Note to Self, Cal Newport’s Minimal Notes System

My old-style slow notetaking process. Replaced now with Elipsa Annotations, which then move along with my thoughts into Org Roam Notes. Click to see bigger Cal Newport recently did a deep dive on his podcast, on a minimalist note taking system for various areas of your life. Video’s on Youtube, if you want to watch. It’s called A Productivity System To Remember Everything You Learn. It matches, what I’ve organically been doing all these years....

March 2, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Note to Self Footnotes Using Littlefoot.js

Courtesy dothegreenthing, CC BY-NC 2.0, on Flickr I have this amazing urge never to leave well enough alone.1 The blog uses an amazing theme, called PaperMod. And ofcourse, like I said, because I can’t leave well enough alone, I’ve customised it heavily.2 The fonts are different, there are various kinds of slight colour changes, I bullied Aditya into showing me how to build a Menu, there are lots of custom Hugo shortcodes and there were footnotes powered by a nifty little Javascript library called littlefoot....

February 28, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Moving Audio Library to Flac & MP3 Formats

Converting the library to flacs/mp3s because they let me add multiple duplicate tags

February 27, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Org Mode Narrowing and Widening Buffers

Narrow to focus, widen to review and plan. tldr: “C-x n s” to narrow and “C-x n w” to widen

February 26, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work, Coda

Never lose sight of why you’re doing all of this.

February 25, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Note to Self, Bookmark Your Work

Mark your place. Log. Summarise. Review.

February 24, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

On Invisible Inequity and Entrenched Privilege (In Open Source and the World)

Quotes from Kuang and Gibson about inequity and privilege

February 23, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

When a Book Kicks You Up Your Backside

Go, work!

February 22, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Publish! Show Your Work! You Don’t Have Leonardo’s Genius or Luck

Publish your work! Show up and show your work, as consistently as you can!

February 21, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

Create New Scars (or Calluses)

To create anything, you need to have a well to draw from!

February 19, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza