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Wait, this is actually so cool.

I like it. I just read The Acropalypse, what an interesting case study of what seems to be the "new" suburbanism.

Yes, I passionately agree with simplicity as a core principle. This makes me very excited to see how you implement bidirectional linking.

Godspeed!

Awesome! FWIW I currently use a clone [1] of Andy's notes website [2], to which I've added KaTeX support. The biggest feature is the Roam-style bidirectional linking. But your system is sufficiently simpler that I think I'll give it a try, at least for some use cases.

Roam-style bidirectional linking would be cool, but I wonder if it's better to keep it simple for everyone else rather than add very specific features for the few people like me. Your call...

Anyways, cool project! You're definitely making something people want :)

[1] https://github.com/aravindballa/gatsby-theme-andy/

[2] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

If you add math support, I'd give it a try

Intriguing... thanks for sharing!

Woah, looks neat! Thank you!

I don't. I share my notes with some friends as a private GitHub repo. The backlinks I just use as click-throughs to help me navigate my own notes. I too admire his notes site. Making my own is too much effort for me right now, but it is something I really want...

Will give it a try, thanks for the example post!

Interesting stuff!

I currently use Andy Matuschak's [1] system, using his note-link-janitor script [2] to generate backlinks and Typora to edit. The only thing Obsidian adds is the graph view for me, but it seems that Obsidian generates backlinks using file name, not title. I prefer linking by title. Perhaps this can be an option? The editor also seems to be lacking a little... for instance I can't seem to render math. Hopefully some of my feedback will be useful to you.

Overall really cool idea, but probably not going to use for now. Will keep tabs, and wish you the best of luck!

[1] https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes [2] https://github.com/andymatuschak/note-link-janitor

I wish there was something like this for math blogs. I've tried Jekyll with MathJax but it looks kind of ugly. Any suggestions anyone?

My Life as a Physicist, by Clemens Roothaan. Incredible story about doing physics in a Nazi concentration camp, surviving said concentration camp, and his career at Chicago. A lot is left unsaid in terms of how he dealt with his experiences, but his experiences are incredible in and of themselves.

DFW in IJ: "The clichéd directives are a lot more deep and hard to actually do. To try and live by instead of just say... So then at forty-six years or age I came here to live by clichés... One day at a time. Easy does it. First things first. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Ask for help. Thy will not mine be done. It works if you work it. Grow or go. Keep coming back."

Yup. Screen timer is a tool to do help break my addiction, which is the first step of the solution (because without doing that first step, I don't think I'd have the mental capacity to deal with the underlying problem).

I have a similar experience. But it's still super helpful for me to first break the content addiction part so that I have the mental space to try and confront the underlying problems...

I agree. Some parts of modern life seem to strip sense of agency and sense of control away from us, which is in itself super depressing. Reminds me of this Paul Graham post (http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html) where he distills the top regrets of the dying into a single piece of advice: don't be a cog.