life is a waste of time, you gonna colapse and die some day, maybe tomorrow?

Well observed.

How a development of a small personal project usually goes

It's what makes this video so relatable.

He needs notes mode in emacs.

GTD in a nutshell

At one time I had several copies of a single-line command in my notes. I ended up just google my query again and clicking on slightly purple stackoverflow link. It just works!

yep, this is exactly the reason why I use notes software: more RAM for my brain!

More like swap for your brain's ram! Heheehehehe

I only read my note once.. When I write it

It took him months just to make this video...

This is his first video, but he has made it 17 times before he published it to KZfaq

First video on this channel. I’m guessing he has had other channels.

I can't get over pen and paper. Don't let me walk into an office supply store or craft store. I dream of visiting Muji stores and the like here in the US.❤

Pen and paper is even harder that this. Search for antinet zettlekasten

I wanted to say this, I have apple notes for notes shared with my wife, basecamp for notes shared with work, and folder of text files synced with syncthing for stuff that needs to be digital, 1Password for sensitive stuff and my favorite place is my taroko design tomoe dot paper midori insert with my lamy safari rollerball pen. THe pen addict is a great podcast on stationary and writing tools. Pen and paper outlives any of my computer installs, is hard to data mine for ai, not subject to big tech, and while all my tools are ‘closed source’ it’s not meaningful with the competive marketplace for these things and vendor lock-in is non-existent. I used to hang around ex-spies, they said if you want it private, pen and paper.

And wait til you get some fountain pens with fancy inks. That's the road to hell and being broke

Guess I'm lucky, there's one Muji store here in Boston. 😂 But I know what you mean, the stationaries in Germany and Japan are on another level. @@abbylynn8872

same

same also, this guy is awesome... now I have to see other videos from his channel :D EDIT : WHAT??? Only video on the channel???

idk how I haven't heard of this channel sooner, I'm loving every minute of this EDIT: Cause it's his first video lmao. A damn good first video if I do say so myself

Indeed, pretty hard to find something this level in a subject so specific too.

Same for me. So informative and funny at the same time!

Where can one do such a novel thing? Sign me up, bro, I am all for it.

Welcome to youtube!@@ancogaming

Well-said!

Adam Ragusea has entered the chat

We need a matrix chat room for just this 😂❤

@@bobsmuggler9591 for writing monthly layouts of course

​@@bobsmuggler9591Monthly layouts are a bullet journalling thing. Started out as a basic organiser by someone with ADHD, now you get people who make pinterest perfect looking bullet journals

Bullet journaling can also get overwhelming with emphasis going more on aesthetics than actually getting stuff done .... A simple functional bullet journal which ryder caroll first showed would be the way to go ...... Just a good dotted journal with high quality paper and a pigma micron should suffice .... I tried making my bujo aesthetic and all just couldn't keep up with it

@@idrisahmed2659I fell into the same trap of making my bullet journal look really nice and then not using it enough. After 6 years, I now do super simple dailies and then decorate after the fact, haha

what do you use?

Obsidian

😂

we all went there 😭

It's confusing how relatable this was.

same, but I overlooked Zim and I'm in Joplin-Zettlr purgatory. Sometimes I need to write notes on my phone but Zettlr has no mobile client!

How the fuck didn't I find this just few weeks ago when looking for "foss google keep"...

... That's what she said

you missed it being a rant about the Cloud

So you were the one that stole the piece out of me.

@@junimeme5626 lmao

you are female version of amir !

Okay, but did you get stuff done after the video?😂

@@Roobiekunmy bet: trying 3 different note-taking tools before switching to actual physical Zettelkasten :D

Came to the comments for this

Oh my fucking god you just broke my heart. And then I realized you were kidding. And then I found out that you're NOT kidding, and that broke my heart a second time!

were old videos deleted? or did this one video somehow blow up and get him (as of time of this comment) 11.3K subscribers?

How is it effin' possible this is the only video on the channel. Enjoyed the presentation style, even though I had to crank up the speed to 2x to make it even more enjoyable. Summary: Informative, snappy, well articulated -- and hey, some pretty darn good advice thrown in for good measure (if you just ignore the attempted insults; which I donno considering the target audience are propably mostly missing their mark anyway). More of the same please!

​@@agentsamMore of the same ? Amen!

So you don't know how to write & type ??

This video is peak autism

@@FineWine-v4.0The chad illiterate

​@@FineWine-v4.0 like asking someone who says they suck at chess if they don't know how to move wooden pieces 😂😂😂

@@lorenzomizushal3980 Writing ain't rocket science Just write & type what you feel is important

You and your family have reached the zenith when others only look down. You're all welcome in heaven

Yea, kind of refreshing. And you can see he has been on a quest for quite some time, like many of us. It's almost as if people like us are some sort of subculture. Punks, skinheads, emos, goths, fossnoters and fossseekers. It does feel like a freaking wakeup call to grow out of it xD

I know! It's shocking that he's so tech savvy.

There are multiple open source notion clones. Appflowy is one.

Dendron, Foam, they're all on githib lil bro

@@aslanfrenchBut do any of them use plain markdown and also have reminders?

@@henry-js Dendron is not an app, it's a markdown flavor, you still need an editor to use it

@@metternich05 no, Dendron is "an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool". All you need is VS Code installed and the Dendron extension.

One day later and he has over 2k subs!

@@filipecoelho9855 it's now over 3k

@@filipecoelho9855 one day later he has 4.7k subs

203?!!?? WtF. May this guy remain blessed by the algorithm. Love his personality too

@@hannibal02 6.63k at time of writing

Wait, who is forcing you to learn Vim!?!? Don't get me wrong, I love Vim and Neovim, but getting forced to learn them sounds terrible...

My sympathies. What college tortured you into learning vim??? Report the abuse!

