Trying to be more focused by limiting my options (and failing in the process)

January 23, 2026

I'm not the one to do the resolutions thing, they are never going to work anyway, and I am not even going to pretend that this will work in the long run, but with the first month of the year almost done, I thought it would be a good idea to already look into what had been working for and building up from there.

For past couple of months I have slowly removed apps, services and what not moved to a rather nice and somewhat minimal, and simple setup, which in fact had been working quite well.

Even though it means that mostly would mean to stick to the setup I am having now, the plan going forward is to:

• use Bearblog for the blog ¹
• stick to Obsidian because it works for me and I have a nice, clean and minimal setup that simply works beautifully at the moment, no need to think where I have left things and I have a nice daily-note with all my tasks and stuff set up in a blink of an eye. And of course it works on every device that I work on, with the same keyboard shortcuts, themes and what not. That is to say, no more tinkering with Bullet Journal setups, notebooks and being generally annoyed about my handwriting or fiddling with Orgmode.
• stick to one bag. This might be confusing for most you, but I have too many bags. As with text-editors, pens, blogging-platforms, preferred color-themes, desktop wallpapers, font-preferences and what not, I also have too many backpacks (or shoulder-bags). From the top of my head there are at the least four backpacks in the next room (with more in the storage) and an undisclosed amount of shoulder-/sling-bags that I insist of buying despite knowing that me and shoulder-bag generally don't get along that well. That being said, I recently have ordered yet one more which I enjoy quite a bit, the "one" to rule them all so to say, and will get rid of all the rest. That's the plan and should this work out. I will post about this here.
• stay away from social media and stick to RSS. This is mostly easy, and I not that active on Mastodon (or Insta... don't get me started) anyway and tend to browse only. Still though it annoys me mostly. I might though post links to new posts there, and definitely will reply to posts, but that's about it.

As far as intentions go, this might be it for the time being, and since I have been using this set up for a while already, it might even stick for a while.

Let's see.

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