undoing that last change because it sucks

src/blog/on_organisation.md

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 ### the organisation balancing act
 from my fiddling around with different systems, i've landed on two key variables that are going to determine how useful an organisation system will be for you: ease of storage vs ease of recall. an ultimate system would be super quick for you to put your thoughts down and let you go back to whatever you were doing (ease of storage), as well as super easy for you to find a specific note or thought the moment you want to bring it back (ease of recall). unfortunately, it seems like the best of both worlds doesn't really exist. for example, a notebook is insanely quick to write in, but it can be a real job to hunt down something from a couple of months ago. on the other hand, i can store an image that uses a shadow technique that i would like to replicate in a set of nested directorys (art-inspiration > technique > shadow), and then pull up a bunch of shadow technique inspirations when i want to practice, but navigating through all those directories is a nuisance. additionally, what if that image also has a pose that i really like, or what if i forget that theres a specific directory for shadow techniques and i make another one somewhere else?
 
-#### tagging
+### tagging
 the latter issue can be somewhat fixed with tagging systems; theyre much easier to navigate, and they allow you to associate one item with multiple concepts. the real issue is that almost nothing _truly_ supports tagging in a way that i find satisfying. obsidian needs bulky frontmatter, pinterest needs more clicks. tumblr supports it rather smoothly, but racking your brain for everything about the image you might want to recall later sucks, and if i'm on my phone i just want to store it and keep scrolling. you could do it after the fact but are you really going to spend half an hour a day tagging everything after the fact instead of doing something fun? let's not even start on windows' support for tagging. i spent a couple of days trying to work out a script to use image recognition to automatically tag images so that they would be easier to find in local storage, before i was blissfully informed that the clusterfuck that is windows search indexing would basically make that useless
 
-#### obsidian 
+### obsidian 
 let's put storing images and bookmarks on hold for a second and just focus on note taking. i've mentioned obsidian a couple of times now. the app boasts a pretty similar interface to a modern ide and it flaunts the honestly quite solid benefit of keeping all of your note taking to local, simply formatted files. if you can effectively keep your files in parity between all of your note taking devices, this sounds like a great system to take advantage of the benefits of digital note taking over physical. digital in particular actually provides a solution to the issue i dismissed at the start of this paragraph, because a text file is a great place to store references to images and websites with descriptive text and links. 
 
 so i had a crack at obsidian for a couple of months. i think the real issue is that it actually has more functionality than the average note-taker needs: the most touted is the ability to make connections between files with tags and links, supplemented by the apps ability to make nifty graph views reminiscent of those maps of the internet:
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ all this said, as a place to keep simple text notes, especially as a holding are
 
 my obsidian thoughts are more or less in line with this [great article by fernando borretti](https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought) where they talk about pushing away from this line of thinking that you need a single tool for organisation
 
-#### bullet journals
+### bullet journals
 i'm actually writing this out of order for dramatic effect. bullet journals were one of the first systems i tried using after the old faithful "just having a small book on you all the time". i think the bullet journal also tries to be a solve-all system, but its underlying system is genius. for those unaware, a bullet journal is just a list of thoughts, with certain dot points depending on the type:
 
 • a dot for a task  
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 this is technically only the daily log part of a bullet journal: the journal also has a monthly and future log that let you move things out of the daily log when it isn't optimal for them to be there. this seems like a super slick system if the bullet journal is all that you're using, but the next two tools cover these requirements a bit better in my usecase: past events are put in a journal, and future events, as well as high priority tasks like paying bills are put in my google calendar.
 
-#### journal journals
+### journal journals
 journalling sucks. i'm sure we've all had multiple moments where we've bought a nice leather bound a5 booklet and written a full page of events and thoughts for three to five days before missing a day and deciding that it's not all worth the trouble. reducing friction is always the trick with these things so i started dividing up pages from my a6 pocket notebooks into eight sections, with one section for each day. this gives me about a hundred words, meaning that i need to stick to the absolute most objective events of the day. i then rely on my feeble mind to recall the more interesting parts of the events that i've written down when i revisit them in the future. 
 
-#### google calendar / maps / contacts
+### google calendar / maps / contacts
 i've been a heavy google calendar and maps user for years. as far as i'm concerned, some kind of online calendar is an absolute must for any adult in the year of our lord 2023, and its the one organisation tool on this page that i would recommend unconditionally. there might be some better options out there, and i do have complaints about how the tasks and reminders are a little clunky, but for blocking out my days it is indispensable.
 
 google maps plays quite nicely with google's other tools, and i almost exclusively use it to tag locations that i want to come up first in searches (⭐) places that i want to go (🏴) and places that i have enjoyed (❤️). it also (creepily) tracks the locations that you've been, which gives me a great record for the times when i do forget and need the info for my journals
 
 google contacts seems a bit obvious, but its super useful for tracking random people that i meet at parties and events. you can also save important data about people like birthdays and anniversary dates, and the notes tab lets you stuff whatever else you want to against their name. i guess my real advice is that contacts are great when used as a place to take any personal notes you think you'll need, rather than just a spot where you keep people's phone numbers.
 
-#### art organisation
+### art organisation
 keeping my art references and inspiration in check is truly an unfathomable clusterfuck. i like to keep track of video and image tutorials, construction images and stylistic inspirations in terms of character looks, expressions, techniques, composition. i also like to hold on to specific artists who tick a bunch of these boxes, because they act as a bit of a box of all these valuable pieces, as well as someone who can be contacted for info and advice. this data is spread across my tumblr, instagram saves, pinterest, phone storage, pc storage, and bookmarks and open tabs on my four devices. it is frankly impossible to keep on top of. 
 
 of all the ways to organise your art references and inspiration, pinterest has the most potential, as you can pull images and videos from anywhere* on the internet and arrange them as you see fit. pinterest is understandably a boon for a lot of artists, but it is very easy to organise your references poorly and find yourself facing down the problem from the start of this post: an awful combination of poor ease of storage and poor ease of recall. 
 
-#### aggregators
+### aggregators
 if you've checked out my links page, you know that i get into data aggregators pretty damn hard. the impact of giving a company your personal habit data for free is questionable, but each of these sites lets me do tracking tasks in a way that is specific to each medium: last.fm automatically tracks my listening habits and gives me reports on the music and artists i've been listening to the most, anilist can also link to my manga reader, and allows me to record my progress on anime so i can pick them up without accidentally rewatching episodes, and letterboxd lets me make sassy little remarks when i thought a movie was a bit naff.
 
 the one thing that i am dearly lacking is a way to track videogame progress and the games that i am currently playing. i've dipped my toes into [backloggery](https://www.backloggery.com/), but found it pretty lacking in features and inconvenient to update.
 
-#### less useful solutions
+### less useful solutions
 three organise methods that i have almost completely done away with are:  
 
 **google keep** - a google based notes app, a la the iphone equivalent. just like it's apple sibling this app very quickly devolves into complete chaos, making it only useful as a last resort when my notebook is buried in the bottom of a bag and i need to make a note _right now_