British, Gen-X. Interests: writing, art, journaling, Second Life, ADHD, LGBT issues, Trans issues, history, paganism
I think I'll remain agnostic on that one. Ask me again in 50 years and I'll probably know the answer by then. Unless I happen to somehow reach the age of 106 without dying, in which case I'll take a raincheck.
The Peak District is right on my doorstep (I'm near Manchester). Monsal Dale, near Little Longstone, is lovely. It was a regular place ofr my family to visit when I was a kid, and I still go up there sometimes. The walk along the river from there to Millers Dale is lovely. And there's a pub at Monsal dale viaduct (or at least, there was, not sure if it's still open).
More locally, I like the area around Uppermill, Diggle and Delph (north-east of Oldham). There's a great little riverside cafe caled the Lime Kiln, just north of Uppermill. It gets busy at weekends though.
A couple of weeks ago I went up to the Northumbria coast for a holiday. Warkworth, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Holy Island.... it's all beautiful around there.
It seems that this happens when you subscribe to a community on a different instance from your own. You can still read, post and interact exactly as if you were fully subscribed, you're just not counted in the number of subscribers. I've been told that you can force the system to subscribe you properly by repeatedly unsubbing and re-subbing, but I've had no luck with doing that so I just leave them alone now.
I think lemmings is the best one. Lemmings are cute.
I still use Flickr, but bear in mind that a free account can have a maximum of 1000 images. Its taken me about 7 years to hit the limit so I just delete older ones as I add new ones in.
Mid-Year Planner Review and Reset
It's almost the end of June and that means it's time for your mid-year review/reset. Regular reviews are important in planning, because it helps you keep track of what's still important and how you're getting on in approaching your goals.
There are a few steps to consider.
- Flip through your past pages looking for tasks that are not yet done. For each task, ask yourself three questions. Is it vital? Does it matter? Are there any negative consequences of not doing it? If the answer to any of these three questions is "yes". migrate the task forward into July. If all three answers are "no", then this task probably isn;t important enough to bother with any more, so bin it.
- Take a look at your goals. Are you making progress towards them? If not, why not? What needs to change so that you can? Do you have too many goals? You can also apply the same three questions to your goals too, and maybe shelve the ones that don't matter. On the other hand if you've made good progress and have cl
yes, because no ads basically means my antivirus software has nothing to do. Creators have no choice over what ads are served up with the content and 99% of ads are loaded with malware whether you click on them or not.
Creators need to come up with better ways to monetise their content instead of relying on them.
Classic martini, dirty, with an olive.
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The trouble with any sort of captcha or test, is that it teaches the bots how to pass the test. Every time they fail, or guess correctly, that's a data-point for their own learning. By developing AI in the first place we've already ruined every hope we have of creating any kind of test to find them.
I used to moderate a fairly large forum that had a few thousand sign-ups every day. Every day, me and the team of mods would go through the new sign-ups, manually checking usernames and email addresses. The ones that were bots were usually really easy to spot. There would be sequences of names, both in the usernames and email addresses used, for example ChristineHarris913, ChristineHarris914, ChristineHarris915 etc. Another good tell was mixed-up ethnicities in the names: e.g ChristineHuang or ChinLaoHussain. 99% of them were from either China, India or Russia (they mostly don't seem to use VPNs, I guess they don't want to pay for them). We would just ban them all en-masse. Each account banned would get an automated email to say so. Legitimate people would of course reply to that email to complain, but in the two years I was a mod there, only a tiny handful ever did, and we would simply apologise and let them back in. A few bots slipped through the net but rarely more than 1 or 2 a day; those we banned as soon as they made their first spam post, but we caught most of them before that.
So, I think the key is a combination of the No-Captcha, which analyses your activity on the sign-up page, combined with an analysis of the chosen username and email address, and an IP check. But don't use it to stop the sign-up, let them in and then use it to decide whether or not to ban them.
Don't think I'll be able to get a gin from Portland here, I'm in the UK. And with Ryan Reynolds' name on it, an import would probably cost like £1000 or more. Islay scotch... I'm not a fan.
yes it does seem like a Book of Shadows counts as a commonplace book. Is yours hand written or digital?
Drinking journal is fun. Everytime I have a new entry I put a drop of what I’m drinking on the page. The thick cotton pages hold water well and drive fast. Theres a lot of complexities to the flavors when homebrewing so it’s helpful to document whatever I can.
