Perdicis Notes

Frontmatter protocol

publish Opened 2023-08-20. Replaces Daylio protocol. Related to Productive Platypus and Productive Platypus metrics.

History of the system

Stuff todo:

  • make it x/10 instead of x/5 fractional
  • come up with a way to not have the dumb colons

Current system (2023-08-26 - present)

Obsidian added formal support for Properties over frontmatter, so I guess I’m using that now.

Also the frontmatter before was way too heavyweight. It must be made leaner otherwise I won’t do it.

Specific things that might matter:

  • “n/a” appears when I don’t fill out mood or focus
  • The weird colon links are still there, I’m too lazy to fix
  • No more parentheses
  • maybe remove “wfo” on weekdays — it’s not relevant?

Example frontmatter

---
mood_and_focus_tuples:
- time, mood (1-5), focus (1-5)

stimulant_tuples:
- time, amount

activity_tags:
- TODO
- breakfast:skipped/healthy/ok/unhealthy
- lunch:skipped/healthy/ok/unhealthy
- dinner:skipped/healthy/ok/unhealthy

retrospectives:
- overall_mood: TODO
- overall_focus: TODO
- first_woke_at: TODO
- uninterrupted_sleep: TODO

---

Historical (before 2023-08-26)

Example frontmatter

---

overall_mood (1-5): TODO
mood_tuples:
- (3:00, 4)
- (4:00, 3)

overall_focus (1-5): TODO
focus_tuples:
- (4:00, 2)

first_woke_at: 6:20
uninterrupted_sleep: 9.5

stimulant_tuples:
- (6:30, 1ER)

meal_tuples:
- (6:30, unhealthy, snack)
- (12:00, healthy, lunch)

activity_tags:
- wfh
- obsidian

---

Valid activity_tags

Keep alphabetized. Maybe I should commit to choosing, like, 3 of these to represent my day.

  • date
  • home_alone
  • obsidian

Babble

This is the frontmatter format I’ll be using to tag my daily notes. Idk what I’ll do with them next.

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