{"id":44063,"date":"2024-02-26T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/44063"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:11:55","slug":"a-public-commonplace-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/44063","title":{"rendered":"a public commonplace book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have always loved the idea of commonplace books<\/a>, a writers sketch book, more or less. Digital versions in things like tickler <\/em>files<\/a> have tempted me down the path into many failed or abandoned organizational systems. I have tried to keep physical ones, digital ones, even have a magical one as part of a novel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a long time now I have been saving notes in a digital commonplace book. (I don\u2019t know the oldest note I saved, Evernote has go far enough down the enshittification path that I cannot login from the website and check the dates of my notes.) And I have used various systems. Evernote<\/a>, OneNote<\/a>, back to Evernote, Bear<\/a>, Notional Velocity<\/a>, EMacs org-mode<\/a>, back to Evernote, Notion<\/a>, and finally Obsidian<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Obsidian is going to stick for a while, having all of my notes in plain text (with markdown) and on every machine, makes it portable and free of lock-in and hopefully enshittification. I have always liked the idea of my notes being independent of any tool or platform, but I need some infrastructure to save from mobile and web from non-personal machines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tend to collect links, images, quotes, whole articles, summaries of books, movies, just what ever I felt like I wanted to save and reference later. I have whole other paths that I use as well, Instapaper<\/a> for read later, pinboard<\/a> for links, Readwise<\/a> to try to sew it all together (save highlights to notes) and this blog for public facing stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after re-reading this post from Cory Doctorow<\/a> (from 2020, which I had in my to read pile for gods know how long) which was re-posted by Bruce Sterling<\/a> which in turn was commented on my Warren Ellis <\/a>really got me thinking about what I wanted to do with the gigs and gigs of notes I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I am going to experiment with the blog again with the goal of as I save links to my commonplace book archive that I will post them and comment on them in more or less real time. Or something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-luke, North End House of Chaos, Breakfast Nook, 2024.02.26@07:32am est.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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