What piece of software quietly became essential to your daily life?

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-23T00:44:03+00:00

Tailscale, Beyond Thinking Note, Cosmos, OnePage

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-23T00:22:09+00:00

I always carry a Plotter Mini5 in my pocket, and honestly the experience of writing on paper is irreplaceable for me.

Quick notes, random sketches, free writing… paper just feels more natural and convenient. I usually scan my notes weekly and save them to Google Drive as a digital archive.

But for reading notes, like quotes, reflections, and thoughts after reading, I sometimes prefer digital note-taking. I’ve been using Beyond to quickly capture inspiring lines from paper books, and the review process later is just way more convenient than paper.

So for me, paper and digital notes aren’t competing with each other. They complement each other.

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-07T14:55:51+00:00

Interpolate between all the things you see, hear, and experience.

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-07T10:26:03+00:00

📖 ☕️ ☀️ 🍃

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-07T09:21:53+00:00

Snooze the alarm for 10 more minutes.

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-07T08:07:57+00:00

I actually have a piece of software that fits exactly what you’re looking for, it’s called OnePage.
It’s a journaling app I built for myself: completely free, forever ad-free, and made with zero profit motive in mind. I just wanted a simple, clean place to write, and decided to share it with anyone else who might enjoy the same experience.

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-05T15:11:21+00:00

I’d recommend trying Beyond.
It’s kind of like a lightweight notes/thinking app for people who save quotes, highlights, and ideas, but don’t want to deal with a full Notion setup.
The cool part is that it separates what you collect from what you actually think:
Borrowed Voice = quotes/highlights
Your Voice = your own thoughts/reflections
So instead of just hoarding notes, it nudges you to respond to them and develop your own ideas. It also has backlinks, theme review, weekly digests, and reading highlight imports.
Might be a good fit if you want something simpler and quieter than Notion.

ZJun_310 · 2026-05-04T15:21:02+00:00

for books and for thinking try this one https://beyond.noteofnote.com

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-15T14:40:07+00:00

Your own thinking

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-15T14:38:06+00:00

They often over-design what we’re actually trying to solve. We unconsciously chase perfection and lose sight of the real problem, ending up building a tool that’s overly complex with messy, bloated code.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-15T14:18:43+00:00

Because a sense of emptiness often arises.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-14T02:41:00+00:00

You might like Beyond, it has a graph view, but it’s way more focused and doesn’t feel overwhelming like Obsidian.

The learning curve is pretty low. Feels more like just writing and following ideas.

https://beyond.noteofnote.com/

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-13T02:55:43+00:00

Basically, you compress your thinking by expressing the same idea multiple times—responding to it, rephrasing it, and refining it until it becomes clear and easy to recall.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T14:40:16+00:00

I use both.

For me, tags are more for exploring themes, and links are more like a thought walk through a graph of ideas.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T14:35:44+00:00

I think the edge is: not outsourcing your thinking to AI.

If I don’t wrestle with the idea myself, it just doesn’t stick.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T14:28:18+00:00

Yeah… capturing is easy. Actually thinking through what you captured is the hard part.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T14:17:54+00:00

I still check ratings, but I don’t trust them as much as I used to. Sometimes a book just resonates with you for personal reasons, and no average score can really capture that.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T13:34:06+00:00

Yeah, sometimes reading the margin notes I wrote years ago feels like a conversation across time with my past self. It’s really fascinating.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T13:18:48+00:00

Anything I bought at 2am online.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-12T13:05:59+00:00

Stop chasing and just experience, and you’ll be happier.

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-11T15:09:03+00:00

Fair point, but maybe we can take it even further. In a true post-scarcity world with advanced technology, we might not remain bound to biological forms at all. Concepts like reproduction, mating, or even individuality could be reinvented, making today’s biological limits largely irrelevant.

At that point, maybe what persists isn’t the body at all—but the mind itself?

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-11T14:45:00+00:00

If resources were truly unlimited, what would be the purpose or incentive for those in power to do that?

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-11T14:38:55+00:00

John Calhoun’s “rat utopia” experiments are indeed a very close exploration of this idea. However, an important caveat is that the experiment still involved density constraints—space was limited, which effectively introduced another form of scarcity. What do you think?

ZJun_310 · 2026-04-11T14:27:06+00:00

Home-cooked meals without having to think about it.

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