@mathias So what makes NeoMutt so much better than Mutt?
(guy living in mutt+vim
since 20 years and too lazy to change his habits, but occasionally contemplating that the grass might be greener elsewhere)
@mathias Well, if you’ll get frustrated with config and feel a need for a potential acceleration in finding a solution, drop me a line. Maybe I’ll be able to help, even though my mutt setup is very stable in a particular spot since many years, so I probably don’t know about all the fancy edge features.
@mathias re other cli tools: I’d say: don’t push it too much. After two decades of living in and playing with these setups, my personal conclusion is that some things are simply better in windows-like UI, so I invest in integration of CLI/terminal tools (mutt, vim, etc.) with desktop apps, rather than pushing the cli experience to useless places. What I care a lot for, though, is that my storage formats are portable (maildirs instead of mailbox, markdown instead of anything else, WebDAV/CalDAV etc. for sync, rather than proprietary stuff, etc.)
But to answer the question:
mairix
(+cron
indexing every night), not perfect but still works for mepass
orgmode
is the swiss knife for anything you might ever need for your notes, todolists, etc. After all that emacs thingy is an operating system of its own anyway. Or so I’ve heard :-).Either way, I derive the most value from deep reading of ssh
and gnupg
manuals. There’s HUGE amount of stuff possible when you look into seamless integration of tools at remote vs. local.
@mathias Oh, I forgot, in the taskwarrior ecosystem, I found vit
a very exciting project. I later abandoned it, but it’s good and promising.
@mathias @FailForward
This thread is pure gold for looking into cli software :D
Do you people use cli most of the time our of principle or is it a habit? I found myself using a lot of vim and terminal-based tools for personal stuff, but uni and other places still require word documents and stuff :(
Thanks for the list! I use some of these, although for knowledgebase and notes I find obsidian quite good. Not cli, but it runs smoothly and available on windows. And alacritty as a terminal is surprisingly good, tbh.
As for package manager - stock apt from my ubuntu-based pop-os is just good enough :p
@mathias @FailForward
My laptop is on pop os with xmonad wm on top, works great. Although the pc is still on windows :(
@mathias @FailForward
I just wanted to try something very configurable and minimal. Yeah, it is very good out of the box, I agree.
@academicalnerd @mathias I personally find this thing with tiling window managers somewhat overdone. Not my personal taste, honestly.
I am a workspaces person and I am running dual-head setup. And the most tiling I do is half-screen. To follow-up on @mathias ‘s image, this is how it goes for me
And a load of monitoring taskbar extensions + fullscreen Matrix/Element anywhere where needed.
@FailForward @mathias
That editing though: shitload -> load :D
On a serious note, I tend to use fullscreen stuff for the sake of focus. Sometimes it’s splitscreen on windows, 50/50 between brave browser and whatever else, most of the time qt creator or matlab.
And in linux… Well, I tend to have 3-4 terminal apps in different workspaces, there is no real pattern there. Whatever works at the moment, that’s the advantage of twm.
I am using Obsidian as well. I admit, I am a bit annoyed with its vim mode, but that’s marginal. Generally, I quite like it, but I would like to move away from it, as I decided with moving all my notes towards Jekyll+git+GitLab Pages setup (and I am like 80% done). For this reason, I came back to MS Visual Studio Code and Foam. Some things are good (as VS Code is good generally), but I am infinitely frustrated by VimCode and neovim extensions to a point where I want to throw all this away.
Apart from editor troubles, where both Obsidian and Foam are failing me are links and keeping connections when I move a page. I want my links to be standard Markdown relative links to other notes and to pictures. But then, I want the thing to help me when I move a note to a different folder to keep relative links fine. And both are failing me with that. Maybe I am doing something wrong there, don’t know…
Actually the tool which is really good at this was QOwnNotes, but that is failing me on the general UX/UI level. So it might well be that I will end with my standard low-level solutions: terminal, bash, grep and vim.
re storage: haha! I read you! :-) In the end I gravitated towards owning my own NAS at home. And since QNAP gives you containers and VMs, that turns out into a low powered home (media) server. Which is a whole new set of synchronisaton fun :-).
Obsidian looks very interesting! Thanks!
I just today checked out Pop!_OS. It looks amazing. Also it looks like they have incorporated quite a few things from tiling window managers that I am striving for when I use Xmonad (which is what I've used).
Otherwise I have previously always been using Ubuntu based stuff, based on that I know apt, and I figured it would be simpler to get things exactly how I want them if I know how to install them. I have traditionally been going for Ubuntu minimal server (which used to be 12mb, basically apt and nothing else) and then install things as and when I need them.
I am right now doing my first foray in to Manjaro (and thereby Arch eco-system). Arch has always scared me previously, but I have to say, right now I'm loving it, and the flexibility I get. In the "appstore" I've enabled all the options, which means I get access to all the AUR stuff, Snap stuff etc, but I love that it gives me the option to "build" already from within the store. Some things though are so easily installed via Homebrew (I'm typing this on a Mac) that I install it whenever I have the option to do so, and a lot of the software mentioned come with Homebrew install options, which handle permissions automatically in a way that I like.
Anyways, shall be checking out Obsidian now, and see if I can sync whatever it spits out via Git etc and we might be on to a winner for GUI based knowledge base apps (where I today am using a Mac-only app).