A New (Personal) Reality
It seems like I am not used to the new situation here, as I also use Trilium Notes offline for more of a personal use.
Of course, writing is pretty much a given requirement for being a educated human, and it needs to be really special person to not being able to write anything after years of school, homework, and tests. I have my fair share of my writing practices, and being able to write not in the language I speak is certainly a thing to be proud12. It is more of a "requirement has changed" sort of thing.
I think I can safely assume that writing for public isn't the default, at least at the primary and secondary education (and post-secondary depending on major, I think). Typically, even for writing facing public, it actually seldom read by public, as the "public" only consist of a handful of people.
Writing on Trilium Notes, and other similar application, it is also typical for you, and only you, to be the reader of your writing. This? This feels different. Even when barely anyone visit here (about 2 visitor had been here last I checked)... You know, writing things down does clear some thought and, more importantly here, some feeling.
My writing process now is similar to what I had in high school: a smooth flow with barely any edit. It is a old habit based on the limitation of paper, but that do appear at all my writing, despite, of course, my direct input on a digital space.
I don't need to follow that for all of my writing.
And it seems like the different flow can appear all of the sudden. So... it is in the new condition that I haven't used to yet.
As a little side note here: having two places to write thing down permanently3 creates some conflicts for where should I write, and difference between two place that I don't think writing for one location is suitable for the other location.
Of course, some automated process can be made. But before then, that feeling might persist. (Or maybe I am that donkey, and this kind of stuff shouldn't be worried at all.)
Last Edit: 2026-01-04 20:38
It is a little thing, though, as I certainly underestimated the amount people being bilingual: About 50% as suggested on an article on Preply, which points to UNESCO for this specific data. My bad.↩
Mandarin, if you want to know.↩
It's not that paper-based storage isn't good for permanent record at personal scale, just that I now typically use paper as a temporary medium, and all shall be digitalized and centralized to my Trilium Notes database.↩