#smart notes

[recsspecs]

A good structure is something you can trust.

It relieves you from the burden of remembering and keeping track of everything. If you can trust the system, you can let go of the attempt to hold everything together in your head and you can start focusing on what is important: The content, the argument and the ideas. By breaking down the amorphous task of “writing a paper” into small and clearly separated tasks, you can focus on one thing at a time, complete each in one go and move on to the next one . A good structure enables flow, the state in which you get so completely immersed in your work that you lose track of time and can just keep on going as the work becomes effortless (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975). Something like that does not happen by chance.

- How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens)

[recs-and-discoveries]

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Last night I slept nine hours (7pm-4:15am), so even though I woke up quite early, I'm feeling better than I did yesterday. Finally cracked open "Laziness Does Not Exist," and I'm so happy I did. I've only read the introduction so far, but it reminds me of "How to Keep House While Drowning" by KC Davis, which I cannot recommend enough for neurodivergent people to read. The TLDR version is that cleanliness is not a moral failure, it is a impermanent state/skill issue. I think this is such an important concept that can expand to many other parts of life, and its kinda fun to see how it also manifests in a place of laziness. I'm definitely going to do some lit notes about it in obsidian later because this concept is so very interesting to me.

I also got an email from my roommate yesterday!! I'm so so very excited to room with someone (I have siblings but someone of the same! age!) and she seems super cool (and supports queer people, which is reassuring. I want to confirm some things politically but I don't entirely know how to go about this. I may just let time run its course and see what happens, because that may just be the most natural thing to do. I think this is also a ADHD "problem" re my social cues. I'm slightly nervous about oversharing too much).

Today my main goal is to register to vote + drive 🤞🏾 and continue what I did yesterday! While I did feel tired, I do feel that yesterdays checklist really worked with my brain.

☐ register to vote!

☐ register to drive

☐ read another ~20 pages of "Laziness Does Not Exist"

☐ take smart notes on "Laziness Does Not Exist"

☐ lesson two chemistry khan academy

☐ email my roommate back

☐ meet with yearbook advisor

☐ find camera!

☐ get doctors note for accommodations

☐ 2 rows of knitting

[thejaymo]

Game Definitions | Weeknotes

Some definitions list examples of games, while others try to find the necessary conditions that make a game possible.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Was dissecting the SOTM trailer and apparently your monty is a mm member comic is now canon

ANOTHER WIN FOR MONTY ENJOYERS!!!

(Original comic)

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[managone16]

Regulus: Not this either! Ugh, I don’t have any fucking clothes to wear. Pandora: Reg, calm down. I’m sure he would like anything you wear— Regulus: No. I need to wear something good. Dorcas: But he already likes you so much— Regulus: Shut up. *shuffling through his clothes* I need something that would blow his mind. Barty: Maybe you just need to blow his dick, not mind. Dorcas:  Pandora: Regulus: Evan: He’s not wrong, you know?

[paintedcrows]

Assorted Gravity Falls doodles!

[divineandmajesticinone]

TOP FORM (2025) I EP. 1 & 2 "Is there any way for me to stand beside Akin?"

[itsallaboutbl]

🍯🍯

[dreamerimpossible]

You were typing on your computer. A lump had formed in your throat. A naive and out of place comment had escaped you. Stupid, in short. A stupid comment. He had glared at you, his fingers had abruptly stopped their activity and his words were scathing towards you. A well-argued comment on why what you had said made no sense. It was cold and with a certain cruel mockery behind it. You decided not to say anything else. You just swallowed and decided to ignore the annoyed glances of the others.

Suddenly, one of your colleagues ridiculed you in front of everyone else, mocking your slip cruelly. Your boyfriend, who had previously brutally corrected you in front of the others, looked at the man who had ridiculed you with anger and palpable annoyance. He ordered them to leave the room and never come back.

No one but him could dare to correct you. You were his.

-BB, Mello, Near, L, Sherlock, Kisaki, Hannibal

[serikyl]

Yk what, controversial take maybe, but I think Henry “Grew Up In The Forgotten Realms Which Doesn’t Seem To Have Modern Medicine” Oak-Garcia would actually be super into vaccines

I think he’d find out that there’s an invention that keeps little kids from dying of deadly diseases and start crying tears of joy and not actually know why

[maskrosfe]

Comic based on anon's lawtsuda prompt "Lawtsuda little cafe date introducing eachother to their favorite sweets! ❤️✨"! Thank you for the suggestions <3 !

[mor-benis]

schrödinger's emo band

i'm just now kind of realizing that mcr5 is a schrodinger's cat in the sense that it's completely an idea at this point which has not been proved nor disproved. like mcr hasn't denied its existence. they haven't confirmed it either. so until given definitive proof, mcr5 both exists and doesn't exist at the same time

[shittalkerxox]

I think a really fun idea to explore with Tim would be the idea of him having Hyperthymesia.

Hyperthymesia is an ability that allows people to recall almost every event of their life in great detail. It's extremely rare and honestly doesn't have that much research done on it, but recent studies have suggested that people with this ability are limited to autobiographical memories, people with HSAM sometime tend to show symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and may demonstrate obsessive tendencies.

I think it would be an interesting way to explain why Tim was able to recall his first meeting with Dick Grayson and connect the dots to seeing Robin. Tim does display a lot of obsessive behaviours, and while he doesn't really physically display compulsion (like someone with OCD would typically display) there certainly is a strong case to be made for him potentially having it.

But also, can you imagine how fucking horrible it would be for Tim to remember each and every traumatic thing that ever happens to him as a hero and those memories just never fading. Yes, it would make him a better detective and allow him to be arguably smarter than your average joe, but at what cost?

[felassan]

What kind of spirit do you think Felassan waz?

Swag

[nadiuu]

@mattmelloweek 2024 - Day 1: Parallels