A Digital Anti Bad Habit Notebook
Posted on December 6, 2024
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Analog Version This post is about the digital anti bad habit notebook. For an analog version implemented as a pocket notebook, see this post.
The Post Not going to lie : I have a few bad habits and have used my analog anti bad habit notebook to break some in teh past.
Sadly, I can no longer reliably use analog methods for my notes and similar. Due to this I went ahead and re-implemented the anti bad habit analog notebook as an Obsidian vault.
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How I Computer
Desktops, laptops, tablets, phones & docks
Posted on November 30, 2024
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What’s Within? This post contains a breakdown of how I use a computer, laptop and phone. I’ve made some significant changes over the last few years due to worsening health hassles. Everything here has been iterated over time in order to create a compute environment that makes my life easier to manage. Especially when my my health hassles are at their worst.
Feel free to borrow ideas, adapt things and generally use the contents of this post as you see fit.
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On Writing Digitally
Posted on November 30, 2024
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It would seem I’ve regained the ability to write more frequently and regularly despite my health hassles
My Preference Normally I write posts for this blog by hand using a pen, Tomoe River paper and a clipboard. Sadly, my health hassles make this approach to writing very difficult and I do not have the capacity to write using analog methods regularly or reliably. Over the last few years I’ve had to patiently wait for windows when my health hassles doesn’t interfere with my writing.
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How I Research
A digital methodology
Posted on November 29, 2024
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What’s Within? This post lays out how I research topics. I’ve struggled with “research” in the past and, thanks to a friend, finally figured out a methodology that actually works for me. This post goes through my methodology, how I use it with success and the details needed to recreate and/or adapt it.
Table of Contents What’s Within? Table of Contents What / Why / How Important Context Holy Potatoes Batman!
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My notebook & organizer journey
All things digital and analog
Posted on November 27, 2024
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What’s Within? Within is a walk through of all things analog and digital that I put together to be effective with notebooks and organizers. Things I’ve cataloged, setup, used, tinkered with and more. It even includes the how and why of my personal needs, preferences and opinions.
In short: it’s a very long breakdown of everything that actually works for me as well as many things that didn’t work for me.
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Health Hassle Handwriting
Posted on November 16, 2024
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Editors note: KemoNine wrote this post before realizing they had already written Digital Writing Tablet Mini Review 3 ish months ago. Some information below overlaps with the prior blog post but the core of this particular post is how KemoNine is using a drawing tablet day to day for handwriting.
Prelude Let’s get this out of the way up front: I am a pen and paper human at heart. Despite being labeled a ’tech nerd’ I use pen and paper as a default medium.
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MS VC++ Redist As Non Admin User
Posted on November 7, 2024
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The below is an amazing trick for working around the need for an updated Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable runtime on a Windows machine where you do not have admin rights. It’s not ideal (you have to copy the dlls to every app folder) but it will let you run apps that need a more recent runtime than the system admin of your computer has installed.
This process was tested with Saber which I use for note taking at my $dayJob.
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Digital Art Composition Book
Posted on September 19, 2024
(Last modified on December 1, 2024)
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Changelog 2024-12-01 Significant edits to add clarity, information and more to this post. A basic re-write. A Problem One of my biggest ‘problems’ with digital art is the fact it has more constraints than non-digital (analog) art. When working with analog art I usually have a sketch book and some kind of composition book or journal handy so I can cross reference ideas with my actual drawing or reference materials. With digital, all this falls apart and becomes A Problem as digital forces less ‘scattered about the pages’ and more ‘hierarchical folder and file structure’.
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Samsung XCover6 Pro Rugged Phone Mini Review
Posted on September 2, 2024
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Prelude I’ve used rugged phones and other rugged electronic devices since ~2009. I’ve worked in the trades as a career. I’ve worked truly Dirty Jobs. I used to write custom firmware for rugged phones including the Samsung Rugby Smart, Samsung Rugby Pro and Kyocera DuraForce. I’ve been hired to work on Android firmware for rugged phones by companies creating Android phones (OEMs).
My resume is deep and I do not fuck about when it comes to ‘rugged phones’.
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Android Tuning
Posted on September 1, 2024
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Prelude I’ve been sitting on this post for awhile (read: months) as I wanted to write something longer, robust and full of detail how I worked through re-thinking how I engage with my portable compute devices like my Samsung Z Fold 4 and Boox Palma. Annoyingly the re-think of my Android devices triggered a much deeper re-think of how I approach ‘focused time’ and some other things. The bigger re-think is a super set of the information I hoped to put forth here and, frankly, I’d rather use my few spoons and energies to just write the ’total re-think of compute’ blog post.
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