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 I'm fine. So we can start, right?

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 Yeah, sure. I mean, you pretty much know the drill.

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 Everyone watching the show now already knows the drill. V

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idianus is going to read the questions. If you want to read

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 the questions on your own, you can open up the pad.

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 Otherwise, Vidianus will be reading the questions and

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 answering them in line. And I'll be making jazz in the

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 background whenever something doesn't work. So Vidianus,

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 the floor is yours.

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 Okay. So do you use flitting notes as well? Do you keep

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 them in the org room? And flitting notes are a very

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 interesting subject. In the initial draft of this talk, I

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 wanted to include flitting notes as well, but it would take

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 a bit too long. So I said, let's not do it.

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 I'm going to add a link here to my .files in the section

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 for flitting notes. But I can very quickly share my screen

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 for a moment and show you something about it. So give me a

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 moment.

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 Yes, you can do this.

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 Okay. So you see the screen now, I think?

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 Yes, I can see it.

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 So I have a key binding which opens my daily note. I have

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 some notes from other talks in EmacsConf and talks that I'm

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 going to miss due to the two tracks. Don't mind them. So I

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 write, for example, flitting note.

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 And I have a command down here which will automatically

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 give it a to do value. So let's say, for example, I'm

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 crossing it. It adds a tag to the current projects node,

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 which is essentially a node I have for things I want to do

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 right now.

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 It makes it an org-rem node. And then I can write something

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 here, blah, blah, blah. And if I go on org-rem node find,

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 actually, I need to save it first. It will appear here.

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 And then once I say it's done, it is not a node anymore. It

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 is removed here. This allows me to archive things. I can

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 stop the sharing now. This allows me to archive flitting

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 notes.

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 So I don't need -- because flitting notes are not something

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 that needs to remain my shell custom. I want them for some

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 point and then deleting them.

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 And this is done with org-journal and not org-rem-dailys

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 because with org-journal I can have this -- I make it a

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 node and then I remove it from a node.

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 While I don't think you can do that with org-rem-dailys,

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 the code for all of this is in the section I pasted on the

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 etherpad. And if you have any questions, you can email me.

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 >> Okay. >> Sorry, just to specify, all the contact

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 information will be available on the talk page. So be it

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 the email to Vidianos, also the pads, the recording,

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 everything will be available after the conference as soon

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 as we have the bandwidth for this.

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 So that's where you'll be able to find contact information.

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 Okay. You can keep going, Vidianos. Sorry for the inter

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ruption.

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 >> Okay. So the second question is if it works for PDFs

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 only or Word and Excel or EPUB, websites, CWW and YouTube.

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 So I'm not sure. Give me a moment to look at OrgNotor and

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 see if it says -- because I said I didn't remember. Use it

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 with PDFs typically.

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 >> Yes. From the top of my mind, I think OrgNotor works

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 with EPUB file via the package that is managed I think by

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 -- was it by Wasamasa? I can't remember actually now. But

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 at some point it was managed by Wasamasa.

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 He was probably watching right now and probably yelling at

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 me in the background. So I'll keep you posted on this. But

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 yes, the OrgNotor allows you mostly to take notes on PDF

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 via PDFView, but it also allows you to take notes on EPUB.

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 And they're working relatively well.

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 But as for the other -- yeah, go on, Vidianos.

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 >> I opened OrgNotor and it says it also is compatible with

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 DocView for Office, so Word, Excel and things like that.

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 >> Yeah. And otherwise, if you really want to take notes on

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 such documents, you can probably use either OrgConvert or

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 Pandoc to generate a document that would be editable within

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 OrgNotor. It shouldn't be too difficult to do so. And

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 usually it's mostly PDFs when you're working on research

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 stuff or stuff like this.

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 Anyway, sorry for interrupting. This is a topic very dear

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 to my heart as well because as you know, I have worked a

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 little bit in OrgGram and OrgNotor especially.

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 >> Yeah. So I think you should be able to do Word, Excel

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 and EPUB. I don't think it works with websites and it

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 definitely doesn't work with videos. Not sure if there's

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 other solutions for those.

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 >> I believe there is one. Sorry, I keep inserting myself

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 into the discussion. This is a very interesting topic. I

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 think Alfred Papa developed an Org package to capture a

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 webpage. So it's like an OrgCapture, you know, Org protocol

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 that allows you to capture stuff from your browser.

