It was in my day you had to download what you wanted to read, watch, or listen to before you got onto a plane.

I’m wondering if peoples love of a piece music has less to do with the music itself and more to do with positive associations with it. By today’s standards Phaedra should be completely unlistenable, and yet it’s remains one of my favourite albums in my collection, chiefly because of associated memories of listening to it amongst beautiful scenary.

Then again, it’s also a great album from the technical sense. Despite being very abstract, there’s still a lot there to tickle your ear, so to speak.

So maybe it’s a bit of both.

I’ve been watching a lot of retro-computing YouTube videos recently and I find it amazing to think that much work involving a computer back then was to prepare something destined to be printed out. How things have changed. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used a printer this year.

I’ve started using Notion for my personal notes. It’s still early days, and I haven’t moved all my old notes from Obsidian yet, but so far I’m finding it quite good for this. I still use Obsidian for work but I think the more structured features that Notion has, like databases, etc. could come in handy. It’s a little closer to my ideal note taking app, which allows for both structured and unstructured data.

Structured features begets structured notes so I’m trying to put a bit more effort into arranging my notes than I did in Obsidian. I’ve put together some sections, sort of in a Johnny.decimal lite style, where the more permanent notes will live:

Being able to set coloured icons and header images for notes is a nice touch. Sort of allows me to re-live the days of Google Inbox when they added a nice header image for travel documents:

I’m also quite impressed with the mobile app. I used it yesterday when I was out of mobile range, and not only was I still able to access my most recent notes, I was able to add new notes which eventually got synced when data was available. I didn’t test this too much and I really should as it would be good to know whether I’ve got access to most (all?) of my notes off-line.

I do miss Obsidian’s Daily Notes though. That was a nice feature for the more incidental things. But truth be told, it ended up being a dumping ground for notes that really should’ve been filed somewhere. Maybe a nice Notion feature is to add daily notes that will “disappear” after two weeks unless their moved into another section. That way you’re forced to file it or it’ll get archived/deleted.

Dare I say that it’s like “stories for notes”¹? 😉

Day trip to Mornington Peninsula. Did the Bushrangers Bay to Cape Shank Lighthouse walk, the Main Ridge walk, and the King Falls Circuit walk (known to me as the “bridge walk”). Conditions were pretty good.

I’m more than happy to give directions to anyone who asks, but afterwards I always fear that the directions I give end up leading them astray or leave them more confused than they were. Apologies in advance to anyone I do this to (like the family that asked where the rock pools were earlier today).

Enjoyed the day in Kyneton walking along the Campaspe River trail.

Yay, six day weekend! Gonna get my day walks in. 🌲

I’ve been asked to prepare a presentation for work, which means I have an opportunity to use iA Presenter. It’s clear that I’ll have to unlearn my Powerpointing ways.