Category: Notes
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Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI service
Claude is the “cool kid” of the retail AI services world. However, thanks to its snobbish attitude to some geographical locations, token limitations, and corporate ethos I ended up in the arms of Mistral. Why I use Mistral and why it honestly doesn’t matter how great the model is as long as it serves your…
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Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”
Pu Songling’s “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” are more than just ghost stories. They also serve as critiques of Qing Dynasty bureaucracy. With the help of an LLM “literature professor”, I explore the deeper insights of “The Haunted House”, one of the stories in the 300-year-old collection.
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My new productivity workflow using email and Trello
To solve productivity problems, we tend to think that an app or a software can help us solve the problem. What we need to do to solve our productivity conundrums is to have clarity about our productivity problems and finding then finding tools that will solve it. In this post I show how I solved…
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Comprehensible input and creating my own Mandarin-learning curriculum
Adventures in learning Mandarin. As a heritage speaker, I have to learn Mandarin differently. It has been a frustrating and fun journey so far. Fortunately, lots of content from language learning experts, and I found one that is the clearest one yet!
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Creating a Mandarin-learning routine for myself
Not easy when your brain rebels at the thought of routines and quickly forgets them. But I’m going to focus on one tiny thing at the time and adjust as I go along. This post is part 1 of a series of logs of the process.
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Confessions of a reluctant digital journaler
Although I prefer journaling by hand, I have to admit that digital journaling is far more practical, safer and more secure, and I’ve been journaling so much more.
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Why I’m ditching Obsidian as a task manager
Sometimes a note-taking app should just remain a note-taking app.
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How I journal with Obsidian
I recently made a video about daily notes, but since then, I’ve already made improvements to my template. I’ve incorporated bullet journal principles into it, which has made the process more enjoyable and has encouraged me to journal more frequently.
Elizabeth Tai 