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There and Back Again, A Joplin Tale

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So, I’m using Joplin for my notes. Again. Still? Maybe a week ago, I saw an article about using Obsidian to post directly to WordPress. Which seemed like a neat thing, since I already just, write everything directly in Joplin. I also kind of looked around into Obsidian’s more robust plug in ecosystem. I had tried Obsidian briefly when switching off of One Note and to my more Markdown centric workflow. For whatever reason, I went with Jplin then.

So I decided, Ok, Obsidian seems to be a popular gold standard, it has better plug ins, I’m going all in. Migrating from Joplin was pretty easy, Joplin has an export that just dumps everything into a basic directory structure of Markdown files. Obsidian lets you drag and drop files in. Everything was working great. I also pulled in a bunch of my other saved news articles from my Github repository of saved news articles. Let’s get it all! I found an importer plug in and started importing my leftovers from One Note, one notebook at a time, sorting them down. Everything was going great.

Asie from, I find the Obsidian Tree, that mixes folders and files, to be absolutely cluttered and hideous. I found a plug in to fix this, but the plug in, somehow makes everything separate, but MORE ugly. I decided I would “get used to it” and “Use search more”.

There was also the matter of syncing between my two PCs and my phone. Obsidian has a paid tier, which does syncing, but I want the syncing to go through something I have more control over. Specifically, Encrypted then through OneDrive, like I use for Joplin. I want something I can download and backup locally as needed separate from the application. There is, thankfully, a popular plug in called Remotely Save, that lets you do just this, for free.

Hooo boy what a mess that was.

I am not really blaming Obsidian, or even Remotely Save, but I just, could NOT get this to work. At all. It would work just fine on the first upload, I could see all the encrypted data in my OneDrive, but pulling it down would create errors, all the time, all sorts of errors. I never did quite figure out why, it could be a combination.

  • I think I may have been occasionally hitting an API limit on OneDrive, because I was pulling down so much.
  • The plug in absolutely does not seem to know how to resume if it gets hung up, it just, fails forever more.
  • I found at one point that it was creating file names with forbidden characters, like “?”, I stripped those out of the files/headlines.
  • The plug in doesn’t seem to know how to handle if you move where the remote notebook is. I was saving “My Notebooks” to a folder in the cloud called “Obsidian.” Except this isn’t the default name, it names it after the notebook name. Sometimes I would forget to change this, then have to change it.
  • It also gets weird if you use the wrong Encryption Key. I would often enter the key, then forget to go through the confirm change dialogues, see also why I kept fucking up the remote location folder name.
  • Screwing up the encryption Key would mean it downloads a bunch of jibberish notes, which would then become part of the main notebook once a proper sync was done.
  • I tried recreating fresh notebooks to clear errors and I would randomly get old versions, despite everything pointing to the proper place
  • At leat once, It reverted back to the old remote folder name default.
  • It started randomly deleting notes, which really had me panicking, but I managed to dig everything out of the trash and restore it.

I tried several other sync plug ins, including some Git based ones, but they didn”t seem to work. Syncing across the cloud is extremely important to this while operation. In the end, I decided to just, go back to Joplin. I may still use Obsidian to middleman and finish my OneNote importing, but otherwise, my experience was terrible, and non-functional for my needs.

Language

2024 Duolingo Wrap-Up

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Hola,

Soy Ramen. Pero no la comida, se llama Ramen, en el internet. Apredio Espanol por michos anos ahora. Probablemente is muy mala, pero intentando.

Esta entrada del blog es mi “2024 Duolingo Wrap Up.” Donde escribo sobre mi progreso usando Duolingo por el ano passado. Senti que una buena idea escribir en español. Pero no estoy tan seguro.

Solamente hago mejor si intento. Mi estilo de escribo es no muy bueno por traducer en espanol. Esta demaciado …. rambling.

I don’t know what rambling is in Spanish… I could translate it, and I have been sort of using a translator, but I kind of want to stick to works I know that I have learned and know already. Oh look, another rambling long run on sentence.

Anyway, maybe I should start making some actual written notes to help drive the learning in a bit more.

Does that metaphor even work in Spanish? “Conducir esta en mas” says it translates to “Driving is on the rise”. Not quite the same meaning as “Driving it in more”.

Mandar en mas? Maybe? It doesn’t need the “esta”, I don’t know why I though ot needed an “esta.”

Idiomas son difíciles.

Listening Habits

My Music Listening Habbits for 2024

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I have to admit, this is my own personal favorite post for each year, even if no one else cares. Q look back on my music listening for the year, and how it has, or has not changed or evolved, and a round of trying to make predictions, and then working to not make those predictions self fulfilling in some weird attempt to not be wrong about my predictions.

Anyway, lets get it going then, with the 5×5 for albums.

Unsurprisingly, Aurora’s What Happened to the Heart was my most listened to album. And this doesn’t even count time spent listening to the vinyl copy I have. Aurora was number one on my Spotify Wrapped as well. I suppose “unsurprisingly” is bad taste, since last year my too album was actually a surprise with Wolf Alice’s Blue Weekend.

Also not real surprising at number 2 is Lauren Mayberry’s recent debut solo album, Vicious Creature. Being a Chvrches fan, its not real surprising that I was into this album, but honestly, it all kind of “speaks to me” in a way that I am not inclined to post about here. Its good, its all good.

Going on down the list, The Gods We Can Touch from Aurora is still holding on at Number 3, despite being 2 years old now. Its actually my second most listened to album ever (on Last.fm), which is funny because if you asked me, I would tell you its Aurora’s weakest album. Maybe I need to reconsider that stance.

Daft Punk’s Discovery sits at number 4, its just a good classic standby for listening.

One real interesting one is a new one on the list, Disintegration by The Cure. The funny part is, a lot of this being on the list is just listening to “Pictures of You”, most often when driving home from work. It is exactly the same length as my drive home commute, at a little over 7 minutes long.

Getting into more “mainstream” music, number 6 on my list is Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. Its full of nice catchy pop music for sure. Its followed by last year’s number one, Blue Weekend from Wolf Alice, and Supermodels by Claud.
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft is a bit surprising here at number 13. I actually would have expected it to be much higher. I guess part of the reason for that is I didn’t jump on that train until later in the year. But then, my number 2 album came out in December.

Some more oddities along the way, both Shame and Change Shapes in the single versions are in the top 25. I wonder if Vicious Creature would be pushed to number one if I added up the numbers.

A lot of my personal “mainstay” albums as well, Kid A Mnesia from Radiohead, Sucker Punch from Sigrid, Woman on the Internet from Orla Gartland. Step I is the only Aurora album not in the top 25, just missing the cut.

The only other significant newcomer is Karol G at number 17, and I am blaming Fortnite for that. She was featured for the Music Pass in the fall. I even got the Karol G skin from that pass.

I should also give an honorable mention to the popular BRAT from Charli XCX. If i combined BRAT and “Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat”, it would almost make my top ten.

On a purely artists view, Aurora and Lauren Mayberry dominated there, with CHVRCHES as number 3, so, just more Lauren. Claud comes out at number 4, which can actually also be blamed on Lauren Mayberry, if I had not gone to Pygmalion last year to see her, I would have never seen Claud and gotten into their music. Billie Eilish makes up a bit for the low ranking of Hit Me Hard and Soft by being my 6th highest for artists.

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