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 File Naming 
 
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 File Naming Template 
 
 
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 2026-04-02 
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 Background 
 For many months I’ve been trying to…
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 Test epub 
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 SearXNG 
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 2026-03-10 
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 KOReader 
 
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 Reading List / Acively Reading 
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 Zotero 
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 Custom Plugins 
 
 
 My Config 
 
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 Prior Writings 
 Electrics 
 Nose & Ear 
 Manual Hair Clippers 
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 Soap 
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 Universal 
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 2026-01-04 
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 2025-12-29 
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 A Note 
 I know this post isn’t quite ‘shaving’ but is definitely in the same realm so I’ve tagged it ‘shaving’ for better discovery. 
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 As I’ve aged, I’ve gotten hairier. Particularly my nose and ears. This,…
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 Forwarding Notifications 
 Setup 
 
 
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 2025-12-07 
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 Context 
 Historically I’ve been Not Fond of traditional telco services (sms/mms, phone calls, voicemail) as they are strongly tied to a specific device and…

 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Rose, Thorn, Bud 
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 2025-08-20 
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 Rose, Thorn, Bud 
 First some…
Some History 
 Recently a friend got me thinking about the old Palm Pilot, Sony Clie and Handspring Visor PDA’s (personal data assistant) and how they were particulary useful. 
 They existed prior to having the internet always at-hand, they are very focused environments, they use a stylus for text entry which mimicks writing in a notebook and there were a ton of great apps available.…
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 2025-06-15 
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 On The Go Photography Backups 
 On the go backups can be run using an Android phone with the following hardware. A dedicated device is no longer necessary. Use a file manager that can read/write OTG disks and use the phone to copy/paste data from SD cards to backup storage. 

 
 
 
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 Mirrorless Camera Videography 
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 Video Recording Without Limits 
 Recording Kit 
 
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 Modular Attachment Kit 
 
 
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 2025-05-31 
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 What’s Here 
 This post is less ‘macrame project’ and more ‘useful information’. 
 Overview 
 As I continue to…
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 Cat Scratcher Rewrapping 
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 2025-05-25 
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 Cat Scratcher Rewrapping 
 It’s surprisingly easy and cheap to re-wrap a cat scratcher. The hard part is finding a technique…
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 2025-05-23 
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 Book Carrying 
 A simple way to wrap a book for carring. This is meant to allow attaching a book to a bag via caribeaner and similar. 
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 How I Macrame 
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 2025-05-31 
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 2025-05-23 
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 The Post 
 A handy trick: a rolling pin is cheap, easy to obtain and can simulate a post. This can be super helpful for learning hitches and whippings.
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 2025-05-23 
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 Simple Bookmarks 
 A simple, easy way to create bookmarks. 
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 550 paracord, interior removed 
 
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 Going Digital 
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 Managing Digital Art 
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Analog Version 
 This post is about the digital anti bad habit notebook. For an analog version implemented as a pocket notebook, see this post . 
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 Not going to lie : I have a few bad habits and have used my analog anti bad habit notebook to break some in teh past. 
 Sadly, I can no longer reliably use analog methods for my notes and similar. Due to this I went ahead and…
What’s Within? 
 This post contains a breakdown of how I use a computer, laptop and phone. I’ve made some significant changes over the last few years due to worsening health hassles. Everything here has been iterated over time in order to create a compute environment that makes my life easier to manage. Especially when my my health hassles are at their worst. 
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 It would seem I’ve regained the ability to write more frequently and regularly despite my health hassles 
 
 
 My Preference 
 Normally I write posts for this blog by hand using a pen, Tomoe River paper and a clipboard. Sadly, my health hassles make this approach to writing very difficult and I do not have the capacity to write using analog methods regularly or…
What’s Within? 
 This post lays out how I research topics. I’ve struggled with “research” in the past and, thanks to a friend, finally figured out a methodology that actually works for me. This post goes through my methodology, how I use it with success and the details needed to recreate and/or adapt it. 
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What’s Within? 
 Within is a walk through of all things analog and digital that I put together to be effective with notebooks and organizers. Things I’ve cataloged, setup, used, tinkered with and more. It even includes the how and why of my personal needs, preferences and opinions. 
 In short: it’s a very long breakdown of everything that actually works for me as well as…

 Editors note : KemoNine wrote this post before realizing they had already written Digital Writing Tablet Mini Review 3 ish months ago. Some information below overlaps with the prior blog post but the core of this particular post is how KemoNine is using a drawing tablet day to day for handwriting. 
 
 
 Prelude 
 Let’s get this out of the way up front: I am a pen and…
The below is an amazing trick for working around the need for an updated Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable runtime on a Windows machine where you do not have admin rights. It’s not ideal (you have to copy the dlls to every app folder) but it will let you run apps that need a more recent runtime than the system admin of your computer has installed. 
 This process was tested with Saber…