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from rockyroad226@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 05 Jun 16:52
https://lemmy.world/post/47797164

Your thoughts are yours. Your notes should be too.

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SatyrSack@quokk.au on 05 Jun 18:44 next collapse

*sigh* at least it’s opt-in, I guess

Solumbran@lemmy.world on 05 Jun 20:03 next collapse

Because who doesn’t want dead code in their apps huh?

TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Jun 21:26 next collapse

a foss project on codeberg and the fediverse, but it comes with ai integration instead of vim mode. tough times.

fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jun 19:45 collapse

Ah, so it’s garbage

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 00:08 next collapse

Repo’s claiming to be a private alternative of XYZ but then use closed source social media such as Discord. Lame.

Libb@piefed.social on 06 Jun 05:57 next collapse

Your thoughts are yours. Your notes should be too.

100%. And one of the two reasons I take all my personal notes using pen and paper. 100 % the analog way, as there is…

no AI,
no tracking,
no ads,
no subscriptions,
no user account required,
No (forced) updates & no upgrades,
no bugs,
Also, no matter how hard they might want to, there will be no law to make it so that paper now has to check my age when I’m using it, or for my wooden pencil to report everything I write down.

shiftymccool@piefed.ca on 06 Jun 11:33 next collapse

You can have all the orgaization methods you want but, imho, notes over an extended period of time are almost worthless without search

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 06 Jun 11:59 next collapse

Who needs search when you have binders?

Libb@piefed.social on 06 Jun 12:22 collapse

You’re right, save that search is nothing without a great index and it happens I have made one… If you want to know how an analog index works search for more info on what is a Zettelkasten, as my own ‘system’ is very close to that. Using that index I can find any book I’ve read (and my notes about it), any notion I’ve ever written about (be it a book or mere vague ideas),and I can find them in a matter of an instant. No matter how old it is, how short or how… flimsy it can be compared to other and much thicker parts of my notes and research.

Edit: https://zettelkasten.de/overview/ (it’s in English). To get a glimpse of a 100% analog version (like mine), check Luhmann’s work (the one who formalized the idea, an idea people had been using centuries before he formalized it): https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/nachlass/zettelkasten (this one is in German).

At my humble level, my system has become my second brain as well as a precious companion allowing for deeper conversations with… a better/smarter version of myself.

I tried digital mind you, I started using a computer in the very early 80s and must have tried a lot of those digital tools (even contributing money and suggestions to a bunch of of them), but as far as I’m concerned nothing beats pen and index cards and the most essential part linking them all: indexes (plural, as I use two different ones).

FrugalBlue@discuss.online on 07 Jun 15:48 collapse

That is super cool! I’ve vaguely heard of Zettelkasten, but everything was in a digital context. To use it for pen and paper did not cross my mind till I saw this!

Libb@piefed.social on 07 Jun 19:01 collapse

It’s an amazing tool. And I would love to see for much more younger people give it a chance.

If you want to give it a chance, the only things I would advice you to keep in mind are:

be ok with spending enough time using it… in slow motion. New habits take time and practice before they become natural, even more as far as writing goes.
Keep it as simple as you can. You don’t need to make it bulletproof/perfect before you start using it, quite the opposite. It’s an organic system that will grow and change at your pace, don’t force it into any preconceived direction because someone told you you should do it like that, or because it’s trendy. Don’t worry about categories or tags, or even about devising the ultimate numbering and indexing system. It’s wasted time. The system is devised for evolving naturally (one of the reasons I don’t fancy many of the digital apps: too rigid in their way) without ever needing to rebuild everything from scratch. To give you an idea, in my own system co-exist multiple numbering systems that I used and abandoned along the years, without any issue. My index(es) also changed a few times. But I never had to rewrite a single index card. Ever. Really, it’s amazingly efficient provided you don’t try to make it be the ‘ultimate’ and perfect system.

FrugalBlue@discuss.online on 08 Jun 06:41 collapse

That’s awesome! I’m always looking for tips and tricks, including stop making things too complicated with the tips and tricks (reaching for the ‘ultimate’), and keeping it simple ;-)

Libb@piefed.social on 08 Jun 07:55 collapse

(like many communities around here) not the most active one but feel free to post questions/share your experience/doubts over there: the more people will do the more people will be likely to participate. !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone (https://sh.itjust.works/c/pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone)

pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Jun 12:53 collapse

I dunno, this wooden pencil of yours is kinda sharp. Would be a shame if it’s not registered… You’ve got a carry permit for it?

Libb@piefed.social on 06 Jun 12:57 collapse

I don’t, sir. It’s a gift from my late dad.

More seriously, I’m half-expecting some stupid shit like that to happen. To have some sort of control on who is allowed to use pen and paper… Unsurprisingly, this would happen at the same time people are considering the very notion of educating children has an obsolete and useless thing, since we now have AI to do everything for us, why even bother sending kids to school to learn to read and write?

iltg@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 07:09 next collapse

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 06 Jun 09:33 next collapse

The better of the worse is almost good.

Btw, does tauri support client side prefers-color-scheme? At least Typora doesn’t, which is in electron. I switch my scheme on evening + morning.

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org on 06 Jun 11:55 collapse

I have never heard of Tauri before now. What’s up with it?

(My guess is bloat)

EDIT: had a quick look at the docs and it relies on WebView2 on Windows, so it sounds like more web-based ick

gravediggersbiscuit@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jun 16:39 next collapse

Crikey this note taking app gets spamed in so many communities. Give it a rest! Plus it’s Slopware too.

rockyroad226@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 03:36 collapse

This is my second ever post on Lemmy. Really unsure how that is spamming.

replicat@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 03:51 collapse

What is that first social media icon

rockyroad226@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 03:59 collapse

Codeberg