Cyberthal's T3 blog

Textmind documentation has been developed to a point that would have been tremendously helpful to my past self. The answers are out there for someone truly motivated. However, I've already incurred some rework due to ongoing Textmind development. Partly that was stimulated by writing

Textmind is so advanced as to be largely incomprehensible. I'll work on improving the documentation, of course, but a hefty amount of that complexity is irreducible. Thus it behooves me to consider alternatives to the B2C approach. B2B obviously has a higher tolerance for

Turn your reasoning from a liability into reliability with the Reasoning Regimen. Mental mistakes plague us all. The smarter you are, the more you're aware of it. But what if you could rely on your reasoning? Or at least know when you're likely to

A ramble goes further than a sprint. Why the tortoise beat the hare: plodding pace > fast flair. I've been calling a level-one heading in the daylog a "sprint", but that's wrong because sprint already means something else. So I need a new name

Imagine a long thin drawer full of index cards, such as one finds in an old library card catalog: "New York Public Library" by jimculp@live.com is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The simplest way to organize this series of notecards is

A reader asks, "How long does it take you to "throw" everything in the morning from the previous day's org file?" How long it takes to process a walklog is completely variable. The main factors are the length of the walklog and the complexity

Schema overviewThe user's journal is at 2-Linked/Time/Me/Journal. It is a subrepo. It has two major directories, Plan and Review. Historical records, such as completed walklogs, are filed to Review/Source. Plan contains plans, which use the same dateranges as reviews. Plans

Big picture and little picture are complementary modesWhen I first brainstormed Brainsai, big-picture implications of a paper-only Textmind implementation thrilled me. The next day, during daylog decomposition, I realized that my initial insight was wrong on a key detail of UID/SID implementation, and

I had trouble adding "share this" buttons to my Ghost blogs' Casper theme. The guides that I found didn't work. Presumably editing default.hbs would work, but I didn't want to modify a theme for basic rough draft sites. Addthis.com's instructions mostly didn't

This is an amusing Cyborganize review. To summarize, it's a complaint that Cyborganize is incomprehensible. Which I don't deny. Just because it's published doesn't mean it's perfect. A lot of the Cyborganize documentation is still at the vomit draft stage. Eventually it will get

I put technical knowledge under ~7-background/tech/~, rather than ~by-name/~. For example, who developed Emacs is general non-technical knowledge and belongs under ~by-name/Emacs/~, but details about elisp belong under ~7-background/tech/Emacs/~. Why not put all Emacs-related info under ~by-name/Emacs~? Some reasons:

I couldn't achieve a satisfactory result doing live screencasting commentary. Neither the execution nor the commentary was adequate, and it was draining to perform. Asynchronous and discontinuous proved superior. Pausing for mini-breaks improves execution and reduces fatigue. Camtasia has a pause indicator in the

ive been leaning heavily on the emacs for extended cognition metaphor and cyberthal's writing seems closest to that line of thinking. textmind appears to me to have gotten all the long-term considerations that a PKM system in emacs will run into correct, like org-mode

Exports complexity When working with a non-Textmind repo, at some point the complexity of tasks related to the external repo starts to clutter and conflict with Textmind. At that point, it's time to export the whole mess to the external repo. I suggest creating

Tags can't compete with deep hierarchy for PKM, due to the unmaintainability of the former. The Textmind algorithm causes constant hierarchical evolution to meet one's changing needs. Achieving the same effect with tags is impossible without causing a giant mess. And without continual schema

Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive Finally, a clear explanation of Zettelkasten. Textmind differs in that it doesn't rely on tags and manual linking. Instead it uses deep hierarchy. How did Luhmann make his Zettelkasten work as a Personal Knowledge Base

Tags can't compete with deep hierarchy for PKM, due to the unmaintainability of the former. The Textmind algorithm causes constant hierarchical evolution to meet one's changing needs. Achieving the same effect with tags is impossible without causing a giant mess. And without continual nomenclature

"Don't Do Complex Folder Hierarchies - They Don't Work and This Is Why and What to Do Instead" by Karl Voit https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/25/avoid-complex-folder-hierarchies/ So I did the whole thing again. Requirements analysis, data analysis resulting in a new concept.

Review of "Taking Note" by Gaurav Gada. I’ve been developing a system to take notes through org-captureorg-capture assumes a non-daylog workflow, which leads to fragmentation of one's core chronological record. No amount of metadata can compensate for this. I haven't tried it, but

To review why Org's defaults are so frustrating to non-coder newbies, I turned on my vanilla Emacs and opened a .org file. For multiple reasons, from legibility to discoverability, the noob is likely to choose visual-line-mode over toggle-truncate-lines. The former sounds warmly user-friendly in

Emacs has a giant normie-noob shaped hole in its intake funnel. The warnings against using Emacs on Windows on the download page are good, but not enough. Noobs need a positive recommendation of platform, and a practical one, not ideological. It should say something

I think the best counterargument to the thesis that org-mode should set defaults for noob legibility is that vanilla Emacs is hopelessly forbidding, and therefore non-techie noobs must start with a distribution or drown. Unfortunately, starting with a distro without prior knowledge of Emacs

It should be easier to configure Org-mode to display readable prose. Below is my Org-mode configuration. I use Spacemacs. I may be wrong. The easiest way to find out is to share my opinion. Fixed vs variable pitch fontReadable prose requires variable-pitch font. Readable

Everywhere one looks, one sees empty hard drives and overflowing brains. The Supermemo workflow, exemplified by its creator, doesn’t solve this problem, because it focuses on the wrong theme. The existence of savants with photographic memory demonstrates that the goal isn’t worth

In both the military and commercial spheres, individuals are granted varying levels of personal autonomy, according to ability and character. Obviously both require constant learning. By contrast, students at K-12 are hierarchically flat and undifferentiated. The obvious explanation is that militaries and business are