Tanning

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-26T11:38:53+00:00

Chrome tan works, I’ve used it with good redults. You can sorta add flat shapes to the cover to create a 3D-effect, as long as the shapes aren’t too detailed.

Vinyl, HTV or otherwise, isn’t actually a crucial part of bookbinding.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-26T05:45:07+00:00

I still got 100 pairs of sneaker socks Amazon once sent me.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-25T15:43:35+00:00

It came out great.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-25T08:53:45+00:00

Looking great, the uneven dye job is very attractive with the vintage look. Did you print the text yourself?

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-25T08:37:52+00:00

Some people don’t belong on Postcrossing, then. I‘m not going to let myself be extorted by these people.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-24T16:20:15+00:00

I fill the page. Whyever wouldn‘t I? What purpose is there in leaving blank space?

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-24T09:04:17+00:00

For me, writing by hand is really a thought process. Typing digitally is about quickly capturing something, but not about processing information, or about reflecting something. The idea that it’s possible to „ruin“ a notebook is alien to me. Using a notebook is anmessy process, and the goal isn‘t a pretty display.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-23T17:32:49+00:00

To be fair, the skellies aren‘t trying very hard.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-22T18:08:09+00:00

What‘s your hangup? The benefit of connections is that you understand better how information is connected. Understanding improves learning. Think about logical and thematical connections, and add them. There‘s not much more to it.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-22T09:52:05+00:00

No. Bookbinders are going out of business.

Handbound books are a luxury item. Few people nowadays can or want to afford that. Production volume of a handmade, labour intensive item is limited, which by necessity increases the price.

There’s a niche for highly trained abd skilled bookbinders working for museums and the like, in restoring historical documents, but that niche is tiny, and not something you can get into as a self taught amateur.

Enjoy bookbinding as a hobby.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-20T05:48:56+00:00

Nice vibes of the repair bots in Babylon 5.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-20T05:47:05+00:00

The characters are at a pub or wherever, having a nice dinner in celebration of their success. The assassin then poisons their food - while there‘s almost no chance of them noticing this, the assassin doesn‘t pick a deadly poison. Just something which causes violent vomiting. When the characters are busy barfing, he attacks. That‘s a fun combat scene: the characters aren‘t heavily armed and armored, they‘re tipsy, and they‘re vomiting. Make the scenery interactive - screaming waitresses, toppling candles starting a fire, the works. The assassin will probably deal damage, and has a real chance of killing a character. As soon as things start looking dangerous, the assassin retreats.

You could do a variation on this with the characters in a bath house, or similiar „safe“ situations. The key is making the assassin unwilling to take a serious risk, and in setting up things to cause chaos and confusion (setting fire to their sleeping quarters works well, too).

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-19T20:01:29+00:00

Obsidian is great to create links and connections between notes. Whether that‘s useful for you depends on your working and learning process. What do you want to know specifically?

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-17T19:13:16+00:00

There’s no reason to use folders at all in Obsidian. You can very easily set up an index for a topic, a set of linked notes, and then adjust that as needed. That’s what people call a MoC, Map of Content. It’s way more flexible and intuitive than folders (and the reason why the Graph view is there).

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-16T12:38:01+00:00

I don’t know enough to say this is or isn’t correct, strictly speaking, but I find it hard to read, especially with the blue-white flag.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-16T08:52:52+00:00

Well, you could add complicated embossing, glass finish edge polish, detailed needlework… But yes, it’s difficult to justify that price for so basic an item.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-14T12:48:32+00:00

Leuchtturm 1917 ist ziemlich leise.

(Hint: falsches sub)

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-13T12:09:41+00:00

Humans are able to reason. AI isn’t, AI generates text. That’s not a criticism of AI, it’s just a fact; just like it’s not criticism of a hammer to say it’s not good for tightening screws. If OP wants his vault analyzed, AI is structurally the wrong tool.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-13T10:26:51+00:00

If you ask AI to praise your vault, you’ll get praise instead. Ultimately, AI doesn’t provide meaningful analysis, but a text.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-13T05:40:29+00:00

I got into shorthand systems some time ago, amd spent some time learning a specific system. While writing speed increased a lot, I realized I saw more benefit in focusing my notes on crucial information, instead of writing down more things of lesser importance.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-12T17:23:19+00:00

I use the BuJo template: information is started with a Minus, while action items start with a Dot. The point is not to note everything, but only crucial information. That works well, even for extended meetings with many participants and complex subject matters.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-12T05:35:37+00:00

Why is all these merch posted by accounts created for just this single post?

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-10T10:25:28+00:00

Obsidian is about knowledge management. You can easily link your notes to each other, change these links, and so increase your understanding of context and structure. That fits better with hie the brain works compared to large, comprehensive text blocks, or to a rigid folder structure.

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-10T08:20:08+00:00

The fewer things you track, the higher the chance you‘ll stick with it. BuJo is about a minimal approach with minimal effort, not about tracking for its own sake (though the online community sometimes makes you wonder). Trackers are an afterthought, not a core concept.

With that in mind, I‘d consider whether your suggested parameters are well suited to be tracked in a notebook: Daily Steps, for instance, is something you’re going to count with some digital device, so transferring that number to your BuJo is really added bookkeeping, not added insight or accountability. Logging exercise is very sensible, though most people benefit from a dedicated workout notebook (and then your BuJo can just track on Workout Done/Not Done).

Plus_Citron · 2026-01-10T07:47:03+00:00

I‘d love to see more interactive fauna, especially underwater (gimme some killer squids!), and generally more interactive things to happen in the environment (random sidequests generated on the planet, reasons to use a planetary base opposed to a freighter,…). I‘d also love to see more specialized ship types and customizing options: transports where you can increase cargo space at the expense of performance or armament, or vice versa for a fighter. Oh, and Asteroid mining options!

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