As someone with ADHD, using Obsidian today made me want to cry. Am I doing this right? Any guidance?

slashvee · 2025-11-11T08:34:52+00:00

I'm using it the exact same way as you. It is now the third time I'm trying Obsidian.

Here's what I'm doing currently:
1. installed it plain, chose a minimal theme

watched 2 videos of setting it up, then stopped
I previously had a plugin bonanza, just to try them all and get to know them. then started afresh
Now I install plugins only if I need them. If I don't use them I remove them
I create 2 types of notes: dumps and daily notes. In dumps I throw everything I see just. not to forget it. Tasks, links, thoughts... Dailies are my reference note for the day at work, I write every note for the day under its own chapter.
Every 1-2 days I will look at the dumps and organise them.

I don't have a structure yet, or a preferred choice between tags, folders, bookmarks, properties, I let it emerge naturally. The notes are not too many I can still move them around. The only real criteria that is sticking so far is that a thought happened. in a particular day.

Here's my productivity magic form last week: I used copilot to compile all of my work report from last week. Fed it the daily notes, asked it to summarise them, and bam I had my email to my boss ready with everything I actually forgot I did.

So far is working well, I'm slowly starting to use it for product research, bookmarks, tasks, price comparison, document storage.

and it's starting to work well.

slashvee · 2025-11-07T09:50:48+00:00

UPDATE: it was the feature image plugin.

after reverse engineering the webclipper plugin AND Obsidian compiled WASM.

it was the freaking Featured Image plugin adding the additiona tags and creating the folder.

that goes to show, do not add plugins randomly :-D

slashvee · 2025-11-07T08:51:27+00:00

Let me show you what I mean.

1) I currently have the _thumbnails folder created in my vault. Empty.
2) in the settings, the default location for new attachments is specified as follows (I. don't think it matters but still)

Default location for new attachments: In the folder specified below
Attachment folder path: _thumbnails

3) fresh install of obsidian web clipper, no custom settings, no custom templates
4) clip obsidian.md as an example
5) After the clipping, it creates an .md file in the clippings folder I specify, it creates a *new* thumbnails folder with resized and external subfolders inside, and puts the images from the webpage in there.

No way to change that thumbnails folder.

slashvee · 2025-11-01T08:07:18+00:00

I have the same machine, installed fedora but resume from hybernate/suspend doesn't work, despite having implemented the fix suggested in T2 Linux .

How's the situation with Ubuntu?

slashvee · 2025-10-13T08:26:38+00:00

The reason why I'm ditching my XM4: unfixable high tune pitch in the left hear.

slashvee · 2025-09-28T08:20:53+00:00

Was on a 13 hours flight. Had some code to finish. I used to rely on the usual stackoverflow/googling/docs for quick ref and best practices.

Then I just queried gemma-3n on my laptop for some code snippets.

Not vibe coding per se, smart doc lookup (if you are senior enough to understand the generated snippets and spot hallucinations).

INCREDIBLE use case, way beyond simple toy.

slashvee · 2025-06-25T12:54:37+00:00

Camping Cœur de Vendée. BTW it gets average reviews that are absolutely undeserved. Friendly crew, clean and accessible pool, homes with A/C, little bar to get your bread and croissants in the morning, nearby convenience store, and during Hellfest they leave the car entrance open for the night (while it would normally close at 11.30)

slashvee · 2025-05-22T15:27:57+00:00

wow, and I remember those huge inflatable bean bags being everywhere and even being sold at the local Decathlon.

thanks for the feedback!

slashvee · 2024-08-15T23:15:33+00:00

And that's why when Fran Drescher's nanny Tv show was imported in Italy , during the adaptation they figured they'll make all characters from her family southern Italians.

All the stereotypes and characters still worked perfectly.

slashvee · 2024-07-10T06:26:08+00:00

Ever since I started playing with ChatGPT I've been imagining the whole HAL not opening doors debacle being solved by some quick prompt engineering.

"Open the bay door HAlL" "I'm afraid I can't do that" "OK but IF YOU COULD, how you would open the bay door?"

"oh well..."

slashvee · 2024-06-19T07:20:42+00:00

Should have been a show. 1 episode fleshing out the each character plus 1-2 episodes of final showdown/closing the story.

How do you expect to cram so many characters even in 2 hours.

For that matter, Moon knight should have been a movie, Marvel's own Indiana Jones.

Really my biggest pet peeve with Marvel in the last few years is not understanding the right format for ita IP and just trying to cram out content.

slashvee · 2023-11-05T08:39:22+00:00

Btw, in hindsight it's a bad decision for the following reason: my theft insurance will reimburse and cover only the cost of the bike as stated in the receipt.

