taurusnoises

OK, got it. Thanks. So, to prevent from happening in the first place, it'd make sense to give the recently sleeping device a moment or two to catch up.

Maybe a little sticky, but decentralization doesn't discount that there are nodes, or points where things gather. In fact, decentralization, as I've always understood it (coming from anarchism background), is that there is no central node to which all others are beholden. Rather, there are centers (plural). So....

At the level of instances (plural), no one is central. The network is decentralized, containing multiple centers, all (most) of which are connected through federation (the word "affiliation" is not too far off either). And, while yes, any one instance could be considered a "center" and thus maybe considered to be centralized, it really isn't. Decentralization is less about a single specific object or node, and more about how said objects interact and relate.

Side note: I think when it comes to convos around decentralized networks, there really needs to be more investment in how they differ from distributed networks. In that difference is a ton of insight about how systems function, etc, imo. Personally, I'm much more interested in distributed networks.

> "As it is, the Obsidian sync takes a few minutes. And if you edit the file on another device before sync goes through, you’ll lose the changes from one device or the other."

This has been my biggest fear using sync. So far I haven't had any issues, but I just get a" feeling" (maybe it's the lag between syncs) that this could definitely happen.

Can you explain in a little more detail how it might actually occur? Maybe so I can prevent it from happening.

And yet, from the position of my armchair and the handful of books on my shelf, history has shown that a monodiet (relative to the modern, diversified western diet, at least) is not only sustainable, but has been the backbone of the human diet for thousands of years.

I use a single text file for daily log and interstitial journaling:

# date

---

## End of day

- (what to look at tomorrow)

---

time

- note

time

- note

- note

This may not be the link yre looking for, but it's one of the articles that spurred a recent interest in single-file daily logs...

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/

In NYC "summer Fridays" were a thing where some 9-5 jobs gave Fridays off for a couple months. Back in 2005-2010 I worked at a magazine that did that until my boss was like, wait, if we can put out the magazine in four days for a few months, we can do it in four all year. No one objected, and thus began the best job I ever had. Managing editor for a 4-day-a-week magazine.

The author suggests that he witnessed multiple instances of sexual assault. It's pretty much right there in the text.

So, here's some cringe I didn't expect to read today:

>"Tragically, following the festival, there were also reportedly allegations of rape.... You couldn’t go more than five minutes without seeing a topless woman being fondled by a random stranger.

>With all of that said... there were still some beautiful moments during the concert’s last day."

Yikes.

My aunt used to the tell the second as:

Two elephants are sitting in a tub. The one elephant says to the other, "Pass the soap." The other elephant says, "No soap. Just radio." Get it?

And then her and my mom would laugh, and wait for me to do the same. The joke being that anyone not in on it who laughs is faking. The joke is on them.

'Twas my fav joke.

100%. I recommend LYT to people who aren't looking to publish all. the. time. There's no need to work the zk if writing isn't your main interest.

UI/UX is no small thing. For some people, it can ultimately make or break their ability to get into the work. While it's nice to think we should all be heroically disengaged from the aesthetics and feel of a thing, those aspects have an effect. No shame in that. Different people like different UIs.

>"for most people most places."

This is, to say the least, not something you are able to speak to with certainty.

As someone who has been note-taking in a variety of formats, via a variety of mediums for the better part of my 40+ years on this planet, I can assure you, the system that works best is the one that works best for the individual. Universalizing something as intimate and personal as idea capture is, again, silly. I have been a writer my whole life, friends with writers most of that time, a graduate of two writing degrees at two different schools, and a teacher of writing. If you think you've somehow unlocked "best practices" when it comes to note-taking, you're way out of the convo. There ain't one.

Aside from being businesses based primarily in mining usage data for profit, social media platforms are basically fleeting note disseminators for its users. It's allllll fleeting notes (with obvious exceptions). If you're asking how to share your ideas, and get lots of eyes on them, and not have those eyes based on affirmation currancies like Likes and Follows, the only thing I can think of is in the fediverse or some other web-adjacent locale. I'd be curious to know what others think.

Let's say that, ultimately, it's personal. I have no problem whatsoever taking fleeting notes in a variety of places. As do many other people I know who run this game. But, others I know also feel the need to have a single entry point. To each their own.

The best method for fleeting notes is literally whatever you have closest to your fingers in the moment you need to capture something. It's silly to suggest it is "best" to capture a fleeting thought with pen/paper if you're holding your phone and the pen/paper is in the other room. This is bad advice.

I defs agree that there's a lot of overcomplexity added to the zettelkasten discussion. That's part of what I'm trying to undo. And yet, as someone who teaches a course on zettelkasten, I don't think there's anything wrong (or unreasonable) about getting a group of people together to learn something that's relatively new to them, and who are interested in being in a community situation with others who also want to learn, and for whom it is also new. Also seems not unreasonable to make some money while doing so. It is labor after all, and often quite bit of it. As far as learning "someone else's workflow," A. who else's workflow would one learn in a group class environment?? And B. classes can be taught in such a way so that the principles and practices empower people to create something truly their own and not ape that of someone else. At least good teachers can do that ;)

Hi, everyone! Thanks so much for taking the time to read the piece, and for getting into awesome conversations. The kind I am often a part of, but not the subject of!

