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hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:09
How much extra do I need to pay so Notion will stop pushing their “Ask AI” at me every time I open my workspace?
Is it more than the “Ask AI” upgrade? Because I would be willing to pay more if that’s what it takes.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:14
Been a long time, but I really enjoyed the six months or so we had between “pop-ups have been blocked so effectively that we stopped using them” and “oh hey we figured out we could advertise upgrades, subscriptions, and chatbot help in-browser with really intrusive UI!”
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 08:57
@spinningthoughts been pondering similar, and one thought I had is only one core cell type, but the view determines long-form or short-form editing mode. Default short-form, hit Mod-Enter to switch to a document view of that cell (basically)
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 10:45
@spinningthoughts I admit I have to think hard about long-form vs short-from view since that’s not my natural pattern.
For my usage patterns I can’t help viewing every page as a tree, with each branch providing a particular context.
The branches of a header are its section. A bold cell on its own is a term and its subtrees are definitions and explanations. A note or tip in Logseq is a sidebar in my head, Past a certain depth, sections are more likely to indicate chapters in a series, with their own sections. Stuff like that.
So with that approach the main difference between scribbled notes and a document is how much thought I put into grammar and synthesis.
What I crave is a meaningful rendering flip between tree view and publishing view. Logseq’s document mode absolutely doesn’t cut it there. And also it’s a perspective that doesn’t give much insight to the kind of long-form synthesis you describe.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 10:58
https://hackers.town/users/feonixrift/statuses/112503009490259364
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 11:12
@spinningthoughts Well keep in mind that ADHD is a strong driver in all things for me, and one aspect of my flavor is “there are no rough drafts.” Everything builds iteratively on what’s already there. If I work on a fully synthesized version of my notes involving too big of a context shift in construction technique, it’ll never happen on its own.
The main successful path I’ve found is to cut and snip my branches like some kind of Bonsai tree, then feed the work into one of my export scripts if I want to share it with the world. My brain very much forces me into the “knowledge garden” school of PKM thought.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 11:40
@spinningthoughts Yep agreed. And in my style, those three bullets get edited and clarified into one.
I do a lot of single sentence or even sentence fragments when capturing, but at some point they turn into paragraphs (and lists because sometimes a fragment is still right).
I suspect our processing stages function similarly. Mine just has extra indentation and a leading dot as an artifact of my toolkit (EDIT: which I choose because that’s closer to how my brain groups concepts even after processing).
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 13:46
Far enough along in the Logseq graph loading experiment to try it on my actual notes so I can see both where it breaks and where I need to improve error handling.
Lots of places.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 15:39
Packing. Reminding myself to breathe occasionally.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 15:48
Every time I move awkwardly carrying a curtain rod (which is every time I move carrying a curtain rod) Bouncy Dog cowers into a tiny scared little ball and looks up like “This is it. This is how it ends. Tell Jumpy Dog I love her.”
So I’m trying to be extra careful, and extra reassuring.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 17:20
Cats are getting annoyed. All their favorite hiding holes are disappearing.
It’s okay you’ll get new ones.
hackers.town: 2024-05-25 Sat 23:12
At the stage of the big packing day where things hurt when you move.
And kinda hurt when you don’t move, too.