Amateur radio operator W8EMV, Obsidian user, old-school blogger.
I have been using wiki sorts of things as a "personal wiki" since the days of Socialtext (2002).
For better or worse I am also @w8emv on a number of other small, thematic Mastodon instances.
| See also | https://a2mi.social |
Slowly but surely chipping away at my lengthy todo list, which is implemented in multiple Gitea repos + Obsidian.
The oldest issues I'm tracking are 9+ months old. My latest sweep looks at the oldest, and I ask myself whether I should do this now or whether it can wait for 3 or 6 months.
Can it wait? I close it and copy the detail to Obsidian. I'm keeping a list of things to review on the fall equinox and another list for the winter solstice. Tucked away, but not to do now.
Reduce WIP.
I keep my todo list in "gitea", which is a git repository and issue tracker more typically used for software development. I'm at just over 1000 issues closed in a little over a year, and about 60 open right now. (Limit work in progress.)
The whole setup runs on my MacBook Air laptop, it doesn't depend on a working Internet connection and it's really fast.
Previously I had used Github Issues (with about 10000 issues) but it felt very slow over time.
For the past few years I've used tech forward medical concierge service for 95% of my medical needs as I could get in easily, they covered a lot things in their service, and they synced with your insurance to book appointments with specialists in your insurance plan.
Today I got a PDF with my medical history with them. Then noticed I missed a note from a day ago saying they were shutting all of their offices immediately.
It's unclear to me what the rules are for this new game. Am I trying to maximize the number of words I use? Are clippings of other people's writings fair game? Do I get to start over from time to time back at zero lines written, maybe Two Big Text Files, or three or four or n?
An experiment I'll try is to not type anything directly into a web text input box, but rather run it through the One Big Text File first.
I hit 5000 pages on Obsidian, which is tremendous and also absurd. Tremendous because it covers a lot of ground, absurd because too many of the pages I created are way too short.
I'm going to try One Big Text File for a while. Already I find myself rewriting some of the pages I had once written in Obsidian, but they sound different to me on the rewriting.
define the Most Important Task of the Day (MITD) and then put it on the top of your list. Fill the rest of your list with other issues that have a less outsized sense of self-importance but that would give you and yours satisfaction upon completion.
Procrastinate against doing the MITD by completing the other satisfying tasks and generally getting things done rather than hyper focusing on that one thing that your brain set you up for failure for.
Put procrastination to use!
cc @dsebastien
The original conceit for Blogger's Secret was that it was possible to become an expert on any topic by sheer diligence and frequent public writing on a narrow topic.
https://vielmetti.typepad.com/secret/2011/06/how-to-write-about-anything.html
I really miss the era of Internet writing where you "collect ignorance in advance of collecting wisdom" and start your exploration of a new topic by assembling a long list of questions that you work to provide good answers.
(also, yes, I wrote that first sentence in 2011, and I still believe it)
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Thomas Vander Wal