yesterday: 2025-07-11-notes
Today
- Playing in Waupaca volleyball tournament
- Saw news about OpenAI Windsurf deal falling through
- Started setting up
affine
to try a self-hosted option for mind mapping... draw.io is ok, excalidraw is
ok, but I feel like for mind mapping there's gotta be a better tool than what
I'd use for infra diagrams... maybe not, but affine looks interesting to at
least spin up nonetheless and thankfully it's just
docker compose up
Affine
You have to go to <affine-url>/admin for the admin setup, and from there
there is no link to the root page where you can see the workspaces... good to
note
WHY
One of the things that comes up in my mind every now and then is a way to map out BJJ flows... like given position A start a flow chart based on opponent decisions. Or flow charts of execution steps of passes or things like that...
Needing the mind map feels similar to linking my posts together, but it's like more detailed - I need a lot of space for many different ideas, whereas with text notes pretty much all the space is given to one note (or one link in all the map).
I also think in diagrams a lot - see thinking-in-diagrams#Intro and so having a nice place to keep all my diagrams has felt like a dream. I go back and forth with draw.io and excalidraw for various things both personal and work, and I just don't know how to pick one over the other. So maybe moving to a different style of platform with Affine (which is Notion-esq) will help me organize the mind maps in a meaningful way
Volleyball
I got to play in America's largest volleyball tournament which takes place in Waupaca
For tomorrow
- More with affine and mind-mapping (I bookmarked a TT BJJ video I wanted to make a map of from JFlo)
- Write up more on restic - how to check backups etc. (and do it while you write it up... duh)
- don't lose sight of thoughts-to-nostr
- or daily-notes-neovim-plugin