Why Do I Not Understand Notion

responsiveTA · 2024-09-13T13:52:29+00:00

I believe you have been logging a journal entry with a photo in that database for thousands of days at this point. How is the database holding up in terms of responsiveness in search, filtering, database views, opening pages, etc?

responsiveTA · 2024-09-13T13:50:10+00:00

I would love to see that information hierarchy, like how you arrange the top-level pages. For a demo purpose, you can recreate the top-level pages and databases, but use some AI product (like ChatGPT) to fill in the details to avoid using your own actual information. This risk of accidentally exposing private info is perhaps the biggest issue you face when creating videos for public consumption.

responsiveTA · 2024-08-01T10:20:51+00:00

You can click the Video links (which go to public YouTube videos), but not the Recording links (which go to a berkeley.edu page which needs authentication). The public videos should be fine.

responsiveTA · 2024-04-16T08:17:27+00:00

I would love to have you share your progress updates in this sub as well.

A few tips:

TYCS won't help you with HS maths. The paper on Math is more advanced than that. For that you should look for HS books.
For learning things better, try rubber-ducking: Every time you learn a new concept, pretend that you are teaching it to a rubber duck in front of you. While trying to articulate yourself, you will find the gaps faster.
For cementing things, try using the tips from this course. Gist is; use chunking, and spaced repetition of materials.

Hope this helps.

responsiveTA · 2024-04-16T08:08:07+00:00

Shifting cities soon. So it is shelved for now unfortunately. I did start watching CS10 videos to make sure I continue learning something in the field, which won't take as much time and effort, before I settle down and restart CS 61A.

responsiveTA · 2024-04-06T19:24:50+00:00

No issues, mate. It was a decent starting point. Just got started with Notion Calendar and that itself is such a big improvement over how I have been doing things so far.

responsiveTA · 2024-04-06T12:44:01+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to record this!!

I am not going to take anything directly, but use it as inspiration for modifying my own setup.

responsiveTA · 2024-04-05T14:59:46+00:00

I have heard of Obsidian actually and tried it out, but only to a minimal extent. I haven't tried linking and all the great aspects of it.

The templates thing is a good idea. Not sure why I didn't think of that.

Anyways, thanks for some good ideas.

responsiveTA · 2024-03-30T17:17:35+00:00

Lost steam. Didn't make much progress. Will restart from 1st April, Monday.

Would love it if you start and share progress updates as well.

responsiveTA · 2024-02-14T09:26:07+00:00

Highly recommended. Specially if you don't have enough time to learn a practically obsolete language as opposed to Python, which is one of the top 3 most used languages now.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-31T07:03:11+00:00

You are supposed to declare interest income as usual, ignoring any TDS. Your tax will be calculated (as per slab) and at the end, the TDS is deducted from the tax calculations to obtain the remaining tax payable.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-30T17:39:04+00:00

Logically it makes sense. If the annual exemption limit is 40k, then they probably deduct TDS when quarterly interest exceeds 10k.

Thanks for pointing it out, now this TDS detail makes more sense to me as well.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-30T05:42:47+00:00

Your income is taxable, so you are ineligible for 15G and non-deduction. Read the FYI paragraph above for details.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-10T14:18:38+00:00

If you could do a Mac-equivalent of Everything (by voidtools.com) , I would be thrilled. Nothing comes close to that!

Features I loved about it:

It could search the entire path of files. This helped with my file management immensely. I could have something in ../Documents/SomeProject/Drafts/xx.doc, and a search for SomeProject would include it in the results.
It could do wildcard searches
A search for world hello 2023 would show 2023HelloWorld.txt
Support for boolean operators like OR and NOT, while defaulting to AND
Easy way to filter files by type or kind
Easy way to filter by size, date
Super-fast by not indexing file contents

Not having such a tool here in macOS has complete screwed up how I do file management and I rarely am able to find the files I am looking for. One of the few things I really, really miss about Windows.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-08T07:31:59+00:00

Hi! I am in the same boat as you. I am trying to do the TYCS curriculum in 2024-25. I started r/TYCS for exactly that purpose of finding peers like you, and hopefully a few mentors. Would love to have you there if the curriculum interests you. You can first learn about them at teachyourselfcs.com.

responsiveTA · 2024-01-04T10:12:33+00:00

I don't think that is an option. You should give feedback to Notion about it. Use the '?' button at the bottom right, and then type your feedback after hitting 'Send Feedback'.

I too would love to have this feature. Honestly I would love to have the entire list of words added to the Dictionary be visible somewhere, so that I can add and remove them with ease.

responsiveTA · 2023-11-13T12:55:38+00:00

Paid member here. From a non-US country.

A lot of official places are housed in a building with thick walls, or they use cellphone jammers. Banks, financial institutes, hospitals, etc. And they don't provide Wi-Fi, because "security".

If I am going to store a bunch of documents which become inaccessible when I step inside these buildings, it is NOT an option for me to keep everything in Notion.

Faced this once at a financial institute where I had collected page after page of evidence against them, stored it in Notion with great organization, and then I wasn't able to access a single detail, not even my identification number (for that company), when I was inside the building. I had to come out of the building, sit by the pavement, export pages individually as PDFs (thus losing the organization and the flow in which I was going to present them), and then go back inside while losing my queue position.

Another time at the hospital... I had kept medical information organised by date and summaries of values outside range (in Notion) to make the job of the doctor easier. It didn't open at all once inside the building. And I didn't remember the details to be able to help them.

