This post was originally posted at 2020-12-26.
Hey friend,
It is a holiday session and I wish you and your family safe and great!
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I had been creating my own knowledge map system with links and back-links for years. The benefit is like building a personal knowledge wiki with ideas and thoughts links to each other. On one hand, it allows me to reply to my previous thoughts. On the other hand, it allows me to link thoughts from different topics together by discovering back-links from the note.
This year, many note-taking apps release the back-links feature as well. Roam Research gained a rocket boost since early this year. (History of Roam Research)
RemNote from MIT also shows back-links. Notion also adds back-links in recent updates.
Obisidian provides a graph visualization and a local plain-text system. The NotePlan 3 also adds a back-links feature.
I have been using both Craft.do and plain-text system to connect my notes. Craft.do is mainly for clipping external resources and writing teaching material. Plain-text system to log down my thoughts and lesson-learned. The plain text system is the life-long-future-proof approach to me, with enhancement done by Obsidian and NotePlan together. Plus the screen-off time that I spend with my pen and paper. This is my hybrid way for both rich-media and plain-text system, and my hybrid way for both my digital and analog system.
Links worth sharing
→ Hotwire—HTML Over the Wire
https://hotwire.dev
It is a rebrand of the Turbolinks, Stimulus, and a new library called Strada coming in 2021.
Turoblinks becomes Turbo Drive, with two upgrades: Stream for WebSocket changes and Frames for iframe-like portion changes on the HTML.
→ Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/under-engineered-responsive-tables.html
→ Font weight adjustment in dark mode
https://css-tricks.com/using-css-custom-properties-to-adjust-variable-font-weights-in-dark-mode/
→ EStimator.dev: the modern JavaScript savings calculator
https://estimator.dev/
→ npm xmas
https://www.npmjs.com/package/xmas
On console.log
→ Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS
https://www.bennadel.com/blog/3941-styling-console-log-output-formatting-with-css.htm
→ Use console log like a pro
https://markodenic.com/use-console-log-like-a-pro/
→ Beyond console.log: group and table
https://dev.to/josiasaurel/11-javascript-console-commands-explained-4pi5
Colors of the week
Until next week,
Thomas Mak
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