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This is similar to how I’ve transitioned to learning new programming languages. I used to build stuff to learn. However, with AI assisted coding I don’t have those organic moments I’m stuck and need to search online for the answer.

My learning process now uses Claude Code to serve as a tutor that creates bite sized lessons writing parts I want to re-review, found confusing, what lessons were reviewed and what is next into a long lived CLUADE.md file.

iPhone 17e 5 months ago

The weight is an issue for me at 189g. I've been looking for something compact, light weight, secure with a decent OS for 2 years without luck.

Iphone air is tempting at 165g if the screen was smaller. Unihertz Titan 2 Elite may hit the sweet spot if the weight is kept low.

I’ve noticed Claude Codes sandbox mode works with MCPs. With CLIs I’ve rain into permission issues. CLIs also need reminding about whats available unless references are baked the context window.

I would have liked to see statistics on study session length eg. average duration. Also how long you typically spend creating per card and how many you created this year.

That information would help us all better assess whether the time spent on a spaced repetition flashcard system is justified

I’ve done something similar recently, using speaker diarization to handle situations where two or more people share a laptop on a recorded call.

Ultimately, I chose a cloud-based GPU setup, as the highest-performing diarization models required a GPU to process properly. Happy to share more if you’re going that route.

As a daily active user of Cursor and CC user myself, it’s gratifying to discover nuanced tricks that push productivity further. I stumble upon one every now and again.

Solid write up. And chock full of useful tricks!

I was manually copy pasting PR change requests today to CC where some of this would have saved my wrists some pain.

There’s something that’s embittered me about the subscription model and projects made purely for greed. I particularly enjoy supporting projects fiscally which that are passion projects that they could probably charge more for.

https://www.keybr.com - shows ads if you want to use it for free or you can pay a small fee to remove ads. The code is open-sourced so you can make your own. Helped me get the hang of split keyboards and was money well spent to support.

https://enso.sonnet.io - ingenious idea that has helped me write without loosing focus editing myself. The solo developer guy shares an entertaining blog full of illustrations and rich content. his project is available to download in full from Gumroad for a small one time fee.

If there’s any projects you know of like these please share them!

You're the first person I've heard of that has gone this route. Cool to know I'm not alone.

And yeah I have the same gripes around the writing experience. I prefer Vim so I've been looking into ways I can use my notes as local markdown which sync on save. Of course, keeping the Directus editor for my mobile device edits.

I really admire the way you've solved this.

This is exactly the type of thing I want to inspire others to tinker with! Some of the readers feel there's a single optimal solution. Though I'm confident that there's room for a plethora of PKMS solutions

Oh and funny enough I'm in the process of working on an open-source chrome extension for bookmarking things I've read it looks similar to your https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo project. Picture of the tool in use is here https://notes.holeytriangle.com/admin/files/a969c5f6-fa9c-44...

Open-source code has been known to have back doors and versions with security vulnerabilities.

I would never use AI code gen I don't understand fully and typically made amendments to get what I need the tooling to do. So yes I prefer personal simple scripts I maintain and understand 100% : )

Thanks for sharing this is an understated point from the article as I was fiddling with Evernote, Notion then Obsidian more than I would like to admit. With this I certainly fiddle but I create what I need and get in and out of my notes.

If people find that rhythm and flow with their own PKMS - don't switch for the next shiny thing!