Mastodawn

@mcrocker Thank you for the insight regarding Org-roam. I have also read that Denote can become slower in some ways as a directory's list of notes becomes extremely long. There is no 100% perfect solution I suppose. Just a guessing game about which approaches will get faster over time than they are now.

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thetemp 2h ago

@mcrocker It's something I've been thinking about lately. My system is one big org file right now, but I'm trying to think about how useful it will be in 30 or so years, and I'm just not sure that one big org file will continue to work well as decades of volume adds to the parsing time. Something that relies more on file-searching could be more future-proof than my current setup I suspect.

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thetemp 5h ago

@mcrocker What do you use for Org-roam notes on your phone? Are you using the one-file-per-note approach or all notes in a single file?

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thetemp 1d ago

@vanni @enocc Sometimes I just browse a library if I think there might be something useful in there. You can bind find-library to "C-h C-l". The cl-lib and seq packages have a lot of useful things.

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thetemp 2d ago

@nixCraft Why would anyone expect such a ubiquitous project to not support upcoming legal requirements? It's open source. If you don't want to include that feature in your distribution just disable it and assume the risk yourself.

thetemp 4d ago

psf 5d ago

software is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.

this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).

#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.

People's Computer Company - Wikipedia

thetemp 4d ago

Marc 4d ago

ADHD meant constantly fighting for structure.

Every productivity tool forced me into its boxes, rigid folders, fixed categories.

Emacs Org Mode changed the game.

I don't adapt to the tool; the tool adapts to me. No filing anxiety, just tags and capture.

Finally, a system that works like my brain, so far

#ADHD #Emacs #OrgMode #Productivity

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thetemp Mar 16

@beetle_b @benjamineskola There is also the aptly-named "visual-fill-column" package.

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thetemp Mar 15

@irunatbullets As for what you might do with the top bar, you can have an indicator that shows how many windows are to your left and right in the current workspace. Also, weather icon, time, volume control/Bluetooth connection indicator. All of these can be handled through other means if you don't care for having them always present of course.

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thetemp Mar 15

@irunatbullets I followed the same trajectory. I like my minimal waybar but have no need for all the "desktop shell" options out there that are so popular. To each their own though. Have fun with it!