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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: June 15, 2022, 02:29 PM »

The question for me is: what do I need to see to believe that taking notes (and elaborate on them) is beneficial?
We have one outlier, Luhman, and ... well the entirety 'productivity' web (is this a hipster thing?) who are into it. But are they productive?
How much effort is it to keep notes?

Who is measuring this?

-urlwolf (May 11, 2022, 10:16 AM)

I can only speak for myself. At the beginning of my doctorate I decided that I want to read any paper or book only once. I take copious notes of key arguments, my thoughts, feelings, etc. All of these are compiled in a master note for that reading piece. All notes are tagged. Every few months I'll be looking at new connections, sometimes writing a new note summarising my new insight. The biggest value is in making those connections. Is it worth it? For me it is, since I use my notes when writing papers. For example, I wrote a high-quality academic paper of 10 000 words in two days. I could write fast because I knew I already have good sources for my claims and arguments.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« on: August 04, 2021, 12:44 PM »

The whole thing with K-9 Mail is a travesty. And the main dev that took over and busted the app is paid €4000 every month from some German fund. To piss off hundreds of people. Reading his answers on their forum makes me sick.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 11 Announced

« on: July 03, 2021, 12:07 PM »

I'm so happy that I've migrated to Fedora back in 2017. Haven't looked back.

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Living Room / Re: Need help recreating some music -- full band needed?

« on: May 01, 2021, 02:27 PM »

If you don't get any specific recommendation, you can always search for a freelancer on Upwork or Fiverr. You already have a good brief/job description.

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Living Room / Re: Where would you go to hire someone to make a logo and/or video intro for you?

« on: October 07, 2020, 08:37 AM »

I prefer hiring freelancers through upwork. If the work is good (and repeatable) then I hire them directly. Let me know if you have any questions or need help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« on: September 13, 2020, 01:11 PM »

How to ruin a good app.

-4wd (September 13, 2020, 09:46 AM)

Not too thrilled to read this, as I'm also using K-9 Mail. I do like it's minimalism and one-hand use. Why would they do away with that. Either way, I hope there will be an option to turn on "classic" layout.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] Book Tracking 1.1

« on: September 13, 2020, 01:01 PM »

Cataloguing is a solved problem. Bibliographic information is tied to the publication. Book catalogues use ISBNs, ISSNs, DOIs, and similar, as identifiers to which additional information is attached. There are additional systems, e.g. Dewey Decimal Classification, but they do not provide what you are looking for. Auto-updating is an undesirable feature in such systems.

To get what you want you'll need to cobble a custom solution, like the one Nod5 proposed. It'll still be difficult to precisely update new publications, as you'll probably need to automate finding something new by name, then look up ISBN, then check against all published ISBNs by the author, and then if it satisfies all of that it should be entered as new. Series data is also unreliable, as different publishers populate bibliographic data differently. E.g., when I work with books I rarely encounter series included, even if the book is part of them.

Have you thought about speaking with your local librarians? Perhaps at local university or public library? They might give you most relevant leads...after all this is what they are doing professionally.

Another option is building a catalogue in whichever software you like the most, and then having a virtual assistant check for updates every second week, or similar...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [IDEA] Book Tracking 1.1

« on: September 13, 2020, 02:54 AM »

How about Zotero?

You can import by ISBN, add series name if it hasn't been pulled, define which tabs are shown, add your own notes and comments, etc.

It can be used completely offline (that's how I use it).

I don't think it can tell you about new publications.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« on: July 19, 2020, 11:00 AM »

I've been using Zettlr for my zettelkasten. I started it in January this year and have so far written 713 notes.

Forgive me for I haven't read all 25 pages of this topic, but it seems to me like discussion here is mostly around note taking software and not zettelkasten as a method?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: July 05, 2020, 09:23 AM »

Only one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: July 05, 2020, 02:17 AM »

My small contribution here...

I've used Pegasus (not since about 2000, though) and TheBat! and finally settled on Thunderbird.

I still have a license for TheBat! but I didn't go beyond v7 -- I always loved its configurability and its use of FidoNet-style message quoting but I got badly burnt by a massive failure of the encryption mechanism for the Voyager variant and I decided never to trust it again.

Thunderbird's abandonment of its addons infrastructure is an annoyance -- a couple of addons for message management that I used and relied on have either gone away already or are going away as we speak (Nostalgy and QuickFolders being the most important of them) but the newly discovered ability to create virtual folders via the saved search functionality has just stopped me wondering about possible alternatives, which is why I started reading this thread in the first place!

I have tens of thousands of stored emails in Thunderbird and it copes. This is probably A Good Thing.

-oblivion (July 03, 2020, 11:35 AM)

Consider trying out Interlink Mail & News.

It was developed after Thunderbird announced that it'll follow the webextensions route.

I've been using it for seven months now and it works perfectly. In some regards it's faster than Thunderbird (e.g. yearly view in calendar).

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Quick Fuck Off - FOAAS for Thunderbird & SeaMonkey

« on: October 30, 2019, 05:18 PM »

You should port it to Interlink.

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General Software Discussion / Re: UXP Mail&News client

« on: December 09, 2018, 02:33 PM »

The client has been released under the name Interlink Mail & News:

Interlink is a Mail, RSS, and Newsgroups client based on Mozilla-sourced Community Code and built on the Unified XUL Platform.

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Living Room / Re: How to find the math relationship/graph between one or more variables...