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 It allows you to capture a page and basically Pandocs the

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 results into an HTML, sorry, it Pandocs from HTML to an Org

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 document with a structure and a hierarchy. And this way you

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 can actually take notes on the documents and just have all

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 the features you would expect in an Org document.

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 >> I'll shut up now. This is your talk, not mine. If I

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 really wanted to talk about this, I should have made a talk

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. Anyway, back to you.

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 >> Okay. So next one. I used Take Notes on PDF with OrgNot

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er, but Zotero PDF Reader is also very nice. So, okay. Yeah,

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 I have seen the Zotero PDF Reader. It does look nice as

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 well, I would agree, but I have two problems with it.

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 One, Emacs key bindings don't work, and two, it's not Emacs

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. Basically, I think it's nice, but I want to use things

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 that are outside Emacs for as little as possible. And I use

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 it there because I haven't found a way in Emacs to save the

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 article somewhere and download the PDF automatically.

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 I know there is DOI Utils, which was mentioned by RC a few

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 moments ago as well, but it hasn't worked perfectly for me

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 in the past when I tried it, so I use Zotero for that, but

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 I wouldn't use it for the PDF Reader as well because I want

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 to use it in Emacs.

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 Next one. Thanks for saying that it was a great

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 presentation. My thoughts on the future of Zelle Casten. I

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 think Zelle Casten has a bright future, personally, because

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 it is plain text. Plain text will never go away, basically.

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 You will be able to use it forever, and also, Orgrom is

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 open source with a very vibrant community, so that won't go

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 away either anytime soon, I think. So, it probably has a

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 future, if you mean it that way.

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 And I think that, in general, it is a noting method that is

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 very efficient. I have used it for university the past few

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 years, and I have right now like 850 notes on it, and they

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 will probably only keep increasing.

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 So, I don't think it's going away. If you want to ask

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 anything else, we can talk more about it.

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 Actually, I do have something to add to this particular

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 point, because on the topic of Zelle Casten and how useful

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 it can be. Now, it's been a little while since Zelle Casten

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 really started exploding. I think in 2020, right when COVID

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 started, a lot of people started getting interested in Z

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elle Casten methods.

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 And ever since, we have a lot of software that were

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 released, including the ones we have in Orgrom. I'm going

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 to use Orgrom because it's the one I'm most familiar with

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 as a commentator, but we also have D-Notes by Prot and

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 other solutions as well.

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 And one thing that I'm currently working on, and a key area

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 of interest for me, is how do we use the concept of Zelle

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 Casten, a collection of notes. Generally, when you think of

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 Zelle Casten, it's a really individual collection of notes,

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 right?

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 It's something that you have, it's the stuff that you find

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 during your research, during the paper that you read. But

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 how about trying to have a slipbox for a group of people,

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 so that they could start sharing notes on research that

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 they do.

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 It wouldn't be the same thing as a personal slipbox, but

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 you can think of it as the knowledge bank for a group of

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 people, where they keep track of the concept that they use

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 within their organization, the patterns that they like to

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 use when they work together.

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 So, we actually wanted to do a talk this year on some of

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 those adjacent topics, but sadly, we were a little taken by

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 time, and you'll have to wait for next year. But I will

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 agree with you, Vidianos, there's a lot of very interesting

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 stuff abound for Zelle Casten method, and especially Zelle

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 Casten inside Emacs.

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 All right, back to you now.

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 Thanks for the additions, I like them as well, and I think

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 that what you said about collaboration, it would be very

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 interesting, really.

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 Great.

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 The only problem is having other people using the same

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 methods with you.

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 Sorry, Vidianos, I'm not sure if you asked me a question, I

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 was at a health, whispering my ear in the background at the

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 same time.

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 I just said that I really like the idea that you said about

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 collaboration.

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 Yeah, because it is really something that is missing when

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 you think about it. Like, the good thing about Emacs, and

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 the philosophy of Emacs generally, is that we have

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 different modes working together, and they do one thing, or

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 multiple things, and they do it very well.

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 We have org mode for editing structured documents, we have

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 maggots to manage repositories, we have calc to do

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 calculations with a polished notation and whatnot.

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 It feels like we have a great tool for collaboration,

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 editing a singular buffer, which is CRDT, which we've

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 already talked about before.

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 I'm not sure if we did have a presentation on Emacs about

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 CRDT. I think, if you're more interested in this, go back

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 to the talk I did last year with Joe Connelly and Noura El

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 Hassan on Emacs Research Group.

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 We did demonstrate what CRDT was.

