supersrdjan

In my street, about 100m away from my house, there's a seam, where the street view images transition from 2026 to 2014. I like to pretend I'm Marty in the Delorean and the transition point is where I hit 88 mph :)

It worked great when I switched from yabai some time ago but now it seems to be constantly losing windows and I have to keep resetting it :S

Read it a while ago, one lasting impact it had on me is I became a devotee of the bic tri-color pen :)

Now, onto the next frontier: handwriting recognition for shorthand. Let's start from Orthic :)

I agree that those are impressive skills that are becoming rare and make us compare unfavorably to old schoolers. But I am also impressed by trackers who can follow a trail in the bush by observing clues invisible to ordinary people. All kinds of skills fell into disuse when the problems they solved lost importance.

But we will never run out of problems to solve and new problems will call for new competencies.

I wonder what are some of these new competencies. I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Can you?

Can’t you say the same about the printing press?

Socrates thought that writing contributed to brain rot.

If I AI rots my brain than so did Google before it, and printed encyclopedias before that. In reality, the fact I can get my questions answered quickly only makes me think of more and more questions to ask, more things to wonder about, more problems to ponder.

Cool idea!

It reminds me of this maxim:

In each sentence, a fact and a feeling.

The idea is from this book:

Writing Non-Fiction by Walter S. Campbell (1949)

I found out about this book from the recommended reading section at the end of one of Ogilvy’s books (Ogilvy is a famous advertising man from the Mad Man era).

Indeed. When you have superior skill, inferior tooling can be a constraint. But a superior tool will not compensate for inferior skill.

The most seamless capture-from-anywhere workflow I struck upon is to have a shortcut on my phone's home screen. When tapped, it takes my dictation, transcribes it, and saves it to an inbox.org file with an org-syntax timestamp, synced to my main computer.

Basically the notes have the same format that org-mode uses to save notes placed in the logbook. But you can also make them as individual TODO headings or whatever. It's all plain text anyway.

I try to empty the inbox.org every morning, I typically have 20-30 entries to go through. Some things matter and are revised and refiled appropriately. The rest gets dumped into a chronological log file for just in case.

edit: btw, it would be cool if I also made a version that would append the content of the phone's clipboard to the transcription, so that I can also catch links and/or bits of text. Or maybe even multimedia, thought I am not sure how I would accomplish that.