While wondering what the CLI equivalent of canvas-like organization would be I started playing with rg to find notes that are related by virtue of some content.
For example:
rg 'free will'
2023-10-23-14-25-33.md
3:title: free will write-offs
6:I dont have links, but I keep seeing mentions of how the lack of free will
19:their own (nonexistent) free will doesn't mean that reform is going to fail.
21:We can lack free will and be the products of a complex series of inputs
22:(perhaps a lack of free will would necessitate that, even.) The choice of a
26:I feel like Sam Harris gets [this part] right: A lack of free will should be
2023-03-26-02-58-45.md
3:title: disbelief in free will gives rise to compassion
7:The author believes that by conceding a belief in free will he has become more
2023-08-04-06-49-17.md
10:> that appears to leave no room for human free will or moral responsibility.
13:> attempted to get around the difficulty by defining free will as a voluntary
2023-03-30-07-38-35.md
22:existence of free will, as it seems like something that doesn't matter, but I'm
2022-03-26-16-04-20.md
9:The stoics defined free will as *a voluntary accommodation to what is in any
I can rg -l for just their names and feed that to bat.
It’s actually kind of a fun way to review notes, but it’s still just a wall of text. Maybe it’s good enough? Maybe it would be handy to make this retrievable/repeatable? It’s a bit like using the Telescope live_grep in Neovim, but being able to see all the results instead of just one hit at a time.
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