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New comment by supersrdjan in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

supersrdjan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:46:48 +0000

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

New comment by supersrdjan in "Take better notes, by hand"

supersrdjan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:10:14 +0000

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

New comment by supersrdjan in "The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition"

supersrdjan — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:37:02 +0000

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

New comment by supersrdjan in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

supersrdjan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:27:41 +0000

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?

New comment by supersrdjan in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

supersrdjan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:44:41 +0000

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

New comment by supersrdjan in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

supersrdjan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:15:51 +0000

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.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal"

supersrdjan — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:05:48 +0000

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).

New comment by supersrdjan in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

supersrdjan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:30:30 +0000

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

New comment by supersrdjan in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

supersrdjan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:15:37 +0000

Iphone, yes. I keep the file on dropbox so that is what keeps it synced.

Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a8a0076cc03f4e699d8ca34bd3d...

New comment by supersrdjan in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

supersrdjan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:14:17 +0000

It’s an iphone shortcut. Here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a8a0076cc03f4e699d8ca34bd3d...

I keep the inbox.org on dropbox, that keeps it synced.

The shortcut is called “longdictate” because previously I had a version that didnt require me to press stop after finishing my thought. Instead it was set to stop recording when I stopped talking. But it misfired too frequently, cutting me off, so I added the button.

I imagine there must be something similar to iphone shortcuts on Android?

New comment by supersrdjan in "How I am deeply integrating Emacs"

supersrdjan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:22:02 +0000

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.

How to Enjoy Long, Large and Complex Strategy Games

supersrdjan — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Or-fNLzckc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45502130

Points: 1

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New comment by supersrdjan in "Ask HN: How Do You Journal?"

supersrdjan — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:11:35 +0000

True! I don't use capture templates. Tags make sense too.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Ask HN: How Do You Journal?"

supersrdjan — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:55:10 +0000

The issue I'm having is that the daily file is sometimes a running log of notes I jotted down, other times a structured journal entry written the next morning. I wish I could separate the two so that I could export all my proper journal entry into a pdf.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Ask HN: How Do You Journal?"

supersrdjan — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:51:58 +0000

My stack is org mode plus the Denote package which has a nifty journaling feature. Each day has its own file. The date is in the file name, but more useful to me, the file name also includes a signature that looks like this today:

2025q4w40thu

I find that the week number and day of the week is a more meaningful coordinate than the date itself to orient myself when browsing through the files.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Awakening Bell"

supersrdjan — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:27:40 +0000

I often use timers and alarms either on my casio or on my laptop as reminders for this or that. I routinely get so carried away by whatever I'm doing that I don't notice when the sound alert plays. Sometimes, when I realize later on that the bell already went off, I can recall hearing it earlier, as if it were a faint memory from a half-forgotten dream.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

supersrdjan — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:27:56 +0000

I also switch between my macbook keyboard and my external ortholinear keyboard. In my case, getting used to the ortholinear actually improved my typing on the macbook keyboard, as it taught me to use my pinky finger more, and also fixed some other bad habits of reaching across with the wrong finger to type certain keys. But I have an ordinary rectangular ortholinear, not a moonlander-type layout.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)"

supersrdjan — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:52:23 +0000

Living in the northern hemisphere, it bugs me that standard north-up, west-left maps don't match up with the sun and with our clocks. It's neat that both clock hands and the sun are "up" at noon. It would be even neater if that upward direction corresponded to south, since that's where the sun actually is at midday. With south-at-top, east-to-the-left, maps would sync with both our clocks and the sun's daily arc. But then we would lose the west-left rhyme.

New comment by supersrdjan in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

supersrdjan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:34:15 +0000

I spent my 20s searching for the perfect todo solution but my search ended when I discovered org-mode. It's not that I'm the most productive person you'll meet, it's just that there's nothing further to look for. Should I decide to be my productive self for a while, I know org-mode will support me and not stand in my way :)

Oh, and I love the Denote package.

New comment by supersrdjan in "Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode"

supersrdjan — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:42:57 +0000

Denote, the org-mode package, takes the cake for me.

(From Protesilaos, whose introduction to emacs was also on the front page at the time of writing this comment)