Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
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Sounds cool, I am in the market for a new note-taking tool so I will check it out. Another comrade recommended Logseq recently
Incoming brain dump.
Emacs has a higher learning curve because it’s really a whole ass desktop environment. So it’s more to learn than just the note taking program (org-mode) but it’s a useful skill to have long term. Especially if you ever want to write long form technical papers or even fiction, org-mode can export into almost any format (such as LaTeX). A benefit over Logseq is that Eacs is based in plain text files while Logseq is stored in a database. I like the peace of mind that I have total control over my workflow and will never be locked into any single system.
You can basically customize Emacs in any way you can think of, while most other note taking programs have opinionated implementations that are difficult to modify. And since there is both a GUI and terminal based version of Emacs, you can run the same software (with same config file) on any device that can run a terminal. Even remotely over ssh.
One downside to Emacs is that it’s not that useable on mobile. This past February they added native Android support, but it’s still quite basic and hamstrung by the Android security model. However there are apps that can view org-mode files on both Android and iOS.