​@@tonchozhelevI know there's nano but when you are doing a practical course through ssh, I'm pretty sure teaching people at least the basics of vim is useful. Speaking from experience. And yes, for any of you wondering, I'm that nerd who uses neovim for everything now.

Libreoffice? I used that sometimes and it's pretty good.

I've never felt so personally attacked before, but I'll probably forget by the time I'm done watching the next productivity video.

Same. I went from Google keeps > Evernote > and finally Notion. While Notion was the winner of them all as it let me to customize a lot of pages including organizing my 50+ notes for each category and a mini wiki, it is really slow and slog to work with over time unfortunately.

I used Evernote on my phones for years and it's gotten slower and slower and slower to the point of having to open the shopping list before entering the supermarket to be able to read it before arriving at the checkout

Evernote is recently gotten fast again. Buy boy they've taken to violate your privacy - they're spyware now, as everyone else. They've ended up like all major soft vendors - but worse! They make the money from BOTH your monthly payments AND from selling your privacy. And yes, they likely get a tip from Goog when they get you to trust 'them'.

Yeah, markdown is nice that way. Future (and past) -proof.

Was about to say this haha, obsidian is completely local (if you don't use their paid cloud)

Obsidian is not foss, huge deal breaker for some of us.

@@gus2603 is obsidian safe

The world is not ready for reasonable Linux users (I use Arch btw)

There are dozens of us!

Check again.

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Isn’t it great 😂

what App is he now talking about?

Would you mind sharing the source? I'm interested :)

@@HannahFantasia +1

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Drop

It's basic, but it works okay 🤷‍♂️

Same with me, the only notes I took in the past where simple todos that where scattered around my file system and I quickly forgot they even existed. Then I tried Obsidian and found that having all the stuff i think about written down in one place is really handy and it‘s way harder to forget a note now. Also having your own little wiki that you can slowly expand over time when you feel like it, seems really great. Right now I‘m creating a little git wiki, so that I can quickly look up how to use some commands (because git is hard and I need to google way to much)

@@sebastiankrali2547 Thank you for sharing your experience. One thing I struggle with when using software like obsidian is that I'm not sure what's the proper way to organize notes within it, when to split off a section into its own note and link it, etc. Maybe I'll have to watch a tutorial or something. Another thing I didn't mention in my original comment is that I've been through a similar thing to this whole "software to improve productivity regarding knowledge" thing in the past before, with somewhat mixed results. I've used Anki a lot for helping me memorize things in the past (it's an SRS software). The software really does what it purports quite well and it helped me memorize maybe 20 or 50 times more efficiently than I could before, if not more. It is sometimes described as a way to "hack" your brain, like a machine that never forgets. Whatever you put in the system, you end up remembering. However, using the software is also a chore: configuring it feels like shooting in the dark, making notes is very configurable but overwhelming, the manual is really long and there's a bunch of add-ons and other software made to work with it that help you do even more or easy note making but you end up stuck in an endless tutorial hell of endless tool learning and configuration. In the end I ended up using it with mostly default values and with time, using it less and less, to my detriment. I haven't abandoned it and I always plan to pick it up again and really learning all the ins and outs of the software and add-ons around it, but I never do as I dread the immense time I'll have to sink in it. I feel like this is gonna be another Anki. Especially obsidian and its "second brain" youtube marketing.

I'm teetering on the edge of the nvim/emacs rabbithole (already know all the most important vim binds) and started using Obsidian for uni (just started) and wow so far note taking has been way better than anything I've ever tried. Obsidian might be too fancy and bloated for this person, but for someone who is used to VSCode, its drawbacks are far less noticable. I'm going to lean more into nvim (probably?) anyways for software dev, but it's nice to see someone comparing all of these in this way. I hope Obsidian works out for both us in the meantime!

Updates? How was your experience with Obsidian?

Its not 1978. Dont use emacs. That is silly. Emacs and vim are absolute garbage pieces of outdated trash software promulgated only by boomers who are sad they cant get a job because they are only proficient in FORTRAN

@@morning-lp3zbthat’s why they said “free as in freedom”, and not “free as in free hot dogs”.

@@morning-lp3zb Free as in Freedom, not Free as in free beer 🍻

The best part of written notes is that my terrible handwriting makes it its own encryption protocol

Obsidian is good now but eventually they'll want to make more money and then the degradation will begin.

"enshittification" @@notusingmyrealnamegoogle6232

Yeah, that's where I'm at too, using Obsidian and syncing the vault between all my devices. I do worry that eventually the profit motive will either make it unusable or costly. It's already pretty slow on my Chromebook. I often debate whether I should try to put together something open source now with all the headaches that go along with it, or wait until Obsidian inevitably ruins their software, and have that much larger of a collection of notes to migrate to whatever comes after. The necessary features for me are templater (with folder templates), dataview, and the ability to easily take/edit notes on my phone. I wonder if I can do all that I need with some version of vim? Back down the rabbit hole I go!

exactly what i was thinking :D he went into org-roam graphs and i just sat there and was like: Broski is building a new janky obsidian thats open source. I am not even mad, thats super respectable :D

Obsidian is a No-Go for me, because they changed their licensing model. For me as a developer I don't wan't to spend 50$ for a commercial license for a software that (IMO) should be free

30 minutes? I just blinked!! You are right, pacing in this video is outstanding!

wait what? 30 minutes ??? wtf this is crazy

Agreed that this is me as well and I'm more nervous than ever now. It's one thing to hope to meet the like-minded. It's quite another to actually do so.

😅 one recommendation... do not switch note taking apps.. stick with notion even if you feel it's bad atleast stick with it for 6 months... i spend past few years due to shiny new apps.. now on neorg... and i can assure that there is no perfect app.. (neorg has potential, but not there yet...)