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01 Zettelkasten
01 Main Notes
A volcano is formed when magma reaches the Earth's surface
A volcano that has had an eruption of VEI 8 is known as a supervolcano
A zettelkasten is tool for thinking and writing that leverages networked thought
A zwitterion contains both a positive and a negative charge
ADHD coping mechanisms and non-medication treatments
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that involves a deficit of dopamine
All power structures can be escaped or overthrown, no matter how daunting the task may seem
Amino acids are small organic molecules containing an amine and a carbonyl group
An antilibrary is a collection of unread books
Collecting knowledge has merit even if one does not produce anything with that knowledge
Dyspraxia is a condition affecting physical coordination and spatial awareness
Empty notes are better than no notes at all
Executive Function is a range of mental processes that deal with planning, focus and memory
Hairdryer in the Handbag Solution
If it works it doesn't matter if its normal
If people are the fruit of the universe then we have the potential to become our own universe
Kaktovik numerals are a base-20 system of numerical digits for use in the Iñupiaq language
Keep a sleeping folder for hard to process fleeting notes
Lava is magma that has emerged onto the Earth's surface
Magma is molten rock within the Earth's crust
Main notes are where your thinking is stored long term
Most volcanism on earth occurs at mid-ocean ridges
Notemaking in a zettelkasten starts with fleeting notes
Only adding new words to a document counts as writing
Paying the ADHD tax upfront can mitigate the cost
Pharmaceutical treatments are available for ADHD
POSSE and PESOS - a better way of publishing on the internet
Saying the universe peoples is human-centric if you only consider humans people
Saying the universe peoples is human-centric view
The ADHD tax is the extra costs accrued due to having ADHD
The collector's fallacy states that collecting knowledge is not the same as having knowledge
The composition of magma ranges from ultramafic to felsic
The enshittification of the internet is the process of extracting value for shareholders at the expense of users
The first line of a book should make you want to know more
The universe peoples in the same way an apple tree apples
The Volcanic Explosivity Index is a scale used to measure the size of explosive eruptions.
The zettelkasten is a method of note taking and knowledge storage that emphasises links between notes
There are three types of melting that produce magma - decompression, flux and heat-induced
Time blindness is difficulty judging the passing of time or planning ahead
Tsundoku is the art of acquiring books but not reading them
Use a condiment drawer in your fridge to stop vegetables going off
Use a landing strip to store things you take off when you get home
Use open storage to keep things visible and avoid forgetting them
Volcanoes are most often found at plate boundaries
Volcanoes can form away from plate boundaries over hot spots
Why you should use main note over permanent note
Writers frequently ask 'what is the point of writing'
Writing quotas are impossible for those with chronic illness
02 Reference Notes
Doto, B (2024) A System for Writing
Earle, S (2015) Physical Geology
Kleon, A (2012) Steal Like an Artist
Writing with Chronic Illness - Improve Outlook and Productivity (WMG Writer's Guides)
03 Structure Notes
ADHD
J.R.R. Tolkien
Ursula K Le Guin
Volcanism, earthquakes and plate tectonics
Writing Advice
Zettelkasten
02 Personal Notes
Commonplace_Book
93 Percent Stardust
A wedding, after all, was just a day. A lovely day, to be sure, but still. And a marriage was built much more on trust and love than on ritual and paperwork.
a world where all human beings are taken care of shouldn’t be called a “revolutionary” way of life
Ad Astra Per Aspera
All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Apophenia
argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.
Be ambitious for the work and not for the reward.
Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.
Characters do shocking things, not because the author wishes to shock, but because it is in the character of humans to misbehave.
Continue to fail better—failure of a kind that might even be better than certain forms of success.
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Do your best until you know better, then do better
Don't confuse honours with achievement.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Every disabled leader who dies takes a library of knowledge with them that they often didn't have the time to write down.
Every Word You Ever Needed
Ex Astris, Scientia
Failure is an event, not a person
fat - adjective
For the Fallen
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - I thought I was the only one.
He didn’t need priests or lawyers. He just needed the commitment of his own mind and heart, freely given and gladly received. Which he had. Which he did.
i am a tigress who has earned her softer-than-velvet stripes.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
I think life is way harder than anyone ever admits
I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel.
If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts.
If They Truly Love You
If you don’t know how your story ends, don’t worry. Press on, in faith and hope.
