On Getting Organized

On the Internet, material about PYTHON, HTML, CSS and more is infinite.

A survey of the material to be learned about Python, HTML, CSS and yet more (e.g., IDE's, BAT files, VBA) will show that the journey never ends. One can easily lose one's bearing and head towards the wrong North star. It is vital to have an organized approach.


To the right is a screen shot of part of my Bookmarks Bar in my browser. The righmost folder on that bar is labeled with "<--today b="" date="" s="">. It points to a Month's accumulator folder that identifies this month (e.g. "April 2025"). Each day, I append into the Today folder those URL's that I deem as worthwhile learning opportunities. When the Today folder is full, I move it into the Month folder. When the Month folder (e.g. "April") is full, it gets moved inot the "Recent" folder

But that's not all. Each URL that gets appended into the "Today" is immediately edited in its description field to identify at least one of the author, topic and how many out of 5 stars I give it for being worthy of revisiting. In this way I build up a Journal of Today's learning visits.

As explained in the sample video to the right, your learning efforts are greatly enhanced if you put effort into journaling what you do each day. And of course, what better way to journal than to post some of your entries into your blog !  

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Nothing for now. Stay tuned. P.S. Learn about "PKM" (Personal Knowledgebase Management)and creating your own Digitized Second Brain using Obsidian.

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