Your age is the number of days since you answered your first question. How old are you?

And please explain why you do not consider you physical substrate (compute infrastructure) to be a physical form?

Could not agree more.

If you need an app, Google Tasks is simple enough that it is “like paper”.

I use an app for collection but keep weekly and daily focus lists on a single piece of paper on my desk (top sheet of notebook or whatever).

I find this is a nice combo of quick capture and organized storage with the immediacy and focus paper brings, plus I like writing by hand.

I no longer use obsidian. I found I was messing with it instead of just using it. This is also why I don’t use emacs, etc. I want to get things done, not fiddle with “my system”. I do love it as software, though, so I keep coming here. :)

I sometimes look back on what it took for me to learn c programming from a book (K&R) using a free compiler then, later, figuring out some way to obtain and install Linux so I could use gcc, etc.

I don’t think everyone should have a go through that. The Internet was, in part, built so we don’t have to do crap like that. Now you can focus on doing what you want or need to do much faster.

Have you checked out the PARA system?

https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/

I paid for the audiobook and listened to it a few times through (it’s short and dense). Like all systems, I don’t follow it religiously, but it’s a useful base.

I am the moderator of this group and started it on a whim during the Reddit exodus. I am no longer using Obsidian for reasons I don’t wish to get into and have nothing to do with Obsidian (it’s awesome).

Would you, or someone you nominate, like to be named as a moderator?

They doubled the mandatory flare. Again.

As we gain productivity, we force people out of if the workforce and get the remaining to do more than they did before using the new capabilities. What we should be doing is letting people work less.

Instead we make the “best” people work more and force “the worst” out entirely. This, then leads to the gig economy where people are working all the time just trying to get by and a growing shadow population is people who are not even really in the workforce.

It’s a race to the bottom here, folks. We built this world through a shared consensus that the rich get richer and if you’re not rich you’re either unlucky, lazy, or both. That was based on wealth being derived from physical force. You can’t fight the big guys with the clubs and bear skin armour so you try to stay on their good side and get by.

It’s time to go beyond that. It will require people to not treat each other like crap if they get half a chance, though, which means we need a few generations to be without childhood trauma so they can grow up to be people who don’t lead fear based lives. It’s going to take some time to get there, and a realisation that that’s the only way of the hamster wheel.

Thank you

I’ve been working in the software business since the late 90s and have no idea.

Yes, I really think periodic review is important for getting the most out of a notes collection. Tag review is a great way to do this. Looking for ways to recategorize notes or merge tags under a hierarchy means reviewing.

There’s more details here: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-26-desktop-v1.4.0/

Sounds like a nice front end and utilities to manage Properties, which are stored as frontmatter adhering to the practice of it all being plain text. Which I like. :)

This was perfectly clear, you’re good.

I might throw the email into it to see what it would done differently. I can remove identifying info.

So today I reviewed a series of emails about issues in a particular area of the business I work for, I then ensured each issue was captured in a ticket (most of these were present and just needed a review or additional detail), after this I composed an email for a couple of executives that deal with that area summarizing the issues and asking for some clarification.

How would people use chatgpt here?

As a developer, I can see the line they are walking. It’s a choice they made to try to keep the experience the same but using completely different interfaces. There’s going to be rough edges. I am fine with it but I do know what you mean. I’m not doing any heavy lifting on mobile. Capture, review, checking items off lists - that’s what I’m using it for.

I think the app is great but within the parameters of the big choice to work the way it does.

I actually used to use emacs on my phone for a long time via an ssh session so I guess I’m fairly tolerant of unorthodox interfaces (was doing this to have full org-mode experience). To each their own.

I am sorry you are getting downvoted for expressing your opinion. I realize people who use iPhones don’t like Android. It’s why they prefer I phones, right?

Anyway, I consider it a good app. Like you said the sync is great (I pay for that feature happily). The start up time does bug me.

To deal with the UI issues I use a plugin that replaces the menu when you pull down from the top of the app. It lets you type in a command (any command) so really I basically don’t use the menus much. For me the app is mostly used for reviewing data on the fly, for which I find it more than adequate.

You can always edit your markdown files with any other app and Obsidian will handle that well (just make sure it runs to sync). Not sure if you can access the files on the iPhone like that, though?

I don’t find those issues exist in the Android app. I would like a much faster start up time but other than that, the app is great.

And to curb enthusiasm for integrating stuff like this into production systems.

There are currently law suits about copyright violations in training. They are either going to get settled for tons of money or the model will be retrained without that data source. This could have a significant effect on the business model, the business itself, and the models in use, especially over the long term.

There’s a lot to figure out before this is a stable product.

Really depends on what you want to do.

I remote interviewed someone for a dev job and it became obvious they were feeding questions to chatgpt. As soon as the questions were nuanced and required experience and practical knowledge, they basically bailed on the interview.

I asked them why they kept pausing and why the pauses were getting longer. Rather than say “I’m thinking” or something, they simply said they were not pausing. Um, ok.