Ed W8EMV (thinks in wiki)

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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 alsohttps://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.

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

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.

@ike M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead
Beware of anything you read that isn't published with a date. Change happens to everything, and you can easily be misled into thinking that something written "now" is actually current.
"You don't have to type every fleeting thought into a nearby rectangle" is a fleeting thought that I typed into a nearby rectangle.

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.

@chrkrhc

All I know is, I just wrote 300 lines of text without once stopping to put in an explicit hyperlink, and it feels great.

@chrkrhc

If you have a big enough vault it can contain good passwords and pass phrases hiding in plain text, as well as a much larger supply of decoy text to throw off the scent of an attacker.

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.

#obtf