« on: November 03, 2018, 02:15 PM »

Yes, MiniZinc.

Here is a tutorial for using it to solve a LP problem:
https://brilliant.or...lling-with-minizinc/

And two courses to dig deeper:
- Basic Modeling for Discrete Optimization
- Advanced Modeling for Discrete Optimization

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Living Room / Re: How to find the math relationship/graph between one or more variables...

« on: November 01, 2018, 02:01 PM »

To understand which variable has the highest impact you can use regression analysis and ANOVA.

Assuming it is a linear process you can use linear programming for optimization. If not, you can look at other mathematical optimization models.

If I remember correctly, Excel has built-in solver for linear programming but it has to be activated.

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Living Room / Re: Problem for very strong brains

« on: October 06, 2018, 12:53 AM »

If it is project management homework, you most likely have to calculate the critical path.

If it is a real business problem I would suggest going to the workplace and following the process, understanding what happens in each hour. Is it really 10 hours of processing time, or is it 5 minutes of processing time and 9 hours and 55 minutes of waiting time? After identifying all the blockers and impediments I'd suggest working with the employees on reducing that times. In addition, identifying the pacemaker operation and then load balancing following it. Keep repeating the process until the end of time.

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Coding Snacks / Re: 30SecondSilencer - add silence every 30 seconds to an mp3 file

« on: October 02, 2018, 12:43 AM »

Thank you for fixing it.

The tool still works great!

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Coding Snacks / Re: 30SecondSilencer - add silence every 30 seconds to an mp3 file

« on: September 30, 2018, 12:13 PM »

Heya Nod5, I tried to download this again, but all I'm getting is:
Sorry! Download is not available yet.

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General Software Discussion / UXP Mail&News client

« on: September 14, 2018, 02:44 AM »

From PaleMoon forum:

Since we've got a solid platform to build on now and people have started using it to create their own alternative clients based on it, I'd like to draw the attention to a donation collection effort that is currently on-going to develop and launch a fully-capable e-mail, usenet news and feed client building on UXP and being based on Thunderbird prior to their descent into the limited realm of WebExtensions and "modern Mozilla".

If the Thunderbird Council will not listen to what its users need, then we will!

Please see here for details about this effort and how to chip in/donate. Tobin, our Communicator specialist and prior contributor to the SeaMonkey project will be spearheading this effort. Of course everything will be Open Source under the MPL, as usual.

This effort will directly replace FossaMail for the gap it has filled in the past. Despite pleas to revive it, I simply don't have the time to do so. Instead, please support this new client!

Thanks for your attention.

I supported the project.

Apologies if I posted this in the wrong area - please move as see fit.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Thunderbird Cheatsheet

« on: July 30, 2018, 08:47 AM »

For the last few months I've been receiving questions about updating the cheatsheet.

New update changes two lines of text, namely:

For Mozilla Thunderbird 52.
Compiled on July 30, 2018.

The reason I haven't updated it for the last 2 years is that there is nothing to update. The same keyboard shortcuts still apply.

Enjoy.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Directory used by the Paste-As-File function

« on: December 10, 2017, 05:48 AM »

Is it possible to make a hotkey for this option? I looked through preferences, but couldn't find it.

I use this feature quite often, and quarduple click is getting boring.

-Attronarch (November 20, 2017, 02:22 AM)

Anybody found a good way?

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« on: November 20, 2017, 02:25 AM »

Riveting.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Directory used by the Paste-As-File function

« on: November 20, 2017, 02:22 AM »

Is it possible to make a hotkey for this option? I looked through preferences, but couldn't find it.

I use this feature quite often, and quarduple click is getting boring.

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Living Room / Re: Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List

« on: August 22, 2017, 06:53 AM »

I never said anything about Agile boards looking at that statement.  I talked about backlogs. 

-wraith808 (August 21, 2017, 07:55 PM)

True, it was in another that I haven't quoted. This one:

... The purpose of an agile board (and trello) is not in the implementation, but the backlog. ...

-wraith808 (June 30, 2017, 11:11 PM)

Anyway, it sounds like organisation you are in is more involved in pretending to be agile rather than trying to become more agile and your team is adapting. Just make sure you don't carry-over any bad practices once you switch organisations.

I'd recommend joining local meetups, if you haven' already. Those can be good places for intellectual sparring and building competence outside your organisation.

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Living Room / Re: Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List

« on: August 21, 2017, 03:43 PM »

I think there's a problem intrinsic to trying to make OnTask digital.  Some things need to be touched, and felt, and simple in order to succeed. What I've found using OnTask is that I'm bad at prioritizing large amounts of anything, and estimating how long something does take or should take, and easily distracted.  Backlogs, after working with Agile for 4+ years don't really work, as you're never really trying to clear them, so they become built up with a lot of detritus that distract.  There's a whole lot of that on our backlog at work, and we're never going to prioritize them, even if we have nothing to do.  They just don't matter.  And so the stack rank becomes meaningless. 

-wraith808 (July 02, 2017, 08:49 AM)

Don't get me wrong, but it seems that your team needs some help with getting their scrum or kanban game to next level.

Your backlog piling up is not necessarily a bad sign. That is, if you stop to reflect on it and dig into the root cause of it.

There are no agile boards. There is a scrum board (or sprint board) and kanban board. I prefer kanban approach.

The OnTask thingy you mention is very minimal kanban system - prioritize 3 tasks, limit WIP to 1.