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 So, we have a very good tool for working on a buffer, and

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 we have a very good way to take notes.

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 Why not try to combine the two tools, like Emacs is so good

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 at doing? We take one mode, we take another mode, we clash

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 them together and we do something very interesting with

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 them.

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 Well, we should probably be doing something similar with

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 note-taking, so that people can actually start building

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 notes together.

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 I think that would be a really key step in the future. But

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 anyway, I think I'm repeating myself a little bit, and I

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 don't want to say too much right now.

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 You'll see it in the future, it's coming month or coming

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 year, so you're not in a rush and flus.

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 Okay, Vityan, it's back to you now.

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 Okay, so how do you find a way to get a nice overview of

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 multiple notes to rearrange them?

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 Like, basically putting many small notes on another table

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 and rearranging them.

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 So, my initial idea when I tried to make Zettle Desk was to

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 get as close as possible to this.

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 Have a lot of small notes in my table and be able to

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 rearrange them.

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 Due to Org Mode being text, this is not exactly possible.

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 But I don't know if this question was before the third demo

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 or not.

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 What I showed in that demo, I think, to an extent, showed

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 what I do for rearranging.

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 You add all the things you want on the Zelda scratch buffer

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, and then rearrange them however you want.

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 So, that's as close as I have been able to get to that.

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 It's not perfect, but I think it is alright for being text,

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 which making it graphically would be hard, I think.

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 And the next one seems to be a follow-up on that question.

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 Yeah, it says it's difficult or impossible to do that. Yeah

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, I agree.

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 Okay.

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 So, this package that you say on the next one, on the next

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 question, I will check this link out.

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 It seems very interesting for writing your notes on a big

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 canvas.

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 I think it would definitely make sense for my workflow to

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 use something like this, if it is what I have understood

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 you mean it is.

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 I would love to try it. And we'll get back to you.

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 Whoever left that message, if you want to leave any contact

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 information or talk to me, I would love to get back to you

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 about this.

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 Because it looks very interesting.

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 Yes, so again, all the contact information will be

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 available on the talk page.

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 By the way, if you're worried about the lighting changes in

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 my place, it's just that sometimes I have a lot of light in

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 my face.

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 And then, when I'm a little tired, I do rest like this.

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 And it's very different, but it's still me. Don't worry

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 about it.

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 I'm not going to turn it off, because every time it's like

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 a flashbang going into my eyes.

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 So, if you want to talk to Vidyanos afterwards, maybe do

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 not leave your coordinates right into the pad.

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 Maybe get in touch with Vidyanos instead.

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 Those ads are going to be public eventually, and even

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 though we will be reviewing all the content within them,

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 it means that they will be open to people for a while.

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 So, maybe avoid putting personal information over there.

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 But otherwise, you'll be able to connect after the

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 conference relatively easily, and Vidyanos will be able to

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 follow up.

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 Or even just on the questions, whenever you have the time.

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 But it might take one or two weeks for the speakers to get

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 back to the questions you put into the pad.

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 We will be asking them frequently.

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 We do have this policy, as you know, with Emacs, of nudging

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 speakers to do something.

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 So, we will nudge speakers towards answering your questions

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, but it might take us about one or two weeks to get all the

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 answers.

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 I think we don't have any more questions currently.

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 There is one more.

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 Oh, there is one more. So, please take it.

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 Can we use Zettelkasten for coding too, especially when

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 using the IDs like Visual Studio and Excel?

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 So, I can't say for sure if you can use it, because I'm not

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 in coding.

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 The only language I know the best for coding is Emacs Lisp.

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 And the only other one I know is Matlab for doing

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 calculations, for example, for things in university.

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 But I think you should be able to do that.

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 If you look for Zettelkasten for coding, you will probably

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 find some resources for it.

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 I don't think it breaks the Zettelkasten principles.

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 You can make atomic nodes for coding concepts.

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 So, it should work, I believe.

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 Yeah, and I can actually confirm this.

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 I did share with you before in one of the previous Q&A how

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 we're taking notes on this little device right here to do

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 lead code exercises.

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 The thing about lead code exercises is that, well, lead

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 code, sorry, let's be more vague about it.

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 Lead code is a platform and not a free platform as well,

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 and I'm not advertising them.

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 But the concept of data structure and algorithm is really

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 important to programming.

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 And usually when you try to solve algorithmic problems, you

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 rely on a number of patterns that have been developed by...