That's awesome. I don't homebrew (yet???) but I do enjoy real ale, and Scotch, and my partner is getting me into gin too. The flavour profiles vary so much from one to another (I've learned that pale ales made with Citra hops are my absolute favourites; if I see Citra on a beer label I know for sure that I will like it. They remind me of grapefruit). When it comes to Scotch, I like the Speyside malts best, they're rich, sweet and fruity. I had (a very expensive) one that tasted literally like Christmas pudding. Gin.... I don't really know enough about yet but I'm starting to find flavour profiles that I like and dislike. I like the spicier ones and dislike the more floral ones, I think. I have a gin in my pantry right now that's infused with Earl Grey tea, and it's divine.
And... now I need to find Lemmy subs about booze, lol.
Everbook
A comment from u/foxtrots reminded me of Everbook, which is a simple system of journalling on loose-leaf pages. I haven't tried it myself but I might, when I've filled my current bullet journal).
What frustrated you today?
I think you all know what's frustrating me 😆
And, just a reminder, it's not expected to respond in comments to these prompts; you're supposed to write your answers in your own journal 😊
Woo! Another comment I can see! (faints). Your system of loose pages inside a folder reminds me very much of the Everbook system. How do you handle pages you're filing away? What do you store them in?
Also:
drinking journal
I wholeheartedly approve of this. Cheers!
Unable to see comments in my community
I have created a community, and made several posts. On one post, I see a comment, and have replied to it. That's the only comment I can see. However, now a friend of mine has joined my community and he can see lots of comments on many posts (he's sent me screenshots to prove it). I can't see any of the comments he can see.
He is on a different instance, (lemmy.world) but that doesn't seem to be the issue, because the one comment I can see is also from a user on lemmy.world, and the comments my friend can see are from both instances. There are even comments from users on sh.itjust.works that I can't see either.
What's going on? Why can't I see comments on my own community and how do I fix it?
If I can't resolve it, I will just have to close the community because it's pointless if I can't see or respond to anything that anyone else says.
And it's just occurred to me that I may not even see replies to this, if there are any. .. so I may never know the answer...
Well, this is frustrating
Apparently, people are leaving comments to my posts but I can't see any of them, save for one that I replied to a couple of days ago. To everyone else, I can only apologise, if you are waiting for a reply I am unfortunately not able to give them.
If anyone knows how I may resolve this, please advise by creating a new post (if you reply to this one, I may never see it).
My daughter joined Neopets in its early days, when she was about 13 or 14. She's 34 now and still active there.
I started on mailing lists in the mid 1990s. I forget the name of the platform I started on* but it got taken over by eGroups and then Yahoo, and started to suck a bit after that. Basicaly, you'd go to the website to find groups to subscribe to, and all the content would come to you by email. You reply by email, and your reply went to everyone subscribed to that particular group. It was crude but efficient, and I really miss some of those communities.
- I found it. It was OneList.
Commonplace Book
I had never heard of a commonplace book until I started to follow the journaling community on Youtube. When I discovered it, I realised that it's something I'd already been keeping for years.
A commonplace book is essentially a repository of information that you find, and want to keep or remember. Quotes, maxims, proverbs, shower-thoughts, notes on books you've read, even recipies, reference tables, letters, poems... it's like a scrapbook of words. Or a personal encyclopedia. I've heard it described as the writer's equivalent of an artist's sketchbook, and as I'm both an artist and a writer, I think this analogy is perfect.
It's not just for writers though. It's for anyone. Readers, researchers, students, anyone who has an interest in just about any topic. You're a keen cook? Keep a commonplace book of recipes you find. A gardener? Keep one for information about plants you're growing or interested in growing. Avid consumer of Netflix? Keep track of series you're watching and what y
What's your prevailing emotion today, and why?
Yes they do, and its almost impossible to say which is "best". There's one that's best for your paper/canvas, your brushes and your technique. The only way to find the best for you, is to buy a few tubes of different brands and see which ones you prefer/find easiest. And don't worry about wasting paints if you don't like them; stick with white and primary colours and you can use the others for different techniques. You can even mix paint of different brands, to get a balance between them.
That's awesome, and it makes me so happy.
Just remember that you don't have to journal every day for it to be a rewarding and pleasurable experience. And if you skip a day, or a few days, or a few weeks, or even longer, so what? It doesn;t matter and it doesn't mean you've failed. Just pick it up again whenever you want or whenever you feel it might be helpful.
Who are the most important people in your life, and why are they important to you?
How to Bullet Journal
Bullet journaling is a complex topic and I can't explain it any better than the man who invented it, Ryder Carroll. In this video, he shows what it's all about and how to get started.
Subscriptons pending
I've noticed that any community I've subscribed to that's on a different server is showing on my list as "subscription pending". Everything seems to work though, I can still comment and post on these communities without a problem, so I'm not too concerned about that.
