I intended to make a little note to myself style post about using promises with timeouts, especially for polling data.
Then hit a snag, as is usual, partly because I skim info but also fall into the trap of just wanting conveniences for many things.
Needless to say I won't be making that post, but at least I have the replit running for some more playing so that is something. Half the battle is starting right.
I will also be converting that to an obsidian note, which although it has been going slow-building out my library of notes I am making good progress by using obsidian more often.
Taking notes just sounds boring but if you give it the context of general content like posts, or research then it immediately seems more useful.
Obsidians sales pitch is "knowledge base" from your markdown files which really means fuckol.
I am not even a fan of markdown so that is the quickest way to just irritate me. I can see the benefits of using markdown, for normal top down text, ie: posts. I also do not use markdown in posts at all, I write the HTML so the only time I get some practise is in obsidian.
Anyway...
Obsidian for me solves the problem of linking data, for example if I download all of my posts and import it to Obsidian I can go through them and easily turn phrases, sections and any line of text into a link to another post or "idea"
That way I can see a connection between my posts and what topics tend to surface.
Seeing as I tend to write very scatter brained it would be cool to see everything as an overview.
A lot of the tutorials on Obsidian assume you are in the research field or some mega organized intellectual type so they like to push their own little ways of using it especially with the Zettelkasten System.
To sum that up all you need to know is that it is useful to just make notes short and atomic. As in about one idea or one thing, and then use Obsidians auto linking to link it into a bigger category.
Everything else you add as you become comfortable with them.
I am still at the here is a chunk of text , here is my title, bye bye.
Nothing near what this guy is doing :
At least I do know the importance of naming things and organizing in folders and that already will take you a long way.
So I guess that digression is good for me, possibly I will still make a proper tutorial on recursive promises with attempts and timeout settings since I always forget how I did something before.
Guess I need a note on that :)
