Seems logical.

Might be a very very uncharitable reference to this, for example: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-...

I assume this quote in particular?

> Typescript, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, npm, and so much more exist primarily because Microsoft executives believe this will lead to more business for Azure and other Microsoft offerings.

I don't think its a conspiracy theory to think Microsoft releases their tools with the intention of people using their paid platforms/services. But the original person I replied to definitely thinks the author of the blog post is implying something insidious, which they don't seem to be.

Agreed.

Some points raised here seem worth pointing out: https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality...

In the last paragraph, OP mentions using Logseq "for short daily notes/journaling", which suggests both Obsidian and Logseq fall short in some ways.

As I'm currently contemplating using one of these tools, I'd love if you elaborated on that.

Great article, thanks.

I use Obsidian for daily notes. I’m not sure why someone who primarily uses Obsidian would reach for another app just for daily notes.

I was able to specify the folder for my daily notes and the format for their naming. I also have a template setup for them. There is a button in the sidebar that opens the current days note and creates it if it doesn’t already exist. I believe this was all out of the box. I then download a plugin that gives me a calendar, so I can visually see which days I have a note, as well as pre-make a future note.

I use daily notes at work to track what I’m working on any given day. If I know I need to do something on a certain day that isn’t a meeting, I use the calendar to generate that future note and write down whatever I’ll need when the day comes. My daily note template is pretty basic, it has a todo section (where I stick to the Ivy Lee method[0]) and a section for notes that are related to the day and don’t deserve their own file (like meetings and one-off support issues).

For a while, when I had to track everything, I wrote a little something to let me easily append text to my daily note. I ended up writing this I HammerSpoon (Lua), bash, and Apple Shortcuts. I used all 3 at various points in time. It made it really easy to append to my daily notes with a time stamped note from wherever I was without breaking flow. I could select any given day on the calendar and see how I spent that day. It was nice to have, but I also like the freedom of not having to do that anymore.

I haven’t used Logseq, but that is mostly because when I looked at trying it a year or so ago, most of what I saw online were people saying it was buggy, and I wasn’t sure what it would offer than Obsidian wasn’t already providing me. That said, there is no reason not to give them both a try and see what you like best.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee

Any risk of being accused of funding terrorism by the US if I donate there?

There are other efforts if you don't want to do direct donations. See Connecting Gaza (Rabbi Mivasair). There's also the Sameer Project.

Nothing helps as much as speaking out vigorously and unambiguously though and without equivocation. We have to stop killing Palestinians first.

Try Phanpy for the fediverse: https://phanpy.social/

Maybe the best web app I've used.

KISS: https://help.kisslauncher.com/advanced/gestures/

Live bookmarks was how I started, and what I've come back to after all, using this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/livemarks/

When I'm familiar with the source, the headlines are enough for me to know if I want to read, navigating the folders is super quick, and the feed indicator makes adding new ones very easy too.

Thanks a lot for that link! I know nothing of Apple stuff and a friend has got an old iMac that he thought was unupdatable but it seems there's a way. Cheers!

But you did, and Firefox flies these days, thanks!

:)