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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • One time I went to buy a power tool that was on sale at Home Depot. I did the self checkout and the sale did not ring up correctly. I got one of the employees attention and they just told me there was nothing they could do, whatever it rings up as is the price and they can’t change it. No amount of pointing at the massive sale sign would change that.

    So I put it back and bought it from an online site that was having the same sale. Fuck Home Depot… Since then I go out of my way to not shop there.










  • If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.







  • I’ve been using Syncthing to sync my notes… it doesn’t work on my iPad (because of the way the iPad file permissions work) but I’m able to sync between my phone and my personal computer and work computer. (I also have Syncthing running on my NAS so it’s automatically backed up!!)

    Syncthing doesn’t cost anything. You could also use dropbox or google drive or whatever so you don’t have to pay. I agree, it’s a pretty steep fee for what it is.


  • So I have a folder called people/ that contains a note per person that I work with. (I have a template that helps create what I’m about to describe for each person too so creating one of these people notes is as simple as typing their name). In there I have what you’d expect, name, email, position along with maybe some personal notes I want to remember about them but then I have a dataview table that lists all the meetings I’ve had with them since I started taking notes.

    To do this, it’s a simple dataview table in the person note and then I also have a meetings/ folder where I add my meetings. In there, I just have an attendee’s section where I put people’s names (just using the [[name]] notation) and obsidian links them and the meeting will show up in the table.

    I can also add todo items right in this meeting template and using the tasks plugin, I can create a list of tasks that it pulls in from all my other notes. So I have a daily journal note and this has a list of all my uncompleted tasks. (Again, all this is templated so I just have to open today’s journal entry to see these things)

    And to top it all off, it’s all in just plain text markdown files so I’m not locked into some proprietary format.