Notion was the tool that made me realize I wanted opinionated tools.

At first I was excited by all of Notion’s possibilities, but after a while I felt this was not a strength but a weakness.

We were on Notion for six months, without much enthusiasm. I switched us to Clubhouse + Stack Overflow for Teams and we’re loving it.

Couldn't agree more.

As a pilot run - tried migrating small amount of knowledge base from Evernote to Notion but it just feels too overwhelming. Upending existing information architecture (with umpteen possibilities re: templates) quickly gets exhausting.

This is when I realized, I need an opinionated tool. Gave up and went back to Evernote.

This looks really good. I'm looking to dive in to Clojure.

Do you recommend my first book be something like this, or something more "traditional", like O'Reilly's "Living Clojure" or "Clojure"?

Yeah, "Clojure For The Brave and True" (CFTBT) is perfect for your first steps with Clojure, then diving into the deeper/bigger books. In the beginning I basically used CFTBT as a tutorial/guide for finding concepts then using "Clojure Programming" (O'Reilly Media, by Chas Emerick + more) as a reference if I wanted to dive deeper into a specific concept, as "Clojure Programming" goes a lot deeper into subjects, but the subjects don't feel like they are in any particular order in the book itself.

I think the lightweight humor and good explanations is what kept me from getting discouraged, as some Clojure books did to me before I came across CFTBT.

Man this takes me back.

I used to play multiplayer with my little brother. If he wasn’t around, I’d just mess around with all the weapons and create apocalyptic hellscapes caked in worm guts.

A good chunk of my childhood was spent with downloadable split-screen PC games like Liero, Destruction 2, and Paintball Party. I owe a lot of memorable hours to those devs.

Pretty sure this was lifted from an episode of “Superstore”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstore_(TV_series)

That's really interesting, do you mind sharing how you set it up for notes and a work log?

I leave it in standard configuration, but fill in Summary.md by adding new content to the top. That way when I open it I see the most recent notes first.

I have a shell script that opens vscode and starts mdbook. For my journal the script also checks to see if there's an entry for today. If there isn't, it will add one to the top of Summary.md, which then creates a new file for me to write in for that day. In the meantime mdbook has opened up the book for me to look at that side.

When I open the book I see what I wrote more recently and can also go back to documents from the past.

I use jrnl (https://jrnl.sh). I have a bookmarks journal called "bm", so I can add a new entry with notes by entering `jrnl bm` in my shell.

It supports tagging and searching, stores everything in plain text, has optional encryption, and is FOSS. I've tried a lot of the solutions in this thread and so far jrnl has been the "just right" solution for me.

Cat’s Cradle has been my favorite book of all time since I found it in high school.

Someone already said Vonnegut, so I’ll offer Kerouac.

Also, Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray is something beyond.

I am a huge Vonnegut fan and just read Galápagos last month. It wasn’t one of his best, but I still really enjoyed it.

Part of my enjoyment of Vonnegut comes from his writing style. I just love how he writes, no matter the story.