I am a self-described geek, experimenter, web / software developer, linux enthusiast, and a F.O.S.S. advocate, as well as an atheist, anarcho-syndicalist, stoked to be a part of a union.
This world of software is a brass object in a mold, and we're just now ready to peel the plaster away to discover the treasures we've cast inside. I want to see the day where every tax paying citizen gets server space on their own local town hall's epic basement server. Engineering seperates us as a species, technology is our birthright. I think we, collectively, need to take a step back and reevaluate how technology enters our lives. Socially, agriculturally, educationally, governmentally. There is a promise made by change. The world is a gnarled mess. When you talk to people, you hear people giving answers, next to us, in our daily lives. Ideas and good people just don't seem to trickle to the top. We seem to treat politicians like our favorite sports players. We have the right tools and people. These issues are a collective call from our future.
This is the type of character I'll try to build when I play tabletop or digital RPGs.
I have 3 - 4 pocket notebooks at any time. Added together, I now have a box full of tiny notebooks, it's great. So much material to look through and draw inspiration from. On the day to day, I'll keep one main notebook in my pocket, and a few more organized by subject kept around. A friend recommended the Bullet Journal Method. It's worth reading through and taking notes.
Notebooks and journals are great, its been an important meditative practice. I filter information from my pocket notebooks into my larger journals and continue the ideas on a bigger page. As far as binders, I think about them like databases. I want to write software that mediates a digital - physical copy union between binders and databases. I tab out binders completely, and create an index in the front. That doesnt keep be from litering everything with doodles.
I found Cherrytree when learning about Kali, how people use it to organize data either from a black hat standpoint or for gathering information about perps from a white hat perspective. I tried it and have used it ever since, it's a perfect example of what open source has to offer. You can use cherrytree for any of a thousand things, after all its just a databasing program that stores nested information. Cherrytree is a permanent dailydriver for me, you can't beat its simplicity.
I'm slowly flushing out a personalized linux experience, and dropping the scripts on github. I love writing bash toolchains, bash has always felt like a chill way to get into code. It also feels like a labor of love because it involves using the tools you become familiar with using console. All your usual tools are right there. It just felt natural, just like learning javascript which I learned by using freecodecamp of whom im a patron. I'm also going through devslopes which has been a very positive experience. It really tests you, but it provides a community of people which has been invaluable. I've also had my eye on Framasoft who developed peertube. Their design philosophy is outstanding, I see that as the wave of the future. Hopefully I can figure out Nginx enough to the point where I can have instances of their software on this very site at some point in the future.