No matter what past-you instructed your task manager to put in front of you today, only today's you knows what is going to work for them.

I'm talking about giving yourself permission to view your task lists as a menu rather than a mandate. Because task management is ultimately about making sense of what's in front of you so that you can do more of what matters.

Medium (includes blog post link) https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/ptpl-213-the-day-i-realised-my-task-list-was-a-menu-not-a-mandate-177d64f20a17
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/06/01/ptpl-213-task-lists-are-menus-not-mandates

#ptpl #productivity #PlainText

TIL `C-c C-t` calls "doc-view-open-text", which renders the plain text version of documents.

It just opens a "pdf as text" and its insane as we can cook with this text comfortably.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Document-View.html

#emacs #plaintext #pdf

tieline 0.1.0 yay!

intent persists. text changes. annotate your repo anyway.

bind meaning to lines in locations, then track it across edits, history, and drift.

git + darcs support, CLI-first, zero ceremony, also super cute.

https://codeberg.org/em_cinnamon/Tieline/

#FOSS #python #plaintext

Couldn't seem to get #VimClassic to compile on #FreeBSD.

But then I realized the only thing I used it for is sncli, because it does something funny with the terminal when it hands it off to nvi, such that the cursor becomes invisible. But then, it's just a !reset to fix it, so I might as well just stick with nvi. ;)

#vi #vim #nvi #TextEditors #PlainText

i’ve been using t by @sjl for a few years and i made a personal fork of it with a few clean tweaks. super grateful for the foundation!

i need a tee shirt that says “i love #plaintext”

https://codeberg.org/em_cinnamon/t

#foss

Plain text workflows now have a content farm problem. Who'd a thought it!

The good news is that genuine voices can still rise above the slop, and will (I sincerely hope) stand out as beacons of light because of their wonderfully flawed humanness.

#ptpl #ai #pkm #PlainText

Medium (includes blog link) https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/ptpl-211-content-farms-have-found-my-niche-but-the-humans-are-still-winning-2acdcb4c46e3
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/06/08/ptpl-211-ai-content-farms-niche-internet

Как я перепробовал уйму приложений для заметок за 20 лет и вернулся к обычному .txt файлу (OBTF)

Я перепробовал Notion, Todoist, Evernote и много чего еще. Все они навязывали мне свой способ думать и организовывать информацию. Обычный текстовый файл — нет. В статье я расскажу почему один .txt и ctrl/cmd + F в моем мире победил коммерческие (и не только) тудушницы и заметко-хранилища. README.txt

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1002520/

#obtf #текстовые_файлы #задачи #тудушки #эффективность #plaintext

Giving #FastMail a try and I like most of the interface. It’s not a screen reader friendly as Gmail but I haven’t come across a lot of unlabeled things yet. The calendar is the most problematic for me but I will never use their interface. I always add calendar things via third party stuff. I do love their #PlainText support though. There is no way to disable wrapping, which bugs me. I always disable line wrapping, word wrapping. It’s a shame they are union busters otherwise I would recommend FastMail. You should know that they have fucking HCaptcha and yes, it appears on every login screen you can think of without a text challenge. They do have an accessibility policy, but it’s not worth linking. Gonna try StartMail next.

Examples of their inability to cooperate with unions can be found scattered throughout https://union.place/@fastmailunited #Email