Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Thought for the day
Do you maintain a reading list?
I have a whole bunch of book on my to-read list. I add and subtract as I hear about things; and I make a notes about what I am reading, unless I’m reading fiction.
Yes, but the problem is I have way too many lists that just keep growing and growing, and I wonder if I’ll ever get to complete them.
Like some of these from the top of my head:
… and so on.
The only one on your list I want to ask about now is the one you said not to ask about…reverse psychology?
Haha, it’s not a big secret or anything, it’s just my “thing”. I love karaoke, and I also have a bit of a fascination with foreign music - French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian etc. From pop and opera, to heavy metal throat singing. Whatever catches my fancy basically. And unlike “normal” people who may just listen to some J-pop or something, I actually like learning all the lyrics, practicing until I memorize everything, all so that I can sing along and perform confidently… in the shower.
Perhaps some day I might come across a karaoke place with a good foreign song collection, and that will be the day I finally get to show off, but until then, I will continue to keep learning and singing in the shower lol.
Nice, I like philosophy and complex topics… I’ll be happy to discuss anything with anyone. My go to when meeting new people is “what do you do for fun?”
Not really. I still use goodreads to track what I’ve read (I know I know Amazon bad, I’m lazy to change)
Since I’m a dirty pirate I just grab the ebook when I see something that I might be interested in and throw it into Calibre for me to look through when I’m deciding on my next book to read. Ebooks take up so little space I have no issue hoarding them even if I don’t end up reading them.
I also know how to sail. Calibre is wonderful software.
I use bookworm.nz to track the books I’ve read, am currently reading, and want to read. I also have a spread sheet with the same data (though it goes back further, because that’s how I started).
I’m not big on note taking, but when I do I normally create a page in my personal wiki.
I use Obsidian to track my list and make notes where I feel notes are a good idea.
I’ve heard good things about Obsidian, but while I’ve opened and played with it there hasn’t really been much to pull me into it.
Other than the wiki, I use Joplin for day to day notes, which serves it’s purpose and syncs easily with Nextcloud.
I like that Obsidian has lots of interesting addons but all the files are just markdown at the end of the day. You can view them in a standard text editor.
My vault syncs via Syncthing - which is just awesome.
Joplin is all markdown too. I guess I’d need to play with Obsidian’s addons to see what might make the killer feature for me, but it just seems easier to stick with Joplin. I don’t even use it all that much.
There are a bunch of cool features, but the killer feature is the tasks addon, so useful
I use the tasks.org app for tasks, so I probably wouldn’t find it as useful!
I also try to use open source software where possible, and Joplin and Tasks.org do the job so have won out for now.