However I do have one other question about it. I've experienced difficulty finding communities that are not on this server, and been told its because no-one from this server has subscribed to it yet. But... if subscriptions to other servers' communities are always "pending", that means no-one from this server ever actually can properly subscribe to them. Does this mean that the difficulties will persist regardless? Or is a "pending" subscription sufficient?
I assume it's a clever pun. Philo means "to love" (it's where the suffix "-phile" comes from) so I would assume its a community for people who love Philadelphia.
Journaling community (English)
This is a community for people who use journals, planners, bullet journals, art/junk journals and diaries of any kind (both paper and digital). Whether you’re journaling for productivity, self-help, mindfulness, memory-keeping, creativity, project mamagement or for any other purpose, this is the place to share your practises, ask for advice and get inspired.
Journal Prompts
Anyone may post a prompt to inspire others on something to write. I'm aiming for there to be at least one prompt every day but feel free to add more.
Please add [Prompt] at the start of the title so people can find them more easily. Short questions can be in the title. Longer ones, or prompts with more than one question, can be in the body section.
Post your prompt as a new thread, not as a comment on someone else's prompt. It will be more visible that way.
There is no expectaton for anyone to post their response as a comment; many of these prompts will be deeply personal and you may not want to share what you write. They are springboards for writing in your own journal. So, if you post a prompt and it gets no comments; that's okay. Someone probably enjoyed it anyway.
But, if you really want to, and you're comfortable doing so, you can share your response, or an excerpt from it.
Paper or Digital?
It's often said that paper journaling forces you to slow down and be more mindful, but on the other hand it's less portable; it can't fit in your jeans pocket like your phone can.
Digital options are easier to take with you, and in many cases it's easier to find information that you've put in there, but do they get overlooked amidst all the "noise" we're exposed to every day?
What's your preference, and why? Do you stick exclusively with one or the other? Or do you mix them up? If you combine them, how do you do that? Do you duplicate posts on paper and digitally? Or do you use them for different purposes?
I'm currently on paper only, but some of the digital options intrigue me. I used to use Evernote but I dropped it when many of the features I wanted and used went behind a paywall. lately I've been looking at both Logseq and Obsidian but the learning curve is steep and I'm not ready to launch into them as part of my regular journaling practise yet. I suspect it'll be my Common
What sort of journaling do you do?
I've been journaling and diary-keeping for many years, but I really got seriously into it in around 1998 or so. I've used both paper and digital journaling (I was on Livejournal for around 10 years, until it jumped the shark) but now I mostly use paper.
I have three journals on the go at the moment. My most important one is a bullet journal, though I have diverged from the "official" format and work mostly in weekly spreads. I find that it helps my ADHD brain keep track of the structure of my week better. For this, I use an A5 dot-grid book. Weirdly, although I'm quite artistic, I keep my journals minimalistic and mostly un-decorated.
I have a daily long-form journal, though in practise I only write long entries a few times a week rather than every day. I'm into the Tarot too, so I also use this one for my daily card pulls and weekly/monthly spreads. For this I use an A5 lined book, because I fill them faster and lined notebooks tend to be cheaper than dot-grid ones.
My third is a
Journaling Just Works
Welcome to the first ever English-language community about Journaling on the Lemmyverse.
What is journaling?
For the purpose of this community, journaling is the use of a paper or digital record of daily (or less frequent) tasks, activities, events, thoughts, goals, habits and other things that you wish to keep a record of in your personal or professional life.
Journaling serves many purposes; it can be a productivity tool, an aid to good mental health, a method of memory-keeping for those important events in your life, a repository of personal knowledge, or a creative outlet.
For productivity, you may wish to keep a bullet journal, a weekly/daily planner, a record of your goals and projects.
For self help and mindfulness you may wish to keep morning pages, stream-of-consciousness writing, a dream or mood diary, or a spiritual journal.
For a personal knowledge repository, you may have a Commonplace book, or use one of the many digital knowledge-management tools such as Notion
Only if Spez leaves and is replaced by a decent CEO who reverses EVERYTHING that Spez has effed up in the past few years. I'd return for some small niche communities I participate on that aren't present in the lemmy-verse (yet). But I'd stay here too. I am committed to Federated services now.
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Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. No matter how bad I feel, it always makes me feel better, and it's lively enough that it inspires me to channel that energy into somehing more productive than just venting.
Firestorm all the way for me, because I really appreciate the additional features, in particular the built-in AO. I've been using Firestorm since before it was called Firestorm (cough)Emerald(cough). Yes, I am that old, lol.