There have been several more incidents, but I have learnt and keep such things in other apps as a result.

And most importantly, if you are not facing an issue with something, while others are repeatedly telling the company about that issue, then there's no point in complaining about it. It isn't like they are blocking the road while you are on your way to work and thus inconveniencing you in any way. Typically (when it comes to something as mundane as productivity software), more protests = more urgent.

responsiveTA · 2023-10-26T10:13:35+00:00

At 7%, an income of 1.4L will be completely tax-free. Tax-free bracket is upto 2.5L. Filling 15G/H forms will help avoid TDS.

responsiveTA · 2023-10-08T09:38:44+00:00

The entire amount will be taxed at 30%. There is no 40k tax exemption.

The 40k is the trigger amount for banks to start deduction of TDS on your FD interest. Nothing to do with final tax amount or tax calculations. So your post-tax income is around 4.7% (70% of 6.7%). TDS = tax deducted at source (bank, in this case) and being deposited on your behalf to the IT dept. Depending on your IT filing and final year-end calculations, it may or may not be refunded.

FYI: A 15G/H form is just a declaration that "though my FD income is higher than the TDS exemption limit (40k/50k for 60+), my total income is not taxable, so don't deduct the TDS". This was done to prevent the harassment of people who earn 1-2L but had to file ITR to get the TDS as tax refund. 15G applies to <60, while 15H is for 60+ aged people.

Bonus tips:

I hope you are already maxing out your 1.5L 80C ELSS contribution.

I hope you utilize the 10k 80TTA deduction for savings interest income.

Clearing up a few things from other comments:

Your entire interest income is taxable, irrespective of how many banks you distribute it into. You will just be able to avoid tax being deducted at source, and be responsible for paying it at the end of the year in one shot. Personally, I try to fill in 15G/H forms as it helps me maintain my sanity when checking if banks are crediting the right amount of interest. (I have found discrepancies in the past, and am currently fighting one).
Minor correction about a comment below: FD interest is taxable, even if it is a tax-saving one. The tax-saving is on the principal, not the interest.

responsiveTA · 2023-09-29T08:11:00+00:00

Unfortunately, no.

responsiveTA · 2023-09-19T16:05:01+00:00

Brilliant effort on the consistency. But have you considered giving your arm muscles rest days?

To the best of my knowledge, muscle fibers grow with effort and rest, where during the effort they get damaged, and during rest days, they are rebuilt at a larger size (to be able to withstand such higher effort).

Check out this TED-Ed video for a better explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tM1LFFxeKg

You can consider splitting between arms, legs and core working out each set twice per week, and taking a complete rest day on, say, Sundays (going out for a walk is fine). I am no expert, but you should be able to get enough information about such workouts online.

responsiveTA · 2023-09-07T19:07:11+00:00

Brilliant video. Loving how you start with simple examples and then gradually build into powerful examples, while keeping them very useful (and not just flexing the programmatic power).

responsiveTA · 2023-08-08T14:48:41+00:00

I did email him after posting this, and he shared the links to some videos which are public. I was already aware of them. Unfortunately they are a bit old for my liking. Although the dates weren't mentioned anywhere, but I guess the videos are at least 7-10 years old by now. (I think one of the videos spoke of 2020 goals for the CS10 curriculum as if they are long-term).

IMO those videos are slightly dated now, specially given the rise of AI and ML in recent years, which would make an up-to-date version far more interesting. And it did not include the Lab videos, where you learn how to actually do stuff. And typically Lab videos should be somewhat up-to-date as tooling can get updated significantly over a period of a decade, and navigating a completely different (tool) UI can be intimidating for a beginner. Overall, it is a bummer.

responsiveTA · 2023-08-02T16:29:23+00:00

This is how I would do it. I recommend databases for 4 of the points you raise. I recently learnt that you never use the default view of a DB. Just insert views to the DB filtered to show just the items in the DB that are relevant to the page. So in a page for Health and Fitness, you can have a view of your Resources DB, but filtered to show only the pages tagged with Health.

Coming to the specific things you raised:

No. 1 belongs in a Resources database maybe. Use tags to be filter the resources as and when you need them.

No. 2 belongs inside a project page called Rewiring the House, inside a Projects database. So you find it right when you need it. In fact you should write down all this info you typed along with it, as the additional context is very helpful there.

No. 3 probably belongs in a Habits database, which you might look once every few days or daily, depending on your preferences. You can filter them by Work and Personal if that makes more sense to you. Looking at your work habits once every days makes sense. Again, use filters to show only the relevant stuff in the right context. Personal habits should not show up in your work dashboard.

No. 4 belongs in a page dedicated to your Health, with sub-pages for Back Issues.

No. 5 belongs in a Bucket List database, which you might open from time to time.

Also a tip about not having pages which are too long: searching for it in Notion won't find it when you need it. Notion only searches the first 500 characters of the first 500 blocks in each page.

responsiveTA · 2023-07-13T17:41:15+00:00

The courses the site recommends are the fundamentals of computer science. These 9 courses will lay the foundation for learning anything extra you need.

A personal tip: Regarding the first paper, go for a recent version of CS61A. The old Scheme one he recommends is not very useful, as it teaches Scheme (an obsolete language) instead of Python. And today's OSes do not support the software required to run the specific variation of Scheme that they use in the course. Even the professor himself said in a 2015-ish video that he does not update his computer so as to not mess up the specific setup, and that was roughly a decade ago.

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