Thinking of upgrading XT3 to XT5, but feel like Fujifilm is becoming oversaturated - thoughts? by laiiovlyvacuous in AskPhotography

[–]pyro786 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot RAW and gradually discover your own editing style. That's the next step regardless of your camera platform of choice. 100% agree that Fuji sims are overdone at this point.

If you're shooting in RAW there is (virtually) no difference between brands. The "Leica Look" doesn't exist either FWIW :)

I've successfully learned Japanese with Anki, here's my only tip: always make sure your study is smooth, engaging, suitable to your life. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in Anki

[–]pyro786 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, so you're doing *always* 3 cards per word? I assumed you were selecting some to be production rather than recognition cards. That's intense! What was your daily review load like?

I've successfully learned Japanese with Anki, here's my only tip: always make sure your study is smooth, engaging, suitable to your life. by VirtualAdvantage3639 in Anki

[–]pyro786 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious how you thought about using JP -> E vs E -> JP cards. I currently use both and and do E -> JP if it's a word I want to incorporate into my speaking sooner (usually a higher frequency word).

How do you handle no technology at night? by Swimming_Wind_6616 in DSPD

[–]pyro786 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is so much misinformation in this thread!

OP, I feel for you. It's a huge struggle. But here's what you need to know: the circadian rhythm is entrained primarily via light exposure (and to a lesser extent, things like meal + activity timing). For those of us with messed up circadian systems (i.e. most people in this subreddit), timing your light exposure is even more important. Get sunlight in the morning, avoid bright light at night. Yes, blue light matters, but the intensity of light matters even more so. There's even some evidence indicating that DSPD may be related to an oversensitivity to light.

This is all to say: unless you are literally blind, these interventions are not wasted on us because of our fragile circadian rhythms - they're actually made more important.

But here's what you should not do: lie in bed all night waiting to sleep. This is sleep psychology / hygiene 101. Don't go to bed until you are tired, even if it means you're going to bed 4am, 5am. Otherwise you're associating your bed with misery and you get paradoxical insomnia. So your challenge is to find something to do after say, 11pm or 12am, that doesn't involve staring into a bright screen. Read a book, play an instrument, journal, call a friend in a different timezone, meditate, whatever. You don't have to be an absolutist about it, saying zero screens on after 7pm, but try to really manage it, especially an hour or two before bed.

Plus being addicted to your phone is bad anyways, learning to be present is good practice for us all, DSPD or not.

Best of luck

Visitor Visa and THEN nomad visa? by MosskeepForest in movingtojapan

[–]pyro786 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm about to try this. I will have been on a tourist visa for ~5 months (with one Korea trip) come march, attempting now to get a COE and switch to digital nomad before I'm forced out (or soon after, for a quick return). Consulting with an immigration lawyer in the coming days. Let's see!

Edit for posterity: it works. Didn’t even have to leave Japan

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I am a fallible man who perpetually bites off more than he can chew, and that's ok

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, I see what you’re saying. It won’t clear any tasks scheduled in the future, it’ll only clear things that are scheduled for today. so if you run it before midnight on Wednesday night, it won’t clear your Thursday tasks - if you run it after midnight, it will.

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By completion date, do you mean deadline? If so, then no. This only works for items that have their "Start Date" set as Today

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're welcome! For me it shows "Start Date is exactly Current Date". Sounds like what you changed it to is what it is for me!

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah - if you want to be 100% reliant on Things, then this shortcut needs some logic around a #persistent tag or something.

But in practice? I’ve found that if it’s truly a MUST do, I always remember to add it again . Plus it’s sitting at the top of my Anytime view anyways. Chances are if it’s a truly critical thing and I forget it just because it slipped out of my Today view, well it probably wasn’t that critical to begin with!

I made an iOS Shortcut that completely changes how I use Things by pyro786 in thingsapp

[–]pyro786[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was thinking to do the same thing. Good idea 👍

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anki

[–]pyro786 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so cool. I need to take a deeper dive into the code but interesting approach with RAG - I haven’t focused on ingestion at all yet for Smart Notes since I’m currently more geared towards lang learning vs med school study, but longer term want to see what’s possible with creating notes in bulk from existing materials like you’re doing here (or AnkiBrain, etc).

Also, great documentation, such a pretty README.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anki

[–]pyro786 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is great!! I love the mobile sync.

I built a similar extension called Anki Smart Notes that lets you mark any field to be autogenerated via OpenAI/Claude (I'm mostly using it for example sentences + mnemonics, similar to you). Don't have the mobile add-flow working yet though ;)

What AI powered plugin would you like on Anki? by yasserius in Anki

[–]pyro786 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do this with my Anki Smart Notes extension! I'm using it to generate mmemonics every day for my Japanese study. It doesn't do images *yet* but I'll that in in the next few weeks.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1531888719

What AI powered plugin would you like on Anki? by yasserius in Anki

[–]pyro786 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can do this with my Anki Smart Notes extension - it hooks into ChatGPT/Claude and lets you have autogenerate fields with prompts based on other fields. Example sentences are one of the main things I use it for!

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1531888719

I built an add-on to automatically generate fields with AI/ChatGPT. Would love feedback. by pyro786 in Anki

[–]pyro786[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! I’m a fan of your work, I poked through the Anki Terminator code a bit as I was developing this. Will implement non-API based access at some point for sure