@Roundtrip @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
I date •everything•. I've also finally figured out a useful indexing system for my bullet-journals. Instead of page numbers (because repeats when the file gets too big & have to start a new one) the "page reference" is just the date-time.
@mhoye pumping up my bike tyres.
Some of my answers to this include:
- A canning funnel. Cheap, and spill-free pouring stuff into containers is a lot easier.
- Oil all the hinges in the house.
- Get a slow-settling toilet seat, so it never slams down.
Get many, many boxes of tissues and then any time you find yourself getting up to find a tissue, leave a box there for next time.
Leave a full (6-roll) pack of toilet paper in the bathroom and replenish when it gets to 2 or less.
Maintain a pool of good rechargeable batteries, a charger, 'charged' and 'empty' bins, and put them in a high-traffic area so that you'll notice when the charger is done and put in the next batch.
Oh, this reminds me of my general policy wrt consumables: always have two in the cabinet. That way, when you empty the current one, you have the next in line to go to, & one for margin in case the store is out when you shop next.
Also, at least as important: the •minute• you empty [thing], it goes on the grocery list. "I'll do that in a minute/when I finish/when I come back" is a recipe for forgetting & running out.
@suetanvil @mhoye Extending the "many rolls of toilet paper", I counter my procrastination + easily distractedness by buying most products in sets of 2+ (vitamins, shampoo, deodorant, foods, etc). Switching to the backup starts the clock early enough that I will ACTUALLY buy replacements just before the second runs out. Easier than me noticing/remembering "when I'm low"
More storage space, but also more peace of mind and fewer frustrated moments, ultimately the same(ish) price.
@mhoye Keeping a sharpie and a roll of painter’s tape in the kitchen. Label anything that goes in the freezer (optionally put weights and dates where sensical) or in the fridge after repackaging
@mhoye @jimfl Just a guess - at some point you worked in a commercial kitchen or lived with someone who did. For me, it was my brother the chef. It's ine of those ideas that seems simple and brilliant but it's also absolutely necessary for food safety in a commercial setting. "What is this?/how old is this?" are questions that need to be answered in a split-second. Tape and a Sharpie make it easy and training & habit do the rest.
@Roundtrip @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
I date •everything•. I've also finally figured out a useful indexing system for my bullet-journals. Instead of page numbers (because repeats when the file gets too big & have to start a new one) the "page reference" is just the date-time.
@cavyherd @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
Yes! I use date-page as the index for hand written journal pages.
I keep three series of spiral bound paper journals with blue (work), red (personal), black (nightstand) colors, and tags I write in [square bracelets].
This lets me use hand written ‘slow links’ to any written journal page: [red, 1Mar23, p3]. It’s very handy for linking paper journal pages and slow linking to a paper page from email, a message, a spreadsheet, etc.
@cavyherd @arclight @mhoye @jimfl
I started using slow links based on the ‘blue number’ links Doug Engelbart invented and I copied for Traction TeamPage.
Every TeamPage entry has a Id of the form Blog2804 for an entry created in a space named ‘Blog’ of a TeamPage server.
I can turn a TractionId into a permalink by writing https://tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog2804
I can slow link from my hand written journals to TeamPage using just the TractionId, and open a TeamPage link by saying it!
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