# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1693421445 14400 # Node ID 735270ed0f855a08dd89bb82bfb78040d2aebbba # Parent 9d04ba3750d9b06eee5699ef0d523cdf9def1e17 Update diff -r 9d04ba3750d9 -r 735270ed0f85 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Tue Aug 29 15:03:03 2023 -0400 +++ b/README.markdown Wed Aug 30 14:50:45 2023 -0400 @@ -247,3 +247,45 @@ Don't have a lot of time before next class, but I went ahead and installed Snakemake highlighting/etc for Vim. + +## 2023-08-30 + +HG545 this morning. Class was mostly about how to succeed in the class. + +Still trying to decide on how I want to take notes while I'm here. I read the +Zettelkasten book and was considering trying that. But after poking around at +it I'm not sure I like the overhead of having to link everything up all the +time. I tried creating some notes while studying and it was a pain to have to +try to link everything to something else. Sometimes I want to just jot down +something without worrying about its place in the graph. I think I might end up +going with this current format (stream-of-consciousness .plan file style notes) +for everything, but taking a few things from Zettelkasten than might help: + +* Take fleeting notes as I read. +* Turn fleeting notes into permanent ones, but as text in my .plan instead of + linked entries in some other system. + +That seems like something I might actually *do*, and hopefully with grep it'll +be good enough for what I need. + +Installing JabRef to try as a reference manager. Zotero looks nicer (no stupid +flat UI) but syncing the DB requires sending it to their web thing. JabRef +seems to use a plain text file so I can probably just sync it with syncthing and +deal with conflicts manually. Spent some time adding a couple of papers to it. +Not sure it's great (it got the info wrong for 2/3 papers) but I guess that's +just typical open source jankery. + +Apparently you can just `C-v` a DOI into JabRef and it'll import it. Hard to +discover, but seems to work okay. JabRef is complaining about capital letters +in the titles but I'll figure out that jankery later. At least I've got +something for now. + +Had some wonkiness with my Syncthing budget stuff, but I think I just forgot to +reeval the location on my desktop. Will poke around more if anything else seems +to break. + +Watched some snakemake videos and read through their paper. This smells a lot +more academic than Nextflow did, which is a little worrying. I'm sure it'll be +fine in the end though. + +Send off the rest of my VA paperwork so things can get moving on that side.