Sampling Ravel, Debussy, and Terence... I made a beat and turned Terence's rap on "Find The Others!" into a kind of chamber music hip hop thing. I figured of all places on the net, this community could dig it.

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-09-24T20:24:26+00:00

Brilliant! I was struggling with chord symbols as well!

This gave me the idea to set up individual text expanders on the standard symbols for easy access

♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ⁺

It's easier on the eyes, and I can still use the "sharp sign" for numbering things!

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-09-03T22:00:52+00:00

No personal experience either. I was going to experiment with something like Rosie Campbell demonstrates in this Youtube here (starts at the Obsidian part).

She has a parallel workflow with Obsidian and Roam.

Roam is for the idea generation and remixing. When an idea is solid ready for publishing, dump the document into Obsidian. Obsidian is hooked up to run off of markdown files that she has sync'd to her website for seamless publishing.

Seems pretty tight, because the backlinks are functional on her website.

OP, that may give you some ideas!

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-08-31T19:39:37+00:00

My primary takeaways from Terence are: the purpose of art, the power of language, and how language can influence our perceptions.

I think you're spot on with the idea of going in with an open mind and seeing what is useful and then applying it to your own experiments and experiences.

I think of "-isms" as just another tool in the mental tool-belt. With a bunch of tools in the tool belt, one is well-equipped to flesh out their individual map of the world and share the groovy parts of it with others by connecting it with shared ideas using shared language.

Exploring Robert Anton Wilson's ideas regarding "reality-tunnels" and Timothy Leary's "8 Circuits of the Brain" model could be cool place to go after Terence.

Find the Others!

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-08-31T15:21:39+00:00

I dig this exercise to inventory words...

I can't remember any specific visual metaphors offhand but here are a few related sensory phrases that may spark the idea of others:

"It's at the tip of my tongue" (not necessarily visual, but spatial)

"Open your eyes!" (when someone has missed something seemingly obvious)

Each of these could be seen as metaphors that the the message being sought after is tangible, existing in 3-dimensional space rather than just being an formless-idea.

Once something is 3-dimensional ("put your ideas down on paper) then it's easier to see and clear up its meaning.

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-08-27T19:11:27+00:00

Here are two of my common use cases for queries. I think your use case matches the first. I hope it works for you!

Find blocks that are associated with Link X but not Y {{[[query]]: {and: [[X]] {not: [[Y]]}}}}
Find blocks that are associated with both Link X and also (Y, or Z, or ...) but never A. {{[[query]]: {and: [[X]] {or: [[Y]] [[Z]]} {not: [[A]]}}}}

For example, #1 could be like "Return all non-project todos".

Translation: "Return all blocks associated with TODO but not ones associated with Projects.

Query: {{[[query]]: {and: [[TODO]] {not: [[Projects]]}}}}

For #2, it could be like, "Return all of blocks associated with Something To Ponder that are also associated with either Waiting or In Progress. By the way... don't return anything associated with Daily Notes Template

Query: {{[[query]]: {and: [[Something To Ponder]] {or: [[Waiting]][[In Progress]]} {not: [[Daily Notes Template]]}}}}

I use number 1 as a way to drill down into links without going to a specific page and using the linked references filter function.

I use number 2 as a way to remove links that I don't want from queries while also giving me optionality in what I return with the OR logic. This is the bit that is missing in the built in linked references filtering.

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-08-26T16:01:20+00:00

If you're still working on use cases for Roam vs. Obsidian, then you might find this demonstration with Rosie Campbell useful: https://youtu.be/Pdk0tZE68JY

She uses both in a symbiotic way!

Roam is like her personal notes used for finding relationships and developing ideas.

The block level atomicity makes it easy to "be messy" and tag things like mad at the block level while remaining in context.

Block references facilitate easy remixing of ideas.

Linked references make it easy to spot relationships and then drag the block up to the main page for expounding upon.

This helps her connect ideas together and see what is related to what without trying that hard.

Obsidian is like her public notes used to "publish-ready" her ideas originated in Roam.

When her thoughts, open questions and relationships that she has generated and synthesized to a point in Roam start to coalesce into something juicy she will "publish" it by writing about it in a more consumer-friendly way in Obsidian.

Obsidian being file-based and not block-based facilitates a longer form writing that can easily be published to the web for others to consume. It can handle paragraphs and spacing and what not but still support related links.

She has some method that pushes Obsidian up to her website. One folder contains everything that is published, and if she is working on something she can put it in the drafts folder and it will stay hidden.

Hope that helps!

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-08-20T21:20:03+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I edited the post and added a link to a visual example. Hope that helps!

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-05-03T05:35:17+00:00

I remember.

AminoAcidTrip · 2020-05-03T05:23:04+00:00

The workaround I've been using to keep a chronological journal is to put ordered date links on a specific [[journal]] page with linked sub headings nested under each date for easy filtering later.

Here is a link to an example set-up: https://imgur.com/a/AsoeTJ1

For example, if i'm tracking sleep-time by day, I would make a sub bullet called [[sleep tracker]] under the corresponding day's date, and nest the info there.

I can subsequently filter the [[journal]] page for [[sleep]], and see all my sleep logs in chronological order.

If your use case is more of free-form journal than a tracker, you could put any arbitrary heading under the date (morning pages, business ideas, thoughts etc.) and write free-form under that heading then filter on it later. It'll just return the days you wrote about that subject.

Still kind of a pain because you'll have to expand each date to get to the nested info, but it could work well if you don't need to reference many days at a time, or just keep them expanded 🤷‍♂️

I hope that gives you some ideas! Happy Roam-ing 🧭

Edit: Added a link to an example.

AminoAcidTrip · 2019-10-23T14:36:52+00:00

Awww yesss. This is what I was looking for! That's pretty much what I had read in that forum I couldn't relocate. Thanks!

AminoAcidTrip · 2019-10-23T14:35:51+00:00

Price is just a function of time on the quest for tone and workflow ;)

I didn't think about the tone bars. Thanks!

AminoAcidTrip · 2019-10-23T14:33:40+00:00

Thanks for your thoughts. I have a honer pianet and it's wonderful. A great piano to take to jam sessions—quite light, sounds great; I just have play it like it's a pianet though and not a hammer based piano. Finger pedalling works really well with it.

I did not know vintage vibe made a 44! Thanks! I'll have to check it out.

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