temporary -Zettelkasten" strategy in my inbox. But it's more that I just timestamp new notes.

The power of obsidian imo is that I can quickly organize those inbox notes into their respective project notes with the touch of a hotkey

And then again in the project note, the Obsidian editor features (mostly around useful hotkeys) allow me to quickly manage my notes how I see fit (no particular strategy here other than being heavily influenced by GTD)

Morgan Freeman narrates some good ones on netflix. Works better/faster than melatonin

Sounds reasonable until you consider that the "prompt" might include a million tokens of context, not to mention follow-up/iterations

Interesting complaint, because many might not share any of their ideas if it weren't for LLMs making it easy. Not everyone has the incentive to dedicate a day to producing writing worth publishing. But maybe they would if it took significantly less time.

Even considering HNs no LLMs for comments rule, which I mostly agree with, I think we would all lose of the same rule were applied to publishing in general.