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In order that all beings who have been my mothers May quickly be liberated from samsara and May attain perfect enlightenment, I dedicate all merit accumulated by Myself, and all ordinary and enlightened beings in the three times As well as the merit of the innately pure Buddha-nature.

https://garchen.net/chakrasamvara/

Watching my own partner give birth has given me a new appreciation for mothers, how much they physically, mentally, and spiritually go through to bring us into this world and take care of us. All beings have done this for us and deserve to be free from suffering.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Just got Mother’s Day flowers then searched the flowers :’(

I found Adobe acrobat was good at ocr but I’m on Linux now.

In the past I’ve mostly done Anki for Chinese and Japanese but am looking for something else since I’ve fallen off Anki.

For Chinese I really need a service that I can read and OCR words to easily identify in a dictionary. I’m at a high intermediate or low advanced level but looking up words is annoying.

For Japanese I just need input for an intermediate level.

• Clozemaster?
• Italki?

Listing services I’ve found

• Clozemaster (but has a bad model now)
• tutor with something like italki
• Anki
• busuu
• librelingo

Just made it again this morning and it’s so good on a BLT :)

I’m writing my PhD and sometimes feel like I’m losing my mind trying to balance home and work tasks, thesis tasks, personal and household habits, and potential connecting these to notes. I really struggle if everything isn’t in one place I can’t keep track of it.

I’ve been using Beaverhabits for habits, Baikal for Caldav connected to iPhone reminders and Thunderbird tasks, and memos and trilium for notes. I also, use a notebook for daily stuff and move it over to digital if it isn’t finished by 5.

Any recommendations? I would really appreciate it. I enjoy thinking about how to do and manage work efficiently but also need a firm system.