Oh the thrill of owning a domain name. maryseph.com is mine for the rest of the year.

#IndieWeb #MarySephSite

Some keywords from this talk by Henry Deroches at the 11ty Conf 2024. Will edit this post.

#IndieWeb #Sprout

2026 Changes to Journaling Practice

some reflection the changes to my journaling habits I’m implementing this year.

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I’m at that stage of my web dev journey where I hate my own website and feel the intense urge to redesign it by scratch.

#MarySephSite

In Search for the Ideal Project Management app

I was seeking an alternative for Notion and TogglTrack for project management. Preferable open-source. No matter how long I explored, I couldn’t find an alternative that had the features I wanted. I wanted to merge my project management workflow with a time tracker. I ended up finding TogglPlan which is the project management companion to TogglTrack. Such irony. Some alternatives had the option to log activities but no timers. I’m definitely not the type of customer they are seeking because their sales pitch is clearly towards teams and companies.

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Notion export complete! Now I think that the alternative I need is a good old project management software. There’s gotta be a FOSS app for that. Surely.

Watching this video of someone’s digital garden is giving me lots of ideas. It starts with the intention to move away from Notion. Until now, I wasn’t sure what kind of software I truly needed. After all, I use Notion to track things and for project management. Then there’s also the intention to one day create a digital garden. That’s where this video comes in. While I have found a couple of personal websites with a digital garden component, the one in the video just clicked for me. So so, for my website, I’m thinking of adding a page on the things I have read and games I have played. Using the table tag, I can mimic Notion’s database. Exciting!

Got the news that ToggleTrack is introducing limits to their API and while I don’t use it, reading about the process of enshittification I am cautious of changes to services that limit its connection to external applications.

Even more the announcement, I have had the fleeting thought of downloading my data for safekeeping.

This is an opportunity to consider the value of a time tracker and look up open-source alternatives.

So it IS possible to migrate from an account on Sharkey (Misskey) to micro.blog. Still struggling to import its posts. Will update this post with news on that. Update: still no dice. Will try another day.

Trying out F-Droid

Downloaded F-Droid and peruse the apps. I’m going to text the following apps and see how I like them. First time I’m ever using a mobile app store aside from Play Store. In a way, it feels nostalgic, before it became the go-to option. Some general apps from Fossify: Gallery Camera Calendar Messages Contacts Other apps: Fedilab CoMaps

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Laptop Tech Issues

some reflection the changes to my journaling habits I’m implementing this year.

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Oh no, I think I really do want to go back to use my pocket notebook 🧠.

#MarySephPKM

Don’t have much to say in relation to updates. Been a few days since I made this account and haven’t used it much. Because I spent so much time trying to make an account on mainstream Mastodon work, I’ve grown tired of social media.

I was interested in micro.blog because it put the blogging before the social features, and it made me realize that while the blogging space has places like bearblog.dev, pika, and others that focus on writing, microblogging is usually paired with social features (X, Mastodon, etc).

I just want a semi-public place on the internet to post some small thoughts, a thinking tool. Or go back to using my pocket notebook and keep refining the system. Checking back on it is the habit I felt important I had to build.

Hm, I wonder how or if folks if the PKM sphere are having this issue 🤔.

#MarySephSocMed

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was a good time! So fun when you understand the genre the writers were playing with 😆. 🍿

Think this micro.blog account will replace my current one at Sharkey.

Website to do’s:

Hello from micro.blog’s official app!

Imported past toots from my Mastodon accounts at indieweb.social and planet.earth. Just to test the tool. It’s pretty cool!

first post! excited to be using micro.blog!

📷🧶📝🖖:rainbow-flag: 🍿🐈✈📺🎵

Turns out my application to scicomm.xyz had been accepted *weeks* ago. My email provider had yeeted the messages to the spam folder.