There are so many books out there but I really like ‘Keys to Drawing’ by Bert Dodson. Start simple, you only need a pencil and something to draw on.

There’s definitely a trade-off. It usually means having a quieter digital life, and that can in turn push you to think of alternate or IRL ways to do things. Everyone needs to find their own personal level of privacy they are comfortable with I think… it shouldn’t be an obsession or detrimental to your life.

Syncing tasks app with Thunderbird using CalDAV rather than your json method is one way of doing it. There may be other tasks apps out there though?..You’d need a CalDAV service for hosting the tasks…I use Posteo (email/calendar) and it supports this.

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we should always make time for play (in general)

Don’t find much use for them personally but some are in the tabs frame of mind and some are in the buffers, whatever works for you… I just think in buffers and the buffer list. Maybe if I have a very separate set of work going on I might want to put it in a tab. I think of tabs in Emacs more like a workspace or session (ala Tmux)

it drinks more coffee

The keybinds you can set up in e.g Ranger for navigating or moving files are incredibly fast and easy. Sure you could just use shell commands/aliases etc. but the visual representation of the file system that a TUI provides, I find really useful.

Really want to play this…when it’s not £60

maybe look into udiskie for automounting/unmounting your external drives. It notifies, ejects and powers them off nicely with a terminal command you could alias, script or keybind to something real simple. Then in ranger I have ‘gm’ set as shortcut to go to media. I don’t need the GUI file manager that often anymore.