I used the Mozilla Pocket service until recently. I had a few hundred bookmarks,
mainly work-related articles, recipes and decent articles I wanted to keep for future reference. For some reason, while I bookmark stuff in Firefox, I have a bunch of common sites on the bookmark toolbar but never delve into my stored bookmarks. Out of site and out of mind, and also I might remember the content of the page but not the title, in which case, a bookmark doesn’t help, and I rely on browser history and resort to a search engine again.
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I like the idea of e-ink devices, and often think about how much I could make
use of an e-ink tablet which allows writing with a stylus. The marketing hype
would suggest that it’s a life changer, which seems a bit strong, since they
essentially aim to perform a similar function to pen and paper. Recently I
impulsively purchased a Kindle Scribe without having done much research on it.
I’ve had a lot of thoughts swirling round since receiving it. Here is an
attempt to put them into positive/negative categorisation.
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Last year I started using Obsidian in combination with some other tools to help with knowledge management. It’s quite common that I attempt to visit a web page to find the original content no longer exists, either as a result of the usual link-rot where websites die or get restructured, oreven due to wilful destruction of content in the case of many reddit pages, or nuking old content and domains as a result of company buy-out.
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The problem: I’m a tab hoarder. Anything I’m working on at the moment is generally kept in an open tab in Firefox, as work in progress. Typically I have 100-200 tabs open. Once I’ve finished a personal project, I close the tabs, sometimes bookmarking them first, but not really filing away the knowledge I’ve acquired in a useful way. Even when I’m documenting work projects, I’m not sure I’ve gathered the supporting information and ideas in a structured way. I’m not sure I’ve opened any bookmarks I’ve made in the last few years. When I want information back, I might fruitlessly search my history and end up using a search from scratch to find the information again. It’s a terrible system, and I rely too much on my memory and open tabs to recall information. Another side-effect is that my thoughts get stored in memory in an unprocessed state. I’m not getting any younger, and my reliance on storing everything in my brain is not future-proof.
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If you spend time working in the terminal, whether for work or leisure, a lot
of the commands you type often have a dependency on other recent commands,
might be repetitive actions, or be very similar to other commands previously
run. Gaining mastery over your shell history is a great way to be more
productive in the terminal.
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