Because it is so hard to write a first blog post, I decided to write about something that is very easy 🪶.
I write about the software I use on my personal computer. Trained ears will already recognize that I descend from a generation that were using PCs 😀. Actually it is a ThinkPad X390, a touchy thing.
It runs under Linux and I admit that I am a #Fedora lover since Suse switched to KDE. Okay, I had a small affair with Ubuntu, but this relationship ended with the Amazon Link 👹 on the Ubuntu Desktop.
Inspired through Podcasts like Minimalistisch leben – Interview mit Cédric Waldburger I started to reflect on my life and the days I spend in a kind of journal 📘 that I write in Markdown format in #typora. And sometimes in this reflections there are ideas about actions, that need to be added to my personal ToDo List that I run in #RTM (remember the milk) and in the command line variant #RTM CLI
And because I wanted to have this task automatically added to my todos when I add a checkbox to my notes (as Windows did in OneNote and Tasks) I came up with a bash script that searches my notes for unchecked boxes and checks if this task is already on my RTM todolist (completed or uncompletd). If not it will add it. ✅ I have linked the script here on #GitLab. (Please forgive the bad quality, it is my first script that is beyond some batch jobs.)
An other cool thing is to check open ToDos directly in the command line with #RTM CLI with:
rtm ls list:Focus status:incomplete
You can find a very cool HowTo for a “getting things done” methodology on: My GTD Setup Using RTM
The above command returns a very nice colored output like you can see on #RTM CLI. (Unfortunately I can’t share my todo list.)
In my terminal I enjoy #Oh my Zsh 🙏 with #powerline and the #powerlevel10k theme . Here you can find a howto for fedora.
And while we are on this subject, a very nice command line tool for doing reviews on older journal entries is #glow since it allows you to read very easily through a folder of markdown files.
My Blogposts - like this first one - I do on static #HUGO that is automatically hosted and build with CI/CD Pipeline on #GitLab. See Host Hugo on Gitlab. For writing this blogposts I also use #typora and upload them with some basic git commands.
git commit -a -m 'My commit message'
git push
An other nice thing, but not full functional at the moment is the Mind mapping of my shower ideas 🚿 with #freeplane and to export them to .md files for further writings. Unfortunately at the moment all knots are exported as headlines. But this might get a fix in the future.
For decentralized notes (PC and mobile) I use #Joplin with a #nextcloud hosted by PortKnox (a very personal and recommendable hoster).
For TIL (today I learned) I tried to use #Zim, a desktop wiki, but I’m not fully happy with that. I thought it might be good if I can easily link between notes, but I would prefer .md files instead of .txt.
Week planning 🗓️ is done with #Journable, time management 🍅 with #GnomePomodoro, and last not least for online Presentations I use #revealjs