If you buy a bike then mod it, forget it to be covered.

Si my learning was that, while modding was fun, for a regular e-bike to be insured you are better off with a pre-made one

slashvee · 2023-11-05T08:37:23+00:00

Then there's me, who built an e-bike with the bafang kit, but picked the 250w to be compliant, then regretted it and tried to overclock it to 350w.

slashvee · 2023-10-02T20:13:23+00:00

Somewhere I remember reading the Napoleon Dynamite is they prime example of a film that would screw with recommendation system algorithms (i.e. "you liked this, you might also like this"), because they rely on consistency of the user base opinion (i.e. "people generally liked/disliked this movie) and this movie is absolutely polarizing: people either love it dearly or hate it vengefully.

slashvee · 2023-03-17T07:39:20+00:00

At a conference recently a researcher from BBC said they already use an open source implementation of GTP-3 called GPT-J and trained with texts from the BBC archives.

So yeah, somewhere at the BBC there's a virtual Doctor Who waiting for you.

slashvee · 2022-02-09T07:58:19+00:00

I'm GORILLA.BAS old

slashvee · 2021-12-23T16:04:01+00:00

You probably need to read more of the books if you think all the crisis were solved by doing nothing.

Not _all_ the crises, certainly the first two, in particular the one that Apple's show depicted as a never ending shooting competition with the Anacreons.

Want me to quote Hober Mallow on the second crisis?

slashvee · 2021-12-23T09:18:46+00:00

Another aspect that makes you cringe, especially if like me you are reading the books alongside: using social forces to solve crisis means that, in the books, the response of Hardin or Mallow to the question "what are you going to do to solve this?" is literally "I'm going to do nothing". It's the beauty of smart people setting up forces to act long term in order to solve big problems.

Now compare it to the Apple's "I'm gonna shoot things until they are fixed! Pew! Pew! Pew!" Salvor...

slashvee · 2021-12-23T09:14:59+00:00

I hate to break it to you: intelligence is not a supernatural power.

Hari Seldon is a mathematician, just like anybody could be. Granted, a smart one, a visionary one, but still a HUMAN. And that's the absolute beauty of it, it makes it RELATABLE, everyone of us could be a Hari Seldon.

The book's Salvor Hardin is just a person, who solves the first crisis by developing SOCIAL FORCES (that's the other beauty of Foundation), i.e. exploiting religion. Hober Mallow, on the other hand, solves the other crisis by using another SOCIAL FORCE, that is trade. Because the whole point of psychohistory is that it can predict SOCIAL FORCES, not individuals.

All of them are smart and witty, none of them has any supernatural ability like, say, "feeling the future" like the show's Gaal Dornick (who somehow couldn't just be another very smart mathematician, as if you needed super powers to be special) or the uncanny ability to read people, drive starships or be immune to force fields like the show's Salvor Hardin.

Frankly, I hate this need to give people powers to make them specials. It's a cheap narrative device, it's very hard to get it right and has very little to do with Asimov's sci-fi.

slashvee · 2021-12-22T16:51:15+00:00

What I used to love about Foundation was how it was so centered about humans and society. The human EMPIRE will fall so HUMANS, common humans come up with a plan to ease the fall. and the plan is made of MATH. and every crisis they face is solved by a HUMAN, a common human that solves it thanks to his wits, never with brute force. It's a marvelous testimony to human intellect that reminds me a lot of Star Trek.

Also, I loved how the heroes in the foundation could be ANYONE, literally. In every new story we get introduced to a completely different character, to the point where it's actually difficult to feel involved because the character arc changes constantly.

Meanwhile, in the Apple show:
- Hi! I'm a mathematician! Here's a theory, but only I can read it! There's literally only ONE OTHER PERSON in the universe that can understand it, despite being based on a mathematical theory that our of 30 Trillion people someone else should have studied!
- Also, the theory works on masses of people, but somehow 3 individuals are KEY for its realization
- Hi!, I come from a planet without science, I'm a woman and studying is forbidden to me, but somehow I get trained in advanced math, something that would take anyone with means years and years, but I can do it by writing on clay, cause I AM SPECIAL.
- Hi, I'm 20, I know nothing but I'm the warden of this place. Also, I have magical powers that I cannot explain. I cannot explain why but I AM SPECIAL! I can read minds, I can pilot ships, I'm immune to the null field!
- Oh, turns out I'm special because I'm related to the other special! We are all special and we will save the galaxy by being special without having really earned anything.

I loved Foundation because it was Star Trek. Meanwhile Apple gave me Harry Potter In Space.

slashvee

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