ImperialViolet describes my past present and future

2021-10-22

Your day-to-day life is a bunch of xterms and a web browser. Nothing's changed; you are dramatically underestimating the importance of path dependence. Terminals are still emulating a fancy VT-100 and sometimes they get messed up and need a reset. No fixes there. It's still bash or zsh; nearly unchanged from your time. The kernel has been fixed a little: you can now get a handle to a process, so no more PID races. You can open a file relative to a directory descriptor and you can create an unlinked file in a directory and link it later. Yes it's good that these things are possible now, but it is not a fundamental change and it took a long time.
https://www.imperialviolet.org/

TimeManagementTalk.ppt

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/Randy/Randy/TimeManagementTalk.ppt

Slide 47 works wonders

Time blocking is all about time

Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files | Hacker News

The new kids on the block try to reinvent the wheel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28894481

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20100901

https://eleanorkonik.com/yet-another-hot-take-on-folders-versus-tags/

Less friction

• 1995 WikiWikiWeb http://wiki.c2.com/
• 1999 TheBrain http://wiki.c2.com/
• 2000s Emacs Org Mode https://orgmode.org/
• 2000s RandyPausch TimeLog   https://youtu.be/QTSdZ7Cggcw "I tend to look for mechanical tricks more than philosophy"
• 2000s SuperMemo https://super-memo.com/supermemo18.html
• 2000s to present  VimWiki https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
• 2000s to present vim https://www.vim.org/
• 2005 to present TiddlyWiki https://tiddlywiki.com/
• 2010s Mindjet https://www.mindmanager.com/en/
• 2010s to present Freemind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Nowadays its just $vim and gf as :map gf :e <cfile><CR> //files all the way down