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#WritersCoffeeClub 28. Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?
My imagination. And about six billion browser tabs open to obscure wikipedia topics (and a few more abstruse sources).
The cat? She mostly observes from a distance between naps, but occasionally gets bored and comes over to bite my typing hands.
@cstross You can't talk about your cat without providing pictures!
@jernej__s She has her own mastodon presence: @Menhit
@cstross Do you have a method or process for dealing with the million tabs? I do the same but then struggle to find things or remember that I have them.
@baishen First tabs in my tab tree are oldest and most often consulted. Later tabs are transient. Every week or so I go to the latest one and start deleting anything I haven't actually needed to go back to. Result: a gradual accumulation of *frequently useful* stuff up-front.
@titaniumbiscuit @baishen Learning curve is too steep for my tired old brain.
@titaniumbiscuit @cstross I've tried them but haven't figured out a workflow where they don't end up getting forgotten about. But that's a me issue more than anything app specific.
@baishen I use them for a variety of things (list of links to be revisited someday or more realistically: forgotten) but what seems to work well is to keep track of longer-term projects that I can't be bothered to keep in mind constantly. Two examples would be: a to-do/done list for the next income tax declaration, relevant links to websites and explanations of terms etc. Another example is a documentation of my home IT configuration: where the software came from, how to install it, and how I configured it. It's a bit like a personal Wikipedia and I barely use the journaling capabilities. I like that it's all markdown and I use no special plugins so that my stuff should be quite portable.
Beyond that I've been looking with interest at people modding Obsidian for various purposes. One example is Marc who turned it into a fully-fledged RPG GM station: https://rollenspiel.social/@Just_me/114187688562186287
@cstross One of my Wikipedia tags is Watchlist because I occasionally revert graffiti and vandalism in Wikipedia.