Different habits
Musing on a few things, this should almost be a thoughts post but it's a unified topic so it can be its own thing. This is a short list of some habits I'm either forming, or changing.
How I use my smart watch
For almost the entire time I've used a smart watch, I have the "wake up" gesture set to when I raise my wrist, and have had Always On Display turned OFF. The latter was mostly to conserve battery - the watches I've owned have been rather power hungry and AOD would often mean I'd be wearing a paper weight by the end of the day.
My current watch - Galaxy Watch 8 Classic - is fantastic and battery life lasts pretty much all day. On top of that, charging speed is very fast, so if I need to I can throw it on the charger and get a quick jolt before going out with it again.
So I've turned "Always On Display" ON, and turned the "Raise Wrist to Wake" OFF. I'm using that combination because I can't tell the difference between when I've raised my wrist to look at the time vs. when the AOD is active. Plus, there's the other side of it:
I want to be less attached to checking my watch every time it vibrates. My current habit is to raise my watch as soon as it vibrates to see what's come through. Now I need to wake the watch up with one of the buttons to see it, so I'm introducing some friction to viewing notifications. When I'm at work I can quickly glance at my phone to see if it's an important message (text messages etc. have a quick pop-up on the screen; everything else doesn't get that level of permission).
So far so good. I haven't missed any important messages, either.
Obsidian use
I haven't changed anything with Obsidian yet, but I have thoughts about it. Mostly they revolve around whether or not I want to continue using it for week notes beyond the year. Lately I'm not using it as much - if you look at my weekly review notes for the last several weeks, there's not much in them under each day. I track my goals using my week notes in Obsidian, but beyond that I'm not getting a lot of use out of it.
Obsidian was the catalyst for me setting up a personal server; I use Syncthing to sync my Obsidian folders across devices (instead of paying for Obsidian Sync). Now the program doesn't seem as important. I still have value with my personal server (hosting images for the blog, for one, RSS reader for another) but syncing Obsidian doesn't seem to be much of a priority.
So the habit change here has actually been a natural change: I'm not reaching for my daily note and I've gotten back into making checklists etc. in Samsung Notes.
Obsidian was fun while it lasted. However I just learned that Bases is now (maybe?1) supported by Digital Garden so I think I'll get back to tracking my MLB 24 season because I prefer Bases for some things as opposed to Dataview.
Listening to music
OK, not sure if this is a "habit" but more of a "how". Several Christmases ago my wife got me these great over-ear headphones. I used a 3.5mm cable to plug into my iPod Touch a couple of weekends ago to listen to The Big Lebowski soundtrack and it sounded amazing. So I've been trying to listen to more music this way, and have hooked it up to my work laptop as my main headset device.
I feel a little self-conscious walking around listening to them but I guess all the Cool Kids do this? Maybe I'm a cool kid?
There's still a time & place for my bluetooth earbuds (Galaxy Buds Live) but I'm turning to them less often.
Podcasts
I found that I was listening to too many time-sensitive podcasts and not what I wanted to hear on my own schedule. So I unsubscribed from a popular hockey podcasts a few months ago, and today unsubscribed from a baseball podcast. I stayed subscribed to one - because it's short, usually 30 minutes or less. I don't want to listen to an hour+ anymore.
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