If you haven’t read any of his novels, it’s safe to describe Palahniuk’s characters and stories as dirty. It’s dark humor and appropriately the descriptions of the smells are not heavenly. He doesn’t describe the nice smell of perfume, but instead “smell a hint of Chanel No. 5 perfume mixed with his BO.” It’s not enough to say a dirty bedroom smells, but that it has the same smell as “tennis shoes in September after he’s worn them all summer without socks .” Palahniuk doesn’t just settle at describing the scent of someone’s bad breath, but instead makes note that it “smelled like a burp after you’ve ate pork sausage for breakfast.”

breaking the chronological order .

“Of all the books I have delivered to the presses, none, I think, is as personal as the straggling collection mustered for this hodgepodge, precisely because it abounds in reflections and interpolations. Few things have happened to me, and I have read a great many. Or rather, few things have happened to me more worth remembering than Schopenhauer’s thought or the music of England’s words. A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.”

) That a small group is a powerful way of thinking, and of creating action. That repetition matters, and informality. 2) It might be possible to help with strategy without providing original thought or even active facilitation: To consult without consulting. The answers and even ways of working are inherent in the group itself.

a public knowledge management system. Each page has little connections with other pages, but if you use the search bar, you'll find plenty of information.

If we put our own voice on each note (as opposed to quoting by copy/pasting), then the most part of the work is done.

There are two aspects of digital gardening: the creation of knowledge and the dissemination of that knowledge

In the end, I've reached a compromise: I take most notes using Obsidian because it feels quick and unintrusive. But if I need to take literature notes on papers that require more equations and proper handling of citations, I use Zettlr directly. After a while, I got used to referencing sources just by looking at the citation key in Zotero, and I use Zettlr even more sporadically, just for equation-heavy work.

But the biggest reason I’m choosing Zettlr is that it’s FOSS. Since I’m adopting the pose of the FOSS Academic – and since Goal 2 of this blog is to write a book about FOSS – I really have to choose it. Logseq is also FOSS. Obsidian, however, is not, and does not appear to be going in that direction.

quickly create some flash cards for spaced repetition review? For me, this combination would be my dream application!