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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Legitimate interest is a way for the vendors to not need your confirmation. In general, your right to privacy is valued against the vendor’s right to operate. The most often used example is advertisement: in general, vendors are allowed to advertise, as they want to operate and sell their products. But you have a right to your data (e.g. mail adress, home adress, interests…). So courts have to value what is more important. Another example that most people would agree is that clubs want to show what happens in the club, so they publish pictures from their activities (interest of club to show they are active vs personal right to your image). As not every case goes to court, most vendors see their interest as more important and interpret “legitimate” interest rather loosely. So in general, the idea of legitimate interest is compliant with the GDPR, although I believe most sites use it too liberal.



  • There is a fine and impossible to hit line that businesses have their own interest of surviving and should be able to use data. Like making better suggestions or tracking whether certain changes in their homepage work. This is not required for functioning but vital to companies for succeeding and giving you a better product. However, this should only be done on one site at a time, cross-site tracking oe fingerprinting is what sucks and allows data brokers to exist in the first place.

    No lawyer can hammer into law, what a site needs to function, as it differs by site and is flexible in what people think is necessary. But your examples are good in that they show how sites go way too far to justify their over-the-top tracking. Maybe there really is an easy way to write it in “legalese”, but I don’t see it yet. But I am fully on your site, the current behaviour and practices are bad and unclear for customers.









  • It fits well for me. I set up multiple queries in my daily note template to catch tasks that are due today or I wanted to work on today, for long-term tasks and for overdue tasks. You can group tasks by adding tags which I use often. You can add a new task anywhere in your notes and it will show up in the query. So I put tasks in all notes that I am working on and will be reminded of them in my daily note. It is often updated with new features, just try it out and see if it works for you. I can not complain and only recommend it.




  • I feel you concerning the dependency on third-party plugins. There are many amzing people developing rather niche but nice plugins. At some point, plugins will stop to be updated. However, if it is critical to you, you can stll freeze the obsidian version amd work with your notes as you please. But this is not great longterm, I see it as the price to pay for community-developed software. On the other hand, if people using the plugins would donate small amounts, developers could live on their plugins. Maybe this will work at some point.

    As I never tried Logseq: is it similar in style with users writing in Markdown syntax and linking files? The infinite scrolling seems to only be for journaling, I would also need to get used to it but it is a nice design aspect (and closer to a physical journal).

    I do not qant to “convert” you (back) to Obsidian, but if you only need basic note-taking with linkage, Obsidian seems the perfect fit. Templating and linking are built in and if Obsidian ever stops updating, you still have your .md Files which will work even without Obsidian. But Zim Wiki sounds nice and if it fits your needs, use this. Maybe you can update us when you have found your system in it and others could profit.

    Enjoy the thrill of learning new tools and customizing it to your needs! Hope this all works well for you