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I have finally tried Obsidian and can say it truly is the best app. Why: It works wonderfully on all platforms. Fast and snappy. It's closed-source, but uses Markdown, which is universal and forever will be supported by computers, you will never loose your notes, nor need to convert them. Lots of community plugins. Like Excalidraw, which is a god-like tool for taking handwritten notes. Great customizability. Your notes get automatically synchronized for free through iCloud or OneDrive. Everything is stored on your device/cloud, so no waiting for the database to load, no downtime, and easy backups, you own your notes. Supports LaTeX so you can type math equations straight into your notes, you can also use snippets plugin to speed-up your note-taking, snippets are useful for everything, but for Maths and Engineering the most. Do you see any downsides to this app? I went through almost every solution, starting with Evernote back in 2015, and this one finally I really love.

@Rigel Apple Notes are unusable to me. The whole thing feels so wooden, default layout sucks, can't tweak it. It's basically Obsidian but worse looking and less functionality. Maybe it's a better experience on iPad with pencil but on MacBook with keyboard it's no bueno. Both Apple Notes and Obsidian sync notes over iCloud out-of-the-box for free.

I don't like the UI, lack of customization, to put in Math equations you need to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft pushing Copilot AI on you. That's some of my reasons why I don't use OneNote. Your will probably differ or maybe even have no reasons to switch. Hard to pitch something to someone I don't know and already using something with 90% the same capabilities. And plugins are things you can install into the app to gain new functionalities. You can even write your own plugins if you can code. You have a kind of built-in "App Store" with plugins that you can install, hence the community plugins name, they're add-ons made by users, not the authors of Obsidian.

Dear Leo, please make sure to hire a good editor who you will listen to when they suggest to cut a little on explications like "inifinty entails giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, space kangaroos, rats, antelopes..." Too much explication of things in the same category is really one of the biggest downsides of your delivery style.

It’s Polish. Invented by famous chocolatier Wedel. Russian brand is a very old knock-off. And birch juice is popular all over the Europe, wherever there are birch trees.

I teach kids. The ones with more restrictions on their phone usage perform better, but I believe it's correlated with how much their parents push them to learn in their free time and not directly through whatever the effects of using the Internet less are. There's a chance that if your parents limit your Internet access they would be more strict in general and that pushes those who are highly unmotivated by default.

It's a very distinct languauge. Shows you're not from Europe.

But the shit is truth. We are all just little turds since the beginning.

@Leo Gura The purchase of theatre-grade hard drives of a movie with rights and to show it in the cinemas I guess.

You are on these forums for far to long to be 11 years old, yet you sure do act like one. It's time to put you one the Ignored Users list as all I am reading is brain-dead respones.

@Salvijus Do you even read the posts people write you? I am telling you to stop botcheirng the story of Jesus and you are talking something about Jesus' authenticity. I am telling you to leave Christianity alone. Jesus is not another of your Hindu gods-themed Avengers team, nor another one of Buddhism's ascended super-masters. It's a unique story, of Jewish and Arab heritage, which theme's were developed by European thinkers, and it need none of that rainbow body anime stuff. Thank you.

It's wild I have to agree with a teenager hell-bent on casting spells and magic theory. @Salvijus You are just so lost. Your epistemology is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. And your version of the Jesus story where he is a rainbow-body-super-saiyan-power-ranger is so boring. Please, leave my cultural heritage alone and go bastardize some other religion.

Yes, don’t put it in sunlight. It will expire real fast that way.

@Aaron p It is not forcing a word if it’s the most accurate word to describe the situation! That’s the issue. You are the one who has a weird outlook not the mainstream media.

What the... It is a war. What does that even mean, "invasion", what the fuck are you talking about? It's a full-fledged military conflict in the middle of Europe. A few hundred thousand people have already died and there's milions and milions of migrants due to the fighting. Either wake up to the facts, or look up in the dictionary what does the word "war" mean. It's amusing that you say you know nothing of politics, then proceed to say some really weird things about geopolitics in the same thread. Kind of like Trump, but he would have never admitted to knowing nothing, so you have already outgrown our orange guy by a lot in the political awarness department.

@integral It doesn’t sound stupid at all, the smell receptors have similar structure to brain receptors and smelling something activates the brain in general. So why not, maybe you are built so that the reaction to smells is too strong and hits the wrong parts of the nervous system.

That's crazy pricing. I have paid $40 for Tycho's concert. I would much rather do that again, than pay $100 for some random club in Vegas with some shitty DJ's playlist.

I hear this everytime I read about rats on the blog. Rats

It's required to sustain the results of your last 200 hrs retreat until the next one. It's not as beneficial if it's the only thing you are doing. If you have 1-2 hrs I think it's better to do yoga, because you can still the mind but also work the body.

This is a very bad point. I wouldn’t want to live in rural Tibet even 100 years ago, where I could have gotten easily robbed or raped. Simple rural people burn forests to create a little bit of farmland. That and there are many other problems with this point.

DMT is all about the dose. The problem is, when you dose high enough, it’s almost always a different type of high? I don’t remember ever getting two similar high dose experiences, and I don’t mean that in terms of contents, but also „structure.” I crave going back to a „fractal of pure beauty” but cannot find it anymore, only once randomly, on a random meadow, looking at random grass, eh… The most popular motif for me is black void, some crazy stuff happens in it, but still emptiness in the background dominate. Even if a crazy casino carnival type of thing is happening, it’s an experience painted on a black void. The void breaks into colors like lava starting to move or cells of a green leaf growing. When I experience God, then I am the void and I get twisted like a table cloth into the „shape of God.”

Because those countries had had that episode, but already outgrew it. In Poland, between around 1500-1800 polish nobility had believed that they are descendants of ancient Sarmatians, powerful conquerors. I think that if one were to dig, they would find similiar stories in each and every of the countries you have mentioned.

@Leo Gura The metamodernism guys, Daniel Görtz and his friends, that's Yellow for sure. And quite a bit of business people Laloux writes about in "Reinventing Organizations" seems solid Yellow, for example Patagonia's founder Yvon Chouinard.

@Nemra In my country there are actually quite a few good contemplative Christian monasteries you can go ona a retreat to. Although, they require payment upfront, Buddhist retreats, like Goenka's Vipassana are often gift-economy based, as in pay now what you can, support us long-term or help with cleaning and cooking on the next retreats. Christians are more conventional and offer a clear-cut service.

Based. I send love to Martin Ball.