#indieweb 2025-12-20

2025-12-20 UTC
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cupparex That seems insane to me. This month has gone by so fast! How is everyone spending the last of their year? Are you doing anything specific regarding your site?
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[Sophia_wood] setting up the next journal 🙂
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[tantek] ooh like physical paper journal?
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[tantek] cupparex, I for one am triaging all the things I "need" to get done by EOY, and "want" to get done, and trying to complete as many as I can.
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[tantek] I noticed the 12 days when I updated the Gift Calendar today
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[Sophia_wood] both - haiku +paper
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[Sophia_wood] i want to do distance again as a page with thoughts
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[Sophia_wood] https://www.streamof.me/distance/
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[Sophia_wood] my new year is solstice
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cupparex That sounds like a great way to close out your year Sophia_Wood. Do you have a specific journal that you love?
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[Sophia_wood] For paper - the best self is my neurospicy one and when I'm not struggling with my divergence, I go with a hand-planned bullet journal.
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cupparex [Sophia_wood]: This is absolutely fantastic
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[Sophia_wood] for my website - haiku, distance, tallies (still thinking of the tallies). I did birds this last year - I don't know if I am doing that again yet.
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[Sophia_wood] If I can - I might run a script before I commit on birds or something, but maybe not daily - weekly maybe?
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cupparex [tantek]: Oh I completely understand the triage thing. It seems like the closer to the end of the year, the faster time goes. I feel like I blinked and teleported from Thanksgiving to my birthday (tomorrow)
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[Sophia_wood] Things I don't implement in the new digital journal ontime will be on paper until they are. I am working out how to write on my phone when on travel for a repository - any suggestions are welcome. I am 90% sure either a hugo or 11ty site is where I am headed (I have 80% of my hugo ready)
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[Sophia_wood] Maybe something like this:
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[Sophia_wood] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2025/12/indieweb-20251220-033535-image.png
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[Sophia_wood] https://chat-uploads.indieweb.org/files/2025/12/indieweb-20251220-033535-image.png
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[Sophia_wood] @cupparex - Happy Birthday!!
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cupparex [Sophia_wood]: I used to attempt bullet journaling often, but long-term it didn't work for me. I've been experimenting with daily notes on index cards and in Obsidian.
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cupparex Thank you for the birthday wishes 🙂
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[Sophia_wood] The key for me - only use the pages that work for you - be ok with using it some weeks and not others.
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[Sophia_wood] Don't worry about streaking - I enjoy the tallies thing - just noting the positives.
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[Sophia_wood] I stick with one journal type on any given week - but have two types depending on what I have ahead of me.
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[Sophia_wood] everyone has their thing - I'd love to get better with Obsidian
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cupparex Thank you for sharing your system with me. I kind of geek out on all things note taking and such.
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[Sophia_wood] sounds like we should have a journaling event one day 🙂
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[Sophia_wood] Here is the experimental journal for this year (https://www.fractalkitty.com/streamof-me/) ending on solstice.
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cupparex I just started with Obsidian recently, but I'm enjoying it. I'm currently trying to decide to continue daily logging on obsidian or index cards, but I absolutely love Obsidian for personal note storage and I have a separate vault I just created to start keeping a copy of my writing and organize some writing collections
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cupparex [Sophia_wood]: Sounds like fun
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cupparex [Sophia_wood]++
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Loqi [Sophia_wood] has 3 karma in this channel over the last year (31 in all channels)
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cupparex You are so creative!
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cupparex [tantek]++
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Loqi [tantek] has 20 karma in this channel over the last year (149 in all channels)
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cupparex Thanks for sharing your plans. I hope you get all the things done
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[Sophia_wood] Sorry - bopping back and forth getting ready for family to come in and finishing the pen plotting.
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cupparex no worries at all. I've got to hurry and get my blog post for the day done (I'm currently attempting 100 days of blogging) and I have less than an hour to get it posted.
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[Sophia_wood] You've got this!
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[Sophia_wood] I'm on postcard 22/30
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[Sophia_wood] and am rearranging desks and furniture between -lol
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[Sophia_wood] 100 days is like one of the best ways to just do the thing
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[Sophia_wood] at least for me
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[Sophia_wood] I upskill so fast doing that.
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[Sophia_wood] I need 100 days of banjo.
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cupparex [Sophia_wood]: I so agree! I started it because I wanted to be more consistent and get out of a perfectionist mindset that was keeping me in a constant writer's block. This has been so rewarding so far. I just completed day 49. oh wow, not planned but half way mark will be on my bday lol
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cupparex A banjo is such a beautiful instrument.
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cupparex Turning in for the night, it was so nice to get to know you a little and I want you to know that your journal and the way that you track things is very inspiring and so beautiful. Goodnight
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[Sophia_wood] Thanks! @cupparex ++ for day 49!! Happy birthday! same.
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[Sophia_wood] I love your post! Games are our thing 🙂
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[Sophia_wood] also - love the lights on your site
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Grateful for the indie web" https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/17/grateful-for-the-indie-web/
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paperbritt Journaling! I've tried the traditional bullet journal, the get things done tasks approach and all sorts. Right now I'm working on a hybrid system where I do fortnightly spreads in my notebook for appointments, thoughts and general freeform notes. I then use obsidian to track tasks on a weekly note divided by day. I find a weekly summary much more likely to happen than daily and it allows me to see a decent way ahead of me. I like
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paperbritt It's messy but it gives me enough flexibility to work. Some weeks are busier than others and at that point I might make a notebook spread cover more or less time.
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paperbritt Whoops, that was long. We should definitely have a journalling event, yes.
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[Sophia_wood] the only thing I wish I could change on my bullet journal is to remove the corners. I really want a high end journal - battlestar style.
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ulhar4409 i have a dot grid notebook i've been bulleting in
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ulhar4409 although I don't use it for much organization, because I'll probably forget to look at it; mostly i record finances and retrospection
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ulhar4409 (basically i just record every time i commit money to something so I don't accidentally overcommit)
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[artlung] [Sophia_wood] come by, borrow this you could borrow this from me to trim corners. https://www.amazon.com/Rounder-Cardstock-Corners-Scrapbook-Supplies/dp/B0DYV4FRFS/
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[Sophia_wood] oh my!! [artlung] ++ it is done.
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[Sophia_wood] I was about ready to get out my book binding supplies, and now I realize I was missing one important piece.
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paperbritt Meanwhile I'm investing in this https://www.legiliner.com/products/legiliner-bullet-blue-dotted-grid so that any notebook could have a dot grid area.
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paperbritt Definitely going to bind my own eventually but I have a lot of unused notebooks.
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