I'm subconciously trying to see how close to the tax filing deadline I can get and then use jury duty as an excuse to get out of doing my taxes. What about you?

Re: Notes as bookmark.

Good idea, in fact oddly I've started doing that recently. Big hints: Write down the page number with any notes, and write things down as you read whatever-prompted-it, as trying to find the sentence you had in mind when you're 50 pages on is annoying. Must implement RL grep...

Re: quiet.

I'm currently re-jigging my "environment" in preparation for things. My note-taking system is going to be Markdown-based flat-text-files, which I'm in the process of converting from www.exmosis.net/ (not too difficult, but need to re-write the site code too, which is mostly done...). Hoping to hack a vim script to get quick-hyperlinking in vim, and use the textfile-based Calendar script to provide a low-level date entry system (dates get stored in a year/month/day.txt file hierarchy) which I can convert into ICS format on the fly...

Also moving towards a centralised RSS->e-mail aggregator so I have IMAP access to all my news feeds, rather than having to set up the subscriptions on each copy of Thunderbird that I use (at least 3).

Planning to use find and grep a lot to cope with the flat-file notes structure, although I'm undecided about how to sort out topics/categories. A tagging-based thing would be great, but I'm not sure on the best way to implement it. Currently, all files are pretty much in the same folder (actually, not quite), so any ideas? One possibility is a list of keywords at the top of each file, and a simple script to scrape these, and assemble lists of filenames/symbolic links to the files under a file or directory named after the keyword.

I'm babbling now. Does that make any sense?