I'm writing a longer (as it seems) article on the lock-in effect of solutions like #Obsidian that are using open formats like #Markdown for storage. The file format is not the only thing that might lock you in.
I did already start with a list of arguments but also want to collect your ideas so that I don't forget a good argument.
Please, no emotions, just facts and objective arguments.
Reply here in this thread and I'll collect ideas from it. 🙇
I'd like to use a workflow where each #Mastodon message that gets bookmarked by me is automatically screenshotted to PNG, archived in a local directory and its text content + image descriptions get added to a text file (preferably #orgdown) together with a link to the screenshot and the original message URL.
If you would conduct a presentation or a demo for an #engineeringdiary and #knowledgebase, what topic(s) would you mention in any case that might not be one of the obvious candidates?
An introduction in measurements of antenna systems and analysis and avoidance of passive intermodulation (PIM) with special consideration on distributed antenna systems (DAS) and the influence of PIM on different mobile radio bands
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Eine Einführung in die Messung von Antennenanlagen und in die Bewertung, Analyse und Vermeidung passiver Intermodulationen (PIM) mit spezieller Betrachtung verteilter Antennensysteme (DAS) und den Einflüssen von PIM auf verschiedenen Mobilfunkbändern
Learned about a nice #pim#selforganization idea today:
Tagging your #todolist according to mood and energy level best suited to the task:
E.g.
todos for when you are exhausted and just want to relax: watch that movie you always wanted to see
Todo for when you are motivated and full of energy: get that thing started you've been putting off.
Todos for when you want to do something to pass the time or focus thoughts on something mundane.
However, due to my advanced #PIM processes, I rarely write things down on #paper.
I'd love to do so much more if there would be a great #FOSS solution for offline #handwriting#OCR. That would be a great investment by the #stationery industry! 🤔
It still offers better solutions compared to my #Boox#NoteAir#eink tablet.
Especially in IT, trust is everything and working with different solutions and providers is always a matter of trust. The possible fact that Microsoft’s new Outlook-offshout is seemingly sending sensitive data to Redmond could shake the world IT to its very foudations - years after the once acquired mobile Outlook-app did the same.
In case you might think that I've got my #PIM under control: 3 hours ago I had 791 items (from 2019 onward) in my #inbox. Those are ideas, tasks, notes, bookmarks I captured but didn't process yet. 😲
At the moment, I brought it down to 274 and I'll continue throwing things out tomorrow. 🏆
Over the years I tried many different to-do apps to find one that suits me. Finally, last year I read a lot on managing my personal tasks and implemented a system that works for me. I wrote a short article on my false presumptions and the solution.
I do write a lot about Personal Information Management (PIM) topics, I did some PIM research about local file management, I love to give lectures on PIM topics.
Therefore, it's quite natural that people start to believe that my personal PIM situation is near perfect.
@publicvoit
thanks for sharing that, i think it helps a lot to approach a better set of tools and workflow to light up that there is no perfect solution even for those who practice the subject deeply and for a long time.
I never took any strong pattern to organize things until it became a problem when i first had a disk crash a long time ago. when rebuilding things i tried many ways to do things and organize like 15 years ago.
but things began to be way easier to find and organize when i read about your python tools and your orgmode posts. thanks for this !
Reminds me of my colleagues faces when I told them to just use office template files, so that people would no longer misname copies of existing files or mistakenly change last weeks document.
Since opening templates always results in a new unsaved unnamed document. 👍