dougdimmadome

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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
nice work. I can definitely see a use for this already > Many note-taking apps today single-paged have high-think-threshold [...] You have to think before you write in them, so not a good option for quick ideas. Yes. Very much so. I ofte
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I live in rural Ireland, and I've heard more than one story about a farmer who discovered some archeological find on their land and just plowed over it to avoid the hassle.
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
"I was born in 200 log cabins"
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I feel like this is another "random wikipedia article" post.
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
Might I suggest adding Mo Money
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
This thing is beautiful. Makes me want to do something like this but I dont have the time or skill or a 3d printer
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
Though it doesn't show today , this 3D model of the solar system is great https://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/krNqZO
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I like this. It really helps illustrate that how long it takes to get to Mars can vary hugely depending on when you leave Earth. My kids learned in school (during the 5 minutes of the year they spent talking about the solar system) that Ven
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
there's always someone for whom it doesn't
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I get your argument but I see real value here. Texting yourself is an imperfect solution to the problem. Note taking apps like obsidian also have "labor" in that you have to pick a location for your note, maybe navigate a folder s
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I've been look for exactly this! (or planning to build it) I abuse the telegram "Saved" channel to send myself thoughts, notes, reminders, pics, etc as if I'm chatting to the me who's back at his desk. I wanted to g
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
Nothing ever matches the hype. That's what hype is. Literally short for hyperbole which means "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally."
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
obsidian came out 2020 and I built my version before 2017. also the initial version was on Windows Phone and I migrated to android later
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
A few I can think of - Note taking app that stores all data as markdown on Dropbox - When I was getting married I created a photo upload site with a flickr backend where people could bulk upload all of the photos they took of our wedding, a
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
> My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily n
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
everyone I know has a bag of "bag for life" bags, and yes sometimes you forget to bring them and you end up buying more. but they're definitely a net good. the amount of bags sold to people who forgot theirs is orders of magn
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
In Ireland a few years ago a plastic bag levy was introduced. If you want a plastic bag at the checkout, you have to pay 5c for each one. Now everyone has reusable shopping bags they bring to the stores. The bags are much more rugged than s
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
> Recipes: Aether charged chicken wings Sign me up
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
me too =)
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
...and, fun fact, the "porgs" only exist because the island is also a wildlife refuge and home to thousands of birds who happily walked across the set during takes, so they had to be CGI'ed out.
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
Skellig Michael is not a Cathedral by any stretch of the imagination. It is a cluster of stone beehive huts on an island. It should be recognisable to most people these days as the place Luke Skywalker was hanging out in the new Star Wars s
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by dougdimmadome 2y ago
I was in a similar situation last month. Not quite 1000s of pages but close to 100. Just enough to make typing them out seem like too much work. I found an app online (I wont even name it) which promised incredibly accurate handwriting tran