Phoenix [she/they]

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I’m not really making an argument, but describing something I’ve heard and seems like a reasonable point to consider: One potential issue with “cleaning up” stuff like HP Lovecraft is that a lot of his horror is, in fact, horror about race. So cleaning it up would interact weirdly with that topic — would it mask the racial nature of it by making it less overt? Would it make it a different story? Or would it still basically be intact, but less immediately distracting, just because our modern ear recoils when we read certain words? (I don’t know which of these it would be; it probably varies depending on the story)














  • I use it for all the reasons you’ve mentioned. I especially write down recommendations, ideas, thoughts that felt worth noticing, anything I think I’m going to forget that doesn’t go on my calendar or somewhere else, and braindumping/processing my feelings.

    I use an app called Logseq, because it combines the things I wanted from some of the other main apps in one place, which none of the other apps manage to do all of:

    • Outliner structure like Notion or Roam or Workflowy lets you have (my brain requires this format when taking notes)
    • Super fast page linking search, which Notion kinda sucks at but others are better at
    • Data is stored on my computer, like Obsidian; not in the cloud. It’s stored as markdown (ish) by default.
    • Automatic daily page created for each day, like Roam
    • Mobile app is almost 1-1 feature parity with the desktop app, like Notion
    • Open source (mostly)

    Logseq does have a moderate amount of rough edges, and has been frustrating from an open source perspective at times (I’ve had PRs linger for over a year before just getting rejected because they didn’t want to bother with it), but it’s still the one I like the most.

    FYI though syncing between devices with it is still pretty shaky. They have a native sync for $5/mo that is getting reasonably good, and is in beta. Syncing files via other means is kinda risky/not-great UX.