Introducing the TIL subchannel, I'll be kicking this off with something I learned recently (and partially shared in another channel): Today I learned: When on GitHub, if you press

?

, you'll see some available shortcuts. Including how to open the GitHub command palette! A more extensive list of a lot of GitHub shortcut spells can be found here: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-github/keyboard-shortcuts It turns out other websites may have this same functionality, like Twitter and GitLab for example, where

?

brings up an overlay of shortcut keys. Not sure how I've missed this? haha

Yeah, many websites/apps have this feature. It's usually as hidden as you noted with GitHub. Tends to be one of: - `SHIFT`+`/` (a.k.a

?

) - `CTRL`+`/` (`CMD`+`/` on macOS) - `CTRL`+`SHIFT`+`/` (`CMD`+`SHIFT`+`/` on macOS)

For example, discord has it as `CTRL`+`/` (`CMD`+`/` on macOS).

Due to a conversation in #749641193322971238 : TIL I can take a photo of a page I'm reading in a book, one that I want to follow-up later on in notes, and grab the text from the page when storing the photo in a Google Keep note. I bet other apps have this same functionality simply built-in to the apps, but I didn't think to look at doing so to make it easier to log things like passages into my notes without opening up an editor to start typing away.

just found out that there's

cmd+k

functionality in discord to jump between channels https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000070311

something i have yet to figure out is how to jump to a message via the message link. everytime i paste it in a browser, it opens up a browser based discord eg. https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/904891933284007966/905820401387577416 (note: it works when clicking inside discord, just not when pasting in the browser)

Copy into your notes as discord://https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/904891933284007966/905820401387577416 and you can open it using Dendron: Open Link. it's working on windows at least

hm.........

TIL that Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten is the name of Sweden's data regulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Authority_for_Privacy_Protection I just looked up how to pronounce this single word after reading it in an article, and was able to find this: a person running across the word earlier this year https://twitter.com/axbom/status/1364891905499217925

TIL: Vscode search and replace supports back references https://www.loom.com/i/29ad78f89f8447aea14c99222e720912

What theme is it? Love the green sidebar 💚

peacock extension, node green color 🙂 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.vscode-peacock

On this note, if you have moved your org-mode notes through Pandoc and got a lot of todos that look like this:

[TODO]{.todo .TODO}

, with the tag as the link at the end like

{#name-of-the-link}

, you can replace them with markdown todos like this: Search term (each number of hashtags will give you a different indent for overview):

### \[TODO\]\{\.todo \.TODO\}(.*)\{#(.*)\}

Replace term (with whatever tags you'd like):

- [ ] #org $1

TIL that Pandoc added filters for output. For instance, here's one that lets you control whether the first line of a paragraph after a block quote will be indented. https://github.com/pandoc/lua-filters/tree/master/first-line-indent For people in the humanities or others who will use lots of quotations, this is huge!

TIL that Dendron's syntax highlighter supports Gherkin. Very cool to be able to write acceptance criteria in the middle of notes 🙂

a history of markup on the web as told through a lego playmation talk -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29232814 see some parallels between web browsers back in the day and note taking tools today in terms of interoperability. hopefully we'll avoid the xhtml phase...

TIL there is a website named TIL: https://til.hashrocket.com

I'm using github copilot and it recently suggested that I append ruby to \``` like \```ruby which formatted my markdown with language specific highlighting.

Today I learned about the "Final Version Perfected" algorithm for exhaustively and efficiently prioritizing tasks on any itemized to-do list under most conditions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xfcKYznQ6B9yuxB28/final-version-perfected-an-underused-execution-algorithm

haha, i love less wrong. this reminds me of a hiring algorithm as well that was proposed as optimal: - you have N candidates and one position and limited time. how do you make the optimal hire without going through all interviews? - the approach ended up being: talk to N/2 people, pick the top person from N/2 as benchmark, hire the first person that is better than (N/2) in subsequent interviews (disclaimer: this isn't how Dendron does interviews 😅 - also, we're hiring for a frontend web developer)

Interesting this is a different solution than if you can't go back after interviewing someone (which is interview 1/e people then take the best after that, which gives you the best 1/e times)

Today I learned about the existence of cooklang, a markup language + cli tool + webserver setup for recipe/grocery management: https://cooklang.org/

Very cool! No Windows/Android support though :/

might be possible to run it under WSL for Windows, and Termux for Android, but I haven't tried that yet

Well today I learnt using Dendron, created daily morning and evening journalling schemas, set up a process to do interstitial journalling. Next step is to create a heirarchy for work projects

oh, you're hiring?!

yep, see https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/c378b702-7d49-4e91-be6e-b2078103c86e/ 🙂

Today I learnt that you can create a desktop shortcut to Dendron workspace on Ubuntu (I have a feeling that it is written in the Wiki...if someone know where is it please let me know) In

~/.local/share/applications

, create a file named

{filename}.desktop

, then fill in the contents of the template:

[Desktop Entry]
Name={name of shortcut}
Icon={path to the icon image file}
Comment={a short description of the application}
Exec=code {path to the workspace file}
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Development;IDE
Terminal=false
Keywords={some keywords for searching, I used dendron; Dendron as I used something else in the name}

Haha it is, but I actually had trouble finding it in the wiki to write this reply so thanks! https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/401c5889-20ae-4b3a-8468-269def4b4865/#add-dendron-to-application-launchers-on-linux-desktops