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>reduces the lookup times from O(all of the internet) to O(just my notes). This ^^ I use a combo of Pinboard [1] to save URLs I think I'll want to refer to in
by Normille 6y ago
>reduces the lookup times from O(all of the internet) to O(just my notes).
This ^^
I use a combo of Pinboard [1] to save URLs I think I'll want to refer to in future, plus NValt [2] stored on my Jottacloud [3] for recording snppets of info and more free-form notes and for making that info available from any of my devices.
Nine times out of ten [if not 99 out of 100] however, I'll just StartPage or DDG whatever info I'm looking for, since I always have a browser open anyway.
It's also quite common that, having thus found such a nugget of info, I go to add it to my Pinboard or NValt notes for future reference, only to find it was already stored there [often years ago], if only I'd thought to "shop locally" in the first place.
[1] https://pinboard.in https://pinboard.in
[2] https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt
[3] http://jottacloud.no http://jottacloud.no
- Normille 6y agoI do sometimes wonder though; if there's an inverse correlation between "complexity of ideas preparation" and "actually getting stuff done" and if all these systems are the procrastinator's equivalent of the instant weight-loss diet. Many's the time I've been about to embark on some actual "thing" I need to do [producing a piece of art, writing an article, building a web page, fixing something round the house] only to get completely sidetracked by the thought that if I just; tweak some software settings... re-organise some folders of files... dismantle and clean some piece of equipment.. first, I'll get the job done so much more efficiently. And, of course, I then spend the rest of the day doing that, instead of actually accomplishing the "thing" I set out to do, in the first place.