Multiple machines, multiple OSs, narrowing apps?

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Posted by washere
Jun 24, 2019 at 09:57 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Thanks for the feedback; I have no doubt about the cloud trends. It’s an
>irony that this is happening as more processing power is available in
>one’s pocket than ever before.
> >
>washere wrote:
>>I read a couple of tech news articles last month about leaks from MS,
>>you’ll have to Google around yourself if interested. Basically they’re
>>thinking of killing off office and making office only cloud based, 365
>>version. But goes further, they’re thinking of migrating Windows from a
>>desktop os to a cloud OS. Pre-empt Chromebook popularity. Apparently
>not
>>caring about some areas of third world, rural etc where broadband or
>>even internet might not be available constantly or at all. No money
>>there anyway comparatively for them. I don’t think these are leaks,
>>they’re probably sending up balloons to test reactions. Eventually
>>though, if not a couple of years, they will. Hence Linux.
>

It’s basically a beefed up version of MS Lite os for which screenshots and more details are available and might be released this year as a beta, taking over Windows proper in time completely. Cloud OS is unavoidable for commercial OSes and is a creeping coup already, not just in chrome os.

The reasons for move towards Linux:

+ Many preferring desktop os to cloud OSes for various reasons
+ Linux distros gradually getting better whereby one or more becoming popular for masses within a couple of years is very possible
+ Full privacy control vs commercial OSes
+ Open source, community driven + afew corp backed for funding
+ Hardware & driver support getting as good, again some corp funding
+ More & more incremental under the bonnet sys updates, vs complete overhaul updates, + easy hardware upgrade portability even beyond commercial OSes emerging in a few distros
+ Customization of sys theming, docks, font packs, languages, etc much more due to open source etc
+ Last and not the least: APPS, light to medium to heavy, increasing considerably in quantity & quality, many of which are free or cheap.

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 29, 2019 at 02:43 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
Dr Andus, if you get a chance, and perhaps in a new thread, I would be
>quite interested in how you use Dynalist for research as a Zettelkasten.
>Now that I am primarily using a Chromebook, and loving it, I have
>wondered about using Dynalist more intentionally for notes and bibdata.
>I would use date and time as a unique identifier - 2019 06 23 2045h,
>and appropriate tags.

My system is quite simple. I have a separate file for Zettelkasten, which only holds my reading notes.

Each entry’s title starts with a date identifier: 2019-06-29 15:25 Author (pub. year) descriptive title of entry

Then in the note section of the entry there is either a quote or my summary of the point.

I may have an additional “NOTE” section for some meta observation.

Then comes a “See also” section where I add the links to other already existing Zettels in the system.

Then comes the bibliographic info, and URL link to the source, if a web source. Plus “Date accessed:”

And at the bottom I list all the categories in a single row: @Einstein if it relates to a human, and #topic for all other categories.

I also use a few CSS style sheets with the Stylus extension in Chrome, to enhance the visual presentation. Row separator creates the “Zettel” (or card) effect, and the Darknest Hour colours in URLs and tags, so they can be more easily spotted. Coloured Pills is for marking out Zettels for further attention.

Darknest Hour v.1.2
https://userstyles.org/styles/141020/darknest-hour-v-1-2

Dynalist Row Separator
https://userstyles.org/styles/134412/dynalist-row-separator

Dynalist coloured pills
https://userstyles.org/styles/161369/dynalist-coloured-pills

The Create Link Chrome extension is also helpful for pasting in Markdown-formatted links of web sources.

Posted by thouqht
Jul 2, 2019 at 12:07 AM

Hey Dr. Andus,

I’ve been in a similar situation. I’ve narrowed it down to Standard Notes (pro) and Joplin. Both are open source and awesome in their own ways.

Standard Notes Advantages:
- Best Security
- Different editors & extensions (new secure spreadsheet option & vim emulator are really cool)
- I like the head dev’s philosophy on software a bunch
- Solid as a rock (or so I’m told, I’m new to actually using it)
- Paid & long-term maintenance commitment

Standard Notes Cons
- No keyboard shortcuts (apparently in development)
- No bulk selection or dragging of notes
- No multiple windows but can open multiple notes in browser (though I wouldn’t try editing more than one note at a time)
- Paid & relatively costly unless you pony up for 5 year investment.

Joplin Advantages
- Completely Free
- Supports external editors (hello vim, emacs)
- Has a solid webclipper
- End to End encryption
- A few basic keyboard shortcuts
- Can do basic bulk editing + drag and drop
- Free (with large audience)

Joplin Disadvantages
- Not quite as pretty
- Unencrypted on filesystem (can’t password protect a note or folder)
- Some people have said it’s less stable (though I’ve had no issues)
- Free (could it disappear?)

I’ll honestly probably keep both around until one of them gets the advantages of the other. SN for more security based stuff and Joplin as the real workhorse.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jul 2, 2019 at 01:18 PM

Thank you, Dr Andus. This is helpful.

I am using date and time as you suggest.

With regard to the individual sections, are these all in the same note, or in subnotes?

Daly

Dr Andus wrote:
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Dr Andus, if you get a chance, and perhaps in a new thread, I would be
>>quite interested in how you use Dynalist for research as a
>Zettelkasten.
>>Now that I am primarily using a Chromebook, and loving it, I have
>>wondered about using Dynalist more intentionally for notes and bibdata.
>>I would use date and time as a unique identifier - 2019 06 23 2045h,
>>and appropriate tags.
> >My system is quite simple. I have a separate file for Zettelkasten,
>which only holds my reading notes.
> >Each entry’s title starts with a date identifier: 2019-06-29 15:25
>Author (pub. year) descriptive title of entry
> >Then in the note section of the entry there is either a quote or my
>summary of the point.
> >I may have an additional “NOTE” section for some meta observation.
> >Then comes a “See also” section where I add the links to other already
>existing Zettels in the system.
> >Then comes the bibliographic info, and URL link to the source, if a web
>source. Plus “Date accessed:”
> >And at the bottom I list all the categories in a single row: @Einstein
>if it relates to a human, and #topic for all other categories.
> >I also use a few CSS style sheets with the Stylus extension in Chrome,
>to enhance the visual presentation. Row separator creates the “Zettel”
>(or card) effect, and the Darknest Hour colours in URLs and tags, so
>they can be more easily spotted. Coloured Pills is for marking out
>Zettels for further attention.
> >Darknest Hour v.1.2
>https://userstyles.org/styles/141020/darknest-hour-v-1-2
> >Dynalist Row Separator
>https://userstyles.org/styles/134412/dynalist-row-separator
> >Dynalist coloured pills
>https://userstyles.org/styles/161369/dynalist-coloured-pills
> >The Create Link Chrome extension is also helpful for pasting in
>Markdown-formatted links of web sources.

Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 3, 2019 at 08:28 PM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>With regard to the individual sections, are these all in the same note,
>or in subnotes?

I keep everything in the same note. One advantage of that is that should I move (export) my notes into another system, all the information pertaining to the same note would be kept together.

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