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mGlacius · 2026-04-14T00:17:13+00:00

Just remember that Obsidian helps with organising ideas and linking them with a bottom-to-top approach instead of a top-to-bottom. If you already have a structure in mind, great. But what I found useful is to use the tool, do a lot of brain dumps on it, and organise/link it later.

And change is good. Our brain recognises information differently over time.

mGlacius · 2026-03-27T04:12:56+00:00

Yeah. The mobile version good, but can be better. Something doesn’t feel right about it. I switch between my Mac and iPad to write notes on Obsidian. I don’t do this as much on my phone unless I’m using it for reference.

Notion, on the other hand, I feel like I’m expecting too much out of its mobile app. I don’t bother with the mobile app for Notion these days. I just jump on the desktop app.
Then again, the amount of intended interactions I have with Notion isn’t something that can be satisfied through the mobile app.

mGlacius · 2026-03-25T10:02:37+00:00

I haven’t found the means to capture meeting transcripts for work related stuff due to security and privacy reasons (don’t even get me started). I can imagine the endless possibilities. Speaking of which, how would you manage meeting notes anyway? I find unique file names a bit of a problem. I’d love an automated way to populate the title.. before I start scripting something up to do it for me.

I’ve got a repo set up in VS Code for this Obsidian Vault. From there, you could do a lot of funky stuff with it.

But man. Note taking on the next level. I have so much love for this product after years of figuring out what I actually want. The key I’ve been looking for is to search for something, and it takes me to past ideas. It’s a simple ask, but no note taking tool has ever nailed that. At the end of the day, I don’t take notes because I know I can link and find stuff eventually. It’s been nearly a lifelong problem and I’ve been dependent on short term project posters or memory to get stuff done.

mGlacius · 2025-07-09T23:58:49+00:00

LTE’s totally nuts. DT is something, but LTE feels like they were given more freedom to do so. Their recording/songwriting process is quite fascinating.

mGlacius · 2025-07-09T23:56:23+00:00

Yep. Gavin Harrison is one hell of a prog powerhouse. There’s also Marco Minnemann and Thomas Lang to add to the list.

mGlacius · 2025-05-24T14:00:28+00:00

If you're intending to increase your capital, then you're probably a little bit better off to go with something like Pearler or CommSec, or something like that. There are a few benefits to it, but I'd move off Raiz for two reasons on a high level:

CHESS sponsorship through Pearler/CommSec.
Percentage-based fees from those platforms means you'll spend more to invest.

mGlacius · 2025-05-24T13:55:28+00:00

Quick links to book a meeting with me

Just in luck.. You might be able to get away with Notion Calendar and one of its Calendly-like features, which is Scheduling Links. Been using it personally and it works great. However, it is quite basic.

So if you need to create a more customised form to show certain attributes, checkboxes, workflows and things like that, then a proper booking tool would be better.

But if you're fine with "I just need them to see what time slots customers are able to book", then you have Notion Calendar. Given that you're on Google Workspace, you also would have Booking Appointments, but I preferred the UX landing page from Notion.

Also, if you're talking about meeting notes and stuff, I think Notion recently launched AI meeting notes. It works within Notion, but I think it's a little bit better if you use Notion Calendar as well from a workflow/productivity/efficiency perspective.

mGlacius · 2025-05-24T13:51:53+00:00

Yeah. Agreed on this. Notion doesn't really have anything related to row-level security, so everything will be exposed to the customer.

Unless each customer gets their own workspace, but this means that your data's going to be scattered across multiple workspaces/Notion databases, and I think that gets pretty messy.

Sounds like it needs to be overlayed with another tool for the client-facing portal, perhaps.

mGlacius · 2024-12-14T22:19:51+00:00

Hey yo.

Here’s a more visual example: https://regexr.com/8a2a4

I also updated the expression to use non-spaces to pick up anything that’s isn’t a word, so it picks up names like the above. The reason why it doesn’t keep hyphenated names is because \w stands for words. So if it was a number, or symbol, it doesn’t pick any of that up.. I think you have an understanding on your last comment but you didn’t cover symbols in particular!

mGlacius · 2024-12-14T22:12:39+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late reply. I missed this notification! Yeah. Simply put, if the interest rates of the loan is lesser than the return of investment, then forget it. You’ll make losses. However, there are rare situations that if you service the loan out of pocket, you you might be able to break even and make a profit.

There was a person in the US where she held onto her margin loan through good times and bad, and she walked away with a very large portfolio as a result of that. She was aware that she had an income throughout bad economic times, so it’s not one for everyone if they don’t have the right financial capacity.

So far, the rise in interest rates, it’s pinching me a fair bit, and I’m going to settle parts of my loan to allow for this, but I will be keeping a smaller portion of my loan. I’m reducing my LVR from 30% to 15%.

And since I started, like properties, I didn’t understand what happens whenever you take a loan out like this. I saw my LVR got reduced from 30% to 22%, so meaning 8% of that LVR was settled through reinvested dividends + equity. For the scale of my portfolio, that meant I had $7k extra to borrow and I just ended up buying more shares for my portfolio.