Something the vast majority of you all missed in such a spectacular and majestic fashion, is that the post was responding to someone specifically asking about what to do after reading a book as part of the zettelkasten method (see the bottom of the post for a link to the original source and comment thread). When working ZK, one of the fundamental steps is to interpret things you find interesting in light of what you're working on, and import those ideas into your zettelkasten. The OP was simply capturing the ideas of the author, and when having trouble linking them to one another, wondered why. To which I stated that that was because the author had already done so for the OP (in the book they read). The OP's job now was to explore how the ideas of the author informed their own work. This is standard zettelkasten stuff.

Now, as per the comments on "why can't you just read without taking notes" and "this is productivity bs" and "this post is why Putin invaded Ukrain" etc etc.... Lets be clear.

1. When I'm not reading for the purpose of mining the material for insight into what I'm working on also "just read for the pleasure." But, I also read a lot with a pen in hand, which, I should say, is pleasurable to me.

2. 99.9999% of PKM at the entry level (and a few levels below it) is absolute productivity bs. The pkm scene has been thoroughly infiltrated by the productivity scene and it is a true summer bummer. Nevertheless, like anything worth your time, the goods are far beneath the surface. Zettelkasten, tho often presented as an aspect of productivity (which it certainly can be) is also just a dope as way of engaging with your own ideas if you're a writer. Not the only way. Maybe not even the best. But, defs a good one.

3. And, this is a real one referring to the commenter asking about "how can you have your own ideas if it's new material" this requires a much longer response, but I'll say this: if you don't have ideas when you read something yoube never experienced before either A. You've had a lobotomy or B. You're asleep. Of course you have ideas. They may not be worth much at the moment. But, perhaps that's because you're concerned with the wrong ideas. In zettelkasten, we're not necessarily concerned with ideas that are specifically related to the exact subject at hand but more so what it ideas, even tangential to the subject, come up for you. For example, when I read Donut Economics, I took a bunch of notes. Not so much on economics (I'm not an economist) but on how some of the ideas informed my thinking about social media. What??? Yes. That's because, writing and thinking about social media is something I was interested in, and that's where my mind went.

OK? Good? You all get the context now? Exhale. ;)

As a sort of digital "happening," it's...fun? Interesting? "Neat?"

As something I will ever reference, it's basically useless. Which, I feel bad saying, because that suggests that I'm somehow considered in any way in this graph. But, the reason I mention it is because this and the rest of the "here's all my xyz knowledge/notes laid out for you to peruse" graphs and digital gardens are just bad ways of engaging with someone else's ideas.

The idea is there: start anywhere! Follow the meandering path! But, the experience is more: "well, I guess I need to start at the beginning again" (digital gardens) and "I guess I'll just pick a random node cuz they're all supposed to be equally interesting?" (the OP)

Thanks for the reply. Any place you'd recommend an Obsidian user / emacs noob like me to start learning more about emacs? Am always curious to learn about this stuff. Especially when "bloat" comes into the conversation. Also, curious cuz to me, who uses Obsidian on a Mac, it feels lightning fast! So, I can't even imagine what you're speaking about as far as RAM etc is concerned. Curious!

I've heard this sentiment before. What (for a very non-code, non-dev person like me) could you say about why you dislike Electron apps. From a user perspective especially. Thanks. :)

Thanks so much for reading. I hear great things about Dendron from those who use (and swear by) it.

Oh, by all means, advert. We all hustlin.

It's me, dude! :) (and thanks for reading!)

What's interesting about this to me, is how many times he refers to the user wanting to go one way, namely private and uninterrupted, and him continuing to drag the user back into the public, data-mining open. He and the lot are creeps. These platforms pretend like they're social services first that mine usage to keep the lights on, when in fact they're data-mining services first, baiting users into engaging in a public forum so they have more data to mine. It's lame and super average, vanilla, capitalist bs.

I know plenty of people who fall below the poverty line who appreciate not effing up the environment.

>"This law is a huge inconvenience for most people in the state. How can I tell? Because from my experience, the overwhelming majority of people choose not to walk around with a bag full of reusable bags."

Wow. Excellent analysis! Haha. Figure. It. Out. You're an adult. I keep a bag of bags in my car, and for when I walk to the grocery store, I have another bag of bags. So far my life hasn't changed much.

Banning teens from using corporate, for-profit, surveillance capitalism, data-mining machines fronting as "social" "networking" sites? Yeah, I'm down. Kids can move over to decentralized, federated services and take those to the next level. Where do I sign? Ban everyone. Ban the sites completely. They're corrosive and trash.

Not sure what you're looking at. There is a clear, sourced, and cited upward trend in teen suicides between 2012 and 2019.

As do I. I'm just genuinely curious how this caught people's eye. There's no way through the sea of "content" that these two paras could stick out without an artificial boost.