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one grand monolithic list

2023-08-30

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I had a coffee late last night, and didn't go to bed until very early in the morning. I went to a concert, so the coffee was to keep me going. The concert was great, I had a blast.

I've been very distracted today, extremely unproductive. I made small progress at work.

My mind has been racing all day, but now I sit here typing and it feels barren. I'm going to try to pull out some of it.

I've been thinking a lot about how to keep track of my projects and chores. Bullet journal is fine, but it's not enough for a lot of these projects, especially as they change. Todo lists are okay, but one grand monolithic list doesn't appeal to me, and I don't like the need to tag each todo with it's project. It throws off the natural, thinking style of creating some of these.

I find my favourite todo lists also reflect the creation process, and have indented sub items. Forcing a flat non-hierarchy for my todos is premature optimisation. I want to see what's catching a lot of subtasks, I want to know which things I had to split up further, where I was wrong or unclear in my definitions. I saw in the bitsy classic script a simple way that appealed to me.

	TODO
		X bitsy editor 
			X v1
				X text input
				X player
				X export html
			X v2
				X sprite / tile editor
				X map editor
				X palette editor

		- bitsy player v2
			- dialog effects
				- color
				- speed
				- pauses
			? animate player movement
			? flipbook animation
			? player face left/right
			?? bouncing arrow
			? sprite walking paths
			? set variable command
			?? narrative blocks
			?? STRICT MODE where text can only fit on one page

I like to be able to have context around the lists too. Guiding principles, encouragement, goals, all kinds of stuff. ANyway, it could be cool to track things like this. Really basic files, and then maybe start using little bits of formatted text to pull out as summaries with a bash script. It could just go through every sub directoy and surface anything it finds.

I'm not going to finish this entry tonight, it's late and I need to sleep.

I'm back, to wrap up. Not much to report. I went to life drawing last night. I arrived too late and didn't get a good spot. Only drew half the session, then I went outside and read a little. Struck up conversation with someone who was, eventually, insane. I don't know if that's a derogatory term in this context. I remember after a little bit of conversation thinking "this person seems unhinged" and the more she talked the more clear it became. Friendly enough, was an interesting conversation. You can be insane and still function pretty normally, I think it's more common than we admit.

I bought a second hand electric drumkit - Alesis Nitro Mesh kit.

I'm tired, starting to feel healthier. Lots on, plenty going on. I've started reading Getting Things Done, which despite the tacky scammy presentation has actually been recommended a lot as I've been looking for ways to track my tasks.

listening to

umru vs. Petal Supply ― Battle For Australia mix on triple j, specifically the tohji × loota - Yodaka remix at 11:00

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