2026-04-26

• I didn’t make an entry yesterday because I was busy and scattered, but I’m logging what I did on this one.

• On Friday, the no-good-terrible-day, I started digging through footnotes on a few of my articles about digital gardening and I found a book called Building a Second Brain. I’m not enjoying the productivity grifter vibes but the concept itself appeals to me, as someone who struggles with the premise of sharing all my learning process in public but still wants to offload some of the process from my own brain and onto some other support. I’ve been setting up an Obsidian vault for this Second Brain thing and looking for ways to automate dumping of my sources on there.

• I still haven’t found a way to capture temporary, practical stuff, perhaps it need a tag so that I can find it more easily. I’m thinking to-do lists and short term planning.

• I also watched The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) with my possum, my newt and my flock; I had a great time. I barely remembered the movie from when I watched it back in the day but I love the way it slaps you in the face with politics but in a way that makes you an accomplice of the narrator eyerolling, the theatrical lighting, the cinematography (so many shots that had me gasping), the slapstick comedy of it all. Not a fave but definitely a good watch.

• I hung out with my pup for a bit after a long time without calling, he told me about how his life is looking and I showed him the League controls a little bit, for our future lessons. My internet went down sometime in the call, so it was cut short.

• I had sleepy and fond conversations with my flock about their stay here last March. We aimed for cerebral conversation about xenolinguistics but we were both too tired.

• Today is Sunday, which means it’s mostly going to be a chores day. I’ve cleared up the surfaces of most of the house at the time of writing this, prepped my dessert for dinner (just cutting up some strawberries) and taken out the trash. I’m going to cook Chicken tajine for lunch and then I’ll handwash the dishes I used over the weekend. There aren’t many since it’s just me at home at the moment.

• I’m only 20-something articles away from finishing my Depth Year challenge of tackling my read-later backlog, and I’m excited about it. Once I’ve finished the articles, I’ll start with the documents (books, mostly, some academic papers).

• I need to find a way to use tag filtering on the scrapbook, that way I can hold that part of my Second Brain on this site.