very nice! should keep it safe for years to come.

XBox 360 wired controller.

I remember the first time i saw the Contra switch from side-scrolling to “first person” and being totally blown away by it.

I am curious to as the ! is very annoying when it happens unexpectedly

No sweat! I found it when i was looking for an (easy) way to display weather as text, and instantly fell in love.

This is really difficult to break down because it’s (by nature) complicated. but:

1. A custom python script that reads RSS feeds, picks out keywords, and posts them to a special file with a checkbox. This then monitors the checkboxes so it doesn’t repeat a story (still happens but not as bad as without)

2. A custom python script that checks a bunch of websites for things like when a new video is uploaded. This uses webscraping and is highly customized to each site.

3. This one’s pretty neat: I use Lynx to do a text dump of wttr.in THEN i use a custom python script to add the sunrise, sunset, and moon phases to that text file so it displays them. Since wttr.in goes down fairly often due to overuse, it’s also got bypasses built in so it at least shows me the sun/moon info even if the site read fails.

All that runs every hour, though due to intentional design choices it varies the time slightly to avoid being detected for being to regular.

Then, once a day at midnight, it copies my entire vault to a backup directory and puts it into a dated backup folder.

Since the entire thing runs via a single shell script it’s easy to start up when i do a reboot. very fire-and-forget.

meanwhile in Obsidian itself i have several panes set up - for the updates, the weather etc - that “bracket” my main viewing page + my calendar.

I’ve not thought of a good use case for the technology myself, but if i were to use it i’d prefer it be local just for conveniences sake.

I use it and find it’s perfect for my use, and is very fast to add/remove/shift tasks around in. Since it just uses markdown files in a folder i can even use external programs to modify them or use the file itself to hold additional notes etc.

that said YMMV and i’d recommend giving it a test run for a day or so to see how it handles for you

All sorts of things:

1. I use it for 3 general information displays (site updates, RSS feed updates that meet certain keyword criteria, and a weather dispaly) that i feed from terminal apps (the terminal apps print to text files, which Obsidian then displays)

2. I use it as a calendar/task manager that tells me everything from what i’m doing tomorrow to what i need to check in six months

3. I use it to organize world building stuff - everything from one-off ideas, to idea lists, to huge files full of names, places, etc even pictures.

4. I use it to organize true crime research stuff - both current and past cases, and larger cultural trends like the Satanic Panic.

Tags + folders make it very easy to keep stuff organized, which i like, and since i can just zip up a folder and send it to someone, it’s very portable if it needs to be.

I feel i’m an outlier in that i intentionally do not use keyboard shortcuts and focus on mouse usage instead