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Hello, I am keeping a journal in handwritten form for several years now. From the beginning I used acid free paper and archival ink so that the pages will be readable for a few decades. However I am thinking about keeping a digital backup of everything for several months now. Reason for that is that in case of a fire I'd loose all my memories. So it is important to me to keep this information in a separate place.

Now I could go the easy way and could just scan all pages and save them, but this would just be a regular backup. So I was reading about OCR that is being used by many software solutions to recognize text and make pictures or scans searchable. However this is good only for digital text and not meant for handwriting.

Now Apple shows that recognizing handwriting is possible, because my iPad learns from my handwriting in notes and can convert digital text to look exactly like my handwriting. I can make a picture of handwritten text, too, and can then select that text in the photos app. So this shows me that there is indeed a solution that can recognize my handwriting.

So does anyone here know how I could achieve this in my case so that I have a digital backup of my written journals and make all of this searchable? I am fine with technical solutions like python scripts or self-hosting something, as long as it makes my goal possible.

Thank you in advance!

Hi,

is there a decent adblocker for Safari like uBlock Origin for Firefox? Most adblockers in the store seem a bit scummy somehow and I'm not sure if I can trust them.

Hey, I'm currently trying to get away from Notion to either Obsidian or Logseq. Currently it feels like I'm drifting towards Obsidian.

I only have one topic left on my list of "I would like to have that": an alternative to Notion AI.

With Notion AI it's possible to ask a question like "which books that I've read are talking about the history of mankind and how are these related to each other?" and it'll search your documents and give you an answer. This works really good. Downside of Notion is that you don't earn your files and that of course the AI model is scanning all your stuff for this when you use it.

I've seen that there are some add-ons for Obsidian that support AI but I haven't really achieved anything good yet. My try was to set up Ollama on my Linux computer and connect it to some Obsidian plugin (not sure about the name right now unfortunately). As a model I was using Llama3 (the small one since the big one is too heavy for my laptop with NVIDIA GPU).

That in fact works but the results are...meh. It kinda leaves out 80% of what would be relevant and thus isn't really helpful.

Is it somehow possible to achieve something like an alternative to Notion AI in Obsidian, that can do more than "complete this text for me"?

Hello all, I am donating to Logseq since some time to support the development. However I am not actively using it and are still stuck with Obsidian and/or Notion since I am missing a good structure to organize my books and quotes.

I really want to switch but I can't figure this out. For storing books that's fine. I can create a page per book and give it some metadata that I can then use to filter and search. Like that:

Now however as you can see I'm writing quotes (Zitate in German) and my opinion on them (Meinung in German) in the book's page.

And here comes the tricky part:

• I want a general overview of all quotes that I can search
• I want an overview of quotes per author (the author is in the page properties so it has to basically do something like "select all pages of typ = book where autor = author and collect all quotes on them (page reference #Zitate)"

In Notion I currently have a general database of quotes:

In each of these quotes there is my opinion written in the page.

And then there's the book database that has dedicated book pages to it which look like this and reference the quotes coming from that page:

Those are generated automatically when creating a book since I use a template for that but I know that Logseq supports templates, too so that should be fine.

For looking up quotes by the author due to how databases in Notion work I could just filter for it in the quotes database. However I also do the same with the quotes in the author's page that I am doing in the book's page. Thus when I open up the page of an author I can instantly see all their books, their current status (if I have read them or not etc.) and all their quotes that I have stored:

So yeah I am trying to find some kind of structure since ages now within Logseq to be able to replicate something like that, solving my only issue that keeps me from switching. Maybe there is some way with queries but I haven't found one. I also don't want to rely on custom CSS since I want to have something that is natively working without eventually failing in the future for some reason.

Hello,

reading about the topic I personally wondered about how people can use VPNs like ProtonVPN for torrenting which isn't legal in some countries, without ProtonVPN and other providers getting in trouble.

Of course they don't log and don't have data about which user is accessing what so they can't hand out data. But why don't law enforcements force them to block specific traffic and thus hindering people from using it for pricacy?

Hi, I use fountain pens for several months now to write my journal and I love it. However I always do that in the evening at a desk.

Writing with it on the go always felt a bit off which is why I'm still using a rollerball for that.

Do you have any tips for being able to better use it on the go?

Hello, is it possible to use video boost that was just introduced with the feature drop with sync turned off? So i.e. that I only sync that one video I want to apply it too? Not a user of Google Photos but I'm using a Pixel Phone. I haven't received the new features yet somehow, so I can't test it.

Hello, I want to get fitter but I have struggle to find a plan or to create one just because I don't have the knowledge for. I do own a Garmin watch and I do use the Garmin connect app which is very good. However it only has training plans for running etc. I currently do the 5K plan.

But my goal is not only to get good at running or only build muscles but a good mix and a good balance. My primary goal is to be healthy and to make my body make use of what is capable without going in the extremes in one specific direction.

I do each an hour training on Mondays of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Tai Chi which is very good and I currently because of the plan on Garmin do make a run every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. I just started and can run about 3km without problems at 7:30 per km but going faster or wider is a struggle because of the fact I just started.

For workout I want to train mostly at home with my own bodyweight and dumbbells because the gym is about an hour drive away and I just don't have the time for it.

I googled a bit and found Freeletics but it's not useful for me because it doesn't sync with Garmin so it wouldn't be aware of my runs I track there or other stuff.

So yeah I want to find a balance between building muscles, cardio trough running and becoming more flexible which is useful for everything and also necessary for Kung Fu. But I can't figure out a training plan because the topic is way to complex to get through. All sources tell you something else i.e. you shouldn't do that exercise because it has a long term negative effects or something else. Then you need to know which exercises train which muscles and how long to rest and how to progress, nutrition and whatever else. So yeah maybe someone of you can help out with my struggle. In the best case I'd have something that progresses with my own progress and works good with Garmin (or connected services that automatically get Garmin trainings synced like Strava). If it's an app it doesn't need to be able to track trainings I just need to have a plan. Tracking works well with Garmin.

I also need some flexibility in case I have a day where I can't do a training. So something where no day can be left out like some apps have it would not be something useful.

It also doesn't need to be an app. Whatever works works. I'm just looking for some solutions.

Thank you in advance!

Question is in the title. I want to create my own custom theme for light and dark and make it so that I can change between them with a click in the quick settings.

Hey, I recently started working Norwegian and just did a quick Google search to figure out the average prices for flats and the average pay for my industry.

So I currently work as an Junior IT Security Engineer in Germany. I figured out the average pay for my job would be about 512000 NOK in Oslo.

I then looked at some apartments and saw that they cost around 35-42 thousand NOK.

Calculating in taxes etc. I end up with my calculations nearly on 0 after rent. I guess I calculate it wrong, but how would it actually be? Because I don't think anyone would be able to live on Oslo if rent would take up the whole salary and wouldn't leave any money for something else.

Thank you in advance!

Hey! I’ve written a digital journal for the last couple of years. Backup there wasn’t a problem. But I struggled with finding the „perfect tool“ and switched from app to app and back until I just took a notebook and a fountain pen and started writing couple of months ago.

My question now is: what’s a good way to achieve and protect a full journal physically and what’s your personal backup strategy to back up your journal in a digital way so that you still have your memories in case of your house burning down or another catastrophic event.

Thank you in advance!