Although I will still get used to filling my electronic notes with my life records and various insights, I haven’t updated my content on the Internet for a while.
Not long ago a netizen followed the net line and added my WeChat, expressing gratitude for some articles that had inspired him. I’m ashamed to say that I went back and read the words I had written, and I was surprised to find them somewhat unfamiliar. I think it must have been almost a year or so since I sat down quietly and wrote anything.
It could be falling into a “there doesn’t seem to be anything particularly worthwhile to talk about” misconception, or it could just be getting lazier.
The last frequently updated starting point was November 2021, after writing that week’sBlack Friday and the start of watching the Battle of the Twin Cities. Coincidentally, Black Friday 2024 is right around the corner again, and the second season of Battle of the Twin Cities has begun. Though not many people stop by this self-imposed land, one can’t help but feel a warmth in one’s heart when reaping the benefits of the Internet’s kindness and gratitude.
It seems counterintuitive in 2024 to still be sharing content via text only. But I guess since it’s all about sharing, I’ll do it however I’m comfortable.
I think it was Franklin who said that.
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” In life, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
My life is just too mediocre, but I guess it’s worth it to be able to leave some records in the cyber world and bring some slight value to others.
Open the specified folder in Obsidian
I’m currently using Obsidian to manage all my notes through the P.A.R.A organization method. In addition to notes, there are other project resource files that are generated on a daily basis. Since these non-note files cannot be opened in Obsidian, naturally they are not stored in Obsidian’s directories, but when I come across notes that I need to refer to, I will need to access these directories again.
Usually I will find this directory in Finder and open it, but if the directory has strong correlation with notes and needs to be opened frequently, it is a bit inefficient to find it in Finder. In fact, Obsidian supports opening a substitute file, you just need to create a substitute file for the directory you need to open, put this substitute file into the directory of Obsidian, and then you can jump to the specified directory by clicking on the file name in the process of using Obsidian.
In addition, because the main files in Obsidian are organized as
.MDending markdown file, if you rename the stand-in file to [title]. [type], you’ll get a name+suffix presentation like the one below. It can be very easy to distinguish note files from directories.Because a stand-in is a special type of “file” on Mac systems, this display has been tested to work only for stand-in files.
When a certain number of notes are produced, it is inevitable that they will be forgotten or disorganized. “Random Roaming” is a clever solution. In Obsidian, you can turn on roaming notes in the core plugin, which will randomly list and open one of the existing notes.
However, roaming one note at a time is a bit “slow”, so in order to customize the random roaming of multiple notes, I wrote a script that roams a specified number of notes (currently 10) from the directory in which Obsidian is located, and then selects the one that I want to review and opens it from that directory. The script can also be tweaked to achieve random roaming in a specified directory if necessary. When it comes to small amounts of script execution, I usually do this in VSCode, which can be modified directly in the editor after the roaming is done, except that it always makes me feel like I’m using a heavy tool.
On the recommendation of Mr. Nguyen Yifeng’s weekly magazine, I tried Zed, which is much lighter and faster than VSCode, and some of the themes are much more pleasant to the eyes.
In addition to making it easier to edit roaming notes, Zed has a natural Git integration that allows you to view note changes in the document’s cache and scroll bar. It also has several built-in AI models, which gives it the flavor of an AI-era editor.
The fervor of the night ride opening was finally called off. There are many points of view to analyze the night riding, some say it is a burst of hormones, and some say it is the pursuit of youth without regret. I think this is the peak of people’s pursuit of a sense of ritual. Ceremony is a word that doesn’t seem to make much sense, and even makes people feel a little ‘made up’, but in fact it contains great power.
At the headquarters of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Otemachi, Tokyo, there is a sculpture that says tripping. In Japanese, the word trip represents the meaning of a bond between people. If you’re a Naruto fan like me, the meaning of the word ‘bond’ is self-explanatory.
One of my personal favorites is Strong Wind Blows, a 23-episode anime series about a relay race called the Hakone Ekiden. I’ve talked about it in previous posts, and I’ve come to realize that the Hakone Ekiden is no less important to Japanese people than the Spring Festival Gala is to the rest of the country.
Unlike a normal relay run, the item used as a relay in the Hakone Ekiden is not a baton, but a jǔ (襷)belt, which assumes the role of connecting each runner’s bond. This strip of cloth, which is tied to the body, has the names of the members of the relay team written all over it, and each runner’s mission is to hand him over to his teammates in the next block.
There’s a romanticized way of saying that by using a trellis belt, the runner who takes over at the back is running with the equivalent of the sweat of his or her previous teammates.
However, the rule of the Hakone Ekiden race is that if the first runner does not arrive at the relay point for more than 20 minutes, the following runners are allowed to run straight away, but this also means that all the runners no longer have their obi belts in the subsequent races.
When the first runner reaches the finish line and there are no more teammates to take over, he will feel sad because the belt that transmits the belief has not been passed on. Competitive sports are of course about competing against each other, but because of the design of the bands, the sense of conviction becomes more important than winning or losing.