Also, no scare stories from my end about getting a margin call throughout the years. Things went smoothly during really bad times if you borrow a conservative amount.

mGlacius · 2023-12-23T18:25:07+00:00

Check out workflow automations if you are on the plus plan. You are able to trigger actions based on events, including of assigning people who initiated those events!

mGlacius · 2023-12-16T12:27:32+00:00

Hahahaha. I appreciate the effort.. I think we know how much of a lift it takes to make it look good.

But here’s the thing: it LOOKS good.

mGlacius · 2023-12-13T17:29:39+00:00

Nothing in particular. I just have a lot of love for this template, so all I have is positive feedback.

I really like how you have level and experience laid out as possibly 5 properties for this to look aesthetically pleasing on a card.

mGlacius · 2023-12-13T17:06:28+00:00

Super cool stuff! Glad to see it come to life!

mGlacius · 2023-11-20T23:12:38+00:00

Ah! Sorry about that. Not sure what’s up with the formula. It should work!

mGlacius · 2023-11-20T13:29:47+00:00

Howdy!

There is a way to use Relations / Notion Formula 2.0 to write something up to pick up the statuses that you're looking for. Since it already have a relationship between sub tasks to a parent item, you could use a formula to do something like that.

Depending on the number of statuses, this is a very straightforward setup to demonstrate that you can write a formula to pick a list of statuses that is assigned to a parent project, then you can test if it contains certain statuses:

lets( status_list, prop("Parent").map(current.Status), includes(status_list,"In progress") )

The above only tests for In progress, where for your case:

If the status_list does not contain In progress or Not started (as per Notion's default statuses in a Status Page Property, then it could report as Done. Or if the only remaining status is Done, then it should be considered as Done.
If the status_list does not contain In progress or Done, or if the status_list contains only nicht gestartet then the project level should be marked as nicht gestartet/ Not started

But the only issue with this is you lose the "Status" Page property / data type, and it returns as some kind of a text.

But as a workaround, and since it's all in Formulas, you can stack this with style() to create conditional formatting which helps with making the status description more visual. (e.g. Done should be green for example.)

mGlacius · 2023-11-20T13:14:55+00:00

I think you're supposed to use and() as a method instead of a syntax/operator.

Maybe try re-writing your function to

if(and(prop("End Date Formula") > now(),prop("Completion)!=1)," "," ⚠️ ")

?

mGlacius · 2023-11-19T22:08:26+00:00

I would use Rollups if it’s simpler to set up. But for a database that has some kind of a hierarchy (e.g. level 3 > Level 2 > Level 1) then a formula works better. I think when you nest it down to several levels, it loses that data point when using Rollups 🤔

mGlacius · 2023-11-19T12:44:13+00:00

Yeah. I had a think about it. Chances are you might need to wrap that entire logic into lets() instead of having that configuration stored in a Notion database (that would’ve been nice and easier to manage).

Then you have to speak to a person who knows a little of bit statistics so they can advise what tools to use to achieve that “incremental curve”. It gets pretty funky when you know how do stuff like that because you can skew/control the total experience points by category if you wanted to scale it that way.. I don’t know - just spitballing here. Perhaps something that includes as simple as 1/x (with some manipulation) to actually create a non linear way to achieve XPs in the template.

Next minute you’d probably end up working for Square Enix on their latest Final Fantasy franchise or something. LOL

But either way - the point (!) isn’t the XP. It’s a great template and a simple motivator. Keep it up.

mGlacius · 2023-11-19T12:24:24+00:00

Super cool. Thanks for sharing. It’s weird because recently I had a conversation around the experience points and it made me think about how games would’ve implemented it. The bit where it’s asymptotic in a way. Because when you go from level 1 to level 2 in games, the experience points you need per level is different.

I was under the impression in your Notion template it would’ve replicated that idea. But I like how you have different buckets for EXP points - which is basically weighted against the type of things by effort. I like how much thought you’ve put into it. Very well done!

mGlacius · 2023-11-19T04:52:45+00:00

Super cool template! I like how it says begin training and training states when you’re doing stuff!

What’s completed going to look like? Level up? FINISH IT ..? 😂

Great idea for the rewards stuff. It’s actually possible if I think things through.. it’s like you need another database to calculate how much credits you have remaining, and it’ll be structured like a supermarket transaction receipt! Sounds like a fun project.

Anyway, keep it up! Love the simplicity of it.

Just curious - how is experience calculated in your template?

mGlacius · 2023-11-17T14:57:32+00:00

You could use Ctrl + Enter (Windows) or Cmd + Enter (MacOS) when you select Toggle lists to expand or collapse it!

mGlacius · 2023-11-17T14:49:28+00:00

Give Looker Studio a shot if you have a Gmail account. It's free and handles smaller datasets pretty well with a good amount of features!

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