There’s a documentary I saw that documented what people in prehistoric times were doing right before they were preserved. For example, there’s one part of it taking place in sixty thousand BC about a little girl who got polio when she was young, and it chronicles how her parents must’ve cared for her because they binge-fed her delicious berries, as seen by the teeth evidence. It’s nice to know people were “remembering the human” even before humans existed and they inspired a few elaborate works of art I made depicting those scenes.
If you can remember the name, I’d love to check it out. I was a mortician for a decade and was obsessed with stuff like that as a little girl. I have a plethora of knowledge about this stuff but you can never know too much
I’m definitely showing my age here, but the team who made Walking With Dinosaurs created a while line of “walking with” and, while the CG DEFINITELY did not hold up, the science is still pretty decent.
Walking with Monsters (pre-dinos)
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Beasts (post-dinos)
Walking with Cavemen
The latter, over 100 scientists worked on to try and make it as accurate as possible.
Don’t watch the 'Chased by Sea Monsters" one though… for some reason, they changed up the formula and had a guy pretend he was traveling back in time and doing a Steve Irwin on the marine reptiles. It’s just terrible.
I love just sitting and watching the rain. The fresh smell after a strong rain. The way everything gets cooler and darker just before to end in a myriad of colors afterwards.
I adore mechanical stuff that looks too complicated to comprehend on the first look, old sewing machines, old typewriters, mechanical calculators, knitting machines, clocks and watches, marble tracks etc. I was abysmal in school math, today I’m collecting old mechanical and electronic calculators and slide rules (and use them & show 'em to the kids at schools) Scales and maps are another obsession. Maybe because we were too poor for mechanical toys like Meccano or better Lego technic when I was a kid? Btw I loved the sesame street episode with the what-happens-next-machine as a very young kid. Then again, my wife says I have mild ADHD or something in that direction, idk.
dive into the world of old school drafting supplies…oh man, I used to draft scale artistic renderings of houses on vellum. Look up “Drafting Machine” and accessories. Just beautiful, super accurate equipment back in the day.
Thanks, sounds like an option as well. (The most promising at the moment)
Quick check shows no web interface. (or we can’t find it) Linux app goes via snap (yuck) or appimage (never heard off). Also the clipper (which we don’t need, we just want to enter text) requires the app installed on the computer. It’s still the closest thing I’ve seen so far though.
There is a huge number of alternatives, depending on what features you need. Joplin is probably the most famous open-source alternative. You can also subscribe to Joplin Cloud to have e2e-encrypted note synchronization between devices.
If you don’t need a web clipper, look into Standard Notes (FOSS and e2e encryoted, also available via web interface - that’s what I use ATM), Simple Notes (FOSS but not encrypted), Obsidian (great but maybe a bit overkill and expensive if you want to sync) or Anytype (also a bit overkill and still in beta, but also very promising)
I’m using free Standard Notes account for couple of years and it’s pretty solid for basic note taking. It obviously lacks all the bells and whistles of paid version, but I’m fine with this for the great price of $0.
I’m using the paid version (I have a Professional plan but I still pay 49.99$ a year, which was the old price I believe). It’s pretty great, but markdown support can sometimes be janky and I also have problems with sync from time to time. Also the apps make me re-login randomly, and one time the app thought I had a free subscription instead of a paid one and, because of that, ALL of my markdown notes were turned into plaintext notes. I still have to re-set them all, one by one, to markdown.
There is also 100GB cloud support for files, subscription sharing and a bunch of other stuff, but I’d rather see them work on making the whole experience more robust, instead of adding new features.
With the current prices I would not recommend upgrading to a paid version, and I’m also looking to switch to something more flexible and robust.
I like Joplin too. My only issue is that the developer is weirdly against implementing any kind of encryption or password protection suggesting that users should do that on their end (at least last time I looked).
So I ended up using QOwnNotes which has this feature. But I can’t put that on my android phone so I’ve got this stupid setup with obsidian on the phone, QOwnNotes on my pc and resilio sync keeping it all synced.
Oh I see, so basically it’s missing the possibility of encrypting or password-protecting individual notes. That would be great indeed, too bad the devs don’t want to do it
Obsidian is my fav. It’s not FOSS but it uses a flat folder of plain markdown files so it’s very portable and open.
Notion is decent as well but smells like at some point it will enshittify. If you are okay with the pain of jumping platforms eventually you could give it a shot.
Joplin is FOSS and I’ve heard good things about it but idk where it stacks up against the other two.
If you use Obsidian for work you generally need to pay for the commercial license, with some exceptions. I like to mention it because people grab it from flathub without reading the license terms. This is not including the sync fee.
Notion would be the greatest piece of consumer software EVER, if it was e2e-encrypted and usable offline. I’ve used it for a couple of years and, in multiple cases, I was not able to access my notes because of some problems they had with their domain. Not great.
Appflowy and Anytype seem to be the best open alternatives yet, but they both are still immature and lack some features
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