Coworker/friend/loved one: “So why is XYZ happening?”

Brain: Aww yiss. I will anticipate all possible questions and forks in the conversation, say it all, thus saving everyone time.

Brain: Wait. Remember how you’ve been trying to keep it brief? Try that now.

Me: “Well, it was 8:30am after all.”

Coworker/friend/loved one: “Er … I’m sorry what now?”

Brain: They took the bait. THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE

Me, 5 mins later: “… yeah so anyway, what was the question again?”

Let’s not be hasty.

Surely free-range, organic, gluten-free sand would be the bestest source material ever.

Whoops, should have noticed your endorsement of syncthing before posting a comment mentioning this.

While Obsidian does save to individual files, the Markdown they use seems to be a superset of everyday Markdown. Eg, being able to use callouts (eg, Note, Warning, Info, etc) and embedded linking of notes.

The automatic backlinks are fantastic. And I’ve discovered that if I rename a note, all links to that note get updated as well. So no need to worry about orphaning pages.

I’ve added a handful of plugins as well. Off the top of my head, one is a dynamic table of contents (for that page), another helps to compose/edit Markdown tables.

Also a big fan of Obsidian!

For syncing, one option is to use syncthing.

I know someone (whose geek creds are admittedly well beyond mine) who is also a fan. He uses GitHub to sync his notes.

It might depends on the AI.

I can’t speak for Bard, but ChatGPT’s data isn’t any more recent than 2021. As it often reminds me.

Kiwi’s academic thesis put up for sale without his knowledge

If you need more fodder for a future response, you could break down both “seasonal and holiday decorations”.

List the common/popular seasons/holidays where decorations are brought out, before or after having described your plant. For example:

• my plant is not a Valentine’s Day card

• my plant is not an Easter egg, or made of chocolate

• my plant is not a firework

• my plant is not a somber meditation of the lives of our troops lost in battle

• my plant is not a Halloween decoration

• my plant is not a turkey dinner

• my plant is not a Christmas ornament, nor is it a Christmas tree

• my plant is not a large, illuminated ball, sliding down a pole between 11:59pm Dec 31 and 12:00am Jan 1, not is it a party hat or party favor

• etc

I’m sure you could throw together a much better list than the one above :)