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Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by dnnddidiej »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

A good test of your focus on writing is if you can use a boring tool like Substack, Wordpress, Blogger or Github pages (vanilla out of the box ssg setup) and just write.

That said this one did write something. But I'd say for anyone else writr 10000+ words on whatever before a single word on your setup.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by kaashif »

richardlblair wrote: post #114

I find fhe discourse here hilarious. Haven't most of us built our skillsets and careers out of side quests? There is so much I wouldn't know or understand if I didn't go down the odd rabit hole.

I think going down side quests is good, that's how I learnt lots of what I know.

But if my goal was to run daily and my first step was to make an open source step tracker with a raspberry pi dock...

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by komali2 »

dv35z wrote: post #161
komali2 wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who are we to say what is the right or wrong thing to focus on? Just observers pointing out that her stated goal was "to write more." If she uses the writerdeck as-is for a couple years, then, she was one of those rare people that discovered an actual single structural obstacle that stood between her and her goal, and then solved it in one fell swoop. As an ADHD guy, I completely understand the cycle: have a thing…

Can you share more about your journal specifics, and Anki deck + spreadsheet? Thanks!

Yeah np, I go into the writing and journaling here https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/in-defense-of-pen-and-paper/

And more detail about the daily reflection activity here: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/my-new-life-stack/#journal

However I'm back on emacs lol, but basically I still do the same flow in emacs that I was doing in trilium. Dotfile: https://github.com/komali2/Configs/blob/master/emacs/.spacem...

Anki I haven't shared online yet, but for writing practice I just grabbed a "top 5k most common characters" deck online, and then reading/listening/speaking, I just chuck words into pleco and then use its build in flashcards system (it can use anki as a backend if you want).

Also re: journaling, I do a handwritten journal + calendar in a Hobonichi, but those don't have enough spare paper for day to day notes and book notes. For that I use kokuyo 80 sheet 8mm ruled w dot lines, soft ring, 148mmx105mm which is basically the exact same size as my Kobo bw, genuinely pocket sized.

For daily todo list it's a mnemosyne... 192? Is that the model name? They're relatively tall but extremely tall pocket notebooks. Basically I'm constantly strapped with hella paper.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by arkenflame »

daoboy wrote: post #6

I'm desperately awaiting the perfect eink device for this. I've got a great writing setup on Obsidian that really works for me, a royal kludge mechanical keyboard...just waiting on the next gen of eink The Boox One Note Max was sooo close, but they almost immediately discontinued the product and probably won't be supporting it long. Suggestions are welcome

If you want something you can use today with a Kindle or other e-reader I made an app for this https://solarwriter.msol.io

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by desireco42 »

Look, it does look like overkill but I totally understand you and where you are coming from...

I managed to publish my first book, second getting final review and third one is in editing... fully connected. AI came up with all the names for the characters, did a research on places and such. Huge help. I did check it all. For example a name AI claimed was French, totally was German and had to be replaced, but otherwise it is of huge help in writing if used correctly.

But here is a thing that made the most difference. Dictation. And not into dumb mac or phone transcriber. I use Typeless and used Superwhispt before, Typeless has amazing keyboard replacement and understand Serbian and transcribe it to English with minimal issues.

I dictate in my own Obsidian vault, to Inbox, which is then processed and sorted out by SidianSidekicks service (I am the founder). I look weird because I am talking to myself everywhere I go, but it is amazingly productive.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by wwweston »

chungusamongus wrote: post #47
jrflowers wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me, seeing someone eating ice cream: “Here is one of several copies of The Permanent Revolution that I keep on my person for this exact situation”

It's not ice cream though. Quite the opposite. It's this notion that puritanical self discipline at the individual level will somehow get us out of this. It won't.

Effective collective action is impossible without both real self discipline and meaningful engagement in life.

Your point has value to the extent that it’s reminding people we can’t just retreat into personal satisfactions.

But to the extent that it pooh poohs self-discipline or joyfully engaged attention, it’s totally wrong. The necessary practice starts with these things and then grows social and organized.

The social and organizing phase is usually less scoldy and pugilistic than some of your commentary here, too.

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by em-bee »

skydhash wrote: post #152
em-bee wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are the names of the fonts are they using? i found something here, but i am not sure if these are the right ones: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/pcvtfonts?sort=Fil...

Those are fonts you can load with the vga driver. Anything recent will load with the drm driver (intel, amd) or framebuffer. This emulates a text mode (rasops) on a graphical surfaces (vga has dedicated text mode), and for that they use spleen. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sys/dev/wsfont?sort=File https://github.com/fcambus/spleen And yes, it’s quite nice.

awesome, thank you. i remember vga vs framebuffer, and the time when linux made the switch. i was there, many thousand days ago. i might even have recognized that had those files mentioned vga somewhere in the path or contents.

spleen looks good. i am using gallant right now which is based on the old sparcstation console font: https://github.com/NanoBillion/gallant

Re: Time to talk about my writerdeck

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #69
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #50

This is an awesome setup. I like it, good job. That said, I do think there's a bit of irony to solving your "paying attention to writing" problem by setting up your OS from scratch, choosing to swap out the default networking stack, installing a novel flavor of your preferred text editor because you're "trying to get to know it a bit more," customizing your battery readouts, tweaking the login sequence, and then, aft…

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

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