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STOP Suicide Personal Pledge

I pledge that I will:

• tell someone if I need help;
• be aware of the suicide warning signs in others;
• ask directly about suicide if I’m worried about someone;
• listen without judgement and do what I can to keep them safe;

Source : https://stopsuicidepledge.org/stop-suicide-personal-pledge/

NextCloud Cookbook

I found NextCloud Cookbook, and it's so easy to organize my recipes now.

I used to bookmark my recipes. Recently, I am trying so many new recipes from online and didn't like the way I am organizing my bookmarks. Then I found nextcloud cookbook. To add a recipe to the collection, all you have to do is paste in the URL of the recipe, it parses and downloads the recipe to your specified nextcloud folder as JSON.

For the cookbook to parse your recipe, it should follow a schema.org recipe format. In my experience, most of the recipe sites are using this schema.

I used Recipe Crawler to parse all my current bookmarks at once and copied to my nextcloud recipe folder. Now, I can filter by tags, categories, they even have Mobile app which made my life easier.

Thank you, Nextcloud Cookbook!

I bought Kobo Elipsa

I don't want to buy anything unless I feel it's absolutely needed. I believe everyone is trying to sell you something, and it is important to not fall in the trap and become a lifelong consumer (I know I can't avoid it most of the time). This post is mostly to justify myself for buying Kobo elipsa. I bought Kobo elipsa after thinking of buying it for more than 6 months, and it is one of the very few things which did not make me hate myself for buying it.

I like to read, but books are costly and sometimes not accessible to read, maybe due to the size of the book or font. I can buy an e-reader, but I feel my book reading is incomplete if I don't underline the lines I like.

Now, I can download books as PDF or EPUB from Internet Archive, copy to my elipsa and read. Elipsa lets me make notes on my downloaded books, which is not the case for may e-readers out there, which is the reason I picked this.

I have to have a notebook for each purpose, I keep buying notebooks and never feel I have enough. Now, with elipsa I feel so relaxed that I can have a separate notebook for each of my needs, they gave quite few backgrounds for notes which makes it even more helpful.

I think their handwriting to text conversion is good that it was able to convert my bad writing to beautiful notes which is a plus, even though I really don't need this feature.

They have only Dropbox and Google Drive as cloud storage options, I couldn't configure Nextcloud as storage yet.

I got the e-reader, stylus and cover for £299. There might be e-reader with the same features out there, I couldn't find anything cheaper than this. Unless, you have similar requirements, I won't recommend buying it.

I will try to write a complete review of Kobo Elipsa after using it for little longer, as of now, I am enjoying my reading and writing on Elipsa.