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 Sorry, I get people telling me to my right here that, oh,

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 the sim is going down.

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 And so my stomach is falling into my body, just, oh, what

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 happened?

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 Anyway, going back to the point, we do rely on patterns and

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 identification of patterns within a problem.

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 So, as a result, it would be very much possible to create

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 separate nodes for all these patterns.

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 And you can have different exercises and say you have an

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 exercise that is using two different things.

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 It's using a tree pattern and it's using a depth search.

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 If neither of those two words make any sense to you, do not

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 worry and be grateful because this will haunt you at night

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 otherwise.

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 But it would be very, I think it would be a prime candidate

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 really for atomization and linking within a Zettelkasten.

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 Because it would make it so much easier to structure your

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 knowledge in a way that is organic rather than hierarchical

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.

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 So, yeah, this was a very good question and I'd be happy to

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 encourage the asker to try it on their own and maybe make a

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 presentation next year at the next EMACS Conf.

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 Vidyanos, before we continue, I just want to give up the

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 heads up.

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 So, we have opened the room currently. If you want to join

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 the room with Vidyanos, we have posted the link on ISC.

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 And if you go to the talk page of Vidyanos talk, you will

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 be able to join the room as well.

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 We did have quite a number of questions. So, feel free to

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 join.

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 In about four minutes, we'll need to move on to the next

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 talk.

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 But, well, actually, I give you about three more minutes.

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 Do we have any more questions on the pad, Vidyanos?

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 On the pad, no. I'm looking on IRC.

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 Someone says if Zeldas.dl will be available in Melpa.

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 It is on Melpa right now. You can find it.

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 Right. And you just have to -- sorry, my voice is getting

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 raspier.

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 It's only the first day of EMACS Conf. It's not even lunch

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 and I'm already losing my voice.

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 This is not booting well for the rest.

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 But, yeah, you should be able to find it pretty easily by

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 looking on doc.go for Melpa and space and zeldacaster.el,

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 the name of the package.

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 You'll be able to find it. And we can put it on the page.

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 I'm pretty sure it's already on your talk page, Vidyanos,

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 as well.

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 Yeah, it is on the talk page.

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 Yeah, you'll be able to find it really quickly.

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 So we have about two more minutes.

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 Did you see any other question that you'd like to answer as

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 well?

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 I'm scrolling on IRC since the talk started to see if there

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 is anything else.

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 I don't see anything else.

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 If anyone has a room here, I would love to continue.

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 If not, then I think we've already answered enough things.

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 Sure, I would concur. You have covered a lot of ground.

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 I am personally happy to be seeing so many talks about Zeld

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acaster.

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 It feels like I was a little bit of a forerunner at EMACS

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 Conf talking about Zeldacaster.

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 And now, we are two years later and we're still talking

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 about it.

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 I know a lot of people are getting a little tired of

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 hearing about Zeldacaster all the time.

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 But if you part all the communication, if you focus on what

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 it actually does,

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 and I keep saying it's just notes and it's just links,

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 it's actually quite amazing what you can do with it.

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 It's just a mental model, really.

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 So I would kind of use the, you know, sorry for the voxing

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 here.

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 But if you have been interested in Zeldacaster at some

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 point,

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 or if you are frustrated by all the talk about Zeldacaster,

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 that seems to be kind of like a cult at some point,

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 well, I would encourage you maybe to try, not necessarily

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 try it for yourself,

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 but try to understand really the simple stuff behind it.

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 Because honestly, there's nothing very revolutionary about

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 this note-taking method.

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 It's just that it used to be done with paper, and now it's

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 done with computers,

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 and it makes it a little more easier.

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 Personally, what I find the most helpful in this type of

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 note-taking is how organic everything feels.

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 You do not need to be thinking about the structure from the

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 get-go,

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 and this is extremely freeing.

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 OK, Vidyanos, we are about out of time.

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 Thank you so much for taking the time to answer the

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 questions.

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 We will be in touch in the future, and we'll be looking

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 forward to having more presentations about Zeldacaster,

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 and perhaps maybe one by you in the future.

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 So, well, thank you so much.

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 And, Vidyanos, I don't see anyone in the room, so feel free

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 to leave the room after we're done.

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 So in about one minute, we're going to go with the next

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 talk.

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 We might go a little bit quiet until the top of the minute.

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 I need to drink, and I need to rest my voice.

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 But in one minute, we'll be starting the next talk.

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 Vidyanos, thank you so much, and see you next time.

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 Bye.

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