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You tube as research platform ?🤔
Once upon a time yes. But then once upon a time the whole internet. I used to hate watching videos for learning but I have cognitive issues now that makes visual learning easier for me. Actually written is now extremely difficult for me. So I will use reviews of things to see how they work before I try them out myself. Just a shame that its so hard to find a real human being to learn from online anymore.
Start a no server demo here and you can try Actual out yourself:
https://demo.actualbudget.org/
That way you can try out the Starting fresh steps for real or go through their Tour interactively instead of just reading:
https://actualbudget.org/docs/getting-started/starting-fresh/
https://actualbudget.org/docs/tour/
I have, but I find it easier to understand if there's a human being explaining things as well. I can flounder pretty quickly now if I'm just dropped into it without any guidance :(
No shit. The most gen z comment...
No shit ,im born before epoch time in computing , Never used yt for research ,used lib then , now annas lib en Z lib