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie
In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life - It goes on
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay
It's rotten work. Not to me. Not if its you
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Its a dangerous business, going out your door
labour
Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation
Lessons From The Wind
Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning.
Litany Against Fear
Love is something you do
My feminism will be instersectional or it will be bullshit
My friends are my estate.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Never attribute to the complex that which can be adequately explained by the simple.
Never open a book with the weather.
Nihil sin labore
No Day But Today
No matter what life throws at you, make good art
Non nobis solum nati
Nothing is more important than an unread library
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
Now some people will tell you that great writing cannot be learnt. Such people should be hit repeatedly on the nose until they promise not to talk nonsense any more.
Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives
Pariedolia
Pay heed to the tales of old wives.
People will not forget how you made them feel
Perspectives
Powerful men are the same wherever you go—the rules don’t apply to them.
raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some
Read, observe, listen intensely! — as if your life depended upon it.
Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
Remember
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.
Stars Shine Brightest
Stay afraid but do it anyway
Suffering can bring one of two things - purification or bitterness
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Switch to thinking I have no choice but to write a piece of shit
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
The greater danger is in setting our aim too low and achieving it
The Green Fields of France
The Healing
the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful
the only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one.
The Serenity Prayer
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower - until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship.
There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
there came a time when poetry showed me how to bleed without the demand of blood
There is no educational resource in the cosmos greater than a nerd who thinks you’re wrong.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate
There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.
They don’t let you have anything whole if you don't follow the pattern
This whole concept of women being docile and obedient is nothing but wishful thinking. Or why would you put so much effort into lying to us
Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined.
Ursula Le Guin's schedule
War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
We Are Made of Stars
We must beware of a certain craze for collecting which sometimes takes possession of those who make notes
we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art
What are we holding onto. That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
What I Would Tell Eve
When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
When we love someone we let them dictate the terms of who they are
When you break through, not everyone close to you will enjoy your success. Accept this.
When you didn’t have the vote, sometimes you had to take what power you could grasp with your own two hands.
Wild Geese
Woodland burial
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
Write the Story
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
Writing a book is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Yes, I’m cynical about history. It’s written by the victors, after all.
You Are The Sun
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
You have to be curious about the world in which you live.
You know, no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not.
You Matter
About Tonks
Blind Guardian, Glasgow
Digital Garden Terms of Service
Gigs I have attended
03 Fandom Notes
01 Fandoms
ATLA & LOK
Benedictions 4
Carmenum di Amatus
Dragon Age
Grey Warden's Motto
On Cassandra Pentaghasts Sexuality
The Avatar is the master of all five elements
The Lord of the Rings
Transfigurations 10
Traveler's Prayer
Trials
Was Aang a bad father
Why Jurassic Park is a Surprisingly Feminist film
04 Reviews
Books
A System for Writing
Romancing the Inventor
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The Book of Phoenix
The Night Masquerade
Wet Nails
Tea
2022 Frankenpu mini
2022 Lumberslut mini
941 mini
Alishan Firefly Milk Oolong
Anxi Tie Guan Yin Iron Goddess of Mercy
Apple Strudel Rooibos
Bonfire Toffee
Butter Brew
Darjeeling No. 8 blend
Dark Choc Chili Chai
Dong Ting Bi Lou Chun
Haiwan Mini Brick Ripe Pu-erh
Huang Cha yellow tea
Keemun breakfast tea
Keemun Mao Feng
Kirishima Genmaicha
Long Jing Ming Qian Dragon Well
Lu An Gua Pian
Mei Zhan Black tea
Mengku Ripe Pu-erh Tuocha
Milk Jin Xuan Taiwanese
Milk Oolong Chai
Mojitea
Nearly Nirvana
Orange Blossom Milk Oolong
Pai Mu Tan White Peony
Peach and Elderflower bellini
Peppy Peppermint
Shou Mei Aged 3 Years
Sticky rice shu tuo cha
Tai Ping Hou Kui
Tangerine Pu'erh
White Cui Mei
Wuyi Shui Xian Oolong
Videogames
Dragon Age - The Veilguard
01 Reviews
Book reviews
Tea reviews
Videogame reviews
00 Home
My Commonplace Book
nihil sin labore
Latin
Nothing without labour.
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