I have published my initial ideas for the PlainText Journaling Markup Language.
Inspired by Huang's never-ending, productivity journal .txt file and influenced by Tony Stubblebine's concept of "interstitial journaling," the PlainText Journaling Markup Language is designed to simplify the experience of plain text journaling.
The journal.py has some functionality. Most importantly: move all open tasks to bottom of journal.
@geffrey@obsidianmd Interesting! I use this Expanso shortcut to insert a bullet and the current time in italics for interstitial journaling in #Obsidian, though it should work in any #markdown app:
Print the Interstitial Journal current 24-hour time
Are there any #PlainText or #Markdown apps that can list the full names of files, on multiple lines, on a narrow screen? Landscape orientation helps, but it is not the solution I’m looking for.
#Obsidian Is the only one I’ve found so far that can do this.
All I want is to be able to browse the full text of long file names, in a list, in an app that doesn’t take 5 minutes to start up (I’m using iCloud for syncing Obsidian).
Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all.
My colleague, the talented @reiver, is currently hard at work on an awesome project called #PostFreely. It's actually a fork of the popular #WriteFreely blogging platform.
Together with other brilliant developers, they're brainstorming a bunch of potential new features for PostFreely. I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to seeing how our beloved Fediverse blogging platforms keep evolving. Pretty awesome, right?
@atomicpoet@reiver@fediversenews btw - just browsing the lemmy instance & recognizing myself in the Markdownists archetype - so thought I'd mention that I really love @obsidian's implementation of #markdown
I may comment there about it at some point here, but comments aren't populating from my lemmy instance yet.
I wish the indent = code block behavior would get deprecated from the #markdown specs. Triple backtick fences for code blocks and single backticks for inline code seem to have those bases covered, and indents could be freed again for the purposes for which they’ve always been used in prose and verse. (Markdown sucks for #writing#poetry because of the indent prohibition.)
Programmers aren’t the only ones who use markdown.
A lot of time and energy is spent on thinking about how to organize your notes into folders, and many people use Quick Switcher as the main way to both create and open notes, even to simply access some information. I started this way, too....
@gelberhut@biscotty@obsidianmd I agree with gelberhut. Folders are to organization as plaintext is to data, and are one of the keys to a files-first, future-proofing approach. #Obsidian could break and refuse to open, and I could still navigate my notes in any file manager and open and use them in any text or #markdown editor. That’s going to be a lot harder to do if you’ve dumped all of your thousands or tens of thousands of notes in root. #PKM
#Zettlr 3.0 was released today. I’m looking forward to trying it as a general-purpose markdown editor to supplement #Obsidian, because you can use .md files anywhere in your system, not just in folders designated as vaults. https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Anyone else using #obsidian for notes or documentation? I've been toying with it personally and tuning up some ideas for my next term starting this week. What plugins have you found useful as an IT professional?
I'm a solo #sysadmin with a fallback #msp. Agent facing documentation in my ITSM is a process (rightfully so) to edit and update, but is slow to search if I can't find it straight away.
@Pantsu@dapprvilln I’ve never heard of #LogSeq before, having settled on #Obsidian (even though I’m not a closed-source fan) after trying a number of #Markdown#PKM apps. I’m going to try it out this morning, so glad I saw this thread!
Did you know we're running our Tech Blog https://blog.zero-iee.com using Hugo, GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages? :github:
The content is composed using Markdown. Hugo (run via GitHub Actions) translates HTML templates and Markdown files to a collection of HTML files. GitHub Pages then displays the resulting HTML files and handles SSL.
All we need to do is write a new article in Markdown syntax and push it to our GitHub repository. HTML generation and publishing are fully automated.
While we could host a CICD pipeline and a web server ourselves, we prefer the current low-effort soultion. 😉
@amorphisbear@libreoffice I remember that being an issue in a recent update, but things appear to be OK now. I was looking for a Microsoft Word alternative in the event that I just no longer can afford my Microsoft office 365 subscription, and this seemed to be the only viable alternative. I was recently reading about how they’ve added and accessibility engineere but I just haven’t seen much improvement as of yet. I had the same issues as a jaws user on their accessibility list a couple of months ago, but I can read documents and I can edit documents, I just can’t interact with a lot of the dialogues or menus or even the panes like the comments and track changes area, if it even exists. I still have no clue how to even use track changes or comments in libreoffice with the keyboard. I use Jarte as well, but i’m just consistently amazed at how nobody can seem to make a word processor accessible. Even the dozen or so #Markdown editors I have tried all had main UI elements that would not interact with the screen reader or even work with the keyboard, and markdown editors are supposed to be slightly enhanced text editors. The only thing that works consistently for me is Microsoft office. I don’t understand why it gets such a terrible reputation because for me, it just works every single time I need it to. I wish libre office had that kind of reliability @main
Did you see a significant productivity increase? Did your motivation to work on long projects change? Did it help you get over roadblocks in long project? (I tend to lose motivation whenever I struggle to make progress for more than 3 hours in a row.) How do you decide what goes inside of the system and what doesn't? (we have...
Obsidian: Organize Your Info, Not Your Files (biscotty.online)
A lot of time and energy is spent on thinking about how to organize your notes into folders, and many people use Quick Switcher as the main way to both create and open notes, even to simply access some information. I started this way, too....
What is your experience with pkms? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Did you see a significant productivity increase? Did your motivation to work on long projects change? Did it help you get over roadblocks in long project? (I tend to lose motivation whenever I struggle to make progress for more than 3 hours in a row.) How do you decide what goes inside of the system and what doesn't? (we have...