Zettelkasten and Writing with Joplin, BPG Fonts, Aider, Ollama, Deepseek r1 14B

December 28th, 2025 – 2:08 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

This is my first attempt at weekly posts. I created an organizational schema and setup the files to begin the work. One of the things this week that I accomplished was the use of Aider to create a rapid prototype of a paired comparison analysis tool that works on the console in any operating system [...]

QOwnNotes and Zettelkästen

December 17th, 2025 – 9:07 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

I love Joplin, but Joplin seems more like an incredible file cabinet and set of bookshelves. It is possible to link from one note to another, but a Joplin icon appears by that link in the text. It can also be cumbersome to navigate between multiple documents while working on one. Joplin recently added the [...]

Picking a tool for zettelkasten

December 15th, 2025 – 8:11 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

It is a very challenging thing to pick a tool to invest time into building a personal knowledgebase. I have used numerous tools over the years and collected a huge number of documents and notes. Logseq integrates with Zotero which might prove useful due the gigabytes of material that I have stored there. My plan [...]

Joplin AppImage Integration

December 7th, 2025 – 5:05 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

Joplin is the beautiful open source replacement for Evernote. Once upon a time, Evernote was a dream app, but then they sent out an atrocious terms of service change after turning their user interface into drab garbage compared to the old colorful beauty that existed in version 4 and before. Joplin is fully functional and [...]

My refined direction is digital sovereignty

November 2nd, 2025 – 9:37 pm
Tagged as: Computing Notes

My refined direction is digital sovereignty via the old paths with a goal of writing at least one article per week. The complexity of the articles will change because many projects are planned for the long term, but getting started on them takes a very long time.. I setup a RAID 5 in my old [...]