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  1. Comment on I'm looking for a suggestion on how best to organize my ideas for my weekly RPG in ~games.tabletop

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    My assumption is that you're playing a tabletop RPG(s) and want to keep those sessions organized, and evolve world-building content between sessions. I've used Notion as a GM. It works well enough...

    My assumption is that you're playing a tabletop RPG(s) and want to keep those sessions organized, and evolve world-building content between sessions.

    I've used Notion as a GM. It works well enough with taxonomies for regions, specific locales, encounters, and NPCs with varying metadata. You can use the board view to move players through encounters, or for sequencing. The gallery view is nice for an in-game introduction to an NPC(s)-- you cast your browser to a larger screen in your game space. It was less successful for bringing the players aboard or sharing info between sessions -- the cost model is prohibitive for what is essentially hobbyist use.

    What has been more successful -- and this is just for chat, and not organizing assets or world-building -- is Zulip. We play a variety of games, and so maintain one channel per game, and then various streams (topics) within, e.g. for character creation, for rule questions, for each character's advancement, and so on.

    What I have started to explore is use of wiki.js. It can be structured to your liking, have protected GM content, public content, and collaborative player content. You lose the Kanban board view that something like Notion confers. It is self-hostable.

    I also use Obsidian for journaling and notes at large. The graph view is nice for connecting ideas and seeing relationships, but I wouldn't use it for GMing myself -- it is not sufficiently structured for my liking, and not collaborative. Lastly I will note AnyType, which looks very neat. It has graph and Kanban views. I have only played with it around the edges, and haven't tried migrating content or data to an instance.

    An old school solution, for the right game, like PbtA variants, is index cards. ;-)

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  2. Comment on The Interstate's forgotten code in ~transport

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    Nice summary video. Perhaps less forgotten and more atrophied via GPS. My dad taught me these patterns when I was learning to drive and navigate along interstate travel. No phone.

    Nice summary video. Perhaps less forgotten and more atrophied via GPS. My dad taught me these patterns when I was learning to drive and navigate along interstate travel. No phone.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on Any fans of regular non-smart watches? in ~hobbies

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    The seconds do add up, yes! The Seiko 7S26 is frequently off by a few minutes, or more, if I am not tending it. For remote meetings and at-keyboard work, I am usually checking system time, derived...

    The seconds do add up, yes! The Seiko 7S26 is frequently off by a few minutes, or more, if I am not tending it. For remote meetings and at-keyboard work, I am usually checking system time, derived from a time server. Any next watch will definitely have the atomic clock sync.

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  4. Comment on Any fans of regular non-smart watches? in ~hobbies

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    I used to wear a Casio WVA-320J -- solar powered, syncs to atomic clock radio transmission. It took a bad fall. I now wear a Seiko 7S26 -- it is mechanical, not solar, and somewhat lossy in its...

    I used to wear a Casio WVA-320J -- solar powered, syncs to atomic clock radio transmission. It took a bad fall.

    I now wear a Seiko 7S26 -- it is mechanical, not solar, and somewhat lossy in its timekeeping, lacking the atomic sync. I haven't worn it in ~3 days and it has stopped.

    I used to have a Suunto for heart rate, FitBit for steps, higher complexity digital watches, and so on, but I increasingly favor a simple device for clean aesthetics, no batteries, and the sync feature.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Babylon's Ashes, more of The Expanse series, space tribalism Summer Knight, more of Dresden Files, a guilty pleasure
    • Babylon's Ashes, more of The Expanse series, space tribalism
    • Summer Knight, more of Dresden Files, a guilty pleasure
    3 votes

  6. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Tim O'Reilly Grave Peril, Jim Butcher Mars by 1980: The Story of...
    • The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
    • WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Tim O'Reilly
    • Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
    • Mars by 1980: The Story of Electronic Music, David Stubbs