Scratch Pad: A Long One

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts serves, I’ve found, as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. Some items show up on disquiet.com before this post, in which case I don’t repeat them. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ This generic note-taking app I’m installing so I can sync notes between my laptop and a video game device is rated 3+. You have to be at least 3 years old to use it. You can’t be 2, and presumably by 4 you’re already onboarded and deep in the ecosystem. ▰ You watch tutorials and reviews about various handheld video game devices and you hear complaining about “quality of life” issues with Windows-based ones, and you think, who…