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Maddy the Android: Out of Character

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Just a page for stuff I wanted to share, which would be super out-of-character for Maddy to share as a character.

I am an autistic game developer and music producer, who is living the genderfluid experience. I really love airplanes, hard sci-fi, orbital mechanics, and purple is my happiest color!

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NireBryce
@NireBryce

so few people write ANYTHING down, even work-critical stuff.

but writing things down means you:

  • heavily reduce cognitive load, because, well, you don't have to remember it
  • lets you EASILY go "wait that doesn't look right" if someone's off by an order of magnitude
  • lets you be the wizard who remembers that one thing the guy said at a meeting that might come in handy
  • writing things out means you can move them around the page, come back to them, etc -- it's 2-dimensional thinking. Writing things out makes me actually think about them much better
  • no really, your co-workers are going on half-remembered vibes most of the time. work smarter not harder.

full text search of your computer is robust now. write it down. later when you really need it and you're out of everything you'll remember and find it again. This has saved my computer 4 times a year since I switched to linux. and got me through uni. and keeps coming in handy in software.

When I've ever needed to deep-google something a second time that's not the same day as the first? You bet I write it down in a place I know I can find next time.


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Writing your own shit down is incredibly important but also so is making other people write shit down. Get people to send stuff in email at least. Have a record of everything you said and everything they said! It will make your life infinitely easier!


NireBryce
@NireBryce

yeah you can do that too if you don't want to look supernaturally good to your manager at cost of the team, I guess.


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I was messing around with my phone and found out that my note app had a widget I can paste on my home screen. Having an instant access scratch paper is really nice for when I need to make a note of a show to download, what to pick up from Walgreens, dinner ideas, TTRPG ideas, etc etc. it's nice

well at least i have one superpower. i like this framing.

i've long called evernote my second brain. (yes, i need to jump ship to obsidian.) i save my ass on the regular with esoteric nerd topic shit i've written down. would be up a damn creek so much more often without the notes.

i also make use of the notes fields on Discord and VRChat to remind me who people are / how we met / stuff they've mentioned / etc. i sure won't remember some of that stuff otherwise.

i wonder how much private notes in cohost were made out of self‑need because ooohh my goodness do i ever make use of them.
otherwise so many users here are a see‑once‑and‑forget experience for me.

(..and also need to jump ship off of evernote to obsidiannn)

yeah there are importers. one thing that stayed my hand so far is the ones i looked at didn't work with notes that had encrypted parts, so i believe i'd have to search for all my partially encrypted notes first and plaintext them

related snippet from my evernote

02/25/2021 Thursday
whoa, if you search Evernote for "encryption:" it shows all notes with encrypted parts!

that'd do it.
your reason for not immediately jumping ship seems cooler than mine.
i had no idea that encrypting text in evernote was even a thing.
(so nice of evernote to make finding encrypted notes so accessible!)

if i wrote anything i didn't want to be immediately legible, i used memory systems to substitute words with other words and such.
...like a decade later, i wonder whether these notes will even make sense to me anymore.

true... but nothing like decade of faith‑shaking experiences can't fix. 😌✨

(also so glad that my private notes for you now say more than just ”fellow emoji name haver“ — which was usually enough to remember you as you pop up in comments etc.)

im the coworker who doesn't remember anything. Everything i write down is gibberish the next day. I will ask you about the same thing 5 times. Emails from me will ha e question marks next to issues we decided on a week ago. suck it 😎 the pain oh god oh man

many of my old notes are like this, i realized that i would be thinking "i will remember what i meant" and as it turns out, no i will not

so taking notes is it's own skill set and requires a lot of practice and effort that i have gotten better about, but it helps to have templates and other strategies

I have a terrible memory, so I write down EVERYTHING, absolutely including my own thoughts, because tomorrow I'll be like "I had this great idea... er... nope, it's gone".

Of course then you have the problem of finding it again, and yeah "find in all files" is tedious, but not as bad as trying to half-remember it yourself, or not having the information anywhere.