my wiki contains the following passage: i wanted to...

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my wiki contains the following passage:

i wanted to start a wiki

Reasons behind this urge
* i want to document what i learn so that i don't have to relearn it later
* i want to have a sort-of a spellbook i can use to lookup old incantations and procedures instead of having to rediscover them. an exocortex
* a (personal) wiki feels like the kind of mind-augmenting tool that timers or calendars or trello boards are; they free up your mental resources for use elsewhere

so i created this

Like 13 Oct 2023 at 7:39 | Open on merveilles.town

3 comments

Alexander Cobleigh

still checks out; also thankful for myself in writing down its explicit goals :)

it's easy to get muddled up on a thing's purpose as one traverses time

13 Oct 2023 at 7:41 | Open on merveilles.town

Alexander Cobleigh

tho the explicit trello board mention is kind of funny, nobody i knows uses trello-the-software anymore :eccehomo:

13 Oct 2023 at 7:42 | Open on merveilles.town

Alex Schroeder

@cblgh Yeah, so true. I mean, a certain amount of yak shaving is simply making sure that you're using and maintaining the tool, but it's easy to then drift into tool development, tool development for others, tool maintenance, blogging for an audience, and on and on. So many distractions.

13 Oct 2023